The Germs and Krum Bums are headed out for a US tour beginning in mid-June.

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Iron and Wine has a full album stream of their new b-sides collection Around the Well on their myspace. Check it out here.
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Parkway Drive have announced an Australian tour. The Epitaph Records-signed hardcore act continues to support 2007’s Horizons. The band has also announced The DVD, a documentary looking at the history of the band. Featuring archival footage dating right back to the early days, the film follows the quintet from the beginning through their more recent days.

The disc was directed and edited by the band and promises live and behind-the-scenes content. It is due out August 7, 2009. In support of the disc, the band will be headlining some Australian dates with support from August Burns Red and Architects [UK].

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Tonight’s Dispatch is the second from Toronto’s The Flatliners who recently took off through Europe with NOFX. The band’s Chris Cresswell checks on.

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Our friend and yours, Mikexdude has put together a great interview with Polar Bear Club and we’re bringing it to you today. He explains:

Surprise, surprise, eh? Well, I was thinking: “Who is a great, relevant band that could possibly pop my interview cherry.” Actually, I knew exactly who I wanted; I don’t think my love for Polar Bear Club is any news to the Org-readership — pun definitely intended. Recently, guitarist Chris Browne and I exchanged E-mails, shot the proverbial breeze, discussed their recent admission into the Bridge 9 family, and most notably, a brief insight on their highly-anticipated follow up to 2008’s Sometimes Things Just Disappear. Punknews exclusive: We should expect “shorter songs and more energy.”

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Our friend and yours, Mikexdude has put together a great interview with Polar Bear Club and we’re bring it to you today. He explains:

Surprise, surprise, eh? Well, I was thinking: “Who is a great, relevant band that could possibly pop my interview cherry.” Actually, I knew exactly who I wanted; I don’t think my love for Polar Bear Club is any news to the Org-readership — pun definitely intended. Recently, guitarist Chris Browne and I exchanged E-mails, shot the proverbial breeze, discussed their recent admission into the Bridge 9 family, and most notably, a brief insight on their highly-anticipated follow up to 2008’s Sometimes Things Just Disappear. Punknews exclusive: We should expect “shorter songs and more energy.”

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Domino Records has announced plans to reissue four records from seminal San Francisco punk band, Flipper in Europe. Both 1982’s Generic and 1984’s Gone Fishin’ will be reissued on CD, as well as live collection Public Flipper Limited and 1995 singles compilation, Sex Bomb Baby.

All four of these reissues will hit stores on June 29, 2009 and a 10-inch vinyl version of “Sex Bomb” will be released a week prior, on June 22, 2009. Liner notes for the releases will be provided by Krist Novoselic of Nirvana and recently Flipper itself, King Buzzo of Melvins and Henry Rollins.

The band also has some tour dates coming up in Australia and New Zealand, as well as a few Warped Tour appearances in California.
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Meat Puppets have posted a free download of the first single from their brand new album, Sewn Together. The record is the second since the influential country/punk trio reunited in 2006 and released 2007’s Rise To Your Knees.

Check out “Rotten Shame” via this link.

The band is also on the road beginning later this week.
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Henry Rollins is doing a few spoken word shows on the East Coast and Europe in May and June. He had this to say:

So, in a few days, I fly to the east coast and do some shows! I am really looking forward to them. I will hopefully be out a good part of next year on the road, not so much this year. I have been getting several e-mails asking if there will be more dates added for this year and at this point, it doesn’t look like it. Like I said, next year should be a good amount shows starting in Europe in January and going all over for hopefully several months. You know me, I would rather be out in the world than here.

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In a Rolling Stone piece, some more definitive information has been revealed about Blink 182‘s upcoming reunion tour. The blurb confirms that Weezer and Fall Out Boy will provide support on the tour and that the band is rehearsing more than they have in the past. Mark Hoppus told the magazine:

We used to walk onstage and forget our parts. We wanted to play fast and look cool. This time, we want to be more artistic.

The band is planning to introduce some new material on the tour and have also enlisted Daft Punk and Kanye West’s set designer to produce a more visual spectacle. The band is hoping to use the entire stage as a lighting rig and aims to be “as ambitious as possible.”

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Our stream today comes from Grand Rapids, MI-based North Lincoln. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, Midwestern Blood.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Before hitting the studio this summer, Dillinger Escape Plan have announced a run of dates with The Number Twelve Looks Like You and Knife the Glitter. The band will begin recording on July 20th and will hit the US and Europe beforehand.

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Me First and The Gimme Gimmes and Useless ID will be playing a run of European dates together beginning at the end of the month.

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