As submitted by many of you (but Angiepants first), George Rebelo of Hot Water Music has joined Against Me! as their newest drummer. Rebelo replaces the recently departed Warren Oakes, who left the band after a number of years to, at least in part, focus on his new Mexican restaurant.

The two bands also share a hometown (Gainesville, FL) and former record label (No Idea Records).

Hot Water Music reunited last year and have played several shows since, though there are no known plans for a full-scale tour or album. Against Me! released the divisive New Wave in 2007 and have an EP of older material, The Original Cowboy, due out July 7th on Fat Wreck Chords.
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Title Fight have announced summer tour dates as they gear up for their debut full length, The Last Thing You Forget on June 23, 2009. The band previously released Kingston and a Split with The Erection Kids.

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Music journalists across Canada, including our own New Brunswick based Ben Conoley, have narrowed down the 40 act long list for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize. The list includes recent records from Arkells, Fucked Up, Metric, Joel Plaskett, Pink Mountaintops, Elliott Brood, Chad VanGaalen, Malajube, Bruce Peninsula, and Wolf Parade. To qualify for Polaris, the Canadian acts had to have released an album between June 1st, 2008 and May 31st, 2009.

The 190 member jury will now narrow this group down to a Short List, to be in Toronto on July 7th. The winning band will walk away with $20,000 at a ceremony in September.
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Look for an exclusive NOFX song on the next Warped Tour compilation from SideOneDummy. Fat Mike posted on the band’s website:

“Hi everyone, here’s what happened: some people at Side One Dummy records asked NOFX to be on the cover of the Warped Tour comp. We said “NO!” . Then they sent over some “Comp”-romising photos from our last trip to Japan that no one really needs to see. So we let them use a picture of me and Hefe for the cover. A week goes by and I get a call from them again. This time they want an unreleased song for the comp. I told them to go to hell. Then they sent over more photos. The next day NOFX went into the studio and recorded a new song for them. They liked it so much they only charged me $10,000 for the remainder of the photos.

NOFX released Coaster earlier this year via Fat Wreck Chords.
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Dinosaur Jr. have posted the HD version of the first video from their Jagjaguwar debut, Farm. The album is due out June 23, 2009.

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All Time Low have posted a song from their upcoming album. The record is titled Nothing Personal and is due out July 7, 2009. It’s their first since So Wrong, It’s Right in 2007.

Check out the song on their myspace page.
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Safari So Good have posted their cover of the Samiam track, “She Found You.” The original song comes from Samiam’s 1998 album, You Are Freaking Me Out.

Check out the song on their myspace page.

Safari So Good released Every Fight Is a Food Fight When You’re a Cannibal last year.
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Rancid‘s recent live performance of “Last One To Die” from the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien is now streaming online. The band is promoting their long-awaited new album, Let the Dominoes Fall.

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As the pre-order has begun, details on The Pixies $495 have been revealed. As originally announced, the massive set will include all five Pixies’ studio albums in the following formats: 24k gold plated CD’s; five 12″ – 180 gram virgin vinyl LP’s cut from the original analog tapes; Blu-ray audio mastered for 5.1 surround sound and 2 channel stereo at 24/192; DVD mastered for 5.1 surround sound and 2 channel stereo at 24/96. Also included is the previously unreleased Pixies 1991 live performance from Brixton, on both Blu-ray and DVD, mastered for 5.1 surround sound at 24/192 and 24/96, respectively. All discs are housed in a custom designed folio.

Each copy of the Limited Edition is individually numbered, and hand-signed by every member of the Pixies and Vaughan Oliver.

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According to Thrice‘s official Twitter and blog, the band has wrapped up recording and will begin mixing the album this week. The band is working with mixer Dave Schiffman.

The band also commented on release plans, saying:

All the tracking is finished for the new record. Though it still needs to be mixed and mastered. To everyone who is hoping for it to come out next month now, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but there is a lengthy process still ahead with production, sending out copies to press, shipping, etc. You have to send to press about 3 months early because that is how early they put together the issues. Sooo, the record will be out in early Octoberish.

Vagrant Records has also announced the title for the record, Beggars, and frontman Dustin Kensrue, commented, :

I think we are at most times deluded in thinking that we are totally responsible for our circumstances, but in the end almost everything is beyond our control to a high degree and we can’t even be sure we will wake up tomorrow. Whether you believe that God created you for a purpose, or that the world is governed by blind chance, everything in life is a gift at its core; we are beggars all.

The record follows their four EP cycle, The Alchemy Index: Volumes I & II: Fire & Water and The Alchemy Index: Volumes III & IV: Air & Earth.
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Gaslight Anthem‘s recent four song performance and interview from The Interface is now available online. The band performed “The ’59 Sound,” “Old White Lincoln,” “Film Noir” and “Great Expectations.”

Check out the feature here.
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Strike Anywhere has completed recording of what will be their fourth full-length and first for Bridge Nine, Iron Front. The Brian McTernan-produced effort is expected out in October and will follow up Dead FM, released in 2006.

In the meantime, the band has a fortnight of tour dates coming up, many of them with Propagandhi, as well as two festival appearances in August.
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On June 23 Alexisonfire will release their fourth LP, Old Crows / Young Cardinals. Punknews is pleased to team up with Dine Alone Records to present an exclusive stream of the song “No Rest,” which will appear on the album.

To hear “No Rest” head over to the band’s profile page. To hear the rest of Old Crows / Young Cardinals, click here.
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