H2O have announced two weeks of European shows and festival performances. The band continues to support Nothing to Prove.

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Death By Stereo has moved up the release of their forthcoming full length. The record is titled Death Is My Only Friend and is due out a week earlier, on July 7, 2009.

The album is their first studio album since It is the follow-up to Death For Life which was released in 2005. It is also their first album on Serjical Strike Records, the label formed by activist and System Of A Down vocalist, Serj Tankian. The band is currently wrapping the final stretch of a US tour with Strung Out.
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Like Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz apparently has the desire to get involved with comic books and will be releasing a new series through Image Comics (Spawn, Youngblood, The Maxx) in the fall, reports MTV.

The story will be called Fall Out Toyworks and will be a five-issue minseries based on a mysterious toymaker, a cyborg named Tiffany and a kid in a bear suit. The first issue is due out September 2, 2009.
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After the band reunited, rumours began that the Blink 182 reunion was just a plan for one summer tour and one album, but the band recently spoke to Sign On San Diego to dismiss that notion:

I hate when bands get back together and do one tour and it feels like they’re going to make a bunch of money, and then they go away for awhile and then come back again. We did this (reunion) to continue being creative and having fun. I see us continuing to tour and put out albums as long as it’s fun. There’s no end game and no plan at all. We enjoy playing music together, that’s all.

The band will be touring this summer with Weezer and Fall Out Boy. The tour kicks off in July.
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Lucero has announced the completion of their first full length for Universal/Republic. The band posted this update:

Lucero is really pleased to announce that the new album is finished. Details to come very soon. In the meantime, we’re making plans to do one video for each song on the album and we’re interested in hearing from you if you’ve got the skills and interest to make one. Our record label will be able to use all of them for promotional purposes. In short, you’ll get a lot of press and credit for them, but just a little bit of money. Hey, that seems to be the way of the record business these days.

The record is the follow up to Rebels, Rogues, & Sworn Brothers from 2006. In the intervening years, frontman Ben Nichols released a solo EP. The EP is based around the novel, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
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Though only the first and second dates are currently confirmed, the Gaslight Anthem have apparently begun booking their fall headlining tour. The band will be bringing The Loved Ones, Murder By Death and Frank Turner along for the tour which is expected to kick off after their forthcoming dates in Europe.

The band continues to support The ’59 Sound.
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Rancid‘s Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman addressed the long-standing rumours that there would be reunion of Operation Ivy. In short:

I love what we did back then, but what we do now is move forward. To go back 20 years wouldn’t feel right. I’m super proud of what we did then, a big part of me is in that band. But it’s always about the future for me.

We’re all still friends, we still talk to Dave [Mello] and Jesse [Michaels],” said Freeman. “But we were 21 in that band. I’m 43 now. I still really like the songs, though.

Rancid released Let the Dominoes Fall this year. Former Operation Ivy vocalist Jesse Michaels will release his debut EP with Classics of Love this year as well.
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Dear Landlord has posted another new song. The band’s debut full-length Dream Homes is due out June 30, 2009 via No Idea Records, which we first detailed here.

Check out “Landlocked” at the band’s myspace page.
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Sound Scene Revolution, the podcast hosted by Punknews interviewer/community member Dante3000 has posted a new episode that features an interview with Portland, OR’s Anchor Down. The band recently released Steel to Dust and next month will embark on a tour with Bastards Of Young and In The Red.

Check out the podcast here.
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Subb have posted a new song from their freshly released full length. The record is titled To This Beat and was released on Tuesday, June 2, 2009. The song features special guest reggae vocalist Jah Cutta.

Check out the song on their myspace page.
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Scranton, PA’s Tigers Jaw have posted the title track from their upcoming 7″ for Tiny Engines. Spirit Desire is due out August 18, 2009, with a digital release coming on July 7, 2009.

Check out “Spirit Desire” at the band’s myspace page.

The band’s self-titled full-length was recently digitally reissued through their new label, Run For Cover, and continues to be streamed in its entirety at the band’s punknews.org page.
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Last week, Philly’s Dirty Tactics stopped in town to drink some drinks and sing some songs. If you haven’t already done so, check out their EP, Gangsta Stamina, over on their Punknews profile.

You can check out the video below .
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