The results for your votes for the best albums of May are in. The top album comes from NOFX and albums from Silversun Pickups, Green Day, Big Business and more appear on the list.

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In The Red have announced more tour dates this year. The band is supporting their new full length, Volume 2 and you can still stream the record on their Punknews.org Profile.

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Rancid are apparently planning another split release in the style of their BYO Split Series Volume 3 project with NOFX. Though few details are currently available, the band will apparently be releasing a split with Dropkick Murphys.

The band discussed the project in a Recent Metromix interview.
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Dillinger Escape Plan‘s Benjamin Weinman recently spoke to Metal Insider about their new imprint deal and what it means for the band:

The truth is that the industry is changing on a daily basis. To seal our fate for the next 10 years at this time could be suicide. The question is, do we want to become a record label? Hell no. I barely have time to handle all the Dillinger business at hand, let alone all the tasks that come with releasing, promoting, marketing and distributing music. But at the same time, we are very hands-on. We know enough about our band at this point to not want to leave it in the hands of someone else completely.

The band also discussed the influence of Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor, their experience with Relapse Records and more. Check it out here.
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According to a posting on their studio blog, Thrice is aiming for a Fall 2009 release for the follow up to their four EP cycle, The Alchemy Index: Volumes I & II: Fire & Water and The Alchemy Index: Volumes III & IV: Air & Earth. A band member had this to say:

Thanks for the encouragement guys. The reason we are working against a deadline is so we can get this out in the fall and not next year. Getting closer!

On that subject, the band’s latest progress update notes:

Same ‘ol same ‘ol here. More vocals are being sung and it’s sounding sweeeeeet.

The record is expected via Vagrant Records.
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Tallahassee, Floridians Look Mexico have signed to Suburban Home Records. The label had this to say:

Today, I am excited to announce to the world that we have just “signed” Look Mexico. ……. The band are currently recording what will become their Suburban Home Records’ debut. They will again be working with Phil Martin and August Hansen.

The band has posted two demos from the follow up to Gasp Asp [7 inch] and This Is Animal Music. You can find the demos on their myspace page.
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Finch have posted a free download of their 2008 EP, Finch. The download coincides with the relaunch of the band’s official website and the band promises that “there’s also a little in there for those of you that already have the EP, so why not get it again?”

You can grab it here.
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Coalesce has a full album stream of their new full length, Ox. The album is their first record in ten years. The veteran hardcore/noise band will be releasing their album on June 9, 2009 in North America and June 15, 2009 everywhere else. The album was recorded with Ed Rose at Blacklodge Studios and is the band’s first new full length since reuniting in 2007. Since then, the band released a new 7-inch, Salt and Passage, and reissued 012:2.

Check it out via Lambgoat.
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Rancid will be appearing on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien on Wednesday, June 10th. The band will be performing a track from their newly released full length, Let the Dominoes Fall released this week.
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The Offspring have posted a video tour announcement announcing their summer tour with Alkaline Trio, Street Dogs, Shiny Toy Guns, Sum 41, Pennywise and Dropkick Murphys. The band went with an elaborate presidential address style announcement for the tour which will support Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace.

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Set Your Goals have posted the title track from their forthcoming Epitaph Records debut. The record is titled This Will Be The Death Of Us and is due out July 21, 2009. The album is their first since Mutiny! in 2006.

The track features guest vocals from Vinnie Caruana of I Am the Avalanche and The Movielife. The record also includes performances from New Found Glory‘s Chad Gilbert and Hayley Williams of Paramore.

Check out “This Will Be the Death of Us” on their myspace page.
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Trash Talk and more dates have been added to the previously announced co-headlining tour with The Casualties and Leftover Crack.

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Moneen have launched a stream of their new 4-song EP, Hold That Sound.

The band’s new full-length is also currently in the mastering stages.
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