SideOneDummy is gearing up for the release of Chuck Ragan‘s new solo full length Gold Country on September 1st. The label now has two songs from the record online streaming, you can check out “Glory” and “Rodderdam” at the label’s website. Chuck comments in the press release:

We recorded the record at Flying Whale Studio up on this six acre mining claim called Arrowhead Mines. It’s an old local mine that was pretty well known back in the day. The record is just another page in the book and another chapter in life and it’s documenting where we are in that moment of time. Right now Gold Country is what I’ve lived for, everything I’ve worked to achieve and hold sacred and everything I strive to get home to.

SideOne has also revealed that the Revival Tour, which Ragan headlined last year with the frontmen of Avail, Against Me!, Lucero and others, will return this fall. There’s no word yet on who will perform or the routing, but the label is now calling it an annual event.
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The Bouncing Souls will tour Canada this September and October. The Jersey punk band, currently celebrating their 20th year, will be joined by punk legends Youth Brigade, Burlington, Ontario’s Saint Alvia and Minneapolis’ Off with Their Heads. The tour kicks off on September 23rd in Montreal and heads west from there, wrapping up in Vancouver on October 7th.

The Souls have been releasing a series of new recordings digitally on the first of each month this year, then collecting them into 7″ releases and eventually a CD. We recently took a look at the 20th Anniversary Series: Volume One.
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D.O.A. has unveiled their first video from their recent full length Northern Avenger. A statement from Joe Keithley’s label Sudden Death commented that the video and song are a reaction to the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski. An inquiry into that incident, in which a man died after being tasered five times by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is currently before the courts in British Columbia.

D.O.A. will tour this summer, playing select shows in Germany, Holland and California in July and August. In particular they’ll headline the Force Attack Festival in Rostock, Germany on August 1st, and follow with a series of Warped Tour appearances later that month.
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New York veterans Agnostic Front are headed to Europe later this summer. The tour will commence in Copenhagen at the end of July and will run throughout August.

The band released Warriors in 2007. Earlier this year the band added new drummer Pokey Mo, formerly of longstanding hardcore/metal crossover act Leeway. A South American tour with Madball is planned for the fall.
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The Weakerthans‘ 5-song acoustic session, soon to be available in the iTunes store, is streaming tonight at 8:00 PM EST / 5:00 PM PST at CBC Radio 3. The session features half of the celebrated Winnipeg band, namely John K. Samson and Stephen Carroll, performing at Metalworks Studio in Mississauga on April 1, 2009. The session features three tracks of their most recent release Reunion Tour and two from 1999’s Fallow.

The band will soon hit the West Coast with Jason Collett.
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We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
• Iron and Wine – Around the Well
• Future of the Left – Travels with Myself and Another
• Classics of Love – Walking in Shadows
• Coke Bust – Lines in the Sand [12 inch]
• The Menzingers – Hold on Dodge [7 inch]
• The Jammy Dodgers – Fish ‘N’ Chips [7 inch]
• Propagandhi/Strike Anywhere/Banner Pilot – live in Minneapolis
• Only Way Back – A Voice to Speak
• Levellers – A Weapon Called the Word

You can check out any of our 8410 reviews right here
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Gainesville, FL’s The Takers have posted another new song from their upcoming debut full-length. The record is titled Taker Easy and is due out July 21, 2009.

Check out “St. John’s Son” at the band’s myspace page.
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Razorcake Records has announced another chapter in their Razorcake Sister Series, this one featuring simultaneous 7″ releases from The Arrivals and Grabass Charlestons. The two records feature four new songs from each band – three originals and one cover of the other artist, with Grabass Charlestons covering The Arrivals’ “-1” and The Arrivals offering their version of Grabass Charlestons’ “Ask Mark Twain”. The set is available on black or colored vinyl, and can be checked out here.

Grabass Charlestons last released the Lead Us Down 7″ in 2008, while The Arrivals last issued Marvels of Industry in 2007.
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YuppiePunk has published an interview with Suburban Home Records / Vinyl Collective founder Virgil Dickerson, where he discusses his two businesses, talks about harnessing social media and opines about the death of the label sampler, among other things.

Check out the interview here.
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If You Make It has posted the new demo from Slingshot Dakota, the appropriately titled Demo #3. The release includes three new songs – two originals and a cover of the Fugazi classic, “Waiting Room”, which was first documented by the site in video form here.

Download the demo for free here. The release follows up 2008’s Their Dreams Are Dead, But Ours Is the Golden Ghost!.
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Our stream today comes from Houston, TX-based Something Fierce. We’ve got a stream of the band’s recent full length, There Are No Answers , which was re-released earlier this year on LP by Dirtnap Records. A new record is due from the act in early 2010.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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More details about the upcoming 7″ from This Is Hell has been announced. The record is titled Warbirds and is due out August 18, 2009, and will follow up 2008’s Misfortunes. Think Fast! Records expects to post a pre-order soon, but in the meantime has posted the cover art and track listing, which includes three originals and two covers from the band.

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Confirming the rumors of a couple of months ago, highly influential band Sunny Day Real Estate has announced a month-long U.S. reunion tour. The band will kick it off with the tour’s one date in Canada, September 17 at Vancouver, BC’s Commodore Ballroom, before wrapping it up October 16 in their hometown of Seattle at the Paramount Theatre.

Additionally, their label Sub Pop will be reissuing the band’s first two albums, 1994’s Diary and 1995’s LP2, on both CD and LP formats. The albums will be remastered and include rare bonus tracks, as well as newly written liner notes. The release date is September 15.

Widely considered one of the most seminal acts of the emo movement, Sunny Day Real Estate’s Diary is considered a classic of the genre. The band first broke up in 1995 before the release of LP2 and reunited in 1997, releasing two more studio albums before disbanding again in 2001 – 1998’s How It Feels to Be Something On and 2000’s The Rising Tide. In the meantime, frontman Jeremy Enigk has released several solo albums and also fronts the Fire Theft, which features fellow SDRE members William Goldsmith and Nate Mendel. Both Goldsmith and Mendel have also spent time in Foo Fighters, with Mendel still a current member of that band.
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