In an interview with Revolt, Glassjaw frontman Daryl Palumbo dropped some hints about the sonic direction of the band’s long-awaited and recently completed EP, as well as plans for an eventual full-length:

“It’s a five or six song EP” … “And the EP will be slightly different from the full-length. The new Glassjaw stuff is far more aggressive than it was previously. This is stuff that Justin (Beck) and I have been working on for a long time. It’s far more aggressive than I ever thought it would be”

When released, the EP will be the band’s first new material since 2002’s Worship and Tribute. Check out the entire interview here.
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Richmond, VA’s Worn in Red have posted another new song from their forthcoming debut for No Idea, In The Offing. The record is expected out in November and will follow-up the band’s 2008 split 7″ with Benard.

Check out “Piled Like Bricks” at the band’s MySpace page.
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In a recent interview with AltOhio, Jon Snodgrass mentioned that he and bandmate Chad Price will be recording a new Drag the River album in November and that at least some of it will be recorded in Austin, TX:

“I’ve been talking to Price, from Drag the River, and we’re talking about what to do next November in Austin. I’m thinking about going down a few days early, and just figuring out a little my part in what we’ll end up doing. So, we’re going to do another Drag the River record. I’ve got some songs written that definitely have to be for Drag the River, if I put them on a record of mine, people will just say that they sound like they should be on a Drag the River record. We’ve worked on a couple of ideas together already, which we’ve done in the past for sure; we definitely come in with almost complete songs and then try to help each other out. This time I think we might write more together. Don’t know though.”

Drag The River’s last proper full-length was 2008’s You Can’t Live This Way, while a rarities collection entitled Bad at Breaking Up was released earlier this year. Snodgrass has kept busy in the meantime, releasing his first solo record Visitor’s Band earlier this year, and a split LP with Cory Branan via Suburban Home Records.
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The Raveonettes have announced their next full length. The record is titled In and Out of Control and is due out October 6, 2009 via Vice Records.

Vocalist Sharin Foo spoke to Billboard about the record:

What strikes me is that more so than ever before the mood of the music and the subject of the lyrics are in extreme conflict with one another. Our past records have tended to sound like different perspectives of one controlling emotion, both sonically and thematically, almost like a drone. But this record is very much a collection of songs which each has their own individual emotion, energy and personality.

The record follows Lust Lust Lust from 2008.
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Rochester, NY pop-punk/hardcore act Such Gold have signed to Mightier Than Sword Records. The band will release a new 7″/EP entitled Stand Tall via the label in August, which will follow up their self-released demo.

Some music can be heard at the band’s MySpace page.
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The Fest has announced the initial lineup for the eighth incarnation of the popular festival. To be held from October 30 to November 1, the event is set to include 7 Seconds, A Wilhelm Scream, Bridge and Tunnel, Dead To Me, Strike Anywhere, Dillinger Four, Less Than Jake, Off with Their Heads, Shook Ones and more. The entire list can be seen here.
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The Fest 8 has unveiled the lineup for this year’s event, which will be happening October 30-November 1 in Gainesville, FL.

Bands scheduled to appear include 12XU, 7 Seconds, A Wilhelm Scream, ANS, Above Them, Algernon Cadwallader, Alligator, Altercation Punk Comedy Tour, American Cheeseburger, Ampere, Anchor Arms, Annabel, Assassinate The Scientist, Assholeparade, Averkiou, Bad Friends, Bangers, Banner Pilot, Battle!, Ben Davis & The Jett$, Bible Children, Blacklist Royals, Bomb the Music Industry!, Brainworms, Bridge and Tunnel, Brothers, Caitlin Rose, Calvinball, Capsule, Cheap Girls, Cheeky, Chillerton, Chronic Youth, Cinemechanica, City of Ships, Clairmel, Cloak/Dagger, Coffee Project, Coffin Dancer, Coliseum, Comadre, Constrictor, Crash Burn Repeat, Crime In Stereo, Cruiserweight, Cutman, Dan Padilla, Daniel Striped Tiger, Dave Dondero, Dead Friends, Dead To Me, Dear Landlord, Deep Sleep, Die Hoffnung, Diet Cokeheads, Dillinger Four, Dirty Tactics, Eric Ayotte, Fiya, Failures’ Union, Fellow Project, Field Day, Fleshies, Gatorface, Ghastly City Sleep, Git Some, Giving Chase, Good Luck, Grabass Charlestons, Hard Girls, Hawks and Doves, Hidden Spots, Hometeam, Honest Arrow, Hour of the Wolf, How Dare You, In Defence, In The Red, Iron Chic, Itchy Hearts, Japanther, Jonesin’, Junior Battles, Kevin Seconds, Kylesa, Landmines, Lemuria, Less Than Jake, Liquid Limbs, Litany for the Whale, Little Lungs, Living with Lions, Look Mexico, Low Red Land, Madeline, Magrudergrind, Maruta, Mehkago NT, Mike Hale, Monikers, Mose Giganticus, Mouthbreather, Nervous Dogs, New Bruises, Ninja Gun, No Friends, No More, North Lincoln, Nothington, O Pioneers!!!, OK Pilot, Off with Their Heads, Old Growth, Only Thunder, Outbreak, Pezz, Polar Bear Club, Pretty Boy Thorson and the Falling Angels, Protagonist, Psyched to Die, Pulling Teeth, Pygmy Lush, Radon, Red City Radio, Rehasher, Religious as Fuck, Ringers, Ruiner, Russian Circles, Samiam, Savage Brewtality, Scum of the Earth, Shang-a-Lang, Shellshag, Shitstorm, Shook Ones, Sick Sick Birds, Sinaloa, Smalltown, Snacktruck, So Pastel, Spanish Gamble, Static Radio (NJ), Street Eaters, Stressface, Strike Anywhere, Strikeforce Diablo, The Arrivals, The Arteries, The Bomb, The Brokedowns, The Casting Out, The Catalyst, The Copyrights, The Disappeared, The Dopamines, The Emotron, The Flatliners, The Future Virgins, The Ghost, The Max Levin Ensemble, The Measure [SA], The Menzingers, The Ones To Blame, The Riot Before, The Shaking Hands, The Sidekicks, The Takers, The Thumbs, The Tim Version, The Tupolev Ghost, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, Thousandaires, Tiltwheel, Tim Barry, Tin Armor, Too Many Daves, Torche, Totally Michael, Towers of Hanoi, Toys That Kill, Trash Talk, Tubers, Underground Railroad to Candyland, Used Kids, Vaginasore Jr., Vena Cava, Vicious Fishes, Virgins, WORLDS, Watson, We Moderns, Whiskey and Co., Wormburner, Worn in Red, Young Livers, Young Widows, and Youth Brigade.

Tickets can be purchased at this page and all other pertinent info can be found at the Fest’s main website.
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We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• American Steel – Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
• Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
• Death by Stereo – Death Is My Only Friend
• Therefore I Am – The Sound of Human Lives
• Passenger Action – Passenger Action
• We’ll Go Machete – We’ll Go Machete
• Coffee Project – Pickle
• Rx Bandits – live in Dallas
• Johnny Foreigner – Waited Up ‘Til It Was Light
• The Answer – Never Too Late

You can check out any of our 8490 reviews right here
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A group of video game music artists have gotten together and released a Weezer tribute album. The release features 8-bit interpretations of some of the band’s biggest hits, such as “Buddy Holly” and “The World Has Turned And Left Me Here”, as well as some of their rarer or unreleased tracks. The 14-track compilation is available to download for free at video game music netlabel Pterodactyl Squad,

“Do you remember that dream you had, where the sound chips from the beloved games consoles of your youth all got together and formed a Weezer tribute band? Yeah? No? OK. That dream is about to come true whether you had it or not.

The songs on this compilation have mostly been created using original videogame hardware running home-brew software, and vary radically in style, from minimal ‘one man and his Game Boy’ compositions to 8-bit inspired full band performances. Pterodactyl Squad proudly presents the music of Weezer as you have never heard it before.”

Check it out here.
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Rx Bandits have launched a stream of their new record, Mandala. The album is set for release on July 28, 2009.

Check it out here.
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Dance Gavin Dance, Emarosa, Of Mice and Men, Tides of Man and Of Machines will be touring together beginning in September.

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Today we’re thrilled to bring you a stream of Frank Tuner’s album, Love, Ire and Song. Frank is releasing the album on CD in North America via his new label, Epitaph Records. The release precedes the upcoming release of his next album, Poetry of the Deed on September 7, 2009.

Frank will be supporting the album on upcoming shows with the Offspring and The Gaslight Anthem.

You can check it out on his Punknews.org Profile
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Nothington have begun announcing dates (and some venues) for their forthcoming tour. The band is hitting the road in support of their next album, Roads, Bridges, and Ruins due out October 6, 2009.

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