Banner Pilot have announced the title and release date for their first record on Fat Wreck Chords. The record is titled Collapser and is due out September 1, 2009. It is the follow-up to Resignation Day which was released in 2008.

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Rehasher, the side project from Less Than Jake‘s Roger Manganelli and members of Army Of Ponch and Bullets to Broadway, have announced their sophomore album. The record is titled High Speed Access to my Brain and is due out August 18, 2009. It will be released on CD via Moathouse and on vinyl via Paper and Plastick.

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Our friends at Exclaim sent their correspondent to Warped Tour to cover the event. In the first segment, the reporter asks Alexisonfire guitarist Wade MacNeil who the worst band on Warped is. MacNeil replies: “you got a couple of minutes?”

That kicks off a series of quick interviews with NOFX, Alexisonfire, Gallows, Senses Fail and many more. Those folks present their nominees for worst band which include Saosin, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Senses Fail, Brokencyde and Flipper.

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San Diego has announced the bulk of the lineup for the 25th Anniversary of the San Diego Street Scene Festival on August 28th and 29th on the streets of downtown San Diego in the East Village.

Headliners include Beastie Boys, MIA, Black Eyed Peas, Modest Mouse and The Dead Weather. The bill will also include Cake, Silversun Pickups, Band of Horses, Girl Talk, Chromeo, Mastodon, Ozomatli, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Devendra Banhart, Wavves, Bassnectar, Shooter Jennings, No Age, Calexico, Ra Ra Riot, Deerhunter, Matt And Kim, Los Campesinos!, Grand Ole Party, LA Riots, Donald Glaude, Anya Marina, Holy Fuck, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, Blue Scholars, Crocodiles, Zee Avi, Extra Golden and Carney.

For tickets and additional information, go to the official website.
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A number of hardcore musicians have teamed up for Bringin’ It Back. The show is set for August 16th at the Chain Reaction in Anaheim and will have these musicians covering hardcore classics from the 80s and 90s including songs by Minor Threat, Gorilla Biscuits, Quicksand. Earth Crisis and Snapcase.

The backing band will include Scott Sprigg (Buried Alive, Stand and Fight, Force of Change), Vadim Taver (This Day Forward, A Life Once Lost) Matt Horwitz – (Adamantium, Mean Season, Monument to Thieves) and Greg Bacon – (Carry On, Betrayed, The First Step, Internal Affairs)

Vocalists will feature Keith Barney (Throwdown, Eighteen Visions, Adamantium, Monument to Thieves), Javier Van Huss (Eighteen Visions, The Mistake), Ray Harkins (Taken, Mikoto), David Richardson (As Hope Dies, Force of Change, Monument to Thieves), Mike Shaw (This Day Forward) and Bo Thompson (Donnybrook, Snake Eyes, Lone Wolf).

For more details including tickets, visit here.
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British hardcore band Dead Swans have posted a new song. The song comes from their new 4-song EP, It’s Starting. The EP features two songs from the band’s forthcoming Bridge Nine Records debut, Sleepwalkers and two covers of Black Flag and My Bloody Valentine.

Check out “Ivy Archway” on their myspace page.
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The Dead Weather, the new band featuring Jack White (The White Stripes) and Allison Mosshart (The Kills, Discount) have posted the first video from their imminent debut, Horehound. The video was directed by Jonathan Glazer (Radiohead, Sexy Beast)

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Bleeding Through have signed to Rise Records. The news comes after the band parted ways with longtime label Trustkill Records. The band recently enlisted guitarist Dave Nassie, formerly of No Use for a Name.

Their most recent release was 2008’s Declaration.
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Mission Of Burma have announced their next full length. The record is their third post-reunion album, titled The Sound The Speed The Light. It’s expected on October 6, 2009.

According to the Matador blog where it was announced, the record will be preceded by a 7-inch, Innermost on August 18, 2009.

Finally, the label has posted the first single from the record, check it out here.
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The Fall Of Troy have announced their next album. The album is their third and is titled In the Unlikely Event. It is due out October 6, 2009.

It was produced by Terry Date (Deftones, Slipknot, Smashing Pumpkins), and marks the debut of bassist Frank Ene.
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In what initially appears to be good marketing, but is actually a recall, Dinosaur Jr. is recalling European versions of their recent, critically acclaimed album Farm, due to a software glitch which increased volume by 3dB, thereby making the album too loud.

The band posted this:

Pease note that on the European CD version of the Farm album there is an audio problem. This occurred while duplicating the original master in a duplication studio. The problem occurred when the duplicate was produced, as the software program used for this duplication ‘doubled’ the sound layers. This resulted in a 3dB increase in the overall sound volume.

You can find more information via their European label, PIAS.
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Nine Inch Nails have announced their final tour dates for the foreseeable future. The band is planning multiple shows in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles and will be supported by The Horrors and Mew on separate dates.

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According to a recent report from music industry veteran Wayne Rosso, EMI Group has been contacting small accounts, mostly independent “mom & pop” record stores, to tell them that they would no longer sell them product.

He adds:

EMI intends to save money by not selling their CD’s to independent retailers. Instead they want these retailers to go to one stops for their product. These retailers are the only ones who buy catalog anymore. You sure can’t find it at Walmart and Best Buy. These are small businesses who have been loyal customers of EMI for 20, 30, 40 or more years. Like in the movie High Fidelity, these guys know every catalog number ever released. Every disk ever cut out of the catalog. They live and die by making personal recommendations to their customers–turning them on to new music. These shops are where music lovers go to discover and buy music.

Active and catalogue artists on EMI include Radiohead, Beastie Boys, Yellowcard, Less Than Jake, Stiff Little Fingers, Foo Fighters, The Decemberists and many others.
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