Muse have posted the track listing for their forthcoming album. The record is titled The Resistance and is due out September 14, 2009.

Source Continue reading Muse detail “The Resistance” →

This Is Hell have posted the first song from their upcoming 7-inch due out August 18, 2009. Titled Warbirds and due out on Think Fast! Records, the 7-inch will feature three new songs and covers of INXS and Warzone.

Check out “The Search” on their myspace page.
Source Continue reading This Is Hell: “The Search” →

As yet-unconfirmed sources are reporting that major punk and indie music distributor Lumberjack Mordam has shut down. The website appears to be down as well.

Please note that the distributor has made no statement as of right now, but one distributed label – Jailhouse Records – has issued a press release with some allegations about what is happening. You can find that here.

Requests by Punknews.org to Lumberjack Mordam for comment have not been returned and phone lines are not being answered.
Source Continue reading Sources allege Lumberjack Mordam shutting down →

In Flames have announced a US headlining tour set for September and the first week of October. Support will be provided by Between The Buried And Me, 3 Inches of Blood and The Faceless.

Source Continue reading In Flames / Between The Buried and Me / 3 Inches of Blood / The Faceless →

Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I’m Adam White and I’ll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here’s what got the community talking this week…

This was a good week to be a Gaslight Anthem fan. The unabashed Bruce Springsteen nuts were joined on stage by the Boss at this weekend’s Glastonbury Festival. He performed “The ’59 Sound” with the band. Gaslight frontman Brian Fallon was also featured captured performing a solo cover of the Leonard Cohen classic “Hallelujah.” There were a few big signings this week. A Wilhelm Scream went to Paper & Plastick, with a five-song 12-inch out this fall. Flint, MI’s the Swellers joined up with Fueled By Ramen, with a new ful length due in the fall. Producer Butch Vig unveiled some news on the next Against Me! record, revealing that the band would start pre-production soon with studio time expected in August. Blink-182 have finished tracking their first new, post-reunion track titled “Up All Night.” Every Time I Die was also in the news, discussing the departure of drummer Mike Novak.

Many bands were busy working on new recordings this week. Brand New discussed their next record and the future of the band. Nothington announced their sophomore full length for BYO Records. Popular act Paramore detailed their forthcoming album. Polar Bear Club is set to release a teaser 7-inch this month. Red Scare announced plans to distribute the new EP from The Isotopes. Blaqk Audio, the side project from AFI members Davey Havok and Jade Puget recorded a Love and Rockets cover for an upcoming tribute. Andrew Jackson Jihad detailed their new record Can’t Maintain. The Bouncing Souls kicked off the month with a new song, “Ghosts On The Boardwalk.” Brendon Urie of Panic at the Disco posted a cover of Sublime‘s “Boss DJ.” This week saw videos from the Riverboat Gamblers (“Victory Lap”), garage rock act Wavves (“No Hope Kids”), and UK pop singer-songwriter Lily Allen (“Fuck You”) This year’s Red Scare Tour will feature Cobra Skulls, the Copyrights, the Sidekicks and the Menzingers. Youth Brigade will also hit the road with Off With Their Heads. Finally Bomb the Music Industry and Laura Stevenson will tour the US.

This week we said goodbye to vocalist and founder of the Seeds, Sky Saxon (1937-2009).

Punknews.org will be represented this year at the 2009 San Francisco AIDS Walk on July 19th. The current team features Punknews readers, staff from Fat Wreck Chords and our pal Mike Park of Asian Man Records. You can register here or make a general donation here.

Rancid and the Menzingers lead the list of Your Favorite Records from June. Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured more video studio footage from Rochester, NY’s Sakes Alive!! (Episode 2) and the first Warped Tour Journal from our own Ben Conoley.

Our Video of the Week featured Florida’s Fake Problems performing “Heart BPM” on the Philadelphia stop of their headlining tour. As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length by The Takers from Gainesville, FL, and a new track from Beverly, MA-based Caspian. So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Against Me!, All Time Low, Big D and The Kids Table, Death By Stereo, and Poison The Well with tours kicking off from Brand New (US), Rx Bandits with Dredg (US), the 10 For $10 Tour featuring Terror, Death Before Dishonor, War of Ages, Crime In Stereo, Trapped Under Ice, The Mongoloids, The Ghost Inside, This Is Hell and Vision, Fear Before with Oceana and Memphis May Fire (US), the Briggs and Left Alone (US), SNFU (Europe), and In The Red (US).

Click Read More to check out our ongoing contests, new streaming music, social networking links and more.
Source Continue reading July 5th, 2009 →

Albany, NY’s After the Fall recently recorded three new songs with NYHC producer Don Fury at his new studio in Troy, NY. Veteran producer Fury previously worked with bands like Born Against, Quicksand, Agnostic Front and Gorilla Biscuits.

The new EP is titled Collar City and will be released on vinyl on to-be-announced labels. The band released Fort Orange earlier this year.
Source Continue reading After the Fall record new 7″ with Don Fury →

Guitar Hero: World Tour has added three of Epitaph Records‘ most important bands in a new track pack. The set, available now on XBOX360 and PS3, features NOFX‘s “Linoleum” from Punk In Drublic, Rancid‘s “Ruby Soho” from … And Out Come The Wolves and Bad Religion‘s “21st Century Digital Boy” which is presumably the Against the Grain version, not the Stranger Than Fiction version since this is the “Epitaph” track pack.

Source Continue reading Guitar Hero: World Tour adds NOFX, Bad Religion and Rancid →

Justin Broadrick of Jesu and Aaron Turner of Isis have formed a new side project titled Greymachine. The band is rounded out by Dave Cochrane and Diarmuid Dalton. The band have completed a record titled Disconnected and is due out August 4, 2009

You can check out a song from the record, “Vultures Descend,” by clicking here.
Source Continue reading Justin Broadrick (Jesu) and Aaron Turner (Isis) form Greymachine →

Veteran musician Travis Morrison has retired from music. Morrison was the frontman of DC art-punks Dismemberment Plan and also released solo material under the name Travis Morrison Hellfighters. He posted his retirement announcement to his official website saying:

Retired! No shows, no records, no band. Just relaxing in Brooklyn. Befriend me on facebook. I’m so nice.

Morrison’s last solo album was 2007’s All Y’All.
Source Continue reading Travis Morrison (Dismemberment Plan, Hellfighters) retires from music →

As Tall as Lions have posted a new song and set a release date for their forthcoming album. The record is titled You Can’t Take It With You and is due out August 18, 2009. It is the follow-up to Into the Flood which was released in 2007.

The song, “Circles,” is available on their myspace page.

The band will be supporting the record on a forthcoming tour with Rx Bandits and Dredg.
Source Continue reading As Tall As Lions: “Circles” →

Fort Collins, Colorado’s 10-4 Eleanor have hit the road supporting their recent Death To False Hope release …Too Bad. This is the first leg of what the band’s calling the “No Parents Tour.”
Source Continue reading 10-4 Eleanor US tour →

Rochester, NY’s Sakes Alive!! are currently working on their new 7″ Act II for Cavity Records. It’s the second in a three part series being released on different labels (the first part, Act I, arrived last year on Barrett). The band took a video camera into their makeshift studio and documented their recording progress. Over the next several weeks we’ll be bringing you some highlights from the sessions.

Click Read More to watch the second Episode. Make sure you check out Episode 1 and the intro as well.
Source Continue reading Sakes Alive!! recording “Act II” (Episode 2) →

We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• The Aggrolites – IV
• Outbreak – Work to Death [7 inch]
• Warped Tour 2009 – live in Ventura
• ONSIND / Ghost Mice – Split [7 Inch]
• Reign Supreme – Testing the Limits of Infinite
• Sylvie – Trees and Shade Are Our Only Fences
• Spires – Flowers and Fireworks [12 inch]
• Wormburner – Wormburner [7 inch]
• Oak & Bone – Oak & Bone [7 inch]
• NOFX – The Longest Line

You can check out any of our 8440 reviews right here
Source Continue reading Friday, July 3 2009 →