Andrew W.K. has announced plans to tour with chamber ensemble the Calder Quartet. The unlikely pairing will perform a mix of traditional standards and improvisations at a week’s worth of shows kicking off September 29th. The project was born from a performance at the Wordless Music Series in New York City, where A.W.K. and Calder Quartet had original works commissioned by The Explorers Club and performed at the club’s annual dinner. Metal Edge Magazine witnessed the show and commented “It was strange as hell and it pretty much ruled.”

Andrew W.K.‘s new full length 55 Cadillac arrives on September 8th. The album, self described as “spontaneous solo piano improvisations,” is being released on CD via Andrew’s own Skyscraper Music Maker label, with an LP coming out on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace! label.
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The Bouncing Souls have detailed the third 7″ collecting their ongoing 20th Anniversary Series singles. The new 7″ was produced by Ted Hutt (Gaslight Anthem, Flogging Molly) with cover art by Souls bassist Bryan Kienlen and Ramones artistsic director Arturo Vega. It will feature the songs “Ghosts on the Boardwalk,” “Boogie Woogie Dowtown,” “Badass” and “Uke Chek Girl” with a “locked groove” between the third and fourth track. The record is set to ship on September 15th with 800 on green and black vinyl for mailorder, 1000 on green vinyl with black and red splatter for tour, and 1000 on green vinyl for retail.

The band has been releaseing a new 7″ every three months on their Chunksaah label, compiling the tracks they’ve been releasing digitally on the first of every month. The band is remarkably busy these days, with upcoming anniversary shows and a TV special along with extensive touring and video releases.
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Pitchfork is reporting that several music personalities will take part in this year’s Athletes For Africa event. The charity fundraiser will be hosting a 5 on 5 soccer tournament at Toronto’s Cherry Beach. A “Mystery Team” at the event will feature Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo, and Ted Leo among others. Other teams will feature Broken Social Scene‘s Brendan Canning, and Bedouin Soundclash‘s Eon Sinclair along with a host of Toronto television, music and sport personalities.

You can find more details in the official press release.
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Fuse recently interviewed The Gaslight Anthem from Lollapalooza, where the band performed. Next month the band will embark on a headlining tour in support of their 2008 breakthrough album, The ’59 Sound.

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Formed earlier this year, Chicago-area group Noise by Numbers have detailed their debut full-length. The record will be titled Yeah, Whatever and will be a joint release between Asian Man Records (CD) and Solidarity Recordings (vinyl). The album is expected out in late October or early November and will be preceded by a two song 7″ to be released via Art of the Underground. Two songs from the full-length can be heard at the band’s MySpace page.

The band features Dan Schafer of The Methadones, Screeching Weasel, Riverdales, Jeff Dean from The Bomb, Explode and Make Up, and Four Star Alarm, Rick Uncapher from Textbook and Neil Hennessy from The Lawrence Arms, The Falcon and Smoking Popes.
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Suburban Home Records has launched a stream of Under The Influence vol. 11, first detailed here. The 7″ will feature covers from Joey Cape and Mike Hale and can be purchased at this page.

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Altpress.com has premiered the new video from Big D and the Kids Table for “Fluent in Stroll”. The song is the title track from their recent full-length, Fluent in Stroll.

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Paramore has announced a headlining tour in support of their upcoming full-length, brand new eyes, which is due out September 29, 2009. Opening for the band on the tour will be new labelmate The Swellers as well as Nashville, TN act Paper Route.

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Weezer have announced via their official website that their new album will be released on October 27, 2009. Other details (title and track listing, namely) are expected to be announced soon.

When released, the record will be Weezer’s seventh and the follow up to 2008’s The Red Album. The band recently road-tested three new songs at the Jisan Valley Rock Festival in South Korea.
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Vice Records has posted the second song from The Almighty Defenders. You can download “Cone Of Light” at the label’s website.

The Almighty Defenders features members of Atlanta’s Black Lips and Montreal’s The King Khan and BBQ Show (featuring Mark Sultan and Khan of King Khan and the Shrines). The six-member group will release their self-titled debut on September 22nd via Vice Records.
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A split 7″ featuring Fake Problems and Ninja Gun has been released via Sabot. Each band contributes one new song to their side of the wax and the pressing is limited to 1,000 copies. The Fake Problems song is an It’s Great to Be Alive leftover entitled “The Manliest Man Of All Men,” while Ninja Gun’s track, “Time and a Half” is a song the band has been playing live for quite some time. The record can be ordered here.

The bands recently had to cut short a tour due to a death in the Fake Problems family.
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Suburban Home Records has announced some details on the solo debut from Chad Price. The record will be called Smile Sweet Face and a release date is expected to be announced soon. Price will be supporting the record with appearances at both The Fest 8 in Gainesville, FL and the Suburban Home Records 14th Anniversary Party in Denver, CO, as well as the final ten dates of this year’s Revival Tour.

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The Album Project has posted a free download of Mount Bounty, a collection of demos, studio recordings, covers, and unreleased tracks recorded between 2000 and 2005 from Paper the Operator. The album can be downloaded here.

The release serves as a prequel of sorts for Paper The Operator, who released the Solemn Boyz EP in 2008. That EP is currently streaming at the band’s Punknews.org page.
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