The Lawrence Arms are currently looking for fans to submit songs for their upcoming anniversary show. Co-vocalist Brendan Kelly explained:

Send an email to [email protected] and vote for the song or songs you want to hear. You can vote for as many songs as you want, but if you’re really irritating, or you send in a whole setlist, or you’re demanding or you sound in any way like a dildo, I’m not counting your vote.

There are NO songs that are safe, meaning only the songs you vote for will be played, so don’t vote for obscure shit thinking that someone else is gonna do all the voting for 100 resolutions. If you don’t vote for it, it’s not getting played, understand?

Third, if you all vote and the winning setlist just absolutely sucks, we’re not gonna play it. This is the kind of thing that really shouldn’t have to be said, but everyone’s a fucking comedian now days, and there’s nothing like laying down a little contest with a few rules to bring the assholes out of the woodwork.

We’re gonna try to do a nice selection from all our records, which means that even if the top fifteen songs are all off one record, we’re only probably gonna play five of em, and then the tabulation will start again with the most voted for songs on the other records. This is mostly for 2 reasons. 1) I don’t want to play Ghost Stories front to back, and 2) it’s a fucking anniversary celebration type thing…it should have a retrospective vibe, don’tcha think?

Check out the blog entry here.
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All-American Rejects and Taking Back Sunday have confirmed the first batch of dates for their co-headlining tour together this fall. The two bands will switch opening and closing the performances each night.

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Another round of bands appearing at this year’s edition of The Fest have been announced. Newly confirmed artists include Dave House, Broadway Calls, So Many Dynamos, Andrew Jackson Jihad, The Swellers, Attica! Attica!, Gretski, Michael Claytor & His Friends, Laserhead, Emily Brodsky, Des Ark, and a reunion by Panthro UK United 13.

The Fest-ivities are set to take place October 30th through November 1st in venues all over Gainesville, FL.
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Tom Gabel of Against Me! has posted yet another video update on his blog, as the band continues to record their next album and follow up to 2007’s polarizing major label debut, New Wave. This will be the band’s first recording with Hot Water Music‘s George Rebelo as a member.

Earlier this year the band released the collection The Original Cowboy, which compiled demos for their 2003 full length As The Eternal Cowboy.
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Look Mexico have announced the title of their upcoming full-length. To Bed To Battle is expected out by the end of the year and will be the band’s first release for their new label, Suburban Home. The record will follow up the band’s acclaimed 2008 seven inch, Gasp Asp.

The band has also announced a tour around their scheduled appearance at the Suburban Home Records 14th Anniversary Party.
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Austin, Texas’ Krum Bums are set to release a new EP at the end of the month. S.O.S. will see the light of day via TKO Records and Crawlspace Recprds on September 29th. The title track from the EP can be streamed over at MySpace.

Krum Bums are currently on the road with the The Casualties and Mouth Sewn Shut. Earlier this summer they supported the reconstituted The Germs.
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Antillectual will do a week of European touring with American skatepunks After the Fall in tow. The latter will follow the tour by returning to the States and doing a series of shows with the likes of Teenage Bottlerocket, Defeater and more.

Antillectual released Testimony in 2008. After the Fall issued Fort Orange earlier this year, which we’re still streaming on the band’s Punknews.org profile page.

After the Fall also recently recorded a new 7″ with Don Fury dubbed Collar City, and according to the band’s Last.fm page, will release it in January 2010 on Mightier Than Sword Records.
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Nashville punk/blues duo the Black Diamond Heavies are headed out on the road this month to drum up support for their upcoming live album. The band will play shows in the US and Canada from now through the 28th of September.

The band will release Alive As Fuck on Alive Records on November 24th. It features a set recorded at the Covington Masonic Lodge in Covington, KY. The album follows up 2008’s A Touch of Someone Else’s Class.
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Traffic Street Records will be reissuing the debut CDEP from Highland, IN trio Like Bats, in anticipation of the band’s forthcoming 7″ for the label. The band also plans to release a split 7″ with Unwelcome Guests in the future.

Some music can be heard at the band’s myspace page.
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Nick Cave has released an “enhanced ebook” of his recently released second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro. Available through iTunes, the enhanced novel features an unabridged audiobook read by Nick Cave, featuring an original soundtrack by Cave and long-time musical collaborator Warren Ellis. It is produced and sound-directed by British artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. The audiobook features a 3D audio spatial mix, specifically designed for listening on headphones. As well as familiar e-book features such as the ability to change font size, and bookmark pages, the Enhanced Edition also includes the ability to switch between audio and text versions of the book or watch videos.

The novel has been described as “Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka, and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse” and is due via Faber & Faber.

Check out the book here.
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Beloved and influential post-hardcore act Small Brown Bike has announced plans to reunite and play more shows in the future. So far, the band has only offered confirmation in the form of a tweet, but we’ll keep you posted as dates and cities are announced.

Small Brown Bike broke up in 2004, a year after releasing their final album The River Bed, and over the years issued material through No Idea Records, Second Nature Recordings and Lookout! Records. Ex-members went on to form bands such as Able Baker Fox and LaSalle. The band first reunited in 2007 for a couple of shows, including an appearance at The Fest 7 in Gainesville, FL.
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News of Dear Landlord sent pop-punk fans atwitter. Half Copyrights, half Rivethead, it sounded like the ‘Org’s answer to a design-your-own-super-group question. It was a shock when the record managed to live up to its hype. Drummer and songwriter Brad Lokkesmoe talks with Sarah Collins about the meaning of Dream Homes, his other super-group The Gateway District, and who he’d like to start a band with.

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Red Sound Records, a free online download label, has announced a couple of upcoming releases. The first is from Flipsides, who issued Clever One on Pink & Black Records in 2002. The release, titled The Best Of Times is a collection of the band’s demo EP as well as other tracks. Also to come from the label is IV from The Soviettes. The album will compile demos, unreleased tracks, live songs and more.

Red Sound’s last release was On Guard’s This Has Its Price and That Price Has Been Paid.
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