Hawthorne Heights will apparently be releasing their next album very soon. The band posted this update:

We will release our new album, titled Skeletons, in early 2010. Secondly, as you should know already, we’re kicking off Never Sleep Again ’09 with Just Surrender, Monty Are I, Punchline, Anarbor, and Nightbeast on November 2nd. Get your tickets here and get them today because we will be giving away a limited amount of collectible download cards at each show which include one of our new songs, “Unforgivable” along with some other goodies.

The band released Fragile Future in 2008.
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MySpace is hosting a stream of the soundtrack to the uber-hyped new vampire film, Twilight: New Moon. The soundtrack features music from Death Cab for Cutie, Band of Skulls, Thom Yorke (Radiohead), The Killers, Muse, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Sea Wolf, OK Go, Grizzly Bear and more.

Check it out here.
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Say Anything have posted another song from their self-titled album due out November 3, 2009.

Check out “Eloise” on their MySpace page.
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Chris Walla of Death Cab For Cutie and J.Robbins of Jawbox and Burning Airlines were invited to NPR to participate in the Project Song Challenge. The two musicians met for the first time earlier this month and were tasked with writing and recording a new track.

Bob Boilen of NPR explained:

I supplied some inspiration for their song: photo collages created by artist Tom Chambers. They chose a photograph of a house in a canyon filled with water, tilted and flooded. Not far from the house is a dog on a boat, floating either toward or away from the house. I also supplied a series of words. They selected the word “cerebral” and promised when they wrote the song not to be too cerebral about it. You can hear the music and watch a video documenting the creative process as it unfolds.

Check it out here.
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Weezer‘s Rivers Cuomo will apparently be collaborating with pop vocalist Katy Perry. According to a new Buzznet interview, the musicians will begin writing together next week.

Check out the interview here.
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ABC News recently put together a spotlight on The Jesus Lizard. The piece coincides with the reissues of their albums on September 22, 2009 and their ongoing tour dates.

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Fresh off their big Polaris prize win, Toronto’s Fucked Up has announced a slate of European tour dates. The band will arrive in London for a show on November 26th and will be touring that side of the Atlantic until All Tomorrows Parties on December 5th.

In the mean time the band is gearing up for the big Fucked Up Weekend in Toronto, featuring shows by Vicious Cycle, Cro-Mags, Career Suicide, Iron Lung, Brutal Knights and many others. You can find the full line up and schedule below.
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NOFX is headed south this December, bringing their live show to Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama. .

The band is supporting their recent full length Coaster as well as two upcoming 7″ releases Cokie the Clown and My Orphan Year.
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Look Mexico have completed tracking and mixing their debut album for Suburban Home Records. Titled To Bed To Battle, the record is the first new material from the band since Gasp Asp in 2008 and the first full length since 2007’s This Is Animal Music.

The album is expected in 2010. In the interim, the band will be on the road including a few stops at CMJ this year.
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Metalocalypse director Mark Brooks has created a 20-minute DVD titled Playing with Dolls, a 12-episode video-graphic novel that will be included in Slayer‘s World Painted Blood Deluxe Edition due out November 3, 2009.

The film blends elements of animation and still-photography into a visual style similar to that of a graphic novel. The producers explained:

[The film is a] 12-part nightmare that breathes corrupt life into Slayer’s latest syllabus of stalkers, psychopaths and serial killers, merging their aberrant psyches into the supremely focused desire of a single, merciless malcontent. A methodical distillation of one man’s lethal frenzy, the film follows the gruesome outbursts of a nameless protagonist. He is not an indiscriminate murder junkie, but rather a highly creative snuff-artist with a deeply personal sense of purpose – a man for whom murder is the only conceivable way forward. With a black heart hardened by tragedy, he chooses his victims carefully. His methods are as grisly and varied as they are poetic.

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Swansea, UK-based The Arteries have announced a US release of their Household Name Records album, Blood, Sweat and Beers. Black Numbers will be issuing the album on November 10, 2009 on pink vinyl. The band will be on the road in the US soon for an East Coast tour with Static Radio NJ which will culminate with an appearance at The Fest.

Check out music from the album, as well as their contribution to the Art of the Underground series on their MySpace page.
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The Bonnaroo organizers have announced plan to release a new live DVD on December 15, 2009. The disc will feature performances from Bruce Springsteen, Beastie Boys, Elvis Costello, Jenny Lewis, The Decemberists, Coheed and Cambria and more.

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Toronto hardcore act the New Enemy have self-released their new EP Shakedown as a free digital download. You can find it over at their website along with their prior EP Outsourced. The new was produced by Simon Head (SNFU, Closet Monster) mastered by Nick Zampiello (Against Me!, Converge), and features artwork by French artist Dominique Sinibaldi. The band is encouraing donations to Amnesty International in exchange for the files.
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