Guitarist Jeff Dean is a prolific musician. Currently playing in five discrete Chicago-area bands, Dean rocks with some of the Midwest’s best. Right now Dean is focused on The Bomb, fronted by Naked Raygun’s Jeff Pezzati, and their new Jay Robbins produced album. Interviewer Brandon Campbell met up with Dean for a couple of PBRs in Chicago’s own Beat Kitchen for a friendly chat.

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As their first order of business as part of the Paper and Plastick family, Richmond’s The Riot Before have posted an acoustic EP for free download. Fists… Out of Sockets contains seven reworked acoustic versions of songs initially found on the band’s critically and community lauded 2008 full-length, Fists Buried in Pockets. Check it out here.

The band hopes to have a new full-length out in 2010. In the meantime, they’ll be appearing at The Fest 8 in Gainesville, FL in a few short weeks, as well as likely consuming a large amount of burritos.
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As promised, Suburban Home Records has posted a new video from Tim Barry. “Thing of the Past” comes from Barry’s upcoming full-length 28th and Stonewall, which is expected in January of 2010 and will follow up Manchester, released in 2008.

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Our stream today comes from Scranton, PA-based Captain, We’re Sinking. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, The Animals Are Out.

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Jello Biafra‘s new band, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, have announced a run of tour dates in the United States and Spain. The band’s other members include Billy Gould (Faith No More), Kimo Ball (Freak Accident), Ralph Spight (Victims Family), and Jon Weiss, and will release their debut entitled The Audacity of Hype on October 20, 2009 through Alternative Tentacles.

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Billy Talent and Against Me! will be touring Canada together next spring. Billy Talent will be supporting their latest record, III, while Against Me! are currently holed up in a studio recording their next full-length (and posting a lot of video updates whilst doing so).

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With the CMJ Music Marathon again approaching in New York City, we’ve teamed up with our pals from The Syndicate to put on a special show featuring some great bands and more with a matinee show at Webster Hall.

The lineup right now includes Bridge and Tunnel, Look Mexico, Red Collar, Far From Finished, Defeater and Let Me Run so there is a little something for everyone whether your tastes are for hardcore, straight up punk rock, post-hardcore or something in between.

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The Offspring have announced that their Australian dates, previously scheduled for the end of the month, has been cancelled. The band cited the cancellation of the Megaramage event in Melbourne as the reason, with ticket refund information to come. New dates are expected to be scheduled in the near future.

The band released Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace in 2008.
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The Misfits have announced that a new single titled Land Of The Dead will be released in time for Halloween. The two song, 12 inch LP maxi-single will be the band’s first new studio release since 2003’s Project 1950. Both new songs, “Land of the Dead” and “Twilight of the Dead” were written by Jerry Only and were inspired by George Romero’s zombie films. The release will feature a new cover painting by artist Arthur Suydam (of Marvel Comics’ Marvel Zombies fame). More details on the various editions to be released can be found on the band’s website.

The Misfits previously announced a huge fall tour of Mexico, Canada and the US. The long running band exists as a three piece these days consisting of bassist Jerry Only backed by former Black Flag members Dez Cadena and Robo.
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Rancid has unveiled their new video for the song “Up To No Good” from their recent full length Let the Dominoes Fall. The video features appearances from professional skateboarder Tony Hawk among others. Click below to check it out.
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Seattles’ notorious Spits are headed out for a set of shows on the US west coast. The band will kick things off with an apperance at Scion Garage Fest in Portland, OR on October 17th along side Roky Erikson of 13th Floor Elevators, the reunion of Toronto’s legendary Deadly Snakes as well as the Dirtbombs, Black Lips, Jay Reatard, the King Khan and BBQ Show, CoCoComa, the Nice Boys and many others. The tour will wrap up in San Diego on the 26th.

Punknews is currently streaming the band’s new full length IV on the Spits’ Punknews profile .
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After a six year hiatus, ArmsBendBack have announced a new self-titled full length. Due out November 10, 2009, the band has posted three songs from the new album.

Check them out on their MySpace page.
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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…

Rise Against have responded to a controversy stirred up by Florida radio station BUZZ103. The band commented that “we discovered that we were scheduled to headline a stage sponsored by the US Army’s Recruitment Dept. As a band that has worked in counter-recruitment in the past, we decided it would be hypocritical and inappropriate for us to headline this stage. To be clear, this was not an event to honor the military, this was an event that the US ARMY was interested in recruiting people at, and we felt that our fans should be free from that interference at a rock show on a Sunday night in a time of war.” On his ongoing tour garage punk Jay Reatard has seen every member of his band quit. He responded with his usual level of bombast. A venue in Los Gatos, California has banned all-ages shows and upended their concert schedule due to a complaint regarding an interaction between a 13 year old and a man in his 20s at the venue. A recent study crunched the numbers on album sales last year, revealing that out of 115,000 albums that were released only 110 sold more than 250,000 copies, only 1,500 topped 10,000, and fewer than 6,000 sold more than 1,000.

The Lawrence Arms have detailed their upcoming EP Buttsweat And Tears. Members of Screeching Weasel, Rise Against, and Common Rider, along with the nephew of the President of Panama, are set to release a new full length under the name Torture The Artist. The Gaslight Anthem have planed a food drive for New York City on their upcoming October 15th. The Fest (documentary) preview and Dillinger Four set video National Underground have posted a preview of their upcoming documentary about the The Fest as well as a Dillinger Four set from last year’s event. Against Me! have posted another studio video, this time chronicling their 45th day working on their new album. The upcoming video game Tony Hawk: Ride will include music from Replacements, NOFX, Green Day, Bronx, and the Stooges. This week also saw videos from AFI (the single “Medicate”) and Brand New (the unreleased video for “Jesus”). Oh, and Yahoo! declared punk dead. Since Google ate their lunch they’ve got a lot of free time on their hands.

This week we said goodbye to Jon Guthrie (1983-2009), veteran of several Athens, GA bands.

Our Food Not Songs series of punk rock recipes featured Lemuria making Bugbear Squares. This week we spoke with Shane Told of Silverstein (interview), Andrew Vivian Horne of Bangers (interview), frontman Steve Brodsky of Cave In (interview), and Kenny Bridges of Moneen (interview).

Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured British singer-songwriter Mike Scott, currently on tour with Kevin Seconds (Episode 2). Our Video of the Week featured the Gaslight Anthem covering Hot Water Music‘s “Trusty Chords” on their recent tour. As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length from Buffalo’s Failures’ Union, and the sophomore LP from Nothington titled Roads, Bridges and Ruins.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Baroness, Junius, Say Anything, The Scenics and many others. We’ll also see a huge number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from Chuck Ragan with Jim Ward, Tim Barry, and Dave Hause (Revival Tour), Street Dogs with Civet (Europe), Flogging Molly and Gallows with others (Canada), All-American Rejects with American Steel (US), Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols (UK) Poison The Well (Japan, Australia), Down By Law and the Spears (US), The King Khan and BBQ Show (North America), The Hold Steady with Two Cow Garage (US), Bane with Blacklisted and Foundation (US), and New Found Glory (US).

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