The Offspring guitarist Noodles recently spoke to Clink Music Magazine about the band’s upcoming plans. Of interest was a comment that the new album would feature reworkings of material left on the cutting room floor from their prior three full lengths. Noodles commented on the process

…rather than starting in the studio and starting from scratch and having to put it all aside while were touring, Dexter met with [producer Bob Rock] and they kind of looked at some of the old stuff as kind of a starting point for the new album really. We’re going to write a whole new album so it is not going to be rehashed b-sides. Plus there’s a lot of stuff, over the years we have written a lot of stuff that has potential but we just never flushed it out completely. So we are not going to just put out crap just for the sake of putting crap out.

The band will likely hit the studio early next year with producer Bob Rock, who produced last year’s Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace. The new record will likely mark the recorded debut of drummer Pete Parada, formerly of Face to Face and Saves The Day.
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Robotic Empire has announced plans to release Across Tundras‘ new full length Old World Wanderer in early 2010. The band, which recently relocated from Denver, Colorado to Nashville, Tennessee, is currently supporting their self-released collection Herds of the Fathomless Valleys, a collection of demos, cover songs, and live recordings. The set can be obtained for free here.

Across Tundras will be on the road throughout November.
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Boston’s Dropkick Murphys have announced European tour dates for early 2010. The band will kick things off in Madrid on January 22nd and will be overseas through early February, ending in Dusseldorf on the 4th. The popular band is still supporting 2007’s The Meanest of Times.
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Dirtnap Records has posted a free 14 song downloadable sampler. The set features recent or back-catalog songs from Mean Jeans, the The Marked Men, The Impulse International, Something Fierce, Goodnight Loving, The Returnables, The Raydios, The Estranged, Psyched to Die, Beat Beat Beat, The Girls, High Tension Wires and River City Tanlines. The sampler also includes a previously unreleased song from Mind Spiders, the new project from Mark Ryan of the Marked Men.

The label expects to keep updating the sampler and expanding the song list as new music comes in. You can download here.
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Fresh off last night’s apperance supporting the Ghost‘s reunion gig, Illinois’ Oceans will play their final show tonight in Chicago. The five piece will call it a career at Summer Camp in Chicago, playing alongside Native, Noumenon, Birth Rites, Victor Fix the Sun, and Antarctic. The band most recently released Nothing Collapses on Copper Lung Records.
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The Menzingers may be young, but they’ve definitely started to turn some heads. Coming out of what seemed like nowhere, they’ve managed to somehow master the art of the slow build-up and the gigantic, singalong chorus. Taylor Cocke sat down with Greg Barnett to talk about where they come from, the new record, and of course, the Fest.

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The Fest 8 is nigh! This coming weekend will see an incredible number of punk bands both big and small descend on Gainesville, FL for a weekend of rock, debauchery and beards. A tiny fraction of the lineup includes bands like Snuff, 7 Seconds, Less Than Jake, Youth Brigade, Dillinger Four Samiam, A Wilhelm Scream, Strike Anywhere and Gunmoll, but that isn’t even scratching the surface. Over the years the Fest has become one of the most important punk music events in North America, and we’re thrilled to be one of the sponsors this year.

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The Issue Oriented podcast has posted the first in a series of short videos following Rocherster, NY’s Sakes Alive!! on their way to the Fest 8 in Gainesville.

We posted a stream of the band’s recent 7″ Act II earlier this year.
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Today’s reports of Chuck Biscuits’ death have been traced back to a single blog post that went viral. The original author is now questioning the legitimacy of his announcement and is updating the story as things are cleared up. Check out the blog for updates.

We’ll keep you notified as this mess sorts itself out. We’d be quite happy to have this one wrong and hope to learn Chuck’s still with us.

UPDATE: D.O.A. frontman Joey Keithley is confirming that Chuck is indeed alive. Check out Straight.com for a discussion of the hoax that lead to this.
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