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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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.
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Detroit, Michigan has endured a tumultuous year thus far. The city’s calling card automotive industry has been suffering a downright crisis and is still attempting to bounce back to some sense of normalcy. Compound that with the Red Wings losing in the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Tigers not making the playoffs, and things have been looking pretty grim. However, a glimmer of hope does shine from the Motor City this year, with Fenton based pop-punk act The Swellers releasing their new full length album, Ups and Downsizing. Punknews contributor Matt Pagirsky recently had an e-mail exchange with brothers Jonathan and Nick Diener about the new album, their recent signing to Fueled by Ramen, as well as their upcoming appearance at the Fest 8, and their national run with Paramore.

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As Aaron Scott’s solo project Attica Attica got ready to release its second abum, Napalm & Nitrogen (available here), Scott decided to take a fairly unorthodox approach to touring. Scott along with some friends will be touring down the East coast on their bikes. The tour, entitled “Ditch The Van” is being done to raise money for World Bicycle Relief. Scott has been providing Punknews with a series of Dispatches as he and his crew work their way through the tour.

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Some details have been announced regarding the highly anticipated new full-length from The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Pin Points and Gin Joints will be released on December 8, 2009 and will be the band’s first proper studio album since 2002’s A Jackknife To A Swan, and first release of any kind since the 2007 B-sides collection Medium Rare.

After going on hiatus in 2003, the band reunited four years later and has continued to tour off and on since.

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Toronto’s Juice Box Recording Co. has put together a free compilation of Canadian bands playing at this year’s Fest in Gainesville. Juicebox’s Sam Sutherland says,

In the past, Canadian representation at the Fest has been minimal. Like, one band a year kind of minimal. This year, there are seven bands from the Great White North trekking down to Gainesville. And we are stoked. To celebrate this radness, we’ve put together a free compilation of all but one of the Canadian bands playing Fest 8.

You can download the compilation featuring Living With Lions, Junior Battles, Hostage Life, Vicious Cycle, Dig It Up, and Carpenter here.
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Pulley have announced a handful of shows in California and Nevada for late November and early December. The band will be playing with Harmful If Swallowed, Our Hometown Disaster, Another Damn Disappointment and A Single Second on various nights.

The band recently put out their EP Time-Insensitive Material on vinyl via When’s Lunch Records.
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This Is Hell have booked a tour in support of their recent 7″, Warbirds. The Long Island hardcore band will kick things off on November 27th in Chalfont, PA and currently have plans to wrap it up in Albany, NY on December 13th.

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Prolific punk drummer Chuck Biscuits died Saturday after a lengthy struggle with throat cancer. He was 44.

Chuck was born Charles Montgomery in British Columbia, Canada, performing with hardcore pioneers D.O.A. before relocating to California in 1982 and joining Black Flag. Those early days in California saw him perform with a number of legendary bands, including the Circle Jerks, Fear, and the Weirdos.

Biscuits later made his name playing for Danzig. From 1988 he performed as part of that band for their first four albums. He later appeared on their 1993 Thrall: Demonsweatlive EP which yielded the hit “Mother.” The drummer performed with a number of acts from punk to hip hop, logging time with everyone from Samhain and Social Distortion to Run D.M.C.

Our deepest condolences go out to Chuck’s family and friends.
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Indiana’s Split Lip / Chamberlain has announced another reunion show, this time in New York at the Bowery Ballroom on December 7th. The band last got back together in May of this year to support a reissue of their album Fate’s Got a Driver. The show will also feature Atlantic/Pacific (which includes Garrett Klahn of Texas Is The Reason) and other guests to be announced.

Split Lip formed in Carmel, IN in 1990, changing their name to Chamberlain in 1996. Their original run ended in 2000. The line up for this show includes original members David Moore, Adam Rubenstein, Curtis Mead, Clay Snyder and Charlie Walker.
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On Halloween night veteran punk act White Flag will perform a special show with guest vocalist Tony Reflex of the Adolescents. The bands will play at Cafe 322 in Sierra Madre, California alongside Fatso Jetson, Dead White Underbelly and the premiere west coast appearance of Florida’s F.

F formed in West Palm Beach in 1982 and released a single 12″ titled You Are An E.P. the year after, breaking up just prior to its release. They’re reunited now to celebrate the ressiue of that EP.
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