Youth Brigade have added more dates to their busy touring schedule in support of the Let Them Know: The Story Of Youth Brigade and BYO Records book / DVD / LP set. Along with apperances at The Fest 8, Fun Fun Fun Fest and other upcoming shows, the band has announced a series of gigs supporting the Dropkick Murphys in California.

Meanwhile the BYO Records documentary Let Them Know continues to screen at events across the US. On October 28th Left Of The Dial will show the film at The Mink On Main in Houston, TX to raise money for Rich Cunningham of Happy Days Records (who is undergoing cancer treatment). On October 28th and 29th there will be screenings at the Mission Undgerground Film Fest in San Francisco, CA. The movie will also be part of the Fun Fun Fun Fest afterparty at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz.
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Thursday has announced their 2009 Holiday Show. Set to take place in Sayreville, New Jersey at Starland Ballroom, the show will feature Glassjaw, Dillinger Escape Plan and United Nations.

Tickets, and parking can be found here for the all-ages event.
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Rancid has announced plans to play a benefit on Saturday, November the 7th in Las Vegas for the Tony Hawk Foundation. The Stand Up For Skateparks event, sponsored by Hawk’s new Tony Hawk: RIDE video game, takes place at the Wynn Las Vegas resort and is limited to 1000 guests Hawk’s foundation aims to build free public skateparks in low-income communities.

Along with Rancid’s performance the event will feature a very demo from Hawk and appearances from a number of skate and BMX pros, including Bucky Lasek, Andy Macdonald, Simon Tabron, Dennis McCoy, Lynz Adams Hawkins, Kevin Staab, and Jamie Bestwick. An auction and a “family-friendly action-sports carnival” will also be on site to raise funds. A pledge drive at the event has the goal of funding a skatepark in a Vegas neighbourhood.
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Acclaimed hardcore outfit Blacklisted will be releasing a new 12-inch LP, No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me, in November via Deathwish.

The album is the follow up to 2008’s Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God.
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An interview with Sublime founding drummer Bud Gaugh was posted recently on the band’s MySpace page. In it he discusses the band’s October 24th reunion show at the Smokeout Festival and their new lead singer / guitarist Rome. As for future plans he revealed:

It’d be great to get back into the studio and make some new music. It’d be great to tour again. But we’re taking it a step at a time and as long as each step feels good, then we’ll keep on going. One major project under development that we’re psyched about is code-named “Brad’s House.” The idea is to provide free addiction recovery service to underprivileged teens in Brad’s honor. The entire Sublime family was devastated by Brad’s loss and we would like to help prevent that from happening to others. The band has agreed to allocate proceeds to get this started. We’ll begin with one facility but our hope is that we can get other bands and organizations to join us and we can eventually scale it all across the country.

Sublime originally called it quits in 1996 following the heroin overdose which took the life of frontman Bradley Nowell. The band’s reformation has come with a host of legal challenges. The trio’s use of the name Sublime has been challenged by Silverback Management’s Jon Phillips, who according to the LA Times has acted as the band’s co-manager since 2003 (we’re not sure how that works -ed), as well as the estate of Bradley Nowell. Nowell’s family publically disapproved of the reunion and unsuccessfully tried to block it with a restraining order.
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Organizers have announced the lineup for the upcoming 2009 We the People festival. The long-running event will feature a number of acts including Bad Religion, Suicidal Tendencies, Pepper, Mad Villians, the Glitch Mob, Flobots, and more.

We The People takes place at the LA Center Studios in Los Angeles, California on November 21st. You can view the rest of the line up here.
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Century Media has signed English atmospheric hardcore/metal outfit Devil Sold His Soul. The band features three members of British hardcore outfit Mahumodo. They will release their debut for the label in early 2010.

Check out some music on their MySpace page.
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Providence, Rhode Island’s Prayers for Atheists have posted a new video from their 2009 self-titled release.

Prayers For Athiests’ frontman Jared Paul was among those arrested at a RNC protest in 2008. He was charged with felony riot but the case was dropped following an outpouring of support from fans and supporters.
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Tennessee-based sludge outfit Generation of Vipers, which features two members of Neurot Recordings band U.S. Christmas, have posted a new track online. The song is set to appear on their upcoming split Peacecreature with Ocoai, Dormia and Panzer.

You can check out “Pure” 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…

Riverboat Gamblers guitarist Ian Mcdougall was injured last weekend in a bike accident. He was hit by a car while riding home and suffered a broken hip, a wrist and hemorrhaging under the skull along with many lacerations, torn ligaments, bruises and and scrapes. While his prognosis is better than his bandmates first assumed he’s facing a long recovery and some monster hospital bills. Fat Wreck Chords has announced their plans to release a 3 CD boxed set titled Wrecktrospective The first CD will contain classic tracks from the label’s back catalog, the second will contain demo and unreleased tracks, while the third will feature songs from the original 2001 Fat Club 7-inch series. The Lawrence Arms will film their upcoming 10th Anniversary show on October 24th in Chicago. The band is also streaming two new songs from their upcoming EP. Blink-182‘s Mark Hoppus came out in support of health care reform in a new Huffington Post editorial. The musician writes about a member of the catering crew on the Blink’s summer tour who had to have an appendix removed but lacked insurance due to a “pre-existing conditions.” Her bill reached more than $48,000. This being the Halloween season we’re also seeing the barriers between worlds break down, leading to all manor of terrifying evils entering our world. Case in point: Hole has plans to reunite.

A Wilhelm Scream has announced a new EP and posted a new song from the release. Against Me! has titled their next album White Crosses. Epitaph has planned to reissue a number of records from the Blood Brothers, including Young Machetes, Crimes, Burn Piano Island, Burn and March on Electric Children. Propagandhi has announced plans to play a show with Metal legends Sacrifice. Anti-Flag is soon to hit the road with Aiden, Cancer Bats and Fireworks. North Lincoln is calling it a day. Their final show will take place in their hometown of Grand Rapids, MI on December 19 at Mulligan’s Pub. An AFI cover of David Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust” was posted this week. Finally this week saw videos of Lily Allen‘s “Who’d Have Known” and Weezer‘s “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To.”

This week we spoke with singer Bjorn Dossche of Rise and Fall (interview), frontman Dave Hause of The Loved Ones (interview), Thrice lead singer Dustin Kensrue (interview), Mike Kinsella of Owen (interview).

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including former ALL and current Drag the River member Chad Price‘s first solo album, the new self-recorded, self-produced, self-released sophomore album from the Braces, Brooklyn, NY-based Laura Stevenson and the Cans, and a brand new song from Indianapolis, IN-based Native.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Atreyu, Between The Buried And Me, Foundation, Tegan and Sara, The Creepshow, and The Lawrence Arms and many others. We’ll also see a number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from The Creepshow with the Dreadnoughts and the Hypnophonics (Canada), Silverstein and Madina Lake with I See Stars and The Word Alive (US), Faith No More (South America), Star Fucking Hipsters and Citizen Fish with Molotov Compromise (US), Bodyjar (Farewell Tour), The Specials (UK), Big D and the Kids Table (US), and Isis and Dälek with Mamiffer (Europe).

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Bay Area punk act Impediments released their debut record this past Tuesday. We’ve got a special sampler of tracks from the record that you can now download for free.

Just click here; the password is “punknews”.
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As some of you might have surmised, there will be no reviews update for yesterday, Friday, October 23. All apologies. My personal schedule is still relentless and, in truth, the queue is beginning to dry up a little quicker than it tends to as the holiday season approaches.

In any event, a periodic skip like this helps shore things up a bit, so you can definitely expect a fresh update on Tuesday. In the meantime, continue chewing on Tuesday’s update. Maybe see what ffwoodycooks had to say about the new Lightning Bolt record? Or perhaps check out my thoughts on the Gaslight Anthem’s gig last week in Brooklyn? Or dive into the look back at Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Juju.
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Blink 182 bassist and producer Mark Hoppus recently put together an editorial piece for the political news site Huffington Post.

In it, the musician writes about his experiences with Ali Vatter, a member of the catering crew on the Blink 182 summer tour. During the tour, Vatter had to have an appendix removed but lacked insurance since she could not get coverage due to “pre-existing conditions.” Her bill reached more than $48,000 and Hoppus wrote about how we would match every dollar donated until her bills were paid.

In a larger sense, Mark also talks about the current problems with health care, noting:

When a person’s best option to pay for healthcare is to take to the internet and ask for small donations from strangers, bold changes need to be made.

Check out the story here.
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