Ever thought “Man, I’d like to see 7 Seconds, Face to Face, The Jesus Lizard, Ratatat, Of Montreal, Les Savy Fav, Mission Of Burma, Lucero, Death, No Age, Red Sparowes, Fuck Buttons, Underground Railroad To Candyland, Off with Their Heads, Pharcyde, Danzig, Gorilla Biscuits, Fucked Up, Melt Banana, Coalesce, Street Dogs, GZA, King Khan & BBQ Show, Cedric Burnside and a million other bands all in one weekend?” Well if you did, then you were probably thinking of hitting this year’s FUN FUN FUN Fest in Austin the weekend of November 7th. What’s cooler than a festival like this? Getting to go for free. On the real.

So, after consulting with the organizers, we decided you needed to work just a little harder than normal for this. So here’s the deal: you think of the best name for a fest you can possibly imagine and then drop it in our comments or if you’re so inclined, hit us up with it on Twitter: @Punknews. Come up with the best name – make us laugh, cry, recoil in disgust or perhaps pee our pants in horror – and you and a friend will get weekend passes to the event!

So go for it!

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Fat Wreck Chords has announced their plans to release a 3xCD boxset titled Wrecktrospective. Originally announced several years ago, but finally getting released, the first cd will contain classic tracks from Fat Wreck Chords back catalog, while disc 2 will contain rare and unreleased tracks, and disc 3 will be the original 2001 Fat Club 7-inches on 1 cd.

All told, the set will feature 88 songs from Against Me!, American Steel, Anti-Flag, Avail, Bracket, Chixdiggit!, Consumed, Dead To Me, Descendents, The Dickies, Dillinger Four, Enemy You, Epoxies, Face to Face, The Flatliners, Frenzal Rhomb, Goober Patrol, Good Riddance, Hi-Standard, Lagwagon, The Lawrence Arms, Less Than Jake, The Loved Ones, MxPx, Mad Caddies, Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, NOFX, Nerf Herder, No Use For A Name, None More Black, One Man Army, Only Crime, Propagandhi, Randy, The Real McKenzies, Rise Against, The Sainte Catherines, Screeching Weasel, Sick Of It All, Smoke Or Fire, Snuff, The Soviettes, Star Fucking Hipsters, Strike Anywhere, Strung Out, Swingin’ Utters, Tilt, The Vandals, Western Addiction, Wizo and Zero Down. (That’s right, we have band profiles for everyone except Goober Patrol.)

The label was originally formed in 1990 though their first release was issued in 1992.

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Recently formed outfit Daybreaker containing former members of With Honor and Ambitions has released their demo for free download on their myspace page.

The demo was recorded with vocalist/guitarist Dan Rose and producer Jay Maas at Getaway Studios in Wakefield, MA. The band is playing their first show at The Handsome Mansion in Allston, MA with Kill Conrad, Nothington, and one more band TBA, and is currently writing their debut full-length record to be released on a yet to be announced label.
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Madball have added more dates to their upcoming tour of the UK and South America. The band has also booked some benefit shows this week for one of their dear friends in Europe.

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Social Distortion guitarist Jonny Wickersham spoke to Delco Times about their upcoming plans and why it takes so long to record:

So many bands are so regular with their albums, like, every 18 months is a new record, and after awhile I just stop paying attention. I mean, how much can a band evolve and grow in 18 months? Eighteen months later they’re going to put out the same record. The only band I can think of that did that and had a lot of evolution was The Beatles.

It’s not like we’re going to start putting out a record like we’ve been listening to The Dead or something We’ve got a handful of songs right now that are finished, and bunch that we’re still working on

The band plans to enter the studio February 1st with hopes for a spring release.
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Bouncing Souls have announced a two-night run at the El Rey Theatre in Hollywood, California on October 30th and 31st. The band explained:

We love Halloween. Love to play shows on Halloween and get dressed up and decorate the stage and make bad jokes and say BOO! A lot. on Halloween… there’s gonna be fun, candy, and a costume contest! That’s right, on Halloween night, come to the show with your best costume! Sign up at the merch booth and then we’ll do the judging.

Find more details on the contest and the shows here.
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The Lawrence Arms will be filming their imminent 10th anniversary show. According to co-vocalist Brendan Kelly had this to say as the date approaches:

We’re doing hand screened limited edition posters (hand numbered, only 200 made), we’re filming the whole thing, we’re doing radical new shirts and hoodies (and we’re reprising the very first suicide king shirt we ever did and haven’t done since [the white on black]) [and] we’re playing a gigantic set.

The sold-out hometown show takes place October 24th at the Metro in Chicago, IL. Shortly afterwards, the band will hit the road for a short West Coast tour.

In related news, the band is streaming two songs from the EP and you can find them on the Soya Milk Zine.
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Noise By Numbers, the new project of Danny Vapid of The Methadones, Riverdales, Screeching Weasel and Jeff Dean of The Bomb, have posted a full stream of their debut album Yeah, Whatever….

The record is due on CD/12″ November 10th on Asian Man Records/Solidarity Recordings and features the studio drumming of Neil Hennessy of The Lawrence Arms. The digital version is available now. The band will also be supporting Small Brown Bike and Rise Against in the coming months.

Check out the stream on their MySpace page.
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Billy Bragg, Billy Bragg, Pearl Jam, Rise Against, REM, Nine Inch Nails and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine are among the musicians who have today announced their participation in the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo-a campaign led by retired Generals Robert Gard, John Johns, former member of Congress, Tom Andrews, and Vote Vets Chairman and Iraq War veteran, Jon Soltz. The musicians also launched a formal protest of the use of music used in conjunction with torture that took place at the prison and other facilities and announced they were supporting an effort seeking the declassification of all secret government records pertaining to how music was utilized as an interrogation device.

You can find more details here.
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On the night of Saturday October 17th, Ian Mcdougall of Riverboat Gamblers was hit by a car when riding home. He sustained some pretty heavy injuries including a broken hip, a broken wrist and hemmoraging under the skull along with many lacerations, torn ligaments, bruises and and scrapes. He was rushed by ambulance to Brackenridge hospital in Austin and stayed in the ICU for 2 days before being moved into his own room where he is undergoing physical therapy while awaiting the results of various tests.

His friends and bandmates commented:

That being said, the prognosis is better than we had first thought. We are happy that he is going to be ok and that he is alive and with us. Unfortunately, not only is he in for a long recovery and is in a lot of pain, but he will be celebrating his birthday in bed with hospital food. On another unfortunate note, there are a pile of bills currently gaining a Mt. Everest-like summit from all his hospital expenses. We set up a PayPal account for our band mate and friend to try and help him get on top of the debt and focus on his recovery.

For more details on how to help Ian, visit his MySpace page.
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Trapped Under Ice, Cruel Hand, Maximum Penalty, Forfeit and Naysayer will tour together in early 2010.

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Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters fame will release a new single from his new project, Them Crooked Vultures next Monday. The band also features Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin. The new song is titled “New Fang.”

The self-titled debut from the record will follow on November 17, 2009.
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Asian Man Records pop-punk outfit Ready the Jet have announced some shows enroute to and from the Fest in Gainesville, Florida later this month.

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