Punknews.org staff reviewer Darren McLeod recently interviewed Propagandhi about the band’s love of hockey. On a semi-related note, the band also discusses their song “Dear Coach’s Corner”, which appears on their latest full-length Supporting Caste.

Check it out here.
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If You Make It has posted a new Pink Couch Session video featuring Philadelphia, PA outfit Restorations performing an unreleased song entitled “Strange Behavior”. The band features members of Jena Berlin.

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Black Numbers has made the new record from PJ Bond available for donation-based download for the next week; You Didn’t Know I Was Alphabetical can be downloaded here. And if you’re into archaic formats like vinyl, you can always enter to win the record from us.

The ex-Outsmarting Simon frontman is currently supporting You Didn’t Know I Was Alphabetical out on the road as well.
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Reax is hosting a new MP3 from Chapel Hill, NC trio Fin Fang Foom. “Magnetic North” comes from the band’s new record Monomyth, due out November 24, 2009 and their first full-length since 2003’s With the Gift Comes the Curse.

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The Wonder Years have announced their next full length will be released January 26, 2010. Titled The Upsides, the album is their first since 2007’s Get Stoked on It!.

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Prolific musician Omar Rodríguez-López has posted a stream of his new solo album. Titled Xenophanes, the record is due out this week. In 2009 alone, Rodríguez-López released albums with The Mars Volta, as El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez, and under his own name. A total of eight releases in 2009.

For this release, Omar took the helm vocally and lyrically, as well as musically and sang entirely in Spanish. The album features frequent collaborators, bassist Juan Alderete de la Peña, drummer Thomas Pridgen and keyboardist/percussionist Marcel Rodriguez Lopez. Additionally, the album includes contributions from Mark Aanderud (additional keyboards), as well as the voice of Ximena Sariñana.

Check out the stream here.
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Pitchfork has posted the cover art and track listing for the new album from The Magnetic Fields. The record is titled Realism and is due out January 26, 2010. Once out, it’ll follow up Distortion which was released in 2008.

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Our friends at National Underground have begun posting their own videos from The Fest 8.

The initial batch features recordings from Fat Wreck labelmates The Flatliners and Dead To Me; the former performing “Mastering the World’s Smallest Violin” from their 2007 full-length The Great Awake in 2007, which can be seen here, and the latter performing “Bad Friends” from the freshly released African Elephants as well as “By the Throat” from 2006’s Cuban Ballerina. That video can be seen here.
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Gainesville, FL punk veterans Grabass Charlestons have posted a new song from an upcoming split 12″ with Toys That Kill.

Download “Dale” here.
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