Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves have embarked on their US tour with Mike Hale. The band’s touring line up is that which debuted recently at the Fest 8 in Gainesville, featuring Ben Lovett (Heavens), Addison Burns (Quit, The Enablers), Chad Darby (Averkiou), and Jeffery Haineault (Ninja Gun). Following their US shows, the band will head to Europe with Drag The River.

Performance footage of the band at the Fest recently surfaced courtesy of Alternative Press’ Scott Heisel. You can check out the unreleased track “Before I Found” and “Long Wave” below.

The band released their debut, the self-titled Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves, earlier this year on No Idea Records.
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Fat Wreck Chords‘ German import, Wizo has announced their reunion after splitting up in 2005. The band posted on their site in their native German:

Wizo is coming back! Festivals in May, a new album in the summer, info soon!

You can check out some music on their MySpace page.
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Drummer Jerry Fuchs of !!! and Maserati has passed away in an elevator accident. According to an ABC News report, Jerry was trying to jump out of a disabled elevator car when his clothing caught on something.

He was unconscious and unresponsive when emergency responders brought him to Bellevue Hospital Center. He was pronounced dead at around 3:30 a.m. Sunday, about three hours after the fall in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

His Maserati bandmates posted on Twitter saying:

With overwhelming sadness, bids farewell to our drummer and dear friend Jerry Fuchs. Love you, bro.

Our condolences to his friends and family.
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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…

A Los Angeles judge has blocked the use of the Sublime name by bandmembers Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh. The estate of original vocalist Bradley Nowell filed a trademark infringement suit on October 21, in advance of the band’s performance at the Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival. Radiohead‘s Ed O’Brien raised some eyebrows with his suggestion that bandwidth throttling could be used to combat illegal downloading. The line up of the 2010 Harvest of Hope festival is coming into view, with Off With Their Heads, Small Brown Bike, Anti-Flag, and Dead to Me slated to perform. Dashboard Confessional and New Found Glory cancelled their planned tour this past week. We also had footage of the greatest Misfits cover band ever, featuring Ted Leo, Atom Goren of Atom and his PAckage and Andy Nelson of Paint It Black.

Asian Man detailed the upcoming Matt Skiba solo record , titled Demos and due in February. Controversial hardline group Vegan Reich are writing and rehearsing a new record. The same goes for Propagandhi, who are working on the follow up to Supporting Caste. Detournement, which features members of Bigwig, Ensign, Lifetime, Plan A Project and Worthless United, are planning a new 7-inch. Defunct ska-punk act Five Iron Frenzy revealed plans for a DVD. Dead To Me streamed their new record African Elephants. A radio station chatted with Descendents frontman Milo Aukerman about his current and future plans.

This week we said goodbye to founding Smugglers drummer Paul Preminger.

The Punknews crew at the Fest may have done more festing than live-reporting, but they did come back home with some cool video footage. Check out Broadway Calls performing “Midnight Hour” and “Van Rides and High Tides,” Shook Ones performing a cover of Weezer‘s “Tired of Sex”, How Dare You playing “Eat at Charlie’s”, and the Sidekicks performing “Looking.”

Chuck Ragan, Strike Anywhere and Lucero topped your list of Your Favorite Records from October. This week we spoke with vocalist Ki Seok So of The Geeks (interview), ” bassist Frédéric Leclercq of DragonForce (interview), Ned Russin, Shane Moran and Ben Russin of Title Fight (interview), Jeff Rosenstock of Bomb The Music Industry! (interview), and guitarist Dominic Maggiolo of I Refuse (interview).

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length from Cloak/Dagger, and new material from Durham, NC-based Red Collar.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Dashboard Confessional, Dead To Me, Franz Nicolay, Gatorface, Teenage Rehab, The Flatliners, Throwdown, and many others. We’ll also see a number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from AFI with Gallows (US / Canada), Motorhead, The Damned and Girlschool (UK), Quest For Fire (Canada / US), Rx Bandits supporting Glassjaw (US), Bowling For Soup with MC Lars (US), Less Than Jake with the Swellers, the Casualties, Fishbone and others (US), and Madball (South America, UK).

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Canadian Christian straight-edge act This Very Day have changed their name to As Bold as Lions.

The band will release a new EP on December 8th.

One feels the band may just be setting themselves up for another name change, however…
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Kung Fu has awoken from a considerable slumber and signed Riverside, CA punk/reggae act Knock-Out.

The label will soon digitally release the band’s discography, which includes Let Go, Another Wasted Night and The Christmas EP.

The band will also support the Vandals and Voodoo Glow Skulls on their forthcoming west coast Winter Formal tour.

They are likely not to be confused with the defunct Chicago pop-punk band of the same name.
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Smoke Or Fire are recording a new album.

The band is looking at a tentative mid-2010 release for their third full-length under the Smoke or Fire moniker, and first since 2007’s This Sinking Ship on Fat Wreck.
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Saves The Day have posted a video of a new song titled “Let It All Go” performed acoustically.

The song will appear in full-band form on Daybreak, which is expected out on Vagrant early next year, following on 2007’s Under the Boards.
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Glassjaw have been tapped to support Brand New‘s forthcoming headlining show at London’s Wembley Arena. The show will take place January 23, 2010.

The two will kick off a U.S. tour together next week.
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Detournement, which features members of Bigwig, Ensign, Lifetime, Plan A Project and Worthless United, have announced their second release.

The record is titled Awaken with Millions from One Heart and is due out December 1, 2009. The band commemorates the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China with the album which was produced by Bouncing Souls guitarist, Pete Steinkopf.

Check out “Chicago ’86” from the album on their MySpace page.
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Tonight’s Fest 8 video update stars Shook Ones, who ended The Fest for many of us on Sunday night with an insane cover of the Weezer classic, “Tired of Sex”. There were technical difficulties throughout the end of the band’s set and kids were going apeshit all over The Atlantic, so disregard the poor quality of the video and try to imagine being there (or reminisce, if you were there).

The band is currently on tour with Make Do and Mend and We Are The Union.
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To go with the release of African Elephants on November 10, 2009, we’ve got a whole bunch of Dead To Me prizes to give away to four lucky winners.

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Cave In‘s critically acclaimed 12-inch EP, Planets of Old has been announced for a January 26, 2010 on CD+DVD. The release is expected to include the entirety of the limited 12-inch as well as a DVD featuring the band’s reunion show from the Great Scott in Allston, MA this past July.

The album is not currently available for pre-order, but can be found here.
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