SoCal punk innovators Agent Orange are headed out on tour late this month. The band will wrap up the year with shows in Florida, leading into a tour that will last the month of January.
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Scott Shiflett of Face to Face previewed three new songs from his Viva Death project recently on the Raised By Wolves podcast. The podcast, hosted by Joe Doherty of Jughead’s Revenge and Chris Ford, revealed the new release would be titled Curse The Darkness.

The band last relased One Percent Panic in 2006 via Functional Equivalent Recordings.
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New Jersey five-piece Titus Andronicus have announced details on their sophomore full-length follow up to 2008’s The Airing of Grievances. The 10 song collection is a concept album of sorts about the Civil War (not the one with Captain America and Iron Man, the other one [the real, American one -ed.]) and will be titled The Monitor. In the press release vocalist Patrick Stickles comments:

It doesn’t take place in olden times, nor does it necessarily feature any characters that participated in that conflict… Really, it is a record about how the conflicts that led our nation into that great calamity remain unresolved, and the effect that this ongoing division has on our personal relationships and our behavior and how they’re all out to get us (or maybe not?) and yadda yadda yadda.

Despite his claims that the record doesn’t feature any historical figures, the band’s publicist unveiled spoken word guests apperances, including the Hold Steady‘s Craig Finn portraying Walt Whitman and Vivian Girls‘ Cassie Ramone standing in for Jefferson Davis. XL Recordings will release the record on March 9th, with a 7″ for the single Four Score and Seven arriving a month earlier.
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The Real McKenzies have posted their new video for the song “Maple Trees Forever” from their latest record Off the Leash. The video features footage from their upcoming live DVD / CD, footage for which was shot at three acoustic shows shot in Berlin last August. Those shows featured Karl Alvarez of ALL and the Descendents on bass. A spring 2010 release is expected on Fat Wreck Chords.
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