Bridge Nine Records has announced plans to release the discography from seminal NYHC outfit Underdog. Slated for a May 18, 2010 release, Matchless will compile both The Vanishing Point and Demos on CD/double LP.

The band was originally together from 1985 to1989, and recently returned to action with their original core lineup. Some music can be heard at the band’s MySpace page.
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Our stream today comes from Chicago, IL-based The Please and Thank Yous. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, Mind Yr P’s & Q’s.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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The second annual Harvest of Hope Fest has added yet another round of bands to its lineup. New confirmations include Broken Social Scene, Chali 2na of Jurassic 5, Mucca Pazza, Avi Buffalo and Yelawolf.

The festival will be happening at the St. John’s County Fairgrounds near St. Augustine, FL from March 12-14, and serves to raise funds and awareness for the Harvest of Hope Foundation, a charity organization that assists migrant farmworkers all over the country. Bands slated to perform include Billy Bragg, 7 Seconds, Anti-Flag, Leatherface, The Mountain Goats, Small Brown Bike, Coalesce, forgetters and a slew of others.

Ticket information is available here.
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Exclaim is reporting that bluegrass label CMH Records and the Secret Life of Records have enlisted members of Black Flag to reinterpret and re-record their own material in different genres. The project will be titled Gimmie Gimmie Gimme: Reinterpreting Black Flag.

Set to arrive on April 20th, the record will feature Black Flag’s Dez Cadena and Blondie‘s Jimmy Destri performing “Rise Above” and “Thirsty and Miserable.” Dez and The Minutemen‘s Mike Watt will also tackle “Six Pack.” Kira Roessler will join the Chapin Sisters for “Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie” and “Nervous Breakdown,” while Keith Morris will perform a cover of Jimmie Rodgers’ “In the Jailhouse Now” with Mike Watt, the Plimsouls’ Peter Case, and Joe Baiza of Saccharine Trust.
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Rise Against has unveiled a new version of the video for their single “Re-Education (Through Labor)” from their 2008 full length Appeal to Reason. The band commented “As we wrap up the Appeal To Reason run, we went back and checked out some of the footage from our first video of the record, “Re-Education (Through Labor)”, and found lots of cool parts that didn’t make it into the final cut. So our man Kevin Kerslake went back to give us a slightly different edit.”

You can check the video out at the Chicago punk band’s website.
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Set Your Goals, Comeback Kid and The Wonder Years will be doing a short run of spring shows together.

Set Your Goals will be supporting 2009’s This Will Be the Death of Us, while The Wonder Years will be supporting their new full-length The Upsides. Comeback Kid last released the Through the Noise CD/DVD set in 2008.
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In a recent interview with Spinner, Mike Ness of Social Distortion discussed the sonic direction the band’s new album is taking:

“I have a lot of writing [to do], as far as lyrics go, but we’re really happy with the direction that this record is taking, the sound of it. We’re recording it really old-school. We went back to tape, old compressors and old microphones, just really trying to fight modern technology as much as possible.” … It’s funny — the record reminds me very much of [1992’s] ‘Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell,’ but also I’m bringing elements of early New York ’70s punk, influences that maybe haven’t come out as prominently in my writing in the past. … It’s a little more Johnny Thunders. Some of the early first wave of punk was very blues-based rock ‘n’ roll, but it had this urban snottiness to it. … So, the record, to me, is almost like the Dead Boys meets the Black Crowes or something.”

The record is expected later this year. Once out, it’ll be the band’s first since 2004’s Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll.
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Bad Religion now has plans to enter the studio on May 1 to record their fifteenth studio album. The album will be produced by Joe Barresi, who also produced 2007’s New Maps of Hell and engineered 2004’s The Empire Strikes First.

A fall 2010 release is expected. Prior to entering the studio, the band will be playing a few shows in California and Nevada.
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Sailor’s Grave Records has posted two new songs from seminal British Oi outfit The Business. The band’s upcoming release for the label, Doing The Business, will be a ten track set featuring four new studio recordings and six live tracks, five of which are culled from the legendary 1982 Marquee recordings.

Check out “Mean Girl” and “1,2,3” at the label’s MySpace page.
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