AOL has posted the latest set of album streams this week. The entries include Real McKenzies, Danzig, Pierce the Veil, You Me At Six, Ozzy Osbourne, Chemical Brothers and more.

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Looks like Face to Face have wrapped up work on their first new album in eight years. The band’s frontman Trever Keith posted an Twitter update to that effect:

New Face to Face record is in the can. Heading back home for a few days, then it’s on to The Warped Tour.

The album would be the band’s first of all new material since 2002’s How To Ruin Everything, and the band’s first release of any kind since the 2005 retrospective Shoot the Moon: The Essential Collection. After retiring in 2003, the band reunited five years later and has continued to tour sporadically since.
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Rise Against has posted a press release indicating their participation in a boycott of BP, the oil company responsible for the environmentally devastating oil spill off the coast of the United States. The release also names Disturbed, Lady Gaga, Godsmack, Backstreet Boys, Rock Star Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, Slightly Stoopid, Rob Zombie, Megadeth, Black Label Society with Zakk Wylde, Anthrax, Creed, Filter, Hellyeah and Flogging Molly. It includes this statement from Warped Tour promoter Kevin Lyman who notes:

We have so many friends that are now affected by this spill that unless Bp spends whatever is needed their livelihoods are lost forever. To that end we are encouraging everyone we deal with to find alternative ways to get down the road this summer.

Jonathan Davis of KORN, who spearheaded the boycott added:

This is the worst thing that has ever happened to the environment in U.S. history. From everything we’re hearing about now, it’s become clear that BP cut corners to put profit ahead of safety. The message we are sending should tell all the oil companies to spend the money and take the necessary precautions to make sure this doesn’t happen again, I’m really proud that this many artists have already come on board, and I hope more will join soon.

The release also includes a list of products which use Bp oil as source material. Check out the release here.
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Four Year Strong have posted a stream of the “deluxe” version of their 2010 album, Enemy of the World. As we reported earlier, the reissue is due out June 25, 2010 (June 22 on iTunes) and will feature a new studio track, “Bad News Bearz” and acoustic versions of four songs: “Tonight We Feel Alive (On A Saturday),” “One Step At A Time,” “Find My Way Back” and “Wasting Time (Eternal Summer)”

The entire album can be found on the Warped Tour site.
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Today we’ve got an exclusive new song from Authority Zero and a quick Q&A about the record. The Mesa, AZ-based band recently became the first act signed to Viking Funeral, the new label formed by Fletcher Dragge of Pennywise and distributed through Suburban Noize Records. The band will be releasing their fourth album through the label on May 25, 2010.

Click Read More for a quick Q&A and you can find the stream on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Mark Hoppus of Blink 182 has announced plans to host a new Fuse TV program. According to reports, the show will:

will provide a humorous spin on a wide range of topics in the world of music. The official announcement and more details will be unveiled at a New York press conference on June 22.

Mark is planning an announcement later today at 5pm PST on KROQ/Los Angeles 106.7 FM
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Central New Jersey’s Screaming Females were forced to scrap their recent tour while traversing across the Southwest this past week. The band has written an extensive explanation at their blog. The band endured a busted fuel pump, some cooperative mechanics, some uncooperative mechanics, the rear wheel from hell and a mountain of Subway Sandwiches.

You can find out what happened at their blog. Next up for the band is a trip to Canada with Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. The band released Power Move in 2009.
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Reel Big Fish have announced plans to release a new, second Best Of album featuring 22 songs. While a greatest hits album was released in 2006. it was done by Jive Records, the ska/punk outfits’ previous label and led to the band publicly admonishing the label saying:

So Jive records (our former label) [put] out an RBF greatest hits CD because they see how well our live album is doing and they pretty much just want to screw us any way they can! they see that there’s still money to be made from the Reel Big Fish so they are trying to get a last little piece! There’s really nothing we can do to stop them since they own ALL our previous recordings!

The new collection will feature those 22 songs presumably culled from the band’s many albums including Turn The Radio Off, Why Do They Rock So Hard?, Cheer Up, We’re Not Happy ‘Til You’re Not Happy and Monkeys for Nothin’ and the Chimps for Free. The set will also feature a bonus disc featuring 14 acoustic tracks.
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The Empire Shall Fall, the new hardcore/metal project from Jesse Leach of Killswitch Engage, have posted a cover of the At the Drive-In track, “Arcarsenal. The original track comes from the band’s final album, 2001’s Relationship Of Command. The band notes:

It’s our rendition of At the Drive-In’s ‘Arcarsenal.’ We tried to make it our own, so it’s not so much a cover, as much as an interpretation. Anyway, go and download it.

Check out a stream here or download it here.
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Fat Mike of NOFX has revealed what looks to be a new NOFX EP via his freshly launched Twitter Profile. The disc is titled The Longest EP and the art features many of your favorite people like George W.Bush, Tali, Jesus, lesbians and Cokie the Clown.

Check out the art here.
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Some high quality footage of The Gaslight Anthem‘s duet with Bruce Springsteen last year has surfaced through Springsteen’s new DVD, London Calling: Live in Hyde Park . The disc is a full concert video DVD of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band in their Working on a Dream Tour performance of June 28, 2009, at the Hard Rock Calling music festival in Hyde Park, London.

The Gaslight Anthem is also the subject of a new New York Times feature which notes:

This album feels more varied, and riskier, than the ones preceding it: not just an exercise in style, but also in ambition. The arrangements have more breathing room, and more dynamism, without sacrificing the band’s central tension between its insistent chugging and Mr. Fallon’s scratchy howl. In large part Mr. Fallon also abandoned the characters that he’d been hiding his personal stories behind in his songs.

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nothington have posted more dates for their upcoming tour. The band will be traveling across the entirety of the United States and will include legs with the Riot Before and Blacklist Royals as well as dates with Heartsounds. We posted an earlier set of incomplete dates – these are up to date for the San Francisco band. The band released Roads, Bridges and Ruins in 2009 and recently replaced their rhythm section with two new members.
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