Think Fast! Records have signed Ice Age. The band includes current former members of notable Long Island hardcore acts including This Is Hell and The Backup Plan. Vocalist and founding member Jeff Tiu comments:

The best thing about this band is that we do whatever we want. With other bands I’ve been in there was always a goal in terms of touring a certain amount, attaining a certain level of success and so on. Everyone in Ice Age has either a full time band or a career which leaves us in the unique position – it’s actually quite a luxury. No one likes us when we play? So what, we had fun. No one buys our merch? Who cares, I had fun designing it. We’re not lighting up the message boards? Big deal. We’re doing this because we love it and anything beyond that is just gravy.

The band will release their debut, Dead Kings, through the label and references are made to hardcore legends Sick Of It All and metallic hardcore pioneers Unbroken. The album will be released on LP and digital formats, with no plans for a CD version. The title track can be found on their MySpace page.
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The trailer has been released for Sounds Like a Revolution, a new documentary about political activism that we first mentioned in April. The film features Henry Rollins, Fat Mike of NOFX, Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine, Jello Biafra, Justin Sane of Anti-Flag and others and the recently completed film was directed by Summer Preney and Jane Michener and written by Margaret Susan Martin. The summary described the film:

Sounds Like a Revolution is a pro-active and energizing documentary about a new generation of activist musicians who are living proof that music is an important and powerful tool in the ongoing struggle for social change. From the Dixie Chicks to Michael Franti to the punk band Anti-Flag, artists across the musical spectrum recount their motivations and struggles in a post-9/11 environment where dissent was silenced and censorship was commonplace. With themes that explore the role of artists in society, freedom of expression and democratic participation, Sounds Like a Revolution presents a unique historical perspective behind the new wave of protest music sweeping America and offers new hope for the future.

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AFI‘s Davey Havok recently spoke with AFI News HQ about plans for a second Blaqk Audio release. The band is the electronic sideproject of Havok and his AFI bandmate, Jade Puget. Davey had this to say:

There is so much material that we have… Jade and I have been talking about which songs are going to go where, and we’ve had thoughts of releasing EP’s and singles… it’s really difficult to create a record because I feel that so much is going to be left out.

According to the report, the band has tracked 33 songs already and plans are underway for a release sometime after AFI wraps up the touring cycle for 2009’s Crash Love.

Blaqk Audio released CexCells in 2007.
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Dillinger Four emailed to let us know about their upcoming July 4th “Tony ExtravaDanza.” The band will be performing on the 4th at their own Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis, MN. Along with the guys, the bill will feature Banner Pilot, The Dopamines, The Slow Death and The Box Thieves.

They also add:

18+, doors at 8pm. And it actually IS on the 4th, not Saturday the 3rd (that would make us fibbers). As always it will involve fireworks and hotdogs in a “Tony ExtravaDanza” of all things spam and food stamps. Where the streets are paved with gold and the beaches are soaked in oil.

Check out tickets here. If you don’t live near Minneapolis, you’ve still got the band’s 2008 album, C I V I L W A R.
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Last night, to kick off the release of their new album, Against Me! visited Spin to record a live-to-web broadcast. The band performed on the roof of the Spin building in support of their new album, White Crosses, released Tuesday.

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Sage Francis has posted the new video for “The Best of Times.”

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Sacramento’s Bastards of Young have announced summer tour dates in support of their new album California Redemption. The band will be joined on tour by The Secretions. The latter band is currently supporting their re-release of two albums originally put out by Springman Records.

Check back with Punknews next week for a stream of the Bastards’ new record.
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Rockford, IL’s Joie de Vivre and Fenton, MI’s Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) are set to hit the road together later this work. The Count Your Lucky Stars Records acts will embark together next week in Chicago and wrap things up in North Carolina on the 19th.
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Riot Style Records is in the process of reissuing all three albums from Canadian skate/metal outfit, S.T.R.E.E.T.S. (Skateboarding Totally Rules Everything Else Totally Sucks!). Each album from the east Vancouver band has been remixed from the original source tapes by producer/engineer Jesse Gander at Rec-Age studios and repackaged with rare bonus tracks. The label has already made Invaders From Gnars available, with Bobognargnar and Worms set to arrive later this year.

To celebrate Riot Style is giving away an awesome new S.T.R.E.E.T.S. skate deck to a lucky Punknews reader. Click below to enter!
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Rage Against The Machine are reportedly considering a new album. The band, who reunited in 2007 had originally come out against a new record. Frontman Zach de la Rocha told NME about the change of mind:

I think it’s a genuine possibility. We have to get our heads around what we’re going to do towards the end of the year and finish up on some other projects and we’ll take it from there.

Those “other projects” include de la Rocha’s band, One Day as a Lion and guitarist Tom Morello’s projects, The Nightwatchman and Street Sweeper Social Club.
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Our stream today comes from Rockford, IL-based Joie de Vivre. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full-length, The North End.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Brooklyn’s Outernational have posted a new collaboration with Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Street Sweeper Social Club and The Nightwatchman. The band explained:

[The song is] dedicated to the fight against Arizona’s backwards new laws and all the immigrants under the gun. We’ve been performing the song over the course of the last tour supporting Shooter Jennings, and when we heard about Arizona SB1070 we called up Morello and cut a version. The original is a Woody Guthrie song but the lyrics ring as true as ever:

*Some of us are illegal and some are not wanted*
*When contract is out, we’ve got to move out*
*Its six hundred miles to the Mexican border*
*They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves*

Download the song in MP3 format via this link. The band is currently in New Orleans protesting against BP and will be embarking on a two month tour supporting GBH.
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Make Do and Mend have announced their touring plans for the summer. The band will traverse much of the US, with Hostage Calm along for many of the dates on both coasts and Heartsounds joining them in the Midwest and Southwest.

The band’s next release will be a split 7″ with Touché Amoré; according to the folks at Panic Records, masters are expected back very soon.
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