Rage Against The Machine have announced their first Los Angeles show in a decade next week as part of the ongoing Sound Strike campaign against the controversial Arizona “immigration” law. The event is set for the Hollywood Palladium on July 23rd, 2010 and is expected to help raise over $300,000 for community organizations, student groups, legal defense funds and assist activists targeting key voting districts for voter registration.

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band will be opening the shows and the concert is part of a week of national actions culminating in the July 29th day of noncompliance in resistance to the law which is set to be enacted that same day.

Tickets go on-sale this coming Monday.
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New York City hardcore/noise outfit Unsane have announced a short reunion tour next month. The influential band released a string of critically acclaimed releases on respected labels such as Amphetamine Reptile, Ipecac Recordings, Man’s Ruin, Relapse Records and Sub Pop Records including Total Destruction (1994), Occupational Hazard (1998), Blood Run (2005) and Visqueen (2007).

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Buffalo, New York’s Lemuria has entered the studio to begin work on their debut for Bridge Nine Records. The band is holed up at the Magpie Cage in Baltimore, MD for the next few weeks with producer J Robbins (known for his work with bands like Jawbreaker, Hey Mercedes and the Promise Ring). Lemuria drummer Alex Kerns said this:

Right when we started writing this album, we knew we wanted to record with J. His catalog and style best compliments the new songs we’re working on. The new songs don’t stray far from ‘Get Better’ in a way that will alienate people who are into that record. At the same time, I feel our new material is higher energy.

The band has released a myriad of splits and 7″s (drummer Alex Kerns runs the label Art of the Underground) and one full-length LP, Get Better, on Asian Man Records in 2008 that our own reviewer called the best debut full-length of the year.
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Death in the Park, the project from Andy Jackson (Hot Rod Circuit, Terrible Things), has announced plans to release their debut full length this fall. The self-titled record is due out September 14, 2010 via End Sounds. The album follows the band’s 2009 debut, Death in the Park (EP).

You can check out some music on their MySpace page.
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Ska/reggae outfit Dirty Heads have posted their video for “Lay Me Down.” The track features Rome, current vocalist of Sublime with Rome. and comes from their album, Any Port in a Storm.

The band is on tour this summer with Sublime and Matisyahu.

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The lineup has been announced for the Los Angeles-based FYF. The event is set for September 4th (Labor Day weekend) and will feature 7 Seconds, Abe Vigoda, Ceremony, !!!, Man Man, Off!, Panda Bear, Screaming Females, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Mountain Goats, The Rapture, The Soft Pack, Titus Andronicus, Wavves, Aa Bondy, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Best Coast, Big Freedia, Cold Cave, Cults, Davila 666, Dead Man’s Bones, Delorean, Let’s Wrestle, Lower Dens, Magic Kids, School of Seven Bells, Sleep, The Blow, The Growlers, Thee OH Sees, Unbroken, Vetiver, Warpaint, Washed Out and more.

It will take place at the Los Angeles State Historic Park and you can grab tickets here.
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The Hold Steady will be on the road this fall with Wintersleep.

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We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• End of a Year – You Are Beneath Me
• Laudanum – The Coronation
• Scouts Honor – Buried [CD/DVD]
• Religious as Fuck / American Cheeseburger – split 12″
• Crazy Arm – Born to Ruin
• Seahaven – Ghost EP
• Oxxon – Radio Zero
• Davy Lee Marrero – Tomorrow DVD
• 40 Hells – 40 Hells 7″ EP
• Knowledge – A Gift Before I Go

You can check out any of our 9457 reviews right here.
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The Melvins have announced four weeks of touring this fall in continued support of their 2010 album, The Bride Screamed Murder.

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Portland, OR, metal outfit Across The Sun have signed to Metal Blade Records. The band previously released Pestilence & Rapture on Authentik Ink. The keyboard-driven melodic metal outfit will be on tour all summer.

Check out some music on their MySpace page.
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Our camera-havin’ friends over at National Underground have posted a video of Dead to Me‘s Nathan Grice performing “Cruel World” on the streets of New Orleans, LA.

The song originally appeared on the band’s 2009 full-length African Elephants. Dead to Me will be performing alongside several of their labelmates at the Fat Wreck CMJ showcase in October.
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Hellcat Records have announced some more details about Devil’s Brigade, the project fronted by Matt Freeman of Rancid and Operation Ivy. As reported earlier, the band will release their debut on August 31, 2010. Matt explained how the record came together:

The original concept for this record was going to be a musical. Tim had been kicking around an idea of doing a musical about the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. He had the title “Half Way To Hell Club.” This was based on the name for the bridge workers who fell off the bridge while it was being built and fell into the safety net that was between them and the ocean. We grew up in the East Bay looking at that bridge and it has always been a part of our lives. Six of those songs ended up on the Devils Brigade record. The other songs were all original Devils Brigade songs from the first demo. We thought they were still good and we should record them again.

It was a great vibe in the studio. The record has a real live and loose vibe. Loose in a good way. Tim’s guitar style blended really well with DJ and everything clicked very quickly. We had a lot of fun making this record. I am going to take it out on the road whenever I can when Rancid is not doing anything.

The band has also announced the track listing and it notes that Rancid bandmate Tim Armstrong provides guest vocals on two tracks, while Lars Frederiksen lends his hand to one track. The band was made up of Matt, Tim and drummer DJ Bonebrake from the influential punk group X.
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Protagonist have posted their third and final update from the studio as the band records their new EP, States, in Tulsa, OK with Stephen Egerton producing. As many of you probably know, the band recently fell on some hard luck as their trailer housing roughly $22,700 worth of gear and other valuables was stolen.

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