Mike Kinsella, also known as Owen, has released the title track from his upcoming 7-inch, Abandoned Bridges. The 7-inch features the track as well as a cover of Wilco‘s “I’m Always in Love.” It was recorded in Champaign-Urbana in March 2010 by cousin Nate Kinsella (of Make Believe and Birthmark) and mixed in Chicago. You can order the 7-inch or digital versions here.

A stream of the song can be found on the Polyvinyl Tumblr.

We spoke to Mike about his last album, 2009’s New Leaves, in a interview which ran last year.
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Gaslight Anthem were interviewed by industry journal Billboard this week. In the article, frontman Brian Fallon talks about the band’s surprise at the band’s high debut on the Billboard charts with the release of American Slang:

With this album we’re like, ‘Well, this is what we want to do,’ but we didn’t know if it’s what other people wanted. We figured we’d probably get beaten up and kicked down the street by people going, ‘This isn’t like the last record [2008’s ‘The ’59 Sound’]. This isn’t that good.’ That’s what they normally do, y’know? So we were just waiting for the repercussions. I have absolutely no idea. I don’t know what anyone wants out of us. [I just followed our] secret box of influences — Pearl Jam, Tom Petty and Neil Young [who] just kind of went at the world full on and did things their own way. A lot of times people hated them for it, and they took a ton of backlash, but I think you can find a lot of good guidance there — just kind of barrel through it, and you’ll be OK.

Brian also mentions the Springsteen comparisons which have followed the band since their 2007 debut, Sink or Swim:

There’s so much else that we look at for our sound and influences that you don’t want to be notched in with one guy. There’s a lot of things he does that I admire. We come from a lot of the same places but a lot of different places, too. But at the same time, that’s a good thing to be compared to. I think it’s one of those things we’re gonna have to wear until it wears out. He’s a cool guy; I don’t really know him, but what I know of him, he’s cool. that was what we all took from it — ‘Wow, you can be that famous and still be kind of cool and normal.’

Check out the interview here.
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Drummer Dave Hidalgo Jr. of Suicidal Tendencies, Spinerette and The Drips has announced that he has joined Social Distortion. Dave replaces Scott Reeder of Fu Manchu who filled in for Atom Willard when he left in March. Reeder performed with the band on their recent tour of South America but will apparently be returning to his main gig in Fu Manchu when they resume touring late next month.

Social Distortion has a busy touring schedule lined up for the coming months. First, the band will spend July and August with Dan Sartain and the Action Design and then will kick off a Fall tour with Lucero and Frank Turner. The band is currently working on their Epitaph Records debut and first full length since 2004’s Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll.
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We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• The Business – Doing the Business
• The Riot Before – Fists…Out of Sockets EP
• 50 Lions – When Life Expires
• This Moment in Black History – Public Square 12″
• Noun – Holy Hell
• Mighty Midgets – Raising Ruins for the Future
• Xerxes – Twins 7″ EP
• Zhenia Golov – Defined by Confines 12″
• Adams Dagger – Adams Dagger
• Thirsty! – Still Alive 10″ EP

You can check out any of our 9447 reviews right here.
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Richmond’s Freeman have announced their debut album. The band includes current and former members of Avail including Joe Banks, Chuck McCauley, Erik Larson as well as members of other local acts including ATP, Wardance Orange and The Ghost Run. The band will be releasing It Doesn’t Matter in late Summer early Fall on Failsafe Records and the band will be performing at The Fest on Friday October 29th.

Check out their MySpace page.
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This Will Destroy You, have been tapped to open a run of dates on the Deftones upcoming US tour. The band will perform a week of shows in September, bookended by the Deftones runs with Baroness and others. The band is gearing up to release Tunnel Blanket , their first new album since This Will Destroy You in 2008 which also earned a spot on two Best of 2008 lists here at Punknews.org.

While the band is not expected to release their album till February, the band has a new limited 12-inch picture disc available for sale through Magic Bullet Records. Check that out on their official website.
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Interpol has posted another new song from their next album. The self-titled effort is slated for a September 14, 2010 release, following up 2007’s Our Love to Admire. The record is due out on indie Matador Records after a a stint with Capitol Records for their first two full-lengths, 2002’s Turn on the Bright Lights and 2004’s Antics. The band will be supporting U2 this summer and playing headlining gigs on that tour’s off days.

Check out “Barricade” here.
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Corin Tucker Band, the eponymous new project from former Sleater-Kinney frontman Corin Tucker, will be releasing 1,000 Years. Due out October 5, 2010, the album is the first post-Sleater-Kinney output from the singer and promises a quieter sound built with “acoustic guitars, keyboards, interlocking percussion, even cellos and violins,” The band also features Unwound’s Sara Lund and the Golden Bears’ Seth Lorinczi.

In an interview earlier this year, Corin talked a bit about the record:

It’s definitely more of a middle-aged mom record, in a way. It’s not a record that a young person would write. But I am the worst person in the world to describe my own lyrics, so I’m not even going to try! I do think I’m trying to write stories, though, and that I take certain feelings or certain experiences and put them into a little story. And there are definitely some ghosts on the record, too-ghost songs. There’s some sadness, some reinvention, some rebirth. I think the goal for me is to write some good stories.

Sleater-Kinney called it quits after released the critically acclaimed The Woods in 2005.
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We pick up part two of our interview with Jawbreaker‘s/Blackball Record’s Adam Pfahler, right where part one left off (logically). In our second section Pfahler and interviewer Rich Verducci discuss the potential Jawbreaker documentary, legal woes and even have time to touch on the hazy definition of “org-core”. For those interested you can pick up the reissue of Unfun here or check out some of the vintage Jawbreaker t-shirts (which are discussed in this interview) here.

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The Dopamines have confirmed their upcoming Summer tour. The band is supporting their new album, Expect the Worst, released via Paper and Plastick and streaming on their Punknews.org Profile. Over in Cincinatti, the band recently finished filming their music video for the track “Public Domain” with Mario Framingheddu. Continuing with the “Expect the Worst” theme, the finished work will premier on Friday, August 13th on BlankTV.com.

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One Day As a Lion, the project from Zack de la Rocha (Rage Against The Machine) and drummer Jon Theodore (The Mars Volta), have announced their first ever US shows. The duo will be joined by Joey Karam (The Locust) on keyboard for shows in Pomona, CA on July 17 and in Los Angeles, CA on July 18 at undisclosed locations. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, July 14 at 12:00PM PT and will be available via Will Call only. All ticket holders will be emailed the venue information at 8:00AM PT day of the show.

The band released One Day As A Lion in 2008.
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the Briggs have announced a European tour set to kick off at the end of August. The band is also asking fans to vote for set lists each night and you can do that here. The run consists mainly of German shows but also includes some performances in Switzerland, Austria and the Netherlands.

In related news, co-vocalist Joey Briggs will be released a new limited edition 7-inch titled Politics, Touring and Self-Loathing. The disc will include the “37 Cents” single released in 2008 (and seen here. The record will be on red vinyl, with a limited pressing of 500, and is set to be released late August in time for the European Tour.

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