Street Sweeper Social Club, the new project from Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine and Boots Riley of The Coup, have posted their cover of the M.I.A. hit, “Paper Planes.” The original track featured a sample of the The Clash‘s “Straight to Hell” which Morello replicates on live guitars.

Check it out here.

The song comes from the duo’s upcoming EP, Ghetto Blaster, due out August 10, 2010 via Universal. Along with the MIA cover, it will also include an LL Cool J cover and several originals.
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Recently Jerry Only (of the Misfits) showed up to sing the National Anthem at the season championship of Seattle’s Rat City Rollergirls. The bout set a roller derby attendance record with over 6000 people in attendance.

You can see the video below. The footage comes courtesy of Hot Rocks!
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80% bearded rock’n’roll warriors Valient Thorr will be releasing their fifth album in seven years this fall. The record is titled Stranger and is due out September 14, 2010 via Volcom. It is the follow-up to Immortalizer which was released in 2008.

To support the album, the band will be hitting the road for 7 week tour with Junius, Howl, Red Fang and others.

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Useless ID have announced some European shows over the remainder of July. They released The Lost Broken Bones in 2008

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Mike Huguenor is a busy man. Moonlighting in Shinobu, Hard Girls and Classics of Love it’s amazing to think this man gets any sleep. . Shinobu put out their last full length Strange Spring Air on Quote Unquote last year and are putting the finishing touch on a B-sides collection. Hard Girls put out the Hello EP last year as well and are working on a split with Kudrow. Classics of Love released their debut in 2009 and are gearing up to record a new full length. Mike sat down with Tim McGowan and talked about song writing phenomena, South American tours, and made jokes about Operation Ivy and space age book reading technology.

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A Wilhelm Scream guitarist Trevor Reilly has updated the band’s website with news that they plan on hitting the studio next month to begin work on a new full-length, shortly before they head to the midwest, then Canada for shows with Comeback Kid and Madball. Here’s a snippet of the post:

“Actually, Nick and I have already starting frustrating each other, er, I mean, jamming together and it’s just like old times, eh Nick? See writing songs with Nick consists of us both glaring at each other, me telling him his cymbals are too loud, and us taking lots of coffee breaks. That’s all I remember from our sessions, and somehow we write alot of songs together this way. I don’t understand it either, but it works. We start recording in August, and I’m thrilled. I love making full length albums more than anything and I am psyched to see where we go with this new material.”

No other details are readily available, but once out the new LP will be the band’s first since 2007’s Career Suicide, though they released a self-titled EP last year. Speaking of said EP, its vinyl release is finally upon us, and the new pressing features three bonus songs from the band’s Reilly-fronted alter ego The Guys Downstairs. Check it out here, and click below to watch a video of The Guys Downstairs performing a song entitled “Chipping Away.”
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Devil’s Brigade, the project fronted by Matt Freeman of Rancid have announced their debut. The record is self-titled and is due out August 31, 2010 via Hellcat. Along with Freeman on vocals, the band features Rancid bandmate Tim Armstrong and DJ Bonebrake, of X and the Knitters on Drums. Rounding out the Rancid guests is Lars Frederikson who also contributes to the album.

The band made their debut back in 2002 with a track on Give Em the Boot Volume 3. Check out some music on their MySpace page.

The band will be touring with labelmates the Street Dogs this fall.
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City of Ships are in the midst of a lengthy tour, with select dates also featuring Rosetta, Battlefields, Constants and Mose Giganticus.

The band recently recorded three new tracks in Gainesville, FL with producer/engineer Ryan Williams; the new jams include two originals and a cover of M83’s “Don’t Save Us From The Flames.” The songs are expected to see the light of day in August via Sound Study Recordings, following up 2009’s Look What God Did to Us.
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Video has been posted from Small Brown Bike and Bridge and Tunnel‘s recent performance at Generation Records in New York City. The two bands stopped by the store in May 2010 to perform an acoustic show. The event was co-sponsored by our friends at Late Night Wallflower.

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Our stream today comes from Sister Kisser. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, Vipers.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio spoke to Mike Damante of Houston Chronicle about the band’s next video (“there will be blood”), their sound, their perception of success, social issues, the influence of Jawbreaker and more. Matt and the Trio are currently on Warped Tour and next month, he will be releasing first first proper solo album, Demos, on Asian Man Records. That’ll hit on August 10, 2010.

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