The Casualties have announced a tour of the US and Canada opening for the monster metal spectacle GWAR. The tour kicks off on October 2nd at the Sonar in Baltimore and will wrap up at the House Of Blues in Houston on November 5th. The following day the street punk act will participate in Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest.

The Casualties last released We Are All We Have in 2009. Punknews recently chatted with GWAR frontcreature Oderus Urungus.
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Canadian pop-punk act Sum 41 has been forced to cancel their return to the Vans Warped Tour. The band had played over 20 dates this season before taking a leave to play Japan’s Summersonic Festival. In Japan frontman Deryck Whibley was attacked in what’s being described as a “random unprovoked incident,” which has aggrevated a slipped disk injury that he sustained in 2007. While the band chose to perform the festival in Osaka and Tokyo despite the injury and advice of doctors, Whibley’s condition has not improved. Drummer Steve Jocz commented:

Being a part of the Warped Tour this summer meant a lot to us. We haven’t toured in two years and the bands, the crowds and the entire Warped Tour crew have been amazing to us. We were excited to be back in front of our fans and are very disappointed that we have to pull off the tour. We know that it would be more frustrating for the fans if we can’t give it our all. Deryck is doing everything he can to get himself better and we’re there for him.

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With so much folk and folk-punk music out there today, it’s nice to know that there’s a group of musicians who are in it for the right reasons. The Riot Folk Collective gives away all of their music for free either online or at shows if you don’t have the money. Punknews interviewer Matt spent an evening at an anarchist bookstore and coffee shop in Baltimore named Red Emmas to hear one of the Riot Folk’s workhorses, Mark Gunnery, play. After a heartfelt, but not too-serious set from the Jewish folk artist, they arranged an interview, to be conducted over the phone, for the very next day. To hear the extended audio interview, which features listener-submitted questions at the end, go here.

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Today we’re happy to bring you the itinerary for the first annual Think Fast! Records and Think Fast! Booking showcase tour. The jaunt kicks off in Boston on October 22 and will hit most major US cities, including a stop at The Fest 9 in Gainesville, FL over Halloween weekend. Outbreak and Hour of the Wolf will appear on the entire tour, while select shows will also feature The Menzingers, Mountain Man, Smartbomb, Red City Radio and Reignition. The tour is sponsored by MerchNow, Lambgoat, AMP Magazine, Imprint Indie Printing and us, Punknews.org.

More shows are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
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Make Do and Mend have posted a song from their upcoming split with Touché Amoré, which will be out soon through Panic Records/6131 Records.

Head to the band’s MySpace page to check out “Cobwebs.”
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Sundowner was recently featured on Switchboard Sessions. Chris McCaughan called in to perform “The Flicker,” from his new album We Chase the Waves, as well an acoustic rendition of “The Slowest Drink At The Saddest Bar On The Snowiest Day In The Greatest City,” from The Lawrence Arms‘ 2009 7″ Buttsweat and Tears. Check it out here.

We Chase the Waves is currently streaming at Sundowner’s Punknews.org page. We also recently spoke to McCaughan about the project.
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Hopeless Records has detailed their reissue of The Wonder Years‘ 2010 album, The Upsides. The album features new artwork and four new tracks in addition to the original release. The band will be touring with Four Year Strong and New Found Glory later this year.

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Our stream today comes from Moncton, NB pop-punk outfit Fear of Lipstick. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new self-titled full length for It’s Alive Records. Fans of The Briefs and Marked Men might find this enjoyable.

Check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Bay area punk rockers Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits are set to release their third full-length (and first in ten years), F, on October 12th via Silver Sprocket. The album features Bobby Joe Ebola friends and regulars such as Jesse Luscious (Blatz), John Geek (Fleshies, Triclops), and members of Your Mother, Mystic Knights Of The Cobra, bicycle dance troupe the Bay Area Derailleurs and comedian Alex Koll. Both the CD and LP version come packaged with extensive liner notes and a fold-out poster, and are available for advance order now on the Silver Sprocket website.

The band is notable for running the S.P.A.M. Records collective (responsible for early releases from Gravy Train, Fleshies, Rock and Roll Adventure Kids and more) and organizing the series of guerrilla concerts known as Geekfest which later evolved into Pyrate Punx event Libertatia. The band has announced tour dates spanning the remaining months of 2010.
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