Fearless Records has posted another song from Punk Goes Pop 3. The record is due out November 2, 2010. It’s the sequel to Punk Goes Pop 2 released eighteen months ago. The album is the tenth in their Punk Goes series which featured Punk Goes Classic Rock earlier in 2010. Like the previous iteration, the new album will feature punk and emo acts covering mainstream pop hits.

Participating bands include: Breathe Carolina, Woe, Is Me, Artist Vs Poet, Mayday Parade, Asking Alexandria, This Century, The Word Alive, Family Force 5, Of Mice & Men, Miss May I, The Ready Set, Cute Is What We Aim For, Sparks The Rescue and We Came As Romans.

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Queens of the Stone Age have announced the second in their reissues series for 2010. The band will be releasing their self-titled 1998 debut on November 26, 2010 (Vinyl) and December 7, 2010 (CD). The long out of print album vinyl arrives as a 180 gram double-gatefold, double LP and a digital download card. It will feature three bonus songs on top of the original track listing, “The Bronze,” “These Aren’t The Droids You’re Looking For,” and “Spiders and Vinegaroons.” The three tracks were initially cut from the record reinstated.

The band gave Rated R a deluxe reissue this past summer.
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Ska/reggae outfit Dirty Heads have posted a cover of the Black Keys track, “Everlasting Light.” The track features Rome, current vocalist of Sublime with Rome. The original song is from the Keys’ 2010 album, Brothers.

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Raceway Lights, a new punk rock band from members of This Is Hell, Backup Plan and Take My Chances, have posted a free download of their five song demo. The band’s next show is at Tombstone Fest at Broadway Bar on October 9 with Backtrack, Incendiary, This Is Hell, Ice Age, Suburban Scum and Compound.

Grab the demo here.
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Escape The Fate will kick off their North American run supporting Bullet for My Valentine tonight. The band is hitting the road in advance of their upcoming Interscope self-titled debut. The band’s forthcoming third album was produced by Don Gilmore (Bullet For My Valentine, Linkin Park) and is due out November 2, 2010. It follows the band’s two Epitaph Records releases, Dying Is Your Latest Fashion and This War Is Ours.

The band released the first single from the album, “Issues,” through digital retailers today. Check it out via iTunes.

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Pepper has announced their fall tour which will feature Fat Wreck Chords‘ Pour Habit on all dates. Other shows will include Shwayze, Brother Ali, Mishka, The Pricks and Fishbone.

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Boston, MA’s Energy have detailed their new EP. Walk Into The Fire is due out October 26, 2010 and will feature three new songs from the band. A demo of the title track is streaming at the group’s MySpace page. Once out, Walk Into The Fire will follow up 2008’s Invasions of the Mind.

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No Sleep Records have added The Felix Culpa to its roster. The label will reissue the band’s latest full-length Sever Your Roots on November 16, 2010.

The band previously self-released the album digitally as well as on a limited-edition CD, while Youth Conspiracy Records handled the vinyl version.
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It was bound to happen someday: A planned The New Pornographers show at self-described “Christian liberal arts school” Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI on October 15 has been cancelled by school officials, who said in a statement that the irony of the band’s name was impossible to explain to many, and that it was causing many to associate both the band and the college with pornography:

“We believe that the decision to invite the band fit our rubric of engaging culture through a Christian lens. The band makes good, thoughtful music, and we invited them here based on their artistic merit. However, after weeks of discussion and consideration, the irony of the band’s name was impossible to explain to many. The band’s name, to some, is mistakenly associated with pornography. Consequently, Calvin, to some, was mistakenly associated with pornography. Neither the college nor the band endorses pornography.”

The Grand Rapids Press has more information here.
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Our stream today comes from Bayonne, NJ-based The Scandals. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, The Sound Of Your Stereo.

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Your pals in Smoke or Fire have announced that they will release their new studio album on November 9, 2010. The record is titled the Speakeasy and is the first full length for the band since This Sinking Ship in 2007. In the interim, they issued Prehistoric Knife Fight. The record was recorded with Matt Allison at Atlas Studio and also marks the recorded debut of Ryan Parrish (Darkest Hour) and songwriting debut of Gwomper (AVAIL) Joe McMahon commented:

We were so happy to be able to record the new record with Matt Allison in Chicago. Matt is not only a great friend of ours, but really becomes the 5th member of the group when you’re in the studio with him. We were working with a pretty slim time period on this record, and everyone really showed up. Ryan Parrish killed it on drums, and made such great contributions during the writing process. It was also a lot of fun to watch Gwomper record his Bass on the record.

He gets so into it, I think he moves around more while he’s recording than he does on stage. The only hitch we ran into was me losing my voice half way through recording vocals. When that happens all you can do is wait until it comes back, and you have no idea how long that’s going to be. It took 6 days before I could start singing again. When the record was finished, Jeremy and I both agreed it was the first time we had left the studio with everything coming out exactly the way we wanted. The songs, the artwork…everything. We couldn’t be happier with this record.

The band will be at Fat’s CMJ showcase on October 23rd in New York City.
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Moving Mountains have signed to Triple Crown Records and will release a new album through the label in 2011. A viral video has been released to promote the signing, which can be found by clicking below.

The band’s most recent effort was the self-released Foreword in 2008. Over the years they’ve also issued material via Deep Elm Records.
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