So technically, these reviews were still posted Friday. Hurrrah. You can check them out below:

• Danzig – Deth Red Sabaoth
• Baroness – A Horse Called Golgotha 7″ single
• Iron Chic – Not Like This
• The Insurgence – The Insurgence
• Devour – Insect Circuitry 7″ EP
• The Future Now – Hazy Orange Sunday
• Sex Before Marriage – You’ll Always Remember Your First Time EP
• Venia – Frozen Hands
• Megasus – Megasus
• Mockingbird Wish Me Luck – Goodbye Debris EP

You can check out any of our 9617 reviews right here.
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Grinderman, the acclaimed garage rock band formed by Nick Cave (vocals, electric guitar, organ, piano), Warren Ellis (electric bouzouki, Fendocastor, violin, viola, acoustic guitar, backing vocals), Martyn P. Casey (bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals) and Jim Sclavunos (drums, percussion, backing vocals, have posted a stream of their sophomore album. The band, which shares all its members with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, will be releasing Grinderman 2 on September 14, 2010 via Anti-.

Check it out on their MySpace page.
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Dr. Strange Records has announced that they have just reissued two classic records from D.C.’s Government Issue and Nardcore legends Stalag 13. Dr. Strange has announced that both Government Issue’s “The Fun Never Ends” and Stalag 13’s “In Control” will also feature bonus tracks not available on the original releases.

You can purchase both records by visiting the Dr. Strange website. Both records also have a limited edition colored version limited to 200 copies each.
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Our stream today comes from Grand Rapids, MI instrumental duo Charles the Osprey. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, Consider.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Late last month, Against Me! visited Banquet Records in Kingston, UK to perform a live, acoustic set with the full band before they played the Fighting Cocks later that night, and Reading and Leeds that weekend. The band recorded a full band, acoustic rendition of “Pints Of Guinness Make You Strong” and the video is brought to you by Everything Sucks TV.

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Billboard is reporting on the resuming of hostilities between the Daily Variety and The Vandals. According to the report, bassist (and lawyer) Joe Escalante is fighting the suit himself. He noted:

I’m spending ridiculous amounts of hours on this. Like four to 10 hours a day. It’s a nightmare, but I’m learning how to do litigation. I hired a guy to teach me how to do it in Delaware.

Reed Elsevier, Variety’s parent company commented on the suit as well:

While we don’t expect the Vandals to see the issues through our eyes, the publicity they have generated and continue to generate contains inaccuracies, out-of-context statements and false innuendo. This is a breach of contract suit based on materials and links posted on the Vandals’ websites. We look forward to a court deciding these issues.

Earlier this summer, Escalante commented on how the lawsuit was making it impossible for the band to release new material until the situation had been resolved.
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Negative Approach have posted three songs from their upcoming 7-inch, Friends of No One. The 7-inch and CDEP is due out on Taang! Records and actually represents material recorded in 1984 but (officially) released for the first time this year.

Check out the title track as well as “Genocide” and “I Got a Right” from the EP on their MySpace page.

The band’s 10-Song EP is being reissued on October 12, 2010 by Touch and Go Records.
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Blake Schwarzenbach of forgetters, Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil has posted a thoughtful essay on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary talking about New York City in general as well as commenting on the Islamic Center controversy:

I know that when people are critical of memorial holidays it can come off as churlish and arch, and I don’t want to be that anymore; I don’t want to be part of the culture of complaint, the whinging left that can never be happy unless it is battling upwards against nefarious superpowers. So I would suggest this: let us be sad for once and re-affirm our commitment to being alive while we can.

Check it out here.
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