Our stream today comes from Philadelphia-based Highlites. We’ve got a stream of the band’s 7″, Thanks For Comin’ Out. The band features members of Dirty Tactics and Mayflower.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Transit have posted another new song from their upcoming full-length Keep This to Yourself, which is slated for a mid-August release via Run For Cover Records. Once out, it’ll follow up their 2009 EP, Stay Home.
Check out “Footwork” at the band’s MySpace page. Transit will be touring the US with Fireworks, The Swellers and Man Overboard later this summer and into the fall.
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Plants vs. Zombies: GOTY Edition is now available with updated and expanded content including 20 new Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud support, and the interactive Zombatar™. Now with SteamPlay, Plants vs. Zombies can be played on either Mac or PC!
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Southsea DIY has posted videos of Good Luck‘s recent acoustic performance in a garden. The band is currently touring the UK and Ireland. You can see the videos below.
The band is working on songs for their followup to the critically lauded Into Lake Griffy and released a 4 song demo CD early this year.
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Huntingtons have released their new collection 1-2-3-4!: the Complete Early Years digitally. The album is available now via iTunes and will be available on other digital outlets soon. The collection contains remastered versions of the band’s output prior to their signing with Tooth and Nail: 1996’s Sweet Sixteen and Rocket to Ramonia, 1997’s Fun and Games, The Only One and You’re Not Right as well as 1998’s Rock and Roll Radio.
The band has also posted a digital booklet available here.
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According to Alternative Press members of the band Pennywise broke into Alesana‘s van following their final show on this year’s Warped Tour in Denver. Alesana frontman Shawn Milke had this to say to AP:
Just to clear the air of any rumors, last night upon returning to our bus after a night out with friends, both our band and our tour manager were attacked blindly by by two very drunk members of Pennywise. Alesana is a non-violent band and always has been. We do not encourage or willingly participate in any violent activities. The two guys entered our bus and, without any instigating on our part, began punching us and trashing our bus. We are eternally sorry that this event took place and had it not been for the Denver police showing up and restraining our assailants, the night could have been tragic. Luckily, no one in our camp was injured.
No statement has been issued by Pennywise currently.
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To celebrate the new update, Nation Red is now on sale until Thursday, August 12th, 2010.
Horde rush? Yes. Online co-op? You bet. Now’s the perfect time to get yourself and your friend hooked in the all-new online co-op mode and enjoy the new weapon, perks, power-ups, and Achievements.
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We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:
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According to their Twitter, it seems Small Brown Bike has wrapped up recording in Chicago with J Robbins (Lemuria, Against Me!, The Riot Before). They’ve posted a couple studio videos on Youtube and some pictures on Facebook. You can see the videos below and the photos on their Facebook.
The new album will be the first LP since the band’s reunion. They previously released two 7″s via No Idea Records: Composite, Volume One, Composite, Volume Two.
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The Mafia II Demo is now available for download.
Updates to Commander: Conquest of the America have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Version 1.03 (Patch 1) 9.8.2010
Features:
– Ship highlighting in tactical level
– AI will now build fleets with 1-3 squadrons
– A message is received when colony has a need
– Resource window can now be accessed by clicking the 3D resources and from Colony-founding view
– Morale information now shown in port name tags on strategic level
Balancing:
– Overall autoresolve balancing
– Overall ship balancing (schooner, xebec, brig, carrack, cutter)
– AI has now the possibility to select upgrades to ships
– More damage inflicted when fleeing from autoresolve
– Destroyed fort affects ships’ morale less
– Need amounts are decreased
– Smaller visibility range for squadrons
– Increased warehouse capacity (all levels)
– Reduced birth rate
– Reduced damage to crew from grape shots
– Ship upgrade prices are now relative to the ship price
– DLC 1: Colonial Navy overall balancing
Fixes:
– Info text and tiny icon shown over ship icon in shipyard if the shipyard level is too low
– Problem with water showing black with some older graphics card drivers fixed
– AI nations will not make war offers to player anymore, if it is in war with him
– strategic camera scroll tweaked
– Impossible to select “heavier cannons” upgrade if the ship has no cannons
– Soldiers don’t shoot from sinking ships anymore
– When Port attack is clicked from squadron interface, it’ll show red crosshair on enemy ports, when mouse hovers over them
– No “cannon accuracy” upgrade for ships with no cannons
– Tooltips for upgrades in Shipyard now show full upgrade description
– Graphics and tooltips for shipyard build button improved
– “Build more warships” -mission fixed
– Fixed tax-slider (smoother)
– Now to move trade items from warehouse to squadron also when balance is under 0
– Fleets cannot resupply at colonyspots anymore
– AI doesn’t add more colonists than there is space left
– It’s not possible for forts to flee the battle anymore
– Problem with squadrons of a larger fleet disappearing when entering a port fixed
– CTD-fix: AI squadron-merge caused a crash on savegame
– CTD-fix: clicking “sell all” in the colony trade view caused a crash sometimes
– CTD-fix: When trying to load a game or trying to return to main menu while in tactical with a fort, the game could crash
– screen edge scrolling fixed for dualscreen & triplehead (triplehead can be enabled from options.txt)
– possibility to lock cursor to game window or on dualscreen to the other screen (can be changed from options.txt)
– Strategic camera problem with low fps fixed
– GUI shows amount of cannons correctly now
– AI will now repair their fleets at port in month change
– Fixed flashing strategic loading screen when loading a game from main menu or ingame-menu before showing the correct loading screen.
– Player can’t see AI squadrons in docks/trade/people-windows anymore when in alliance and AI squadron arrives to player port for resupplies.
– New commander created for captured AI squadrons
– Friendly fort not spawned anymore on top of enemy fort when attacking enemy colony after multiple defending colony battles.
– Tooltips for specialist fixed (squadron info window)
– DLC ships used to display wrong icons in shipyard
– Building prices now correct in every difficulty level
– Building prices sometimes didn’t fit the designated area
– pressing tab (changing colony) did not hide selected fleet bouys
– rare CTD caused by native raid fixed
– “Buy soldiers” button disabled ( grey ) when no more room for soldiers
– tactical level tip-text removed since we now have a tutorial box on the top right corner
– “Barcelona” is changed to “Sevilla”
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Punknews has been informed that Rainier, OR pop-punk trio Broadway Calls have given bassist/vocalist Matt Koenig the boot. Koenig gave us the following statement verbatim:
“Hello today, it’s Matt Koenig here to break the sad sad news that i am no longer in Broadway Calls. I was asked to leave the band on the basis that I was decidedly no longer friends with the other band members, that my playing was “barely passable” and my “lack of song writing contribution”. So that’s that. People change, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. i find the whole thing unfortunate. My opinion is that i was an equally contributing member of the band i loved so much. I now get to focus on better things in my life.
I’m in no way done playing music, as I’ve already started a few bands with my friends around Portland. I’ll be attending this years Fest in Gainsville, sure I’ll see plenty of you there. But for now I’ll put the focus of my life on my family and my wonderful new wife.
Over the past 4 and a half years I’ve met countless amazing people, too many to name but some of which are now my closest friends. Played hundreds of shows. Had dreams come true by touring with some of my favorite bands, and seeing more of the US and Canada then I would have ever hoped. Also, visiting Europe 4 times over was equally astounding as it was humbling. Getting to work with Adeline and Side One Dummy Records as well as Blasting Room Studios was an honor. An especially large ‘thank you’ to all of the people at those camps, without you this would have been a much different trip. And to anyone and everyone i met along the way, Thank you. I am forever changed. I now leave you with this, a fitting quote that i believe describes my time in BC perfectly, said by a much more well spoken man than myself…
Jeff Goldblum – “God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.” Thanks friends.“
We reached out to drummer Josh Baird, who confirmed the situation. “That is 100% correct,” Baird said, adding that Koenig was actually kicked out in early June. “We talked over phone. We were going to do it in person but decided it would be better for everyone via phone. The main reasons were (1): Matt and I haven’t really been friends the past few years–just two guys that happened to be in the same band. And (2): Once we got home from the last tour we were planning on writing a new record and wanted a third member to contribute with the songwriting instead of just [frontman] Ty [Vaughn] and I writing the records. Matt wasn’t a part of the writing process.”
Koenig has already been replaced with Adam Willis, who played with Vaughn and Baird in Countdown to Life. The band is currently writing for a new full-length.
Koenig was a founding member of the band, having played on the band’s debut EP as well as their following two full-lengths, the most recent being Good Views, Bad News in 2009.
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Jimmy Eat World have premiered the first single from their upcoming full-length, Invented. “My Best Theory” can be streamed at the band’s website.
Invented is due out September 28, 2010 and will follow up 2007’s Chase This Light. The album was produced by Mark Trombino, who previously worked with Jimmy Eat World on 1996’s Static Prevails, as well as 1999 fan-favorite Clarity and the band’s 2001 breakthrough, Bleed American. The group will be touring behind the album in the fall.
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