hails from Glen Rock, New Jersey. And while it’s easy for critics to attach “E Street Band” references, anyone that’s spent time listening to Titus can hear pure punk rock vitriol oozing from every pore of this young quintet. Laced with driving rhythms, layers of fuzzed out guitars, twinkling keys, and self-depreciating guttural howls, their newest album, The Monitor, showcases a band just starting to realize their supreme songwriting capabilities. The band’s ringleader, Patrick Sickles, recently took the time to chat with Punknews interviewer Michael Dauphin.

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Here’s another video update from Smoke or Fire, who are hard at work on their new full-length and follow up to 2007’s This Sinking Ship at Atlas Studios in Chicago, IL with producer Matt Allison.

The band, who recently released the Prehistoric Knife Fight 7″, will be joining several of their Fat Wreck Chords labelmates at CMJ in October.
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According to this post at the band’s tumblr, Bomb the Music Industry! are currently working on a new record. No other information is available, but we’ll keep you posted as details come in.

BTMI! last released the Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited by Nothing!!! EP earlier this year, and in 2009 released Scrambles to heavy acclaim.
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Our stream today comes from Newark, NJ-based Personal and the Pizzas. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, Raw Pie.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Motion City Soundtrack and Say Anything have announced a co-headlining tour set to kick off this fall. The run will feature support from Valencia and A Great Big Pile of Leaves.

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Jimmy Eat World have announced an initial run of headlining dates in support of their new album, Invented. Civil Twilight will be opening for the group on the tour’s first two stops, and We Were Promised Jetpacks will join the band beginning in Los Angeles and continuing through the end of the tour.

Invented 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. It’s slated for a September 28, 2010 release via DGC/Interscope.
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A substantial brawl broke out yesterday at Sound and Fury Festival in Santa Barbara, CA, causing the rest of the show to be cancelled. The festival, which had gone on the previous two days without incident, was shut down after an attendee rode a motorcycle into the pit during Backtrack‘s set. Apparently security chased the motorcyclist out of the building, but not before he rode through the merch and backstage areas. Many other attendees apparently followed the action outside, where fights began to break out between them and festival security, and a full trash can was thrown at the guards.

The Ventura County Star has a story regarding the incident here, and Alternative Press has a detailed account with photos and videos here.

Were any of our readers in attendance? What did you see? Leave your accounts in the comments.
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Fake Problems are giving away a new track from their upcoming album in exchange for an e-mail address or Facebook wall post. “Soulless” will appear on Real Ghosts Caught on Tape, due out on September 21, 2010 via Side One Dummy Records and following up the band’s debut for the label, 2009’s It’s Great to Be Alive.

Grab the song here. Fake Problems is currently on the Vans Warped Tour, and later in the year they’ll be touring with The Gaslight Anthem and The Menzingers.
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Less Than Jake have announced tour dates over the next few months. The band has shows in the US, UK and Europe planned.

They last released GNV FLA in 2008.

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Cruel Hand have launched a stream of their upcoming album. The record is titled Lock and Key and is due out July 27, 2010 via Bridge Nine. It is the follow-up to Prying Eyes which was released in 2008.

Check it out on their MySpace page.
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Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I’m Adam White and I’ll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here’s what got the community talking this week:

• The lineup to The Fest 9 broke. Look for the annual gathering to feature Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, The Suicide Machines, Frank Turner, Leatherface, Strike Anywhere, Teenage Bottlerocket and many others.
• Popular (I assume?) crunkcore act Brokencyde responded to fake allegations of various despicable activity (not related to their sound).
• The Gaslight Anthem are taking Fake Problems and The Menzingers out on what may be the most Punknews-reader friendly tour ever.
• The resurrected and slightly renamed alt-ska-dub-rock-etc act Sublime with Rome are set to
• Grammatically challenged Epitaph band I Am Ghost called it a career after six years.
• Solo artist Lights released a cover of Rancid‘s “Fall Back Down.” I’m still waiting for someone notable to crack out a really badass cover of “Black Lung.”
• Tom DeLonge’s Angels & Airwaves have completed Love: The Movie, which documents the band’s trip to see the Beatles-themed Cirque du Soleil production.

With that we hand over this Sunday evening to you, the Punknews community. From that glorious, likely bearded rabble we’ve see the creation of everything from message boards and Punknews fantasy sports leagues to even a band or two. So talk amongst yourselves and we’ll see you Monday…
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