Riot Fest has announced some more additions to this Fall’s edition of the festival. Today, the promoters announced Propagandhi, Anti-Flag and OFF!. The latter is the new project from Keith Morris of Circle Jerks and Black Flag fame.

They join an already announced lineup which includes Bad Religion, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Circle Jerks, Articles of Faith, Snapcase, Less Than Jake, The Lawrence Arms, Bouncing Souls, High On Fire, Corrosion of Conformity, Riverboat Gamblers, Red Oktoberfest presented by Red Scare, “Busted at Oz” Reunion, Cro-Mags, FUN., Negative Approach, Smoking Popes, Bhopal Stiffs, The Meatmen, Agnostic Front, Off With Their Heads, Brendan Kelly, The Toasters, Roy Ellis a.k.a. Mr. Symarip Righteous Fool and many more.

The event is set for set for October 6-10, 2010 in Chicago, IL
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Do you have an affinity for NYHC and nautical settings? Well, you’re in luck. Cro-Mags will be playing on the Temptress – that’s a boat – as part of the Rocks Off Concert Cruise series in New York City next month, and the show promoters have decided to give away a pair of tickets to one lucky winner.
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Side One Dummy Records have posted a freely downloadable sampler featuring music from bands on the roster. Participating acts include: Flogging Molly, The Gaslight Anthem, Audra Mae, The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Jesse Malin and The St. Marks Social, Chuck Ragan, Nathan Maxwell & The Original Bunny Gang, Fake Problems, The Black Pacific, Anti-Flag, The Casualties, Broadway Calls and Big D And The Kids Table.

Grab the whole thing via Amazon.
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Norma Jean have posted their video for “Deathbed Atheist.” The track comes from their first album on Razor & Tie, Meridional .

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Polar Bear Club have posted another acoustic track recorded at Hurley Studios. This time the band recorded a version of their track, “Chasing Hamburg.” The song originally appeared on the album of the same name, Chasing Hamburg.

Check out the video here.

The band will wrap up a leg of Vans Warped Tour Dates this week before heading to Europe for three weeks of shows.
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In August 2009, Pennywise’s long-time front man, Jim Lindberg, announced he was leaving the band after some 20-plus years. It didn’t take long, however, for Lindberg to refocus his energy and, with a renewed sense of optimism, begin work on his new project, The Black Pacific. After subtly revealing their presence on MySpace and through their own website in late June 2010, Lindberg reached out to Punknews to offer up a look inside The Black Pacific and what the band has in store. Punknews interviewer Sean Jain was fortunate enough to answer the call and spoke with Lindberg about The Black Pacific, his new bandmates, the song writing process, and his departure from Pennywise.

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Lights has recorded an acoustic cover of Rancid‘s “Fall Back Down.” The original track comes from Rancid’s 2003 album, Indestructible. Lights’ cover appears on her newly released Acoustic EP.

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American Hi-Fi have posted the first video from their new EP, Fight The Frequency. The EP is their first release since 2005’s Hearts On Parade.

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Our stream today comes from Milwaukee, WI-based The Goodnight Loving. The band, who we interviewed last year will release their album on July 20, 2010 via Dirtnap Records. They have been compared to “Big Star (college radio era) Replacements, Del Shannon, and Meat Puppets.” We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, The Goodnight Loving Supper Club.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Today we’ve got an exclusive free download of a track from punk/metal outfit Mose Giganticus. The Philadelphia-based band is releasing their new album, Gift Horse, today on Relapse Records and it promises an “extensive range of hard rock, metal, and punk influences.”

Download the song here.
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In a new post on their official website, Rome of Sublime With Rome revealed the band’s plans to record this October and release a new single. Rome said this:

We gotta handful of sick new tunes and plan to hit the studio [in October] to do pre-production and release a single.

The band debuted a new song, “Panic,” when performing live on Jimmy Kimmel. Check that out here.

The band features the founding Sublime rhythm section of drummer Bud Gaugh and bassist Eric Wilson with new singer-guitarist Rome Ramirez. They assumed the slightly modified name after settling a lawsuit with the family of deceased founding member and singer Bradley Nowell over its use. This years tours will be Gaugh and Wilson’s first tour under the name Sublime (“With Rome” or otherwise) in nearly 14 years. They are on the road now.
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Tim Kasher of Cursive and The Good Life has announced plans to release a new album under his own name. The record is titled The Game of Monogamy and is due out October 5, 2010 via Saddle Creek. The album was recorded this past January in Whitefish, MT, at SnowGhost Music and in his rental home in the small town. The album is described:

More of an arranged record than any of Kasher’s past releases, filled with theatrical arrangements and lush instrumentation to create his own blend of classic pop. Ornamented with strings, harp, oboe, flute, and trombone, among other instruments, the songs vary in sound from vibrant and catchy (“Cold Love,” “I’m Afraid I’m Gonna Die Here”) to sweeping and grand (“No Fireworks,” “Monogamy”), and from hushed and spare (“Strays,” “The Prodigal Husband”), to urgent and fraught (“A Grown Man,” “Bad, Bad Dreams”). This moody orchestral pop evokes a 1950s-esque, conservative atmosphere, setting the stage for a dilemma that remains thoroughly modern. The protagonist’s arc in The Game of Monogamy spans the wide range of distinctly human emotions tangled up around relationships in a starched shirt society. Call it the score for our collective sexual plight: expression routinely becomes repression in the name of romance.

Kasher enlisted Patrick Newbery (trumpet/keys for Cursive; also of Lacona and Head of Femur) to help with the arrangements, the production, and to play on the record. Friends Erin Tate (Minus The Bear) and Matt Maginn (Cursive) also stopped by to add some drum and bass parts, respectively, and members of the Glacier National Symphony were recruited for the classical instrument parts.

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Atlantic/Pacific, the new project from Garrett Klahn of Texas is the Reason and Solea, have joined No Sleep Records. Their debut record for the label is titled Meet Your New Love and is due out October 26, 2010 via No Sleep

The band was first announced in August 2008 and the current lineup features John Herguth (House & Parish) and Ian Love (Rival Schools) The band is described as “psych/folk sound that will appeal to fans of indie-rock as well as rock and roll traditionalists with its’ looped yet tribal yet shuffling drums and both dynamic and big guitar sounds.”
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