Eisley have signed to Equal Vision Records. The Tyler, Texas quintet signed to the indie after departing from Warner Bros. Records earlier this year, after two full-length albums and several EPs. Their third album is tentatively planned for an early 2011 release through Equal Vision. Eisley singer/guitarist Sherri DuPree Bemis said this:

It’s really refreshing for us to be working with a label that’s driven by passion and has made a name for itself by working really hard with bands they actually love. It’s especially cool for Eisley to be on a label that started out as a ‘punk’ label because despite not being a punk band in any way musically, we have always done our own thing, gone against the grain and fought for what we believe in and that is the true essence of punk. We’re happy to extend our (already extensive) family.

The band is currently on tour. Check out those tour dates here.
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Along with their recently unveiled Canadian tour, Fake Problems will be performing in the US throughout December. The band will be performing with Ninja Gun, Bouncing Souls, P.S. Eliot and more. They are supporting their latest album, Real Ghosts Caught on Tape, released in 2010.

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A portion of Off with Their Heads surprise performance at The Fest was recorded and the video is available online. The band performed their much loved debut EP, 2006’s Hospitals end-to-end.

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Hellmouth, the thrash/punk outfit featuring Jay Navarro of The Suicide Machines, have released another new song from their upcoming album on Paper and Plastick. The band will be releasing their second full length on November 16th. To coincide with the release, the band is doing a limited pressing in which the ashes of a burned bible are being pressed into the vinyl. Guitarist Alex Awn explained:

The concept of burning a holy book and sending its ashes off to the pressing plant to include in a limited run of the new album presented itself to us when we were in NYC earlier this year. Vinnie [Fiorello, Paper Plastick Records founder] did some research and found out it could be done, so we were pretty excited about it. As far as we know this is the first of its kind. I’ve heard about a company that presses your own ash into a record after you’ve been cremated but since we’re not dabbling in corpse desecration or body-snatching, a bible would have to suffice.

We procured an old German bible from the late 1800′s to sacrifice for the new album. It had scribblings and notes in it that dated it to the turn of the 19th century which was interesting. It was heavy, leather-bound and was sealed w/ a metal clasp. The type was set in a gothic script and it had some 3 color images on the recto pages. There was a lot of craftsmanship and man-hours that went into producing the book. Having said that, I wouldn’t get too misty-eyed on the fine craftsmanship of the book b/c it was the content we were focusing on and the rivers of blood left in its wake.

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Underoath are streaming their new album, Ø (Disambiguation).

Find it on their Myspace page.
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Alternative hip hop artist M.I.A. recently performed her cover of Spectral Display’s song, “It Takes a Muscle,” accompanied by legendary ska outfit The Specials. She previously performed live with Suicide‘s Martin Rev.

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Good Old War have posted their video for “That’s Some Dream” from their 2010 self-titled Sargent House album.

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My Chemical Romance have posted another new song from their upcoming album, Danger Days: True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys. It’s due out November 23, 2010. The band is also working on a video for the song and you can find a teaser for the video here.

Check out the song on their MySpace page.
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GWAR have posted a new song from their upcoming album. The record is titled Bloody Pit of Horror and is due out November 9, 2010 via Metal Blade. The band is currently wrapping up a tour supported by The Casualties.

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The Good, The Bad and The Queen are apparently working on a new album. The band features Clash basist Paul Simonon, as well as Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz), afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen, Simon Tong (The Verve) and producer Dangermouse (Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz). They last released The Good, The Bad and The Queen in 2007.

Frontman Albarn spoke to New Zealand’s Stuff Magazine and when he was asked about it, said:

Well, I would hope so, definitely.

He also confirms that he working on another African music inspired album which will also feature Tony Allen and he is “three-quarters of the way through.”
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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have released a new song titled “Heart in Your Heartbreak.” The song comes from a two-song 7-inch due out in December which is the second 7-inch from the band this year, the other being href=”http://www.punknews.org/review/9515″>Say No to Love [7-inch]. They released their last full length, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, in 2009.

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Funeral for a Friend have posted their video for “Serpents In Solitude.” The song is from their as-yet untitled fifth album expected in 2011.

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Pop-punk/new wave outfit New Collisions have posted their new video for “Dying Alone.” The band were discovered by Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes and he helped to secure opening slots for new waves classics like Blondie and the B-52s within three months of their first performance. The song comes from their debut, The Optimist.

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