Many of you wrote in with the news that Face to Face have titled their forthcoming album. According to reports from attendees of the band’s Warped Tour performances, the album will be titled Laugh Now, Laugh Later.

The band wrapped up work on the album in late June. It will be the first new album in eight years from the long-running punk band, and their first since How To Ruin Everything. In the interim, the band released the retrospective Shoot the Moon: The Essential Collection. After retiring in 2003, the band reunited five years later and has continued to tour sporadically since.
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In a new interview, Sum 41 talked a little about what to expect from their next album. The record is titled Screaming Bloody Murder and is due out August 31, 2010 via Island. Blare Magazine spoke to Steve Jocz and Jason “Cone” McCaslin:

I don’t know really. I think it is a very personal record and it relates to the last one as it was very honest. Like how do I say this…there is going to be stuff about “the relationship” and really how we all perceive the world. I think that every album we’ve ever done from the beginning of time has been about what’s happened at the time. A lot of people are going to think that this is the divorce album for Deryck, it’s not. There’s like two songs.

I think if [they are fans of] Does This Look Infected? and Chuck then they’re going to love this. It’s the same sort of stuff we’ve played. Everything’s sophisticated and the melodies are great and it’s almost better than those two albums as we’ve grown since then but have kept the same vibe.

The band released Underclass Hero in 2007.
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The Living End recently took a break from writing and recording their follow up to 2008’s White Noise to perform a series of Clash songs at the fourteenth annual Community Cup in Melbourne, Austrialia. The event was attended by 10,000 people, and raised $180,000 (Australian dollars) for charity partner Reclink, an organisation providing sport and arts activities to help people experiencing disadvantage.

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Converge will be releasing a new 7-inch titled On My Shield on their ongoing European tour. The EP will also be available directly from the band when they return from the tour in September. It was recorded at guitarist Kurt Ballou’s Godcity Studio after the band wrapped up their Spring 2010 tour. It features one new track, “On My Shield” and a laser-etching on the flip side. The 7-inch is limited to 3000 copies with 1000 direct on tour, 1000 through King’s Road and 1000 through Deathwish Distribution.

Check out the full-size artwork here.
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Set Your Goals are premiering the new video for “Gaia Bleeds (Make Way For Man).” The track comes from the band’s Epitaph Records debut, This Will Be the Death of Us. The track features guest vocals from Jon Gula of Turmoil.

Check out the video here (US-Only) or try this YouTube link.
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Taking Back Sunday have posted the track listing for their upcoming live and acoustic album. The record is titled Live From Orensanz and is due out August 17, 2010 via Warner. The recording comes from two acoustic shows performed by the band in December 2009 at the Angel Orensanz in New York City.

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Atreyu have posted their video for “Gallows.”

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Balance and Composure have posted a full stream of the digital reissue of their debut EP, I Just Want to Be Pure. The release notably includes three bonus/previously unreleased acoustic tracks: new arrangements of “Only Boundaries” and “I Can’t Do This Alone” (the originals of which appeared on last year’s Only Boundaries EP) and a cover of the Smiths’ “Bigmouth Strikes Again” (the original of which appears on 1986’s The Queen Is Dead).

You can check out the stream at their Bandcamp page.
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Boston, MA’s Junius have announced a lengthy run of North American dates. The band will be joined by Orbs on the first leg and Valient Thorr and Howl on the second.

The band continues to support 2009’s The Martyrdom of a Catrastophist.
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Prior to their August tour supporting Swingin’ Utters in the US, Scranton’s The Menzingers will play a handful of Canadian dates in support of their recent full length Chamberlain Waits. This week the band will support the Gaslight Anthem and Tim Barry in Toronto and play shows in Ontario and Quebec with Mockingbird Wish Me Luck.
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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:

• A few quotes from Ted Leo from an interview were misinterpreted, and the musician put a rest to the “early retirement” talk
• Drummer Yuri Ruley has decided to retire from MxPx
• Devil’s Brigade, featuring Rancid‘s Matt Freeman and Tim Armstrong, has announced their debut. They’ll soon be touring with Street Dogs, Flatfoot 56 and Continental
• The Bouncing Souls and Hot Water Music are planing a split 7-inch where they’ll cover one of each other’s songs
• Social Distortion is taking Lucero and Frank Turner out on the road soon
• Canuck pop punks Sum 41 returned with the song “Scumfuck”
• Riotfest this year will feature Bad Religion, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Circle Jerks, Articles of Faith, The Lawrence Arms, The Smoking Popes, and Snapcase

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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I wasn’t really home yesterday or the day before, so this came together pretty last minute. Past last minute, obviously. But here ya go.

• Ceremony – Rohnert Park
• The Real McKenzies – Shine Not Burn
• Born to Lose – The Dreams of Kids
• Laura Stevenson and the Cans – Holy Ghost! 7″ EP
• It’s Just Vanity – Here’s What You Remember from a Coma
• Jared Grabb – Where Do You Hide Your Love Songs? 12″
• Minnesota’s Calling – Minnesota’s Calling EP
• Ridgemont – Documented Failures EP
• Tachyon Radio – Tachyon Radio demo EP
• mewithoutYou – Catch for Us the Foxes

You can check out any of our 9437 reviews right here.
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Energy have hit the studio to begin work on their new EP for Bridge Nine Records. The melodic hardcore band is planning a departure from the sound of their last full length, Invasions of the Mind in 2008.

Vocalist Jason Tankerley said this:

These songs are a step in a whole new direction, one that Mike and I have been messing around with for quite some time now. He and I have a side project called ‘Children Of The Night’ that has been really creating a pretty unique sound. We started doing that about 6 years ago, before Energy was a band. Mike recently joined Energy and we’ve been creating a lot of music with the COTN feel to it ever since. We feel as if with every album so far we’ve been reinventing the band’s sound and this EP will be no exception. With a lot of bands that release albums, you know what the whole thing is going to sound like within the first song or 2. One of our many goals is to have each song really stand out in it’s own way. We don’t want a batch of songs that all sound uniform, we want a wide array of melody and feeling that will keep listeners (and us) interested

To that end, the band is promising “catchy choruses, melodic vocals and keyboards” one what they are calling the Walk Into The Fire EP.
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