Lovedrug‘s van and trailer were stolen this past Friday night from the Motel 6 where they were staying at in Southgate, MI. The band is in the midst of a tour supporting their new Militia Group release Everything Starts Where It Ends, and despite the lack of equipment there doesn’t seem to be any cancellations listed yet. The band is asking that anyone with information to contact Molly at Bradstreet Entertainment.
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Birmingham’s based band The Fall, The Rise have posted a video for their song “Bite Your Tongue and Walk Away.” The track comes from their debut full length Interlopers’, due out on Black Records soon. The video was directed by Adam Powell.

San Diego’s Counterfit have posted a new song titled “The Short Weekend Begins With Longing” from their posthumous DVD/CD Managing the Details of an Undertakin. The record hit stores in late May via One Bad Landing.

Los Angeles’ Broken Needle have posted three songs online from their new self titled LP on Lengua Armada Records.
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The fifth annual Robot Mosh Fest will be held in Hartland, WI (Milwaukee) on June 29th and June 30th. The event features bands like the Black Dahlia Murder, Dead to Fall, Fordirelifesake, the Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Ion Dissonance, Russian Circles, A Life Once Lost and many other metal and hardcore acts.
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There’s a new act on Hydra Head and once you fight through the bizarre available info you’ll find some familiar faces. Pet Genius is a three piece featuring Cave In‘s Steve Brodsky (credited as “StoveTop Bredsky”), Johnny Coolbreeze of Clouds, Hydronaut, and the Octave Museum and “JR John Junior ” (who we’re pretty sure is Cave In’s John Robert Conners). They played their first show on June 6th in Somerville, Massachusetts and two songs can be streamed via MySpace. We assume there are plans for a future release, but no further details are available yet.
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While he may have a new Foo Fighters record due soon and a European tour with Me First and The Gimme Gimmes kicking off today, Chris Shiflett is nothing if not busy. His other project, Jackson United has wrapped up work on a brand new full length set for release early next year.

The record is title Harmony and Dissidence and follows up the last record from the trio, Western Ballads. Chris lined up an impressive array of guests for the record though we can’t talk about those just yet.

In the meantime, you can check out “Damn You” and “Lose Ends” on their myspace page.
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Bob Mould, solo artist and frontman of the legendary Hüsker Dü and Sugar, has announced that he will be releasing his next solo full length in January of next year. His last record was 2005’s critically acclaimed Body Of Song.

Mould previewed the new song “Again and Again” this past Friday the Henry Rollins Show. The show’s website has a video of the performance and an interview.
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The Agony Scene has posted the song “Barn Burner” from their upcoming full length Get Damned. You can check it out on MySpace. The new album, the band’s third, was produced by Andreas Magnusson (Black Dahlia Murder, Scarlet).

The band previously released The Darkest Red on Roadrunner and The Agony Scene released on Solid State.
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X frontman John Doe is on the road now supporting his new album A Year in the Wilderness. The record was released last week by Yep Roc. Among the dates are a few in store signings and an appearance at this year’s Hootennay alongside bands like Social Distortion, Nekromantix, the Supersuckers and the Angel City Outcasts.

A Year in the Wilderness follows up 2005’s Forever Hasn’t Happened Yet.
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Dillinger Escape Plan have made some announcements about their upcoming full length as well as the departure of founding drummer Chris Pennie. As rumoured, Pennie left the band to join Coheed and Cambria. The band confirmed the departure indirectly, by omitting Pennie’s name from the lineup for the record.

The new lineup also confirms the role of drummer Gil Sharone. According to Gil’s biography, he has previously performed live with acts like Fishbone, Dave Wakeling of The English Beat, HR of Bad Brains and others.

The band is continuing work on their next full length which has been titled Ire Works. They will again be working with producer Steve Evetts and a fall release is expected. Both bits of news come in a moment of rare seriousness for the band who explained:

Know that what we are in the process of recording will be everything we have ever been capable of, and now more. This last year, and how we have gotten through it and to the place we are now, will define all of our lives for a long time.

We have overcome everything from multiple member changes in the early years, members suffering physical impairment or injury that has made it impossible to continue playing, and financial, physical, personal, and internal problems that many bands would never make it through. We take forever to put out records, and put everything we have into them. T

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Modest Mouse has posted the dates for another tour beginning in August. The band will see support on all dates from Band of Horses and Love as Laughter and Clipse on the New York and Philadelphia dates.

The band is touring in support of their 2007 release We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.
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Legendary Japanese noise-rock act the Boredoms have announced a number of tour dates this summer and fall that will take them through Canada, the US and Europe. The band most recently delivered five seminal 1990s Boredoms records in the US with four surfacing for the first time ever.

The long-running band released Seadrum/House of Sun via Vice in 2005.
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Oshawa, Ontario’s Cuff the Duke were recently in the studio recording the follow up to their sophomore self titled full length. The band is planning for either a late August or early September release, but those details are still under wraps. The band’s Three Gut released debut album Life Stories For Minimum Wage was reissued earlier this year via Outside Music. The label also released frontman Wayne Petti’s solo debut City Lights Align this past March.

In recent years members of the band have joined members of the Weakerthans and FemBots in the instrumental indie rock collective Hylozoists. That act recently put out the record La Fin du Monde.
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The tracklisting has been announced for the sixth installment of Hellcat Records‘ Give ‘Em The Boot compilation series. The album collects tracks from the label’s entire roster, including bands like Rancid, the Dropkick Murphys, Tiger Army, the Slackers and the Aggrolites. There’s even a classic from Operation Ivy thrown in for good measure.

You have to guess what flavor the cover art will be this time. We’re betting it’s mauve this time. Maybe peach.
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