The Fall Of Troy were recently interviewed and shed some light on their follow up to the recently released Manipulator. The band says the next record will be titled Phantoms on the Horizon and may again be produced by Matt Bayles. In the Music Emissions interview drummer Andrew Forsman indicated that Bayles may be more involved in the songwriting on the next album as well. The record will stem from the Ghostship Demos, which the band plans to re-record with a few more songs.
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Japan’s Ellegarden has announced a US release for their latest record, Eleven Fire Crackers. The disc is due out July 31, 2007. It was already released elsewhere and reviewed here on Punknews.org. You can check out that review here: Eleven Fire Crackers.

Since their last full length, the band has provided support for a number of band including Allister, The Foo Fighters, Sum 41 and others.

You probably won’t be surprised to find that some music from the album is available on their myspace page .
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Omaha, Nebraska’s The Recession has signed with Blood & Ink Records. Their debut full length Time, Arithmetic & Other Elementary Subjects Not Well Learned will be available in August and samples of the band’s music can be heard via MySpace.http://www.myspace.com/therecession.

Long Island NY’s Anxious Arms have announced summer tour dates in the US midwest and east coast, following which they’ll hit the studio to record their debut full length and follow up to 2006’s Vs The Volcano. You can preview songs and check out the dates via MySpace.

The Wading Girl has added three new songs from their new self-recorded EP The Miriam Demos via myspace. The Roanoke, VA based band will be opening for Tim Barry on his upcoming tour and playing as his backing band.
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Sum 41 have posted the first video from their new album. The record is titled Underclass Hero and is due out July 24, 2007. It is the follow-up to Chuck which was released in 2004.

You can check out the video for “Underclass Hero” right here.
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Deep Elm has announced that they will be released This Is My Ship from Dartz!. The record was the Teesside, UK trio’s critically-acclaimed debut full-length was released by X-tra Mile Recordings Ltd. earlier this year.

You can check out a video from the album here or drop by the myspace page for the streams.

The album has drawn comparisons to bands like Q and not U and earned rave reviews from UK press including NME, Rock Sound, Kerrang! and Metal Hammer.
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Joe Jack Talcum, of Dead Milkmen fame. has just announced a short tour set to kick off in mid-June. An edited list of projects that Joe has been involved in over the years (besides the Milkmen) would look something like this: Ornamental Wigwam, Touch Me Zoo, Jiffy Squid, We’re Not From Idaho, Sock, The Town Managers, The Big Mess Orchestra, Butterfly Joe (the band), Consumer 925 and The Headaches. Currently, he plays in The Low Budgets and The Cheesies, while also continuing to record and perform solo.

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It has been announced that 1-2-3-4! Go Records will be re-issuing the now out of print Expansive Heart CDEP/7″ by the band Big Rig. Big Rig was a short lived punk band in the early 90s which featured Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy and Common Rider. The release became out of print during the downfall of the legendary Lookout! Records back in 2005. No release date has been announced yet, but it will be released within the coming months.
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Turbonegro has announced release details and posted a new video for their upcoming record. The record is titled Retox and is due out June 13, 2007. It is the follow-up to Party Animals which was released in 2005.

The first video from the album, “Do You Dig Destruction,” can be found here. You can also check out a new MP3 from the album here: “We’re Gonna Drop the Atom Bomb.”

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Today we’ve got half of the new album from Eyeball Records act Signal To Noise . The band has earned comparisons to everyone from Thursday to Hot Water Music and you can try them out for yourself via our stream. The record is titled Kodiak and is due out June 05, 2007.

You can check out the five songs on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Linoleum Magazine has posted a full show pictorial featuring Good Riddance‘s final show. As reported earlier, the performance is being recorded for an upcoming posthumous live release.

You can find a show review with some selected shots here, or view all 76 photos from the show in a myspace photo album.
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Though the band’s last album, First Impressions of Earth, was released nearly a year ago, the Strokes have produced a second video for the third single from their album.

Why reshoot the video? Because the band was able to enlist the skill of LucasFilm visual effects director Warren Fu, who contributed to the Star Wars prequels, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Pirates of the Caribbean.

You can check out the video via IMeem.
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Drummer Derek Grant has revealed some more details about the long awaited reissue of Alkaline Trio‘s beloved album, Goddamnit:

The album is being remixed/remastered by Matt Allison, who engineered the album back in 1998. The remix is being done with the utmost respect for the existing version of the album, there will be no overdubs or additional production done. We just listened to some of the tracks and it sounds great.

We found the master tapes from the 1996 demo – all four songs will be remastered and included as bonus tracks.

The CD will be packaged with a DVD. This will include a 90 minute documentary on the origins of the band through the recording of Goddamnit. New interviews with all the major players are included; Matt, Dan, Glenn Porter, Heather Hannoura, Mike Park, Matt Allison, etc. archival footage and pictures of the band are interspersed to help tell the story. Two entire live video performances of the album are included – one from 1998 and one from last year’s Occult Roots tour. With the addition of several other bonus features this should bring the total running time to around two and a half hours.

Finally, the album art will be cleaned up and expanded by artist John Yates. It will include additional photos from the band’s private collection, as well as additional liner notes/nostalgia.

No release date has been set, though we are confident it will be released well before the end of the year.

Word of the reissue first began to trickle out last April and the band embarked on a headlining tour in which they frequently performed the entirety of the record.
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Punk rock superheroes The Aquabats have posted an update with some of their summer plans.

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