Love Riot Records has announced the first band added to their roster, Texas-based Enjoy the Fall. The five-piece will release their currently untitled debut this summer and plan to tour in support of it.

You can check out some new songs from the band on MySpace.
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Manchester-based the Freezing Fog has posted two songs from their forthcoming full-length titled March Forth to Victory on MySpace. The band features two members of the now defunct Beecher. The album was recorded earlier this year with Converge guitarist and producer Kurt Ballou at his Godcity Recording Studio. The album is planned for release via Roadkill Records in late July.

New Jersey act Exit Only has released the album art and the track-listing for their forthcoming EP Ripped Off, Spit Out, and Shit On… The EP will include five new songs and newly recorded versions of two older songs. The album is due out in June and the band reports that they will be touring shortly after to support the album. The artwork is available on the band’s MySpace page.

Dayton OH’s the Story Changes has posted two new songs on Myspace. The songs “Needle” and “Don’t Fall” are from their forthcoming release The Way of the Dinosaur on Future Destination Records. The album was produced by Jamie Woolford (Let Go, the Stereo, Man Alive, the Format) and includes ten new tracks recorded earlier this year. The label has set a release date of July 10, but is offering two preorder options to receive the album a month beforehand.
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Reel Big Fish‘s Myspace page has been updated with a sampler for the bands new album. The record is titled Monkeys for Nothin’ and the Chimps for Free and is due out July 10, 2007 on Rock Ridge Recordings.

The sampler includes snippets from “Way Back” (a discarded track from the band’s previous full-length, We’re Not Happy Til You’re Not Happy) as well as a re-recorded version of “I’m Her Man” from the band’s debut album Everything Sucks. You can see the artwork for the record on the release detail page.

The band will be supporting the record with a co-headlining tour featuring Less Than Jake.
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The first acts have been announced for the July 22nd S.C.E.N.E. Music Festival. The annual St. Catharines, Ontario based event will feature around 130 acts, including Bedouin Soundclash, Constantines, Cancer Bats, Fucked Up, Madball and Walter Schreifels (of Quicksand, Gorilla Biscuits and Youth of Today).

A two CD sampler featuring more than 40 artists will be given away to the first 2500 people at S.C.E.N.E.’s Market Square headquarters on the day of the festival. Last year’s event featured 16 stages and 135 bands playing to more than 6000 people.
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Poison the Well has launched the latest video from their new full length, Versions. The band will soon hit the road for a tour with Saosin.

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Fat Wreck Chords has announced the 1.2.3. Punk Tour. The Canadian jaunt will feature Mad Caddies, The Sainte Catherines and The Real McKenzies.

It was sponsored by the punk-oriented video program of the same name which airs on Quebec-based music channel MusiquePlus. It’s similar to MTV except everyone eats poutine all the time and speaks with adorable French accents. Also, they want to separate from Canada, like yesterday. On the plus side, they named a street after your correspondant .

1.2.3. Punk will be airing 8, 30-minute special episodes along with a live performance by all three bands at the Musique Plus studios when they hit Montreal. The tour starts on July 14th in Victoria, BC and ends on August 4th in Halifax, NS.

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The Number Twelve Looks Like You has posted a new track online entitled “Sleeping With The Fishes, See?” The song is featured on the band’s forthcoming release Mongrel, which is scheduled to hit stores July 19 through Eyeball Records.

You can check out “Sleeping With The Fishes, See?” on MySpace.
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This week, DJ Rossstar will be playing host a number of guests. Circa Survive, Quiet Drive will be interviewed tonight. Tomorrow’s program will feature Straylight Run and The Appearance.

The show runs from 7-8pm PST on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

The stream will be available from here and questions and comments for the band can be sent via this link.
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Nearly eighteen months since Elijah Wood was confirmed for the title role, Variety has posted some details about the upcoming biopic of noted figure Iggy Pop. According to the report, the movie will be titled The Passenger. The title comes from a track of the same name from Iggy’s 1977 solo album, Lust for Life.

The film will follow Pop’s early years with the Stooges and will be directed by Nick Gomez (“Drowning Mona”) from a script by Eric Schmidt. The film has a budget of $6 to $8 million dollars and Pop has “given his blessing” to the project but will not take part in it,

The Stooges recently released The Weirdness. The record was released March 20 via Virgin Records and marks the seminal band’s first proper release in almost 34 years.
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On May 22, 2007, The Used will be releasing their third full length. The record is titled Lies For The Liars and is their first since 2004’s It is the follow-up to In Love And Death.

Since quite a few of you are looking forward to this one, we decided to arrange a little prize package including a $25.00 merch gift certificate, the new record and their live record, Berth. All you need to do to enter is click Read More and fill out a little form. Couldn’t be easier, unless we filled it in for you. We aren’t going to do that though.

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Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave) has announced a series of tour dates under his The Nightwatchman moniker. For the tour, Tom has enlisted the support of Thrice frontman Dustin Kensrue.

The two solo artists will kick off the tour together in mid-June and continue to the end of the month. Tom is touring in support of his new solo debut. The record is titled One Man Revolution and was releasedApril 27, 2007. Dustin is supporting his solo record, Please Come Home.

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The new tracks from Tim Armstrong‘s solo album, A Poet’s Life continue to trickle out. Today, Armstrong released the video for “Among The Dead” via Rancid‘s official website.

You can check out the music here:
Among The Dead (MPG)
Among the Dead (Quicktime/iPod)

A Poet’s Life and is due out on CD+DVD May 22, 2007.
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As a newly christened staff reviewer over three years ago I loudly sung the praises of Trophy Scars‘ self-released EP, Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language.

To this day it still stands as my favorite release of the band’s ever-expanding catalog (which now consists of a pair of full-lengths and EPs apiece, with another full-length currently in the writing stage). Released in limited quantities, it’ll now see a well-deserved reissue courtesy of Reap What You Sew Records, with all-new artwork in tow.

The EP is full of cathartic, explosive, dynamic, ambitious and scathing post-hardcore (seriously, all at once), and we’re now streaming the whole deal on the band’s Punknews.org profile page.
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