Self-styled gypsy punk act Gogol Bordello has announced plans to release a new album this summer. The record is titled Super Taranta and is due out July 10, 2007. It is the follow-up to Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike which was released in 2005.

For the record, the band worked with producer Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave, PJ Harvey) and bandleader Eugene Hutz notes:

With Super Taranta! Gogol Bordello is going to conquer the world. Everything on the album is taken to the next level. It’s more direct, more abstract, more focused, with more dark humor. The dub parts are deeper; the fast parts are faster, its pure orgasmo hysteria.

ictor has been a fan since the beginning of the band and we often spoke about making an album together. He’s not afraid to experiment in any way; he’ll go wherever we’re willing to go. If we say: ‘This track is gypsy speed metal dub,’ he says: ‘OK let’s do it.’ No hesitation.”

You can check out the cover art on the album’s release detail page.
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Pissed Jeans has released a new track from their upcoming sophomore full length and debut for Sub Pop. The record is titled Hope For Men and is due out June 05, 2007. The band once described themselves as:

a different kinda punk band focused on dead ended carnal cravings, sexual depression…that sort of thing.

You can check out the song here: “I’ve Still Got You (Ice Cream).”
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Debuting here is a new full album stream of the upcoming split featuring Alaska Records acts Fox Trotsky and Die Benny. The split, titled Escape to Miller’s Cave features five new songs from each band. Fox Trotsky may remind you of the Suicide Machines, and Die Benny claims influence from everything from Superchunk to Propagandhi.

You can check out the entire split on the this Punknews.org Profile.
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Go Kart has signed Minneapolis, MN-based Banner Pilot. The band most recently released Pass the Poison, which our reviewer described as: “a more complete picture of Midwestern punk, drawing as much from TLA as it does Dillinger Four and early Jawbreaker. ”

They will be heading into the studio this summer to record their debut full-length.

You can check out some music on their myspace page.
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Amber Pacific has launched a full album stream of their new full length. The record is titled Truth In Sincerity and is due out May 22, 2007. It is the follow-up to The Possibility And The Promise which was released in 2005.

You can check out the album on their myspace page.
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Yellowcard has posed a new track from their upcoming full length. The record is titled Paper Walls and is due out July 17, 2007. It is the follow-up to Lights and Sounds which was released in 2006.

The band had been disappointed with the response to their previous record, saying:

We have all these theories as to what happened, but basically it comes down to the fact that we don’t have the momentum that we had at the height of Ocean Avenue. I think some people in the band felt the need to rebel from where we were and the kind of acts we were grouped with. A lot of people in our band thought we had a lot more to offer. And that’s how we’ve ended up where we are

I think that the band went on … maybe not a tangent, but we had a goal in mind, and at the end of the recording process, we were so proud of how artistic we were, And I think we showed too much. I think maybe we were a little too jaded and a little too dark, and I think that the lack of hope and faith that we put on this record made us a little less sparkly and light to people

You can check out “Light Up The Sky” on their myspace page.
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Fresh off the release of their Peace On Earth War On Stage 7″, Blacklisted have posted the dates for a tour alongside This Is Hell. The tour kicks off June 21 in Pittsburgh and wraps up July 4 in Lubbock, Texas.

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Bassist Ryan Sinn, also formerly of The Distillers, has been kicked out of Tom Delonge’s Angels & Airwaves project. Sinn explained the situation in a message to Army of Angels, the band’s official fan club:

I received a phone call the evening of April 19th that concluded my relationship with Angels & Airwaves. I could go into an entire novel about my opinions of the whole matter and why I was given the axe, but to me, throwing dirt just seems desperate and tabloid-ial.

All I’ll say as to why I was kicked out, the reasons I was given weren’t at all honest, and severely hypocritical to the point of abhorrent disgust. I’ve gotten wind of a few of the rumors floating around the virtual life source, and I’ll say that I would never leave a band because of a clash of ideas, or control. To me a band is a clash of ideas and control.

Sinn, along with guitarist Dave Kennedy and drummer Atom Willard (the Offspring/Rocket From The Crypt) were recruited for the band in September 2005.

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Planes Mistaken for Stars have posted the latest video from their acclaimed 2006 album, Mercy. The video for “Never Felt Prettier” was shot by director Michael Grodner

The band recently wrapped up their supporting leg of the ongoing tour co-headlined by Against Me! and Mastodon.

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Set It Straight has announced that they’ve been forced to cancel their summer tour. The band noted in a MySpace bulletin:

We have to Cancel our summer tour. Nate Corbin (our drummer) broke his hip skating and we do not have enough time to pick up a fill in that would drop his/her summer for a month and a half. If there was a way to avoid this decision we would have made a different one. Set it Straight is still playing Rainfest and some NORTHWEST stuff at the end of the month and beginning of June and planning some west coast stuff this summer, but not much else. Sincerely sorry to anyone who had planned on seeing us, more news soon.

The band released Live Your Heart and Never Follow last year.
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PunkRockVids.com is featuring the exclusive premiere of The Appreciation Post‘s new music video I’m No Sure Thing as well as running a contest to win a copy of the band’s new record, Brighter Sides.

The Appreciation Post has also released some new upcoming tour dates.
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One Black Tooth which includes members of August Premier have posted their first four song demo recorded by the band. They are described as “A four piece band from the Chicago-land area that loves to play filthy music while making sure not to take themselves too seriously.” You can check out all four recordings on their myspace page..

Bela Kiss have posted a new song on their myspace called “The Slopes”. The song is from their forthcoming debut EP on Hotfoot Records entitled, The Horde. It is due out on June 12. You can check out the music on their myspace page.

Mouth Movements‘ debut album, This is the Way We Reform You, is up for streaming on wereformyou.com. The album is available May 29th on Missing Words Records.
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With their digital single due out next Tuesday, Bad Religion has posted the first track from their upcoming full length. The song, “Honest Goodbye” will appear on the record, titled New Maps of Hell which is due out July 10, 2007.

Co-written by founding members Brett Gurewitz and Greg Graffin, “Honest Goodbye” is inspired by the life and crimes of Perry Smith, the murderer made famous by Truman Capote’s classic novel “In Cold Blood.” “The song questions how a man with seemingly gentle and artistic sensibilities comes to commit brutally heinous crimes,” explains Gurewitz. “It’s an emotional song to me that delves into the humanity of forgiveness and retribution.”

You can check out “Honest Goodbye” on their myspace page.
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