Grand Rapid’s North Lincoln and You Me and the Atom Bomb are currently touring through Europe in support of their new split 7-inch together.

A sample of each band’s contribution to the split can be found on their respective myspace pages. You can check out “Midwestern Blood” from North Lincoln’s side of the split on their myspace page. You can find “Drive” from You Me and the Atom Bomb’s side on their myspace page.

North Lincoln’s recently visited Gainesville, FL to record their next album at Golden Tone Studios(Hot Water Music, Against Me, Grabass Charlestons, Asshole Parade) for No Idea records entitled Midwestern Blood scheduled to be released in time for FEST 6 in October.

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Montreal-based deathcore Despised Icon have posted the first video from their sophomore Century Media release. The album is currently scheduled for a May 22, 2007 release.

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Edmonton-based hardcore act The Wolfnote has posted some new music.Reluctant Records will be releasing The Wolfnote’s critically acclaimed final release ‘Sacred Bodies’ on vinyl format. This album was produced, engineered and mixed by Alex Newport who also worked with The Icarus Line, At The Drive In, The Mars Volta, The Melvins and 400 Blows. You can check out the music on their myspace page

Los Angeles-based The City Drive has material available online.The tracks come from their new EP, The Egocentra. The disc will contain a dance remix of “Runner”, two acoustic tracks “Always Moving Never Stopping” and a brand new demo of the song “Behind Closed Doors.” You can check out the music on their myspace page

Oakville, Ontario-based Summerside has debuted some music online. They have announced that producer Tim O’Heir will be recording their new album. Tim has previously worked on albums from Say Anything , The All American Rejects and the Starting Line. You can check out the music on their myspace page

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It Prevails has announced a July tour in support of their new Rise Records release, The Inspiration. The band will be joined by Once Nothing and Gwen Stacy on the trek.

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Our friends at the BBC let us know about the latest episode of the BBC Radio 1 Punk Rock Show. The show airs tonight from 2am to 4am GMT (9pm EST, 6pm PST) tonight and is available for streaming in it’s entirety via this link.

The show tonight will feature a live performance from UK-based The Legacy, a much buzzed Epitaph act Gallows will be dropping by for an interview and to act as guest DJs for some of the show. The show is promising new music from Against Me!, Municipal Waste, The Living End, The Unseen, Green Day, The Explosion and tracks from Thrice, Warzone, Tim Barry, Tiger Army, Alexisonfire, Mad Caddies, Sick of it All, Rise Against and many more.

You can check out the show here.
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Chuck Ragan‘s recent seven-inch series The Blueprint Sessions has been made available via iTunes. The series consists of four seven inches, and eight studio recording that had previously been available exclusively on vinyl from No Idea Records. They were recorded and produced by Mitch Townsend last year, prior to his signing to SideOneDummy.

You can preview or purchase all four sessions via these links: The Blueprint Sessions #1, The Blueprint Sessions #2, The Blueprint Sessions #3, The Blueprint Sessions #4 .
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Nerf Herder has wrapped up work on a new album. The band had been on an extended break, but announced the news today:

Parry, Steve & Charlie just finished up recording a new Nerf Herder album! Can you believe it???…We sure can’t! The release date is still unknown. Here are the 13 new titles, with sample lyrics. Some of these won’t make it on the album…don’t know which ones yet.

The band released their last full length, American Cheese, in 2002. It was followed with a reissue of their 2000 EP My EP.

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PETA2 has recruited a number of bands for a new campaign targeting notorious fast food establishment KFC. The organization tapped Rise Against, Thursday, Silverstein, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, The Sleeping, Story of the Year and Hawthorne Heights for the new PSA and notes:

Chickens raised and killed for KFC endure the worst abuses imaginable—their bones are often broken, their throats are slit while they’re still conscious, and many are scalded to death in defeathering tanks. Workers at a KFC “Supplier of the Year” were documented punching live birds, spitting tobacco into their eyes, and spray-painting their faces

Though both are vegans, Tim and Joe from Rise Against note that the campaign is not asking people to stop eating meat, but primarily aiming to draw attention to animal welfare issues.

Please note that the video contains disturbing images.
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Ringers are from Boston. Ringers mix together sounds from the East Bay, the northern Midwest and your record collection. Ringers sound so familiar but at the same time a bit refreshing. Ringers are letting us stream their new album Detention Halls for your pleasure. Ringers want you to listen.

Their album came out recently via 1-2-3-4 Go! and is the first since they settled on an exclusive distribution deal with No Idea. You can hear it at the Ringers Punknews.org band profile.

We’ve been having a lot of streams here lately, check out our Music Page for over 1000 songs.
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Today, we’ve got a brand new song from My American Heart. The band is gearing up for the release of their second album. The record is titled Hiding Inside The Horrible Weather and is due out June 26, 2007. It is the follow-up to The Meaning in Makeup which was released in 2005.

You can check out “Boys! Grab Your Guns” on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Rolling Stone magazine and Canadian pop-punk outfit Sum 41 have exchanged some public barbs on their respective blogs. First, the magazine had this to say:

The snot-nosed punks of Sum 41 aren’t the first Canadian artists to pick a fight with the president — that honor belongs to Neil Young. But we’re pretty sure they’re the first to threaten the Commander In Chief’s life on a single. […] When MTV asked Whibley to explain the lyrics, he waxed poetic, saying that they’re just a “metaphor for how Bush is so ineffectual and incompetent as a president.”

Here’s the thing, Whibley: When you critique the President, call him “gay,” call for an exorcism, and then discuss his death, you aren’t constructing a metaphor. You’re using a different literary device: Rhetoric to incite violence. Punks pushing the envelope aren’t new (the Sex Pistols got in trouble for calling the British crown a “fascist regime”), but backing off your lyrics is weak. You’re supposed to be punk, so act like it.

What does this anti-Bush rant, metaphorical or otherwise, mean for Sum 41? We talked to a spokesperson for the house minority leader yesterday, who called the song “inflammatory and assinine” — perhaps best review Sum 41’s ever gotten.

To which Mr.Whibley responded:

Well, I’m sorry to be the one to tell you but it is a fucking metaphor. […] I don’t want to kill the president! i believe in peace and non-violence and I would never encourage the killing of a president or anyone for that matter. I’m not anti-American in any way. I love America but the choices and decisions the president makes affect the whole world, not just america. But no matter how bad of the choices are I will never want to kill the president. [It’s his] right to make those choices. but it’s also my right to criticize those choices

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A new mini-documentary has been assembled to tell the story of Germs drummer Don Bolles, soap company Dr.Bronner and their brush with the law. The soap company continues to aggressively target NarcoPouch(R) 928 which erroneously found narcotics in a batch of the company’s natural soaps. According to their tests, the test will always give a false-positive for the drug GHB (Gamma Hydroxy Butyrate) if used on any true natural soap. However, in an interesting twist, the test will test negative for fake mislabeled “liquid soap” products that are actually detergent-based, not soap.

Detergents in fake soap products are usually made in part or even entirely from petroleum along with vegetable feedstocks. The company found a larger problem in that drug tests used nationwide are not certified in any way, leading their to be major risks of false positives, some of which may not have the benefit of Mr.Bolles profile.

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The two bands responsible for all the ills in America – at least until the advent of violent video games – have announced a co-headlining tour together this summer. Slayer and Marilyn Manson will be joined by Bleeding Through on the tour which kicks off near the end of July.

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