The track listing for the soundtrack to Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World has been unveiled. Edgar Wright’s adaption of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s comic series will feature contributions from Frank Black of the Pixies, the Black Lips and Metric along with more classic rock selections from bands like the Rolling Stones and T. Rex. Interestingly the soundtrack will feature new songs composed for the fictional bands that appear in the movie. Pilgrim’s band SEX BOB-OMB has four songs on the collection, created and performed by Beck. Similarly Pilgrim’s rival band Crash And The Boys have a pair of songs on the record, composed in the real world by Broken Social Scene.
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Québécois gruff punks The Sainte Catherines will release their next full-length with Anchorless Records. The album, entitled Fire Works, is expected out this fall and will be the band’s first since 2006’s Dancing for Decadence, issued by Fat Wreck Chords. More information is expected soon.

The band also has a 7″ for Asian Man Records planned for later this year.
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The Methadones have announced more details regarding their final show and release. The band’s last gig is tentatively scheduled for mid-November at Reggie’s in their hometown of Chicago, IL. To coincide with the show, the band plans to release a collection entitled Over and Out featuring five new songs, all of the band’s 7″ songs as well as some extras. Asian Man Records will release the collection digitally and on CD, while Solidarity Recordings will handle the vinyl release.

Earlier this month, the band announced their intentions to break up by the end of the year.
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Japandroids have announced more dates over the coming months including shows with The Walkmen, Ladyhawk, Frog Eyes and more.

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Reel Big Fish have announced the details about their recently announced Best Of collection. The record is titled A Best of Us for the Rest of Us and is due out July 20, 2010 exclusively through Best Buy. As reported originally, the record will feature 22 songs from the band’s catalog. What has also been confirmed is that all 22 songs will be newly recorded due to the fact that the band’s major label, Jive Records, owns the older masters from the band’s early releases.

Along with the best of disc, the band is promising a 14-song “skatoustic” disc featuring renditions of tracks in that style.

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Legendary New York Hardcore outfit Madball will be releasing their next album this Fall. The album will be their first for (relatively) newly launched hardcore label Good Fight Music. The record is tentatively titled Empire and will be the first for the band since Infiltrate the System in 2007. The band explained:

MADBALL has come a long way from being street kids to becoming very established in our genre, and even beyond the music. We’re finally at a point in our life where we’re taking control of our things, where as before we didn’t have control of some things or didn’t choose to have control. We have the feeling that we’ve built a little empire for ourselves with our band, brand, and different endeavors. We get this reference that we’re kings of New York… There are plenty of awesome bands that have come out of the city. Agnostic Front are the godfathers of New York hardcore, Sick Of it All are one of the undisputed champs of the scene… we were always known as more of the bad guys, but now people are calling us the kings. It’s not a title we gave ourselves and it’s not that we call ourselves that, but it’s just a term of endearment and respect that people use and it plays into the name Empire.

The band will enter Mana Recording Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida to record in July.
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Josh Grabelle, founder of Trustkill Records, has launched a new label called Bullet Tooth. The label will kick off with a number of signings including The Great American Beast, Kid Liberty, Deception Of A Ghost, Victory In Numbers, First Blood, Soldiers, The Great American Beast, Most Precious Blood, Memphis May Fire and Awaken Demons.

A first track from The Great American Beast can be found on their official MySpace page.
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Streetlight Manifesto have posted the second leg of their “Ship of Fools” tour. The band heads to Europe for this leg, including stops at the Reading and Leeds festivals. This follows leg one of the tour with The Wonder Years and Dan Potthast.

The band last released their 99 Songs of Revolution in 2010.
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Our stream today comes from Sacramento, CA-based Bastards Of Young. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new EP, California Redemption. The album will be available through Swagger City Records on June 29, 2010 and the band will have a limited cassette version of the EP on hand for their upcoming west coast tour with The Secretions.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Prior to their upcoming shows with Alice in Chains and Mastodon, Deftones will have a run of dates in August and September. The band will support their new album, Diamond Eyes, on the tour which will feature support from Baroness on most dates and Circa Survive on a handful.

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Northeastern Pennsylvania’s Glory Bound have posted two new tracks from their upcoming debut LP This Too Will Fade. The band has posted the title track and “Life Is So Much Better With a .50 Cal.” You can check them out at their MySpace page.

The band released Glory Bound in 2010 which you can stream at their band profile.
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Toronto’s Billy Talent have posted the video for “Diamond on a Landmine.” The track comes from their 2009 album, III. In the spring, the band toured with Alexisonfire and Against Me! and in April, they won a Juno Award for best rock album for III.

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Riverdales have posted another two songs from their new album, Tarantula. The record was issued by Recess Records after all, and is available digitally via iTunes here

The new album is the follow up to 2009’s Invasion, USA which was itself the first record after a six year gap.

Check out the new songs – “12 to the Moon” and “Crash of the Moons” – in addition to the previously posted “Bad Seed Baby” and “Diabolik” on their Mypace page.
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