Red Scare has added Elgin, IL pop-punk outfit The Brokedowns to its roster. The band’s debut full-length for the label, Species Bender, is slated for a September 14, 2010 release. Red Scare CEO Tobias Jeg had this to say about the signing:

“There’s so much going on right now with the label, and as we all know, these are bleak times for small indies like Red Scare, but when I heard these songs I just knew I had to make this happen. This stuff is shit-hot. It reminds me of D4 meets Black Flag meets Raygun meets Fucked Up. It’s thunderous punk rock but with great, stinging melodies and a little bit of fruitiness to make things fun. So yeah, we’re stoked. And I haven’t even mentioned my favorite part about The Brokedowns: their lyrics. Shit’s awesome, but you’re already tired of me gushing about these guys.”

The band’s last full-length was 2007’s New Brains for Everyone, which was recently re-released by Traffic Street Records and is currently streaming at the band’s Punknews.org page. In the interim, they’ve released splits with The Arrivals, The Copyrights and Turkish Techno.
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Today, we’re excited to bring you a stream from Gainesville, FL’s Senders. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new 7″, Recovery, which is slated for release through Kiss of Death next week, June 29, 2010.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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The Black Keys have released the second video from their new album, Brothers. The video was directed by Marrs Piliero. Possibly NSFW due to bikini-clad frolicking.

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In the latest installment of AV Club’s Undercover covers series, Rise Against offers their take on the 1992 Nirvana classic “Sliver,” which originally appeared on that band’s compilation Incesticide.

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The promoters behind Ska Is Dead have joined up with Underground Communiqué and Asbestos Records to release a new 7-inch series. They explained their crazy idea:

Coming this summer […] will be an amazing little project that combines our obsession with dead genres and dead formats. Each series will be a set of 6 split 7″s from some of our favorite bands that **gasp** have the audacity to still play ska, and ska influenced punk rock in the year 2010. Available by subscription only, every other month you will receive two brand spanking new 7″ records featuring both established, and up and coming acts.

Artists confirmed for the series so far include Reel Big Fish, Mustard Plug, Big D and the Kids Table, Bomb the Music Industry!, The Slackers, Sonic Boom Six and “more.” Check out the details or subscribe here.
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In what Mark Hoppus promoted as a new-album-teasing “cool Blink-182 announcement,” Los Angeles radio station KROQ revealed that the reunited pop-punk band would be part of the the Sunday line up for the 2010 Epicenter Festival on September 26th. That show will also feature Rise Against, 30 Seconds to Mars, Suicidal Tendencies, Bad Religion, A Day To Remember and Black Pacific (featuring Jim Lindbergh from Pennywise). The event takes palace at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA.

The Saturday night of the festival features a number of conceptual arthouse indie acts like Kiss, Eminem, Bush and Papa Roach. As such it is far too highbrow to mention here. For details check out KROQ’s website.
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While final confirmation from the band is forthcoming, Canadian music site Chart is calling it a day for celebrated garage rock duo The King Khan and BBQ Show. The site is reporting that a show earlier this month at Australia’s VIVID Live festival ended in ruin with a “huge screaming match” between the duo. Further shows in South Korea last week were up in the air as well, with promoters claiming that the band was done (BBQ played the dates solo).

Of course with this act it’s always questionable what’s real and what’s theatre, so it remains to be seen if King Khan and BBQ appear together at the Khan-curated Sled Island Music & Arts Festival in Calgary next week. Both musicians are also part of The Almighty Defenders along with members of the Black Lips, and the Almighty Defenders are on the bill alongside Hot Water Music, Fucked Up, Melvins, The Thermals and many others.

Arish “King” Khan and Mark “BBQ” Sultan are alumni of mid-90s Montreal garage punk acts the Spaceshits and Les Sexareenos.
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Rancid has unveiled another unreleased video from their eponymous back-to-basics LP from 2000. This clip features the song “Rwanda” and again employs the band’s trademark black and white house style that graces many of their visuals. The long running punk band recently unearthed videos for “Rattlesnake,” “Poison,” and “Crane Fist.”

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New Bomb Turks frontman Eric Davidson getting set to hit the stage to promote his recently released new book. We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut chronicles the international garage-rock scene from 1988 to 2001. Davidson, a longtime rock journalist who’s written and edited for the Village Voice, CMJ, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, traces the movement from the mid-80s Ohio glam-punk act Death of Samantha. Along the way he interviews a number of musicians and bands including Billy Childish, The Dwarves, the Raunch Hands, Gaunt, the Gories, The Hives, The Donnas, The Dirtbombs and Rocket From The Crypt to arrive at modern acts like the Black Lips, King Khan and the Shrines and the late Jay Reatard. You can find further details and quotes from Davidson in a story in Spinner. We Never Learn hit stores on June 1st published by Backbeat Books.

Davidson will promote the book with a New Bomb Turks reunion show on June 26th at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York. He’ll be reading selections from the We Never Learn before taking the stage with the band.
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We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• Devo – Something for Everybody
• 108 – 18.61
• The Gaslight Anthem / Rival Schools – live in New York
• Let Me Run – Broken Strings EP
• The Bayonettes – Guilty Pleasure 7″ single
• Unwelcome Guests – Don’t Go Swimming EP
• Get Laid – Pretty Weathered EP
• The Backliners – The Backliners
• Henry Rollins – Get in the Van [book]
• Therapy? – Troublegum

You can check out any of our 9387 reviews right here.
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Rise Against, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and others will be collaborating with legendary hip hop pioneers Public Enemy on their next album. The group is raising funds independently to finance the recording of the album through Sellaband.com and are aiming to raise $75,000 though individual investors. Currently, the band has raised $56,375 through 2,225 individuals.

In related news, PE has also put together a new song critical of recent developments in Arizona. The band, who previous criticized the state’s opposition to a Martin Luther King holiday in Arizona explained their objections in no uncertain terms.

Yeah, because the governor is a Hitler. Things do change from time to time but it goes right back into just proving that it wants to be something else. ‘Tear Down That Wall’ is something that has its own life. It’s not that you’re doing anything to be opportunistic. I talked about the wall not only just dividing the U.S. and Mexico but the states of California, New Mexico and Texas. But Arizona, it’s like, come on. Now they’re going to enforce a law that talks about basically racial profiling.

Check out the song here.
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After reuniting in early 2007, hardcore pioneers Coalesce have decided to take another break. The band explained:

It’s been a fun couple of years. We’ve had excellent tours with bands we love , been to Europe, East Coast, West Coast, released a new record and a follow-up EP, played some great festivals and had the opportunity to see some old friends, and meet a ton of new people. This is a good time for a break. Sean just bought a new house, Junior is starting his new business, Jes is putting the finishing touches on his PhD, and I’m going to sit on my couch and watch Shaun of the Dead. Thanks for your continued support.

In the intervening time, the band released Ox and Salt and Passage [7 inch] and saw the remastered reissue of 012:2.
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Just Surrender have a posted a video from their new album for Razor & Tie. The record, Phoenix, is due out today, June 22nd. It follows their album, We’re in Like Sin, released in 2007 .

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