On the heels of their Gaslight Anthem set from Bonnaroo, NPR has added soundboard-recorded sets from Against Me!, The Dead Weather, The Avett Brothers, The Gossip, Isis, Japandroids and more. The venerable radio station had this to say about Against Me!’s set:

Gabel abandoned his beat-up acoustic for an electric guitar and a full band long ago; his supporting players now include former Hold Steady keyboardist Franz Nicolay. Punks cried foul at first, maybe the same way studded-leather-jacketed kids felt when The Clash started selling out arenas. Many of them still haven’t forgiven Gabel for moving to a major label, disowning parts of his past and playing to a younger and often suburban audience.

The rough-hewn edges are gone and the songs are poppier, but as I realized while watching, Against Me! has always been a band about growing up. That doesn’t mean that a set list that includes a reflective and reactionary new song (“I Was a Teenage Anarchist”) and an older idealist anthem (“Baby, I’m an Anarchist”) make Gabel any less complicated of a musical persona. It just means that “being punk” is complicated, set against youthful fervor and the realization that nothing’s quite so black and white.

You can check out each of the sets here.
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Defiance, Ohio have unveiled another new track from their upcoming full-length, Midwestern Minutes. Due out July 6, 2010, it’ll follow up the band’s well-received 2007 effort The Fear, The Fear, The Fear.

Head here to check out “A Lot to Do,” and click below to see the band’s upcoming tour dates.
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To celebrate the release of their first new album since 1990’s Smooth Noodle Maps, Devo continues to try unorthodox promotion. Today from 11am to 8pm, the band will host a live broadcast of the audio from their album and video of 20 cats for 9 hours. If you’ve ever wondered what cats would do while listening to Devo for 9 hours, this is your chance.

The broadcast starts at 11am PST (2pm EST) and you can find it via UStream.

The band took an unusual route for the track list of the album, by launching an Official Song Study. The band posted portions of each of the tracks they recorded for the album and asked fans to rank and vote about which songs would appear on the final full length. Of the sixteen songs shown in this way, fans and study participants selected the 12 that will appear on the album itself. The record is titled Something For Everybody and is due out today, June 15, 2010 via Warner
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Stars has launched a stream of their new full length, The Five Ghosts. The Canadian band will release the album June 22, 2010 via Vagrant Records in the US and their own Soft Revolution Records in Canada.

Check out the stream via NPR.
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Equal Vision Records has signed ORBS. The band includes Adam Fisher and Clayton “Goose” Holyoak (Fear Before), Dan Briggs (Between the Buried and Me), Ashley Ellyllon (Abigail Williams/Cradle of Filth) and Chuck Johnson (Torch Runner).

The band recorded at The Basement recording studio in Winston-Salem, N.C. with producer and engineer Jamie King [Between the Buried and Me, Alesana] and promises “ piano-infused choruses with a mixture of classic and space-rock interludes,” The record is titled Asleep Next to Science and is due out August 17, 2010 via Equal Vision.

You can find three songs on their MySpace page.
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The members of Rufio and their crew were in a nasty RV crash. According to their email report, a driver in a separate vehicle fell asleep at the wheel and sideswiped their RV while traveling at night in Nevada. Their RV was cut in two. The members of Rufio suffered bruises and cuts, but everyone has been able to leave the hospital. One of their crew is still hospitalized with damaged spleen, more detail on which is not yet available. The driver of the causing vehicle is on life support. They are going to take a few weeks to recover from injuries.

Rufio has been forced to cancel a couple dates this week in Pocatello, ID and Anaheim, CA, however they still plan to perform June 29th at the Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA with Taking Back Sunday and on their U.S./Canada tour with Strung Out.
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Melodic hardcore underdogs Grey Area will be playing a reunion show in Philadelphia at The Barbary this Saturday, June 19th, and our good friends at Black Numbers are so excited about it they want to give away a pair of tickets to one lucky winner. The band is playing alongside Static Radio NJ and Lighten Up, so if you’re free this Saturday, get stoked.

Note to act fast, as the contest wraps up in a few days.
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Continuing to release videos for old songs this week is Rancid, who today unveiled a clip for “Rattlesnake,” a cut from the band’s eponymous back-to-basics 2000 LP.

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Richmond, VA’s The Riot Before will be hitting the road this week in support of their new LP for Paper and Plastick, Rebellion. Joining them on select dates of the tour will be Nothington, Heartsounds and Blacklist Royals. And as if that weren’t awesome enough, we’re teaming up with the band to give away a prize pack that includes their new album, a t-shirt, stickers, buttons and two tickets to a show on the tour of the winner’s choice.

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We’re happy to bring you the finalized day-to-day schedule for this year’s Sound and Fury Festival. The fest is being sponsored by Hellfish Printing, AMP magazine and us, Punknews.org. It’s set for the the weekend of July 23rd and runs until July 25th (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) at the Earl Warren State Fairgrounds in Santa Barbara, CA.

Bands set to perform include: 50 Lions, Bane, Cold World, Defeater, Down To Nothing, Earth Crisis, Heartsounds, Sick of It All, Strife, Swamp Thing, Terror, The Effort, This Is Hell, Tigers Jaw, Touche Amore, Transit, and many more

Tickets are available here.
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To coincide with the deluxe reissue of their landmark 1998 album, The Shape of Punk to Come, Refused vocalist Dennis Lyxzén spoke to Exclaim in a new interview. Dennis explains why Refused will not be reuniting for a tour:

I grew up in a small part of Sweden. It’s not like I got to see hardcore bands or punk bands come to town. We had to invent everything ourselves so there are tons of bands I wish I could have taken part of but they were out of my reach. It’s the same for people that never got to see Refused live. They want to understand what we were doing, were a part of. To be in that band is one of those things that half the time I’m sympathetic and understanding towards why people would do it. The other half, it’s just such a useless manoeuvre. It’s a defeatist attitude but if your objective is to play music with your friends and have a good time, there’s no harm in reuniting your band for a couple of shows. For us, there have always been so many other aspects of what we did, that it always felt like a complete no-no. You can’t do that shit. Minor Threat never got back together. That’s kind of our take on it. With some things, the legend is better than the actual thing.

He also discussed his thoughts on the reissue itself and why the double LP finally came together:

Well, it was two or three years that they suggested they were gonna do this reissue of the last record ’cause it was the 10-year anniversary. It was supposed to come out two years ago but we got involved and started saying, “Oh, if you’re gonna put it out, we should add stuff to it or make it a bit more price-worthy for people to buy. It’s too weird for people to just go out and buy it again.” So we actually instigated the fact that the live recording would be in there and I know David added extra photos and stuff for the booklet. That’s why it took a while to get everything together: ’cause we got involved. I also sent multiple emails to our management saying that if it’s not gonna be released on vinyl, you can’t release it at all.

check out the interview here.
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Our stream today comes from Jersey City, NJ’s Banquets. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new EP for Black Numbers, This Is Our Concern, Dude..

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Against Me!‘s recent appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno kicked off with Jay describing the band as “one of the best punk rock bands ever.” They performed “I Was a Teenage Anarchist” from their 2010 album, White Crosses.

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