In a move that will surprise absolutely no one, Activision has announced the first details about the upcoming sixth Guitar Hero game. Titled Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, the new game is expected in the fall and promises a “story-driven component” to be narrated by KISS’ Gene Simmons. The game is promising 90 playable songs including tracks by Avenged Sevenfold, Buzzcocks, Dethklok, DragonForce, Foo Fighters, Jane’s Addiction, Metallica Muse, My Chemical Romance, Silversun Pickups, Slayer and The Cure.

Along with the music, the game incorporates the legendary CBGB venue as a playable stage in the game but are removing playable musicians from the game after the controversial placement of Kurt Cobain and No Doubt in the 5th iteration of the series.
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Fake Problems has posted a studio update from the making of their new record with Ted Hutt (Gaslight Anthem, Lucero, Flogging Molly).

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Though their full length is due out on Fat Possum Records, garage punk outfit Wavves will be releasing their first single via Mountain Dew’s Green Label Sound. The soft drink company’s label previously issued music by Matt and Kim, The Cool Kids and Holy Ghost. The single, “Post Acid,” is due out June 9th.

The record is titled King of the Beach and is due out August 3, 2010 via Fat Possum.
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Didn’t get a chance to stream Nashville, TN-based Blacklist Royals‘s new album last weekend? Well, we’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, Semper Liberi.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Our stream today comes from New York, NY’s The Tattle Tales. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new EP, Moon Glasses.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Baltimore, MD’s Ruiner have decided to hang it up in October 2010 (as October 5th is the anniversary of their first show). Vocalist Rob Sullivan commented:

This wasn’t an easy choice to make. All of us started playing in bands when we were in middle school and for the first time in 12-13 years, some of us won’t be having band practice on a weekly basis. But we know this is a choice we needed to make. We always ran this band at 100% and some of us now feel like we don’t have the desire to tour anymore. We aren’t the kind of band who wants to release records and rarely play the music, so we decided it is now an appropriate time to hang it up. We got to see the world a few times over and with that met a lot of incredible people. We will all be forever grateful for that, but we know this decision is the right one to make. I’m sure I could give many more reasons as to why, but the gist of it is if this band can’t be done at full speed, we feel it is better to stop.

The band plans to carry out their current European Tour in July, as well as their set at This is Hardcore Festival in August. A final show in October will be announced in the coming months. In their time together Ruiner released three full lengths (most recently 2009’s Hell Is Empty) and played over 700 shows.
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The Thermals have announced the follow up to 2009’s Now We Can See. The record is titled Personal Life and is due out September 7, 2010 via Kill Rock Stars. It is their second for the label.

More Parts Per Million, 2003) and produced their 2nd LP (Fuckin A, 2004). The album was record to 2-inch tape and mixed to ½-inch tape. The record will be mastered directly from tape to vinyl so the vinyl edition of the record will have no digital mastering at all.

The label is promising the first song from the record, “I Don’t Believe You,” in August.
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Coliseum has launched a free download of the song “Everything To Everyone.” It comes from their forthcoming album, House with a Curse. The record will drop on June 22, 2010 and follows their album, No Salvation, which was released in 2007

Download the MP3 via Sendspace here.
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Following a handful of shows this week in California, Guttermouth is set to hit the road in the US this August with St. Cloud, Florida’s The New Threat.

Guttermouth last released Shave the Planet way back in 2006
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Mesa, Arizona’s Authority Zero have announced a string of US tour dates for the summer. The band’s new album, Stories of Survival, is set for a June 22nd release on Viking Funeral Records (the imprint founded by Pennywise guitarist Fletcher Dragge, Ken Seaton of Hardline Entertainment and Suburban Noize Records).

The punk/reggae act also released live footage rom their recent “Havoc LIVE” concert performance online at Havoc.tv.
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Hellfish has announced the signing of Vancouver-based Beneath Earth & Sky. The melodic hardcore outfit claims influence from Ernest Becker and Samuel Beckett and the band features Greg Bennick, Alexei Rodriguez, and EJ Bastien of Trial, Sean Lande of Strain and By a Thread, and Happy Kreter of Gob.

Check out some music on their MySpace page.
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Kingdom of Sorrow, the group that features Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed and Kirk Windstein Down, Crowbar), have posted a stream of their second album. The band will release their new album through Relapse Records again, and the album is being mixed by mixed by Zeuss at Planet Z Recordings (Hadley, MA).

Check out the full album on their MySpace page. The record is due out next week, on June 8th, 2010.
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Public Image Limited have announced a tour of the UK scheduled for July of this year. The legendary post-punk group recently completed a tour of North America.

The band will again feature the line up of vocalist John Lydon, guitarist Lu Edmonds, drummer Bruce Smith and bassist Scott Firth. Lydon commented earlier that the tour would raise funds for a new album, a long follow up to their last studio full length, 1992’s That What Is Not .
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