Seminal hardcore act Kid Dynamite will be making an appearance at this year’s This Is Hardcore Fest in Philadelphia this August 13-15. Other bands scheduled to appear include Ink and Dagger, Cro Mags, Bane, Ceremony, Blacklisted, Cold World, Wisdom in Chains, Title Fight, Touché Amoré, and several more. The full line-up can be seen at the This Is Hardcore webpage and tickets can be purchased via R5 Productions.
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Detournement has announced a second new split coming out next month. The band previously released a split with Off With Their Heads and the new split will feature The New Dress. Detournement, which features members of Bigwig, Ensign, Worthless United, and Plan A Project, will be contributing Tracy Chapman’s “Talkin’ Bout A Revolution” and “Three Point Six Percent.” The New Dress will provide “It’s A Long Story” and “Mabel Had Her First Serious Suspicion.”

The split will be issued on vinyl via No Idea Records and Gruff Beard Records with five different colour configurations. Shouting Street will issue a strictly limited cassette version of the split.

Check out Tracy Chapman’s “Talkin’ Bout A Revolution” on Detournement’s MySpace page.
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Detournement has announced a second new split coming out next month. The band previously released a split with Off With Their Heads and the new split will feature The New Dress. Detournement, which features members of Bigwig, Ensign, Worthless United, and Plan A Project, will be contributing “Three Point Six Percent” and the Specials’ “A Message To You, Rudy.” The New Dress will provide “It’s A Long Story” and “Mabel Had Her First Serious Suspicion.”

The split will be issued on vinyl via No Idea Records and Gruff Beard Records with five different colour configurations. Shouting Street will issue a strictly limited cassette version of the split.
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Punchline has posted a new song “about Lost.” Titled “Roller Coaster Smoke,” the song is from their upcoming album, Delightfully Pleased. This new track even features a Lost-appropriate flashback to an older Punchline song, as a way of reintroducing former singer/guitarist, Paul Menotiades.

Download it here.
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Pop Up Records has announced that they have begun work on a tribute to influential 90s era “space rock” outfit, Hum. Hailing from Champaign-Urbana, IL, the band released several albums throughout the 90’s, both independently and with the major label RCA. Their breakout hit “Stars” catapulted the band into the limelight for a brief period, but the band largely remained an underground favorite.

Several bands have already been confirmed for the HUM tribute album including: Funeral For A Friend, The Esoteric, (Damn) This Desert Air, and Anakin. The album will be presented by a team of like minded individuals including: Pop Up Records, ExplodingInSound.com, escapingtheordinary.net, decoymusic.com Chancellor Design, and HOUSEWITHOUTWALLS Design. It is expected in 2011.
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Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I’m Adam White and I’ll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here’s what got the community talking this week:

• A number of bands including Rage Against The Machine, Rise Against, Sonic Youth are officially boycotting Arizona over the controversial immigration law
• Jay Bentley, one of my favourite people in the world, chatted about the new Bad Religion album
• NOFX‘s Fat Mike revealed the truth about the Cokie The Clown incident at SXSW, although I’m suspicious we’ll learn that he peed in the second bottle as well (and so on to infinitum)
• Oklahoma City’s Red City Radio signed to Paper and Plastick and the Punknews commenter community was absolutely stoked. I’m serious. Hurray for rare glimpses of snark-free positivity.
• New Found Glory is touring with Lemuria and The Wonder Years this August.
• Anti-Flag, The Menzingers and The Max Levine Ensemble will soon play a benefit show to raise funds and awareness for We Are Family, an organization that supports low-income, isolated seniors in inner-city DC.
• Punkcore Records is converting to a mail order shop and won’t be releasing any new records themselves. The studded-belt crowd need a new champion…

With that we hand over this Sunday evening to you, the Punknews community. From that glorious, likely bearded rabble we’ve see the creation of everything from message boards and Punknews fantasy sports leagues to even a band or two. So talk amongst yourselves and we’ll see you Monday…
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Our stream today comes from , San Diego, CA’s Helen Earth Band. We’ve got a stream of the band’s recent full length, Our Own Ghost City.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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On June 25, Anti-Flag, The Menzingers and The Max Levine Ensemble will be part of a benefit show at St. Stephen’s Church in Washington, DC to raise funds and awareness for We Are Family, an organization that provides outreach and support to low-income, isolated seniors in inner-city DC communities.

More information is available here.
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MySpace has unveiled the latest chapter in their ‘Transmissions’ sessions, this time featuring Minus The Bear. You can click below to check out a video from the session, and head to this page to stream and download music from it, as well as watch several other videos.

The band recently announced another run of tour dates in support of their new album, OMNI.
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This week we bring you footage from Against Me!. The band is preparing to launch their new LP, White Crosses.

You can check out live footage of the track “I Was a Teenage Anarchist” below by clicking Read More.
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This year’s incarnation of the Austin City Limits festival has been detailed. The shows will take place from October 8-10 at Zilker Park in Austin, TX. Notable acts appearing include Gaslight Anthem, Muse, LCD Soundsystem, Gogol Bordello, Matt and Kim, The National, The Flaming Lips, Spoon, The Strokes, Vampire Weekend, The Mountain Goats, The Sword, Portugal. The Man, The Black Keys, Lucero, Manchester Orchestra, The Soft Pack and a slew of others.

More information is available here.
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Richmond’s The Riot Before have firmed up several more tour dates into the summer. The band will first play three shows in Florida with labelmates Blacklist Royals before heading west for gigs alongside Nothington and Heartsounds.

The band continues to support their recent full-length, Rebellion.
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Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against The Machine and One Day As A Lion has enlisted musicians, filmmakers and activists to join an initiative dubbed The Sound Strike, an open call by artists to boycott the state of Arizona over its controversial recent immigration law. The law in question, SB1070, requires local authorities to determine a person’s immigration status of they are suspected of in the United States illegally.

de la Rocha’s group now includes acts like Conor Oberst, Rise Against, Serj Tankian., Sonic Youth, Tenacious D, Cypress Hill, Kanye West, and filmmaker Michael Moore among others. Zach commented in a letter on the organization’s website:

Fans of our music, our stories, our films and our words can be pulled over and harassed every day because they are brown or black, or for the way they speak, or for the music they listen to. People who are poor like some of us used to be could be forced to live in a constant state of fear while just doing what they can to find work and survive. This law opens the door for them to be shaked down, or even worse, detained and deported while just trying to travel home from school, from home to work, or when they just roll out with their friends.

Some of us grew up dealing with racial profiling, but this law (SB 1070) takes it to a whole new low. If other states follow the direction of the Arizona government, we could be headed towards a pre-civil rights era reality. This unjust law was set into motion by the same Arizona government that refused to acknowledge Martin Luther King Jr. day as a national holiday.

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