Downstate New York quartet Timeshares have sent us a couple of updates from the road. The group is currently touring down to The Fest 9 in Gainesville, FL, which is happening this weekend in case you forgot.

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The Damned Things have announced that Metalocalypse co-creator Brendon Small will be directing their first video. The band recently announced their debut, titled Ironiclast which is due out December 14, 2010 via Island. Metalocalypse is part of the Adult Swim block.

The band features Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley, Every Time I Die vocalist Keith Buckley and Anthrax guitarists Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano.
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The first annual Glory Bound Festival has been announced. The event will feature music from Pennywise, Alkaline Trio, Authority Zero, Nations Afire and Revolution Mother and will feature legendary skateboarders including Tony Alva, Steve Alba, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain and many more. The event is being curated by Mike V.

The event is set for November 13, 2010 at the Hollywood Palladium. Check out some more details here.
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Trophy Scars have launched a stream of their new, self-released EP, Darkness, Oh Hell.

Check out the stream here.
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Rise Records has signed Columbus, OH-based Like Moths to Flames. The band will make their debut through the label with the digital release of Sweet Talker on December 14, 2010.

Check out some music on their MySpace page.
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As everyone gears up for The Fest 9, labels are posting free samplers to share some of their bands with you. Death to False Hope has posted their free comp, Get My Ass Back In The Van, which features unreleased songs from Mixtapes, Red City Radio, Captain, We’re Sinking, 10-4 Eleanor and The Sandwiches as well as songs from The Gamits, The Brokedowns, Sundowner and more. They will have physical copies at the Fest as well. Grab that comp. here.

Kind of Like Records is also hosting a new free sampler, titled Kind Of Like A Comp., it features songs from The Menzingers, [[O Pioneers!!!]], The Dopamines, The Measure [SA and Red City Radio as well as tracks from Kind Of Like Records bands Captain, We’re Sinking, Direct Hit!, and Mixtapes. Get the compilation here.
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The Deftones have posted their video for “You’ve Seen the Butcher.” The track comes from their latest album, Diamond Eyes and the video was filmed in Toronto while the band visited for their tour with Alice in Chains.

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In celebration of Halloween, No Sleep Records‘ ska/punk band The Sheds have released a cover of Papa Roach’s hit song, “Last Resort”. The track will be featured on a compilation of Nu-Metal cover songs to be released in late December by Animal Style Records.

Check out the song on their myspace page and their facebook page.
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Bad Religion is currently streaming their entire discography including Epitaph Records and major label releases. The stream includes How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, Into the Unknown, Suffer, No Control, Against the Grain, Generator, Recipe For Hate, Stranger Than Fiction, The Gray Race, No Substance, New America, The Process of Belief, The Empire Strikes First, New Maps of Hell andThe Dissent of Man.

Check out the stream here.
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Dave Grohl will be reuniting three key people from Nirvana‘s Nevermind for the next Foo Fighters album. According to BBC Radio 1, Grohl has enlisted both Nirvana-bassist Krist Novoselic and Nevermind producer Butch Vig for the next album from the Foos.

Grohl told host Zane Lowe that he and his bandmates have been recording to tape in his garage and have wrapped up seven songs so far.
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Critically acclaimed French metal act Gojira have entered the studio to record a new EP set to benefit Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The band is promising guest vocalists and will be releasing the EP exclusively through their own website. The band’s last album, The Way of All Flesh, was released in 2008.

Sea Shepherd boasts a number of high-profile musical supports including Red Hot Chili Peppers and Zoli Teglas of Pennywise and Ignite.
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Mogwai have announced their next album, set for release early next year. The record is titled Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will and is due out February 14, 2011 in Europe and February 15, 2011 in North America. The album is their seventh and was recorded over the summer at Chem 19 Studios, in Hamilton and mixed at The Castle Of Doom. It reunited the band with Young Team producer Paul Savage and follows 2008’s The Hawk Is Howling .

The band has also booked a international tour with dates posted here.
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Coliseum have released their cover of the Misfits classic, “Bullet.” The track was recorded during the band’s demo sessions for House with a Curse.

Stream or download the song here.
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