Devon Clifford, of Abbotsford B.C. dance-punk act You Say Party! We Say Die! died Sunday morning in a Vancouver hospital. The drummer collapsed during a show at Vancouver’s Rickshaw Theatre on Friday night and was rushed to hospital. According to a report from Spinner, Devon suffered a brain hemorrhage and after having emergency neurosurgery at 3AM, he was on full life support for about a day before passing away at age 30 early Sunday.

Clifford lived in Vancouver and worked for the Portland Hotel Society, an organization which provides permanent accommodation for adults with mental illnesses, addictions and other problems in the city’s downtown eastside.You Say Party! recently finished a tour of the US and Western Canada in support of their latest album XXXX.

Our condolences go out to Devon’s family and friends.
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Hostage Calm now have a third song online from their upcoming sophomore full-length. You can check out “Ballot / Stones” at the MySpace page for the Enough Is Enough compilation series, as the song will also on be on the forthcoming Volume 3 installment.

The band’s album is due out some time this spring on Run for Cover. following on 2008’s Lens (Redscroll).
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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:

• We saw the video premiere of Red City Radio‘s “We are the Sons of Woody Guthrie.”
• The Get Up Kids announced their Simple Science EP series
• Social Distortion will be hitting the road with Dan Sartain and The Action Design
• Rumbletowne Records made donation-based digital releases available from Mutoid Men, RVIVR, Shorebirds and others.
• The 2010 Interpunk American Skate Fest will feature Fishbone, 7 Seconds, Youth Brigade, Greg Ginn, and Meat Puppets
• Pour Habit wrapped up work on their next Fat Wreck full length
• Sage Francis premiered his new song The Best of Times?
• The Menzingers and Cheap Girls are hitting the road in the midwest and west coast
• Strife, Heartsounds, Sick of It All and Donnybrook will play Sound & Fury 2010
• The reunited Taking Back Sunday lineup will record this summer

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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Nashville, TN’s Blacklist Royals have posted “Church Bells Are Ringing” as a donation-based download. All proceeds raised from the donations will go toward assisting families affected by the recent Upper Big Branch Coal Mine tragedy in West Virginia. The band had this to say about the song and why they want to help:

“I wrote this song when we were in the studio recording “Semper Liberi,” so we decided to lay it down and throw it on the album as a secret track. It’s about the Sago Mine disaster that happened a few years ago in West Virginia. Thirteen people died, and to make things worse, in all the confusion the media initially reported that twelve of them had survived when really only one had made it out with his life. I based the song on the survivor’s account of what happened and on my own personal experience watching it all unfold on television.

Rob, Alex, and I all have family from West Virginia and I lived there for most of my life. In light of the tragedy at the Upper Big Branch Coal Mine, we thought we should put this song up for charity download to try and contribute to the money being raised to help aid the families of the most recent victims of an industry which has always unapologetically put profit and productivity far before the safety of their workers.”

Check out the song here.
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Kingdom of Sorrow, the group that features Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed and Kirk Windstein Down, Crowbar), have posted a new song from 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 “God’s Law in the Devil’s Land” on their MySpace page. The record is due out June 8th, 2010.
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Leatherface recently stopped by Jack Rabid’s Rabid in the Kennel show on Breakthrough Radio for an interview and to record a few live tracks. Among the songs the band performed was “Dead Industrial Atmosphere,” originally found on their 1992 full-length, Mush.

The band’s new full-length, The Stormy Petrel, is currently streaming at their Punknews.org page.
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The Bamboozle has confirmed 25 additions to the upcoming 2010 New Jersey edition of the festival. The additions include The Letter Black, Honor Bright, Kicking Daisies, MoneyBrother, Take One Car, To Write A Riot, Naenia, The Nightlife, Civilian, Score 24, Eric & The Sliders, Foxy Shazam, The Dig, The Joy Formidable, Death on Two Wheels, All Out, Lovedrug, The Morning Of, The Band Eclypse, Canyon, Dylan Owen, Evazan, Mazmyth, For The Record and Wild International.

The organizers have also confirmed 5 additions to the inaugural Chicago run of the festival. The new bands include Allister, Spose, Kill Hannah, The Lifeline and Treaty of Paris. They join the previously announced lineup of Something Corporate, Cobra Starship, 3OH!3, Travis McCoy, I fight Dragons, and Jump Smokers.
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New Found Glory have been added to the upcoming Honda Civic tour featuring Paramore and Tegan And Sara.

The run kicks off July 23rd and wraps up in September.
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Portland, OR’s Epoxies have announced a one-off reunion show, happening on May 29 at Dante’s in their hometown. The show is a benefit for a friend of the band, Jason Keebler, who recently underwent major surgery.

The band went on indefinite hiatus in 2008, less than a year after releasing My New World through Metropolis Records.
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Cleveland, OH’s Heads Held High are currently on tour.

The band is supporting their new full-length for Fail Safe Records, Dogs and Cats, Living Together.
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Today, we’re stoked to bring you an exclusive stream of Abuse Your Solution, the new 7″ from Paducah, KY pop-punk heroes Teenage Rehab. The 7″ was released this week by I Hate Punk Rock and Jailhouse Records, and follows up the band’s 2008 release, Goodbye Sanity.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Smoke Or Fire frontman Joe McMahon was recently featured on The Switchboard Sessions. In addition to performing “What Separates Us All” from 2007’s This Sinking Ship and “Modesty” from the band’s new 7″ Prehistoric Knife Fight, McMahon also recorded a cover of the Descendents classic ”Clean Sheets” for the session.

Check it out here.
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In their latest newsletter, Asian Man Records announced that Demos, the upcoming solo album from Alkaline Trio guitarist/vocalist Matt Skiba, is now slated for an August 10, 2010 release.

The album had initially been expected out earlier, but was shelved until after the Trio released their new LP, This Addiction.
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