Rancid have posted the latest video in their series. The new addition comes from 2000’s Rancid and features “Dead Bodies.”

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Saves The Day have completed recording their long-awaited full-length Daybreak; no other details are available as of yet, but we’ll keep you posted. Guitarist Arun Bali announced the news through his twitter account, noting that the band had spent 498 days working on the album.

Daybreak wraps up the trilogy that began with 2006’s Sound the Alarm and continued with Under the Boards in 2007. Daybreak was meant to conclude the narrative in 2008 but various trials and tribulations have delayed its completion until now. The band recently released a stopgap EP entitled 1984.
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The latest track unveiled from the upcoming Bad Religion tribute Germs of Perfection comes from Guttermouth in the form of their rendition of “Pity.” The track originally appeared on BR’s 1982 debut full-length How Could Hell Be Any Worse?. Head to Guttermouth’s MySpace page to hear the track.

Germs of Perfection is being curated by SPIN and MySpace Music and will be released for free download on October 19.
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Though Brand New Lungs is only a few months old, Swingin’ Utters have already announced plans for a follow-up in the form of Taking The Long Way, due out November 23, 2010 and boasting three more new songs.

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Juicebox Recordings have unveiled a new covers compilation entitled Our Favourite Songs. The comp features eleven Canadian bands – including Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, Junior Battles and The Decay – offering their takes on songs from Blink 182, Jimmy Eat World, Green Day, Atom and His Package and others.

It’s available as a donation-based download here.
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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:

• Gene Simmons of Kiss and reality television fame declared this week that that musicians should “Be litigious. Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars.” I for one welcome Gene’s tryannical new dystopian music industry.
• An individual concerned by the arguable quality of recent Weezer music wants to raise $10,000,000 for the band to break up
• Less Than Jake streamed their new covers project the TV/EP
• Kris Roe of The Ataris responded to some recent online criticism
• Boy Sets Fire is set to reunite
• Blink-182 will enter the studio soon, as will The Offspring
• The schedule for The Fest 9 was released this week
• This week also brought more tribute covers of Bad Religion songs, including Cheap Girls performing “Kerosene,” The Weakerthans performing “Sanity,” and William Elliott Whitmore taking on “Don’t Pray on Me.”

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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Topshelf Records have announced plans to pick up Grown Ups and give their recent full-length More Songs a proper North American release. You can check out a pre-order here. The band remains signed to Big Scary Monsters in the UK.

Grown Ups, along with many others, will be appearing at The Fest 9 over Halloween weekend in Gainesville, FL.
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The bearded rapscallions behind The Fest 9 have released the schedule for this year’s Fest-ivities. Turn on your printers, grab your highlighters and head here to check it out and inevitably groan about the conflicts to your message board or commenting section of choice.

The Fest 9 happens October 29-31 in Gainesville, FL and will feature performances from Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, The Suicide Machines, Municipal Waste, A Wilhelm Scream, Paint It Black, Strike Anywhere, Fake Problems, Frank Turner and hundreds more.
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The latest contribution to the upcoming Bad Religion tribute album Germs of Perfection is online. Head here to listen to Cheap Girls‘ rendition of “Kerosene,” a track that appeared on BR’s 1993 major label debut, Recipe For Hate.

Germs of Perfection is being curated by SPIN and MySpace Music and will be released for free download on October 19.
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Few artists are as polarizing in modern punk rock as Scott Sturgeon… aka STZA Crack… aka Sturg Fuckin’ Hipster…. aka… well, the man needs aliases. Singlehandedly creating the Crack Rock Steady genre, Sturgeon forged a fascinating combination of punk, ska, metal, and classical music which often referenced drug use, battling the police, and the southern lord. This combination of music and extreme politics led many in the punk scene to view Sturgeon as a true visionary, able to mend the audio, visual, cerebral into a singular expression, while others saw him as blindly spouting rhetoric for the effect and not the message.

While his earlier bands Choking Victim and Leftover Crack were the bands that really brought Sturgeon into the public punk conscious, his latest band, Star Fucking Hipsters seems to be the focus of his energy. After releasing an album on Fat Wreck Chords and a follow up on Alternative Tentacles, Sturgeon is planning to release his third album in four years. This bears a stark contrast to the release rate of Leftover Crack, a band that was often put on hiatus by band member tension, sojourns to South America, and battles with customs. But now that Sturgeon seems to be refreshed and is kicking out the jams at an almost frantic pace, Punknews interviewer John Gentile lit up a pipe with the modern punk icon to get the low down on his renewed energy, the meaning behind some of his more obscure lyrics, and whether or not he’s serious when he says he wants to kill cops…

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Chixdiggit have announced a European tour this month and next.

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Lucero and Drag the River will head out together on a West Coast tour beginning November 26th. Lucero continues to support 2009’s 1372 Overton Park and Drag The River is supporting Bad at Breaking Up.

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Less Than Jake‘s new TV theme covers EP, TV/EP is now streaming with video accompaniment. The band tackled popular animated and sitcom themes for the set and the video accompaniment features footage from the covered and parodied songs.

Check it out on their home page .
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