Fat Wreck Chords has announced plans to release their first new compilation since 2002’s Fat Music Volume VI: Uncontrollable Fatulence. It’s due out November 23, 2010 and will feature new and previously released music from Old Man Markley, The Flatliners, Swingin’ Utters, Mad Caddies, Banner Pilot, Pour Habit, Dead To Me, Teenage Bottlerocket, Cobra Skulls, Tony Sly, None More Black, Chixdiggit!, Against Me!, NOFX, Smoke Or Fire, Strung Out, Lawrence Arms, American Steel, Good Riddance, No Use For A Name, The Real McKenzies and Dillinger Four.

Incidentally, Survival of the Fattest was this writer’s favourite compilation ever.
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Paper and Plastick has signed solo artist Dave Hause of The Loved Ones. Set for release in January 2011 on Paper + Plastick, Hause will release a CD EP and 7″ in November containing a new song along with additional songs on the B-side. In anticipation of the upcoming 7″, Hause recently announced a handful of U.S. tour dates with Two Cow Garage, as well as his first solo trip to New Zealand and Australia supporting The Bouncing Souls and Hot Water Music in December.

Punknews.org spoke to Dave last year about the Loved Ones and the aforementioned solo material.
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As Tall as Lions have notified fans through myspace that they are retiring for the foreseeable future. They commented:

After eight years of music, friendship, laughter, adventure, bliss, blood, sweat, tears, and everything else that goes along with it, As Tall As Lions are retiring for the foreseeable future. There is no sadness on our side, and we hope there is none on yours. We will be playing a handful of shows across the country to try and give everyone an opportunity to see us one last time. Our sincerest apologies to those who can’t join us at these celebrations, but know you will be there in spirit. Much love to you all, and thanks again for everything.

The band’s three farewell shows will take place in December.
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Corin Tucker Band, the eponymous new project from former Sleater-Kinney frontwoman Corin Tucker, have posted a stream of their debut. The group will be releasing 1,000 Years. Due out October 5, 2010, the album is the first post-Sleater-Kinney output from the singer and promises a quieter sound built with “acoustic guitars, keyboards, interlocking percussion, even cellos and violins,” The band also features Unwound’s Sara Lund and the Golden Bears’ Seth Lorinczi.

Check out the stream via NPR until October 5th.

Sleater-Kinney called it quits after released the critically acclaimed The Woods in 2005.
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Chiodos have launched a stream of their new album, Illuminaudio.

Find it on their MySpace page.
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Atreyu will be releasing a new five song EP featuring covers of the band’s influences. Bands set to be covered include Dead Kennedys, Volbeat, Deftones, Aerosmith and Thin Lizzy. For each cover, the band will collaborate with the band’s on their upcoming headlining tour. Those bands include Chiodos, Blessthefall, Endless Hallway and Architects.. The set is due out October 12, 2010.

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Our stream today comes from Las Vegas, NV’s Caravels. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new EP, Floorboards, which our reviews editor Brian Shultz called an “incredibly dense and yet thoroughly interesting, non-specific blend of brooding, modern hardcore, ’90s screamo temperament and gloomy, lumbering post-rock elements … It’s a progressive and circuitous sound offering few hooks to satiate early or even later listens, but it’s a rewarding investment all the same.”

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.

The band recently signed to Topshelf Records and the label has plans in motion to give Floorboards a wider release.
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Kind of Like Records has announced plans to release a split 7″ from Milwaukee, WI’s Direct Hit! and Cincinnati, OH’s Mixtapes on October 26, 2010. For the release, each band will offer a new song as well as a cover of the other band’s new song. More photos of the packaging can be found here.

Mixtapes issued Thought About Growing Up and Maps earlier this year, while Direct Hit recently unveiled a new EP entitled #5.
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Lovitt Records has posted an update on some new and upcoming releases in the works. Among them is a 7″ from Bats & Mice entitled Back in Bat that’s freshly released, as well as a new full-length from Des Ark entitled Don’t Rock the Boat, Sink the Fucker and a new single from Frodus.

More information is expected soon.
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While the band hasn’t completed work on Daybreak, Saves The Day will be previewing some material from the record on a new digital EP, 1984. According to the band’s Facebook Profile, the digital EP will be available at the merch table as a download card, and will feature new songs, “1984” and “Let It All Go” (acoustic).” The EP will conclude with new versions of “Driving In The Dark” (acoustic), “Hold” (electric) and “Stay” (electric).

Daybreak, when released, will be the third album in their trilogy of recordings which includes 2006’s Sound the Alarm and 2007’s Under the Boards.
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Bright Eyes have released a new video, “Coyote Song.” The song and video are part of frontman Conor Oberst’s support for Sound Strike, a musician-led protest against Arizona’s controversial immigration law. In an open letter to Artists Conor Oberst said:

American ideals of democracy and liberty are built on the foundation that all people, regardless of race or country of origin, deserve fair and equal treatment by the government . . . We’ve all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.

The song and video is being sold for $2.00 to raise money for The Florence Project, a nonprofit organization that provides free legal help to immigrants caught in the detention and deportation system in Arizona. Buy it here.

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The latest cover in the SPIN/MySpace Music-curated Germs of Perfection: A Tribute to Bad Religion has been posted. The contribution comes from Cobra Skulls and features Fat Mike of NOFX. They covered “Give You Nothing,” marking the second song from Bad Religion’s groundbreaking album, Suffer.

The songs are part of the digital compilation set to be released free in honor of the influential band’s 30th anniversary.

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Some clips and photos featuring Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong live on Broadway have surfaced online. The singer is planning a total of eight performances this month. Armstrong, who co-wrote the American Idiot musical, will play drug dealer St. Jimmy. He is temporarily replacing actor Tony Vincent who is on leave until October 12th for a personal matter.

The musical has earned two Tony awards, a Football halftime show, an AOL session and a parody in the last few months since it’s premiere.

The photos can be found here.
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