Mogwai have signed to Sub Pop Records and have promised their next album will be released in early 2011. The signing represents the first new label for the band after signing to Matador Records in the late 1990s for the release of Come On Die Young. The band noted:

We are happy and proud to announce that Sub Pop Records are releasing our next studio album in North America. The album is currently being mixed in Glasgow at Castle Of Doom studios by Paul Savage for an early 2011 release. Rock Action Records will be releasing the record in Europe with Hostess releasing in Japan. We would like to take this opportunity to thank and pay tribute to our previous American home Matador records. They remain great friends of the band and we want to thank them for everything they have done for us over the last 11 years and wish them all the best for the future.

The band released The Hawk Is Howling in 2008.
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Valient Thorr have launched a stream of their brand new album, Stranger.

Check it out on their website.
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Laura Stevenson and the Cans are currently on a huge US tour, showing off their indie-folk-punk jams both new and old. Only a few days into the tour, and Laura has already lost her guitar, ran out of money, had an amp brake, and had The Can’s van hit. Despite all of this she seemed to be positive and upbeat when she talked to Punknews interviewer Matt Humphries on a Monday afternoon.

or hear the audio here.
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Less Than Jake have announced a new release titled TV/EP and due out October 12, 2010. The album will apparently feature 16 songs spanning 13 minutes of music. The press release noted:

Spanning from the vintage adverts of yesteryear to the frenetic promos of modern day, TV/EP reimagines a world where pop punk and ska is the music de rigueur, and this is the soundtrack to your couch potato life. Tracklisted as anonymously numbered channels (the band is keeping the names of the songs under wraps till right before release), the experience they have planned is akin to the feeling of flipping random television channels.

Check out the artwork on the release page. The band last released GNV FLA in 2008.
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Antillectual have premiered another new song from their upcoming full-length, Start From Scratch. “Cut The Ground From Under Our Feet” is the fifth track on the album and features a guest vocal spot from Propagandhi‘s Chris Hannah. Hannah had this to say about the song:

“I must admit, I’ve only spent about 5 minutes on a skateboard in my entire life, so while I won’t pretend that I’m either familiar or interested in skate culture, I will say that what I understand the message of the song to be – a lament of the brazen commodification of something you love – resonates pretty strongly with me. Of course, as long as we live in a world where we teach young people that making money takes priority over compelling art, principled sport, democratic politics and humane sciences, brazen commodification will be the rule.”

Check out the song here or by clicking Read More. Antillectual have been unveiling songs from Start From Scratch on a weekly basis, and once the album is out it’ll follow up 2008’s Testimony.
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Tomorrow, September 14, 2010, Terror will be releasing their new record, Keepers of the Faith on CD and vinyl. To celebrate the release, Reaper Records have provided us with a copy of the vinyl album for one lucky hardcore fan. All you have to do to win fill out a form.

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Baroness have posted some high quality live footage recorded at Fortarock 2010 in The Netherlands. The recording features their song, “A Horse Called Golgotha” from their critically acclaimed 2009 album, Blue Record.

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Post-punk pioneers Gang of Four have announced their first album of original material in 16 years. The record is titled Content and is due out January 25, 2011 via Yep Roc. The album will be available in a standard CD release and on vinyl. It will also be available in the Ultimate Content Can – this contains the new album on CD, a book version of an art piece Jon and Andy have done on ceramic tiles depicting the last 40 years of world history, a book of lyrics, a book of Rotoscoped photographs of the band’s emotions, phials of band members’ blood and a scratch and sniff booklet which reflects the key areas of human activity.

The band funded the album by utilizing Pledge Music to raise money for recording, as well as for charities like Amnesty International and Plan International.
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1990s New York hardcore outfit Yuppicide will release a special two disk collection of tracks, recorded during the band’s decade long heyday, entitled, Anthology ’88-98′. This Yuppicide double discography CD features all of the music the band recorded from 1988-1998, including rare unreleased tracks, complimented by a 24-page full color booklet filled with lyrics, rare photos, flyers, and more. The album is due out September 28, 2010.

Check out the artwork on the release page.
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Our stream today comes from UK-based Pacer. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, No. 1.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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In a (relatively) recent interview, Polar Bear Club‘s Chris Browne talked about progress towards the band’s next album:

Between Jimmy [Stadt] and I we have probably 14 or 15 song ideas ready to go. I know Nate [Morris] has some stuff he’s working on as well. We’ve only had time to get to one or two as a full band so far, but I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited about PBC songwriting. Things are coming together naturally and smoothly, and we all seem to want the same things this time around. I think the next record will maintain the variety of songs that we like, but the performance will have a little more “vibe” or “groove” to it if that makes any sense. We’re not going to be afraid to just take a song where it needs to go rather than micromanaging everything. It may end up being more of a pop-rock record than we’ve ever done before, but the ideas are just as quirky and intense as ever in my mind.

Check out the interview here.

The band released Chasing Hamburg in 2009.
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Brian Fallon of The Gaslight Anthem has posted an update to his blog revealing that he is, in fact, working on the “night time” music he mentioned in his blog. He had said this about it previously:

I would like to make a record people can listen to in the night time. I think I’d like to do that with a band name and some friends where we can dress like the Bad Seeds, in suits. Seriously.

So far, Brian has only confirmed the “night time” part, but has not picked a suit yet. Check out the blog here.
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Cave In have announced plans to release a new odds and ends collection entitled Anomalies Vol. 1. It’s due out December 14, 2010 via Hydra Head Records. More details are expected soon. Once out, it’ll follow-up Anomalies Vol. 2: Live at Mazda Palace, Milan, Italy 10/27/03, which was released in a Tarantino-esque fashion last month.

The band has been hard at work on a new full-length entitled White Silence as well.
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