If you still haven’t heard the lead single from Weezer‘s upcoming album Hurley, Spinner is hosting a free download of the track. Head here to grab “Memories.”

Hurley is slated for a September 14, 2010 release via Epitaph Records, the band’s first for the label after seven albums and seventeen years as part of the major label hit machine. We recently told you about some rumors that the group was planning a Pinkerton-centric tour to coincide with the release of that album’s deluxe edition on October 5, 2010.
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Olympia, WA’s RVIVR have completed work on their recently announced EP that will follow up their beloved self-titled full-length. The five-song set will be released by Germany’s Yo-Yo Records in conjunction with the band’s upcoming European tour, slated to happen in September and October. Specific dates are expected to be announced soon.

Prior to that, however, the group will embark on a quick tour of the west coast in early September.
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Defiance, Ohio have announced a couple weeks’ worth of tour dates in September, mostly in the midwest and on the east coast. The run includes a couple of shows with Bouncing Souls.

The group will be supporting their latest full-length for No Idea Records, Midwestern Minutes.
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Tim Kasher of Cursive and The Good Life has posted the first song from his upcoming solo album. The record is titled The Game of Monogamy and is due out October 5, 2010 via Saddle Creek. The album was recorded this past January in Whitefish, MT, at SnowGhost Music and in his rental home in the small town. Kasher enlisted Patrick Newbery (trumpet/keys for Cursive; also of Lacona and Head of Femur) to help with the arrangements, the production, and to play on the record. Friends Erin Tate (Minus The Bear) and Matt Maginn (Cursive) also stopped by to add some drum and bass parts, respectively, and members of the Glacier National Symphony were recruited for the classical instrument parts.

Check out “Cold Love” via Spin.
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Recently defunct Brooklyn pop-punk/etc. act the Motorcycle Industry have posted their final EP, The Motorcycle Industry Reigns, on their bandcamp page. The download is available for free or, at the listener’s discretion, a donation.

The band played their final show in July after releasing one full-length, 2008’s Electric Education, and a recent 7″, The Only Friends Worth Having.
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To coincide with the band’s impending Japanese tour, Red Cobalt Industries has announced a vinyl release for Akimbo‘s 2008 full-length, Jersey Shores. The slab ‘o wax is slated for an October 12, 2010 release, primed with new artwork from artist Nat Damm, who’s previously done work for groups such as Melvins, Isis, Botch, Converge and Dillinger Escape Plan, among others.

As for the aforementioned tour, you can click Read More to see the itinerary.
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To coincide with the release of the new compilation from NOFX, we’ve got a bunch of Longest EP prize packages to give away. The disc features 30 songs from 1987 to 2009, plus rarities, out of print stuff and previously unreleased outtakes. The disc contains many of the band’s EPs and singles including The Longest Line, Never Trust a Hippy and more. It looks like the album will be sequel to the band’s previous singles compilation, 45 or 46 Songs That Weren’t Good Enough To Go On Our Other Records from 2002.

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Baeble Music have posted a five song set from P.O.S. recorded live at the skate park in Flushing Meadows in Queens, New York. The musician performed “Terrorish,” “Optimist (We Are Not For Them), ” “Drumroll (We’re All Thirsty), ” “Purexed” and “Let It Rattle” from his latest album, Never Better.

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Scranton, PA’s Captain, We’re Sinking are currently out on the road in support of their new 7″ for Kind of Like Records, It’s a Trap. The band has sent us a few dispatches from the road that we’ll be sharing with you over the next couple of weeks or so. The group has a few dates left on the tour, so be sure to check them out if they come to your area.

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Our stream today comes from Portland, OR-based Autistic Youth. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new Dirtnap Records full length, Idle Minds. You’ll hear a strong Adolescents influence on this record. The label suggests you’ll find a bit of the Observers, No Hope For The Kids, Articles Of Faith, Reagan Youth, and The Wipers in there as well.

You can check out Idol Minds on Austistic Youth’s Punknews.org Profile
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Leatherface have announced a run of Japan and Australia dates next month in support of their latest album, The Stormy Petrel.

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The fine fellows in Brokencyde have announced plans to release their sophomore album this fall. The band, who are loved and hated in equal measure, have titled the album, Will Never Die and had this to say:

With this record we allowed ourselves more time creatively to do what we wanted, which enabled us to take things to a whole new level! This album speaks to our amazing fans that have supported us through thick and thin, but should be exciting for new listeners as well. I have to say this album is the best work we’ve ever put together. Fans are going to love it, and haters beware because it’s gonna destroy the game.

The magic happens November 9, 2010.
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In a newly posted interview, Kevin Seconds talks about the possibilities of new material from the long-running hardcore act 7 Seconds. He explains:

Yeah, we have a lot of new songs, we’re trying to come up with a creative way to put out new music without being like, “Here’s another CD!”, because if we do that with the label we’ve been with, SideOneDummy, and rightly-so, they’ll want us to tour a lot and we can’t really tour as much as we like to. We’re going to do a bunch of vinyl stuff, because we’ve got two whole albums that we never officially released from like 1980/81, and it’s really just for the fans, it’s not like we expect to sell a ton of records. For years, the cassettes that we recorded on a boom box, they’ve been getting bootlegged and they sound like hell, it’s horrible, so we just want to record it and get it out there, so anybody who wants it can have it. So, yeah, there’s definitely new stuff and there’s talk that SideOneDummy wants to do a collection of old stuff, new stuff, unreleased stuff, and I like that idea. That was supposed to be done this year, but we just kept pushing it back

Check out the entire interview here.

The band’s last release was 2005’s Take It Back, Take It On, Take It Over!.
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