Our stream today comes from Moncton, NB pop-punk outfit Fear of Lipstick. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new self-titled full length for It’s Alive Records. Fans of The Briefs and Marked Men might find this enjoyable.

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Bay area punk rockers Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits are set to release their third full-length (and first in ten years), F, on October 12th via Silver Sprocket. The album features Bobby Joe Ebola friends and regulars such as Jesse Luscious (Blatz), John Geek (Fleshies, Triclops), and members of Your Mother, Mystic Knights Of The Cobra, bicycle dance troupe the Bay Area Derailleurs and comedian Alex Koll. Both the CD and LP version come packaged with extensive liner notes and a fold-out poster, and are available for advance order now on the Silver Sprocket website.

The band is notable for running the S.P.A.M. Records collective (responsible for early releases from Gravy Train, Fleshies, Rock and Roll Adventure Kids and more) and organizing the series of guerrilla concerts known as Geekfest which later evolved into Pyrate Punx event Libertatia. The band has announced tour dates spanning the remaining months of 2010.
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Fuel TV show The Daily Habit recently featured New York hardcore veterans Sick Of It All. You can check out a video of the long running band performing the song “Take The Night Off” below. The band also recently show a video for the song “Death or Jail” with directors Ian McFarland and Mike Pecci.

The band is currently supporting their new album Based on a True Story, the follow up to 2006’s Death to Tyrants. The album was recorded at Antfarm Studios in Århus, Denmark with Danish producer Tue Madsen and features artwork by Ernie Parada.
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The Aquabats have announced that they’ll hit the road with Reel Big Fish for a tour in November. The bands will kick things off with a November 9th appearance at the Yo Gabba Gabba live show in West Valley City, Utah. Full dates and details are forthcoming.

As for the band’s new album, it will be released independently by the band on November 9th. A title has not yet been announced. The CD will come with a full color booklet and stickers and a digital version will be available on the band’s website.

The Aquabats last released Charge!! in 2005 on Nitro Records.
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Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson will release a new solo EP on September 21st titled Provincial Road 222. The collection will be available as a limited edition 7″ and digital download via Epitaph / ANTI- Records in North America and Grand Hotel Van Cleef in Europe. The European version arrives a few days earlier on the 17th of September. Provincial Road 222 features backing from the Correction Line Ensemble and is the second in John’s series of recordings exploring the roadways of Manitoba. The first release in this series was City Route 85.
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Exclaim is speculating that the Constantines recent appearance at the Dawson City Music Festival this past July may have been the band’s last for the forseeable future. Frontman Bryan Webb played coy in a recent interview with CBC Radio 3, refusing to make any finalistic statments on the band’s future but admitting:

I think we’re just slowing down… We’re in our early 30s and we have some different priorities than we did ten years ago, personally any way. It’s time to focus on other things.

The band recently saw the departure of keyboardist / guitarist Will Kidman. The musician, who also performs as solo act Woolly Leaves, was sidelined due to an illness earlier in the year but left the group formally before their Dawson City performance. Guitarist / vocalist Steve Lambke continues to record and perform as his solo act Baby Eagle (they have a new record titled Dog Weather out on August 17th via You’ve Changed Records). Bryan Webb recently reloacted from Montreal to the band’s original home of Guelph, Ontario. He’s participating in the National Parks Project, which dispatches Canadian musicians to parkland in Canada to colalborate on new music. The frontman will be working with Sarah Harmer and Jim Guthrie at Haida Gwaii in northern British Columbia. Bassist Dallas Wehrle has started a band in Toronto called Deloro with members of One Hundred Dollars and Attack In Black.

The band’s last album was Kensington Heights in 2008.
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DIY clearing house IfYouMakeIt has posted the new split release from Glocca Morra and the Greek Favourites. You can download Songs In the Key of Ayyyyyy here.

The split is due out physically September 1st and follows The Working Bones, A Health Decline by Glocca Morra and the Grounded EP by the Greek Favourites, which you can stream at their Punknews band page.
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Another week, another exciting edition of the Punknews podcast! For this super-sized episode, I was joined by news editor Adam White, managing editor Ben Conoley and copy editor Jesse Raub for a raucous roundtable discussion that included our thoughts on the unfortunate death of a man at the Warped Tour in Kansas City, the Descendents’ upcoming trip to Australia, Weezer signing to Epitaph and Yellowcard to Hopeless, as well as the madness and uncertainty behind Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley being attacked in a bar in Japan.

Not only that, but on this week’s show we’re premiering brand new music from Restorations, Bars of Gold and City of Ships. That’s right, if you’ve heard any of these songs before, you’re either in the band or you know someone who knows someone. THAT’S how new they are!

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Against Me! recently stopped by the stage/indoor halfpipe at Fuel TV’s The Daily Habit to perform “High Pressure Low,” a track from their recent full-length White Crosses.

The band will head to Canada next month for a tour with The Flatliners and Young Livers.
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Suicide Machines vocalist Jason Navarro was recently contacted by Punknews, for a statement in response to founding guitarist Dan Lukacinsky’s comments regarding the beloved band’s reunion shows, of which Lucacinsky is not participating. Navarro stated:

“I just want to have fun! So if you want to hear a bunch of songs off of Destruction [By Definition] and Battle Hymns that we never got to play, come on out and have fun! Sing along! Throwing mud is not my style.

Thanks, Jason”

The band is gearing up for a headlining spot at this year’s The Fest 9 in Gainesville, FL. Hellmouth guitarist Justin Malek has been performing live with the Suicide Machines in Lukacinsky’s place on their recent gigs, and will assumingly continue to do so at The Fest.
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New Brunswick, NJ’s The Measure (SA) have detailed their upcoming full-length for No Idea Records. The record is titled Notes and it’s due out October 5, 2010, and will be the group’s first full-length since 2006’s Historical Fiction, though they’ve released a fair amount of EPs, 7-inches and collections since then, including a split with New Bruises just last month.

The opening track from Notes, “Be Yours,” is streaming at the band’s MySpace page. The Measure will be touring down to The Fest 9 in Gainesville, FL over Halloween weekend; those dates are expected to be announced soon.
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Our stream today comes from Boston, MA’s Constants. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full-length, If Tomorrow The War. The album, produced by Justin K. Broadrick of Jesu and Godflesh, follows up 2009’s The Foundation | The Machine | The Ascension and features guest appearances from Andrew Neufeld of Comeback Kid and Sights and Sounds as well as Mike Hill of Tombs. The limited edition vinyl from Science of Silence Records is available here.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Pennywise guitarist Fletcher Dragge was recently interviewed by Alternative Press and gave his side of the story regarding the band’s recent altercation with Alesana at the Denver stop of the Vans Warped Tour. According to the article, Dragge says the incident was the product of a simple misunderstanding and that the band holds no animosity toward Alesana. The confrontation only lasted about a minute before Dragge was subdued by police with a taser and arrested on assault charges. The guitarist spent the night in jail, and was released around 5PM on Monday after Alesana dropped the charges. Here’s a snippet from the interview:

“We were coming back from a bar across the way from the Warped buses in Denver after the show had ended. We saw what we thought was the RV of Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band. We’d been hanging out with those guys and since it was our last night on the tour, we wanted to drop by and say goodbye. They were driving a very distinctive RV, and I thought it was the only one on the tour. Apparently Alesana have the exact same van. We walked in and nobody was there, so we sat down thinking somebody’s gonna pop up or something. That’s around when [Alesana’s] tour manager came onboard and said, “What are you guys doing here? Who are you? You need to get out of our vehicle.” He was totally in the right. It was a situation where we thought we were in one place, and the tour manager for Alesana didn’t recognize us. Of course, if the roles were reversed and we found people on our bus, we’d tell them to leave, too.

Their tour manager said we had to go, and I think I said, “I’m gonna make a sandwich real quick.” That’s typical, smart-ass drunken Fletcher behavior. He went outside to get some of his team members to get us off the RV. This isn’t a bus; we’re talking about a pretty small area. All of a sudden, there’s me and Randy and six other guys in this kitchen area, and I think someone grabbed Randy’s arm saying, “Let me escort you off the bus.” It wasn’t violent. But everybody had been drinking and push came to shove. It’s kind of a blur, but it turned into a little bit of a melee. For us, we felt a little bit trapped in there because there was only one way out and there were people in the door way and people coming at us. We were in the wrong. We were in the wrong place and [Alesana] came to get us off their territory. It turned into a situation where we felt like we were outnumbered, even though we’re obviously older and bigger than those guys. It turned into self-defense mode. It went on for a little bit, and everybody took a couple bumps. In the middle of it, I think their TM realized who we were and that we just didn’t know where we were. Then it became about getting Randy off the RV. That’s when the cops rolled in and took control of the situation, or I guess, me, with the taser. All I saw was more people coming up the stairs who I thought were gonna do some more damange, and they wound up being officers of the law. They blasted me with the taser about five times, but I used to be an electrician, so I’m used to it. [Laughs.] We weren’t looking for a fight. We were just looking for the Rev.”

Read the entire interview here.
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