Looks like Descendents may be up for a bit of touring these days. The band has posted three Australian dates in December on their official website. The band will play what appear to be a few festivals alongside bands such as NOFX, Dropkick Murphys, Killswitch Engage, Atreyu, Frenzal Rhomb, Parkway Drive, Me First and The Gimme Gimmes and many others. You can see the dates below.

The band last released a studio album in 2004, Cool To Be You. Stephen Egerton recently released his debut The Seven Degrees of Stephen Egerton.
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Our friends at Paper and Plastick are stepping up to help out one of their bands, Protagonist. Earlier this year the band had $22,000 worth of gear stolen right before entering the studio to record their new album. The label has dug up 43 rare test pressings from the vaults to be auctioned off. All proceeds will go straight to the band.

The list of records to be auctioned off include items from A Wilhelm Scream, The Flatliners, Frank Turner, Westbound Train, The Riot Before, The Swellers and many more. You can see the whole list below

You can see P+P’s press release here and check out the auctions on EBay.
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Japanese proto-screamo veterans Envy will be doing a series of dates in the U.S. this fall. Joining them on all dates will be Touché Amoré and And So I Watch You from Afar. Additionally, Trash Talk will join up as main support for one leg and La Dispute for the other.

Envy will be out in support of Recitation, due out October 12 on Temporary Residence. It’ll be their first full-length since 2006’s Insomniac Doze, though in the interim the band has released the Abyssal EP, splits with Thursday and Jesu, the Transfovista DVD, and reissued the lion’s share of their back catalog.

On a side note, if this tour has the relevance to you it should, and you happen to be a fan of the Gaslight Anthem and living in New York, please consider your loved ones before doing anything rash.
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Weezer has signed to Epitaph Records. Label head Brett Gurewitz confirmed the news via Twitter earlier today. Alternative Press is reporting that the band’s next album will be titled Hurley and will arrive on Epitaph on September 14th with a fall tour to follow.

Weezer released seven full lengths via major label Geffen Records since their self-titled debut (the blue album) in 2004. This will be the group’s first release via an independent label. The group has had some connection, however, with Epitaph in the past. Drummer Patrick Wilson’s side-project The Special Goodness released their full length Land Air Sea via the label in 2004.

Weezer last released Raditude in 2009.
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It’s time for everyone’s favorite Wednesday night leisurely activity: the surely-by-now world-renowned Punknews podcast! This week on the show, interviews editor Rich Verducci plopped into the moderator’s chair where he, news editor Adam White and I discussed such popular stories as the mysterious Sound and Fury motorcyclist, Fat’s decision to reissue Banner Pilot’s Resignation Day and the larger question of the viability of reissues in general, Rancid’s Lars Fredriksen lending his name to and taking appointments at a Tokyo tattoo parlour, speculation on the sonic direction and label affiliation of Brendan Kelly’s solo album, and the many questions raised by Oh, Sleeper guitarist Shane Blay’s article laying out the income and expenses of touring for a ‘mid-level band.’

In addition to the roundtable, we’ve also got brand spankin’ new music this week from VRGNS (née Virgins) and The Estranged, as well as a head-to-head review of new releases from La Otracina and La Gritona from copy editor Jesse Raub.

You can click Read More to stream and/or download the show, or subscribe via RSS or iTunes. Don’t forget to give us your feedback in the comments section or via e-mail.
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The lineup has been announced for the 2010 edition of Fun Fun Fun Fest. The organizers have confirmed more than 80 acts including: Appleseed Cast, Ariel Pink, Bad Religion, Deerhunter, Devo, Dirty Projectors, Dum Dum Girls, Floor, GWAR, High on Fire, Jeff The Brotherhood, Junius, Kaki King, Kylesa, Man Man, Mastodon, MGMT, Monotonix, Municipal Waste, OFF!, Polvo, Ringworm, Snapcase, Strike Anywhere, Suicidal Tendencies, The Briggs, The Bronx, Dwarves, P.O.S., Hold Steady, The Vandals, Valient Thorr and WAVVES.

The event will be held November 5 – 7, 2010 at Waterloo Park in Austin, TX. Tickets are available at http://funfunfunfest.com/.
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More sad news today as we’ve learned that Makh Daniels, vocalist for Bay Area metal outfit Early Graves, was killed in a van accident in Oregon earlier this week. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the driver of the van was 24 year-old Justin Garcia of The Funeral Pyre, the band with which Early Graves was touring. According to the article, Garcia fell asleep and allowed the van to drift off the right shoulder of the freeway as the bands were heading south on Interstate 5 near Medford, OR, en route to Reno, NV after playing a show last weekend in Eugene, OR.

Our deepest condolences go out to Daniels’s friends, family and fans.
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Our stream today comes from Lowell, MA’s The Fake Boys. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full -length, This Is Where Our Songs Live, which is slated for an LP release via Arrest Records very soon.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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As part of the relaunching of their webstore, Don Giovanni Records has begun posting some of their older albums for free download.

The label has posted two releases from For Science, Way Out of Control and Revenge for Hire, as well as the Dustheads compilation Collected Sounds and those can be found here.
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Orlando, FL’s Nightlights have unveiled a video for “Ghost Town.” The song comes from the band’s recently released EP for Anchorless Records, Long Way Home.

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Boston’s Have Nots have posted a video update from the studio. The band is currently holed up in Drastic Sounds in Nashville, TN working on the follow-up to 2009’s Serf City USA, which is still available for free download from Paper and Plastick.

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Big D and the Kids Table have digitally released two new songs. The download is called 2 Songs 1 Download and is made up of the band’s side of their split 7″ with Brunt of it for the Ska is Dead 7″ series. The songs can be previewed here.

Big D frontman David McWane recently stated in an interview with ThePunkSite.com that their next full-length will be “more balls to the wall” than their 2009 effort, Fluent In Stroll.
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Small Brown Bike have entered the studio today with producer J Robbins to begin work on a new album for No Idea Records. The band has also launched a blog where they’ll be offering updates from the studio. More information is expected soon.

The Michigan quartet have released a pair of 7-inches through the venerable Gainesville label, with Composite, Volume One arriving in 2009 and Composite, Volume Two following it earlier this year. The band’s last full-length, The River Bed, was issued in 2003 via Lookout!.
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