After reuniting in early 2007, hardcore pioneers Coalesce have decided to take another break. The band explained:

It’s been a fun couple of years. We’ve had excellent tours with bands we love , been to Europe, East Coast, West Coast, released a new record and a follow-up EP, played some great festivals and had the opportunity to see some old friends, and meet a ton of new people. This is a good time for a break. Sean just bought a new house, Junior is starting his new business, Jes is putting the finishing touches on his PhD, and I’m going to sit on my couch and watch Shaun of the Dead. Thanks for your continued support.

In the intervening time, the band released Ox and Salt and Passage [7 inch] and saw the remastered reissue of 012:2.
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Just Surrender have a posted a video from their new album for Razor & Tie. The record, Phoenix, is due out today, June 22nd. It follows their album, We’re in Like Sin, released in 2007 .

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Mall’d to Death, the new project out of Minneapolis featuring Dan Jensen (Off With Their Heads), Dani Barstad (the Terrordactyls) and Tyler Barrett has launched their new video for “Skateboards for Afghanistan.”

The song comes from their debut,Can’t Make a Living.

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Fat Wreck Chords has revealed the full details for the upcoming “EP” teased by Fat Mike‘s Twitter. According to the report, the disc will feature 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.

The magic happens August 17, 2010.
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AOL has posted the latest set of album streams this week. The entries include Real McKenzies, Danzig, Pierce the Veil, You Me At Six, Ozzy Osbourne, Chemical Brothers and more.

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Looks like Face to Face have wrapped up work on their first new album in eight years. The band’s frontman Trever Keith posted an Twitter update to that effect:

New Face to Face record is in the can. Heading back home for a few days, then it’s on to The Warped Tour.

The album would be the band’s first of all new material since 2002’s How To Ruin Everything, and the band’s first release of any kind since the 2005 retrospective Shoot the Moon: The Essential Collection. After retiring in 2003, the band reunited five years later and has continued to tour sporadically since.
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Rise Against has posted a press release indicating their participation in a boycott of BP, the oil company responsible for the environmentally devastating oil spill off the coast of the United States. The release also names Disturbed, Lady Gaga, Godsmack, Backstreet Boys, Rock Star Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, Slightly Stoopid, Rob Zombie, Megadeth, Black Label Society with Zakk Wylde, Anthrax, Creed, Filter, Hellyeah and Flogging Molly. It includes this statement from Warped Tour promoter Kevin Lyman who notes:

We have so many friends that are now affected by this spill that unless Bp spends whatever is needed their livelihoods are lost forever. To that end we are encouraging everyone we deal with to find alternative ways to get down the road this summer.

Jonathan Davis of KORN, who spearheaded the boycott added:

This is the worst thing that has ever happened to the environment in U.S. history. From everything we’re hearing about now, it’s become clear that BP cut corners to put profit ahead of safety. The message we are sending should tell all the oil companies to spend the money and take the necessary precautions to make sure this doesn’t happen again, I’m really proud that this many artists have already come on board, and I hope more will join soon.

The release also includes a list of products which use Bp oil as source material. Check out the release here.
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Four Year Strong have posted a stream of the “deluxe” version of their 2010 album, Enemy of the World. As we reported earlier, the reissue is due out June 25, 2010 (June 22 on iTunes) and will feature a new studio track, “Bad News Bearz” and acoustic versions of four songs: “Tonight We Feel Alive (On A Saturday),” “One Step At A Time,” “Find My Way Back” and “Wasting Time (Eternal Summer)”

The entire album can be found on the Warped Tour site.
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Today we’ve got an exclusive new song from Authority Zero and a quick Q&A about the record. The Mesa, AZ-based band recently became the first act signed to Viking Funeral, the new label formed by Fletcher Dragge of Pennywise and distributed through Suburban Noize Records. The band will be releasing their fourth album through the label on May 25, 2010.

Click Read More for a quick Q&A and you can find the stream on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Mark Hoppus of Blink 182 has announced plans to host a new Fuse TV program. According to reports, the show will:

will provide a humorous spin on a wide range of topics in the world of music. The official announcement and more details will be unveiled at a New York press conference on June 22.

Mark is planning an announcement later today at 5pm PST on KROQ/Los Angeles 106.7 FM
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Central New Jersey’s Screaming Females were forced to scrap their recent tour while traversing across the Southwest this past week. The band has written an extensive explanation at their blog. The band endured a busted fuel pump, some cooperative mechanics, some uncooperative mechanics, the rear wheel from hell and a mountain of Subway Sandwiches.

You can find out what happened at their blog. Next up for the band is a trip to Canada with Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. The band released Power Move in 2009.
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Reel Big Fish have announced plans to release a new, second Best Of album featuring 22 songs. While a greatest hits album was released in 2006. it was done by Jive Records, the ska/punk outfits’ previous label and led to the band publicly admonishing the label saying:

So Jive records (our former label) [put] out an RBF greatest hits CD because they see how well our live album is doing and they pretty much just want to screw us any way they can! they see that there’s still money to be made from the Reel Big Fish so they are trying to get a last little piece! There’s really nothing we can do to stop them since they own ALL our previous recordings!

The new collection will feature those 22 songs presumably culled from the band’s many albums including Turn The Radio Off, Why Do They Rock So Hard?, Cheer Up, We’re Not Happy ‘Til You’re Not Happy and Monkeys for Nothin’ and the Chimps for Free. The set will also feature a bonus disc featuring 14 acoustic tracks.
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The Empire Shall Fall, the new hardcore/metal project from Jesse Leach of Killswitch Engage, have posted a cover of the At the Drive-In track, “Arcarsenal. The original track comes from the band’s final album, 2001’s Relationship Of Command. The band notes:

It’s our rendition of At the Drive-In’s ‘Arcarsenal.’ We tried to make it our own, so it’s not so much a cover, as much as an interpretation. Anyway, go and download it.

Check out a stream here or download it here.
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