Underoath have posted the third video update from the studio as they record their new album with a new drummer. The band is recording with producers Matt Goldman (Lost In The Sound Of Separation and Define The Great Line) and Jeremy SH Griffith. The band also recently announced that Daniel Davison (ex-Norma Jean) will be handling the drumming duties on both the new record as well as the upcoming COOL TOUR with As I Lay Dying, Blessthefall, Between The Buried And Me, The Acacia Strain, Architects, Cancer Bats, and War Of Ages.

The album will be the first since Lost in the Sound of Separation. The band will be on the road this summer with As I Lay Dying, Between The Buried And Me, Blessthefall, The Acacia Strain, Architects, Cancer Bats and War Of Ages. Check out the video on their Facebook Profile.
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Four Year Strong have posted another one of the unreleased tracks from 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)”

Check out “Bad News Bearz” on their Purevolume Page.
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The Copyrights have posted an update on their next album. The band updated their Facebook Profile:

Our new album has been finished for some time now, and it is now in the mixing stage.We’re taking our time on this one…so you’ll have to keep waiting a little bit longer. We will also be announcing dates for our upcoming September tour which will take us through the midwest,canada, and the east coast.The dates will be posted here as soon as we get them.

The band is confirmed for Insubordination Fest. They previously released Learn the Hard Way in 2008.
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On the heels of their Gaslight Anthem set from Bonnaroo, NPR has added soundboard-recorded sets from Against Me!, The Dead Weather, The Avett Brothers, The Gossip, Isis, Japandroids and more. The venerable radio station had this to say about Against Me!’s set:

Gabel abandoned his beat-up acoustic for an electric guitar and a full band long ago; his supporting players now include former Hold Steady keyboardist Franz Nicolay. Punks cried foul at first, maybe the same way studded-leather-jacketed kids felt when The Clash started selling out arenas. Many of them still haven’t forgiven Gabel for moving to a major label, disowning parts of his past and playing to a younger and often suburban audience.

The rough-hewn edges are gone and the songs are poppier, but as I realized while watching, Against Me! has always been a band about growing up. That doesn’t mean that a set list that includes a reflective and reactionary new song (“I Was a Teenage Anarchist”) and an older idealist anthem (“Baby, I’m an Anarchist”) make Gabel any less complicated of a musical persona. It just means that “being punk” is complicated, set against youthful fervor and the realization that nothing’s quite so black and white.

You can check out each of the sets here.
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Defiance, Ohio have unveiled another new track from their upcoming full-length, Midwestern Minutes. Due out July 6, 2010, it’ll follow up the band’s well-received 2007 effort The Fear, The Fear, The Fear.

Head here to check out “A Lot to Do,” and click below to see the band’s upcoming tour dates.
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To celebrate the release of their first new album since 1990’s Smooth Noodle Maps, Devo continues to try unorthodox promotion. Today from 11am to 8pm, the band will host a live broadcast of the audio from their album and video of 20 cats for 9 hours. If you’ve ever wondered what cats would do while listening to Devo for 9 hours, this is your chance.

The broadcast starts at 11am PST (2pm EST) and you can find it via UStream.

The band took an unusual route for the track list of the album, by launching an Official Song Study. The band posted portions of each of the tracks they recorded for the album and asked fans to rank and vote about which songs would appear on the final full length. Of the sixteen songs shown in this way, fans and study participants selected the 12 that will appear on the album itself. The record is titled Something For Everybody and is due out today, June 15, 2010 via Warner
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Stars has launched a stream of their new full length, The Five Ghosts. The Canadian band will release the album June 22, 2010 via Vagrant Records in the US and their own Soft Revolution Records in Canada.

Check out the stream via NPR.
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Equal Vision Records has signed ORBS. The band includes Adam Fisher and Clayton “Goose” Holyoak (Fear Before), Dan Briggs (Between the Buried and Me), Ashley Ellyllon (Abigail Williams/Cradle of Filth) and Chuck Johnson (Torch Runner).

The band recorded at The Basement recording studio in Winston-Salem, N.C. with producer and engineer Jamie King [Between the Buried and Me, Alesana] and promises “ piano-infused choruses with a mixture of classic and space-rock interludes,” The record is titled Asleep Next to Science and is due out August 17, 2010 via Equal Vision.

You can find three songs on their MySpace page.
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The members of Rufio and their crew were in a nasty RV crash. According to their email report, a driver in a separate vehicle fell asleep at the wheel and sideswiped their RV while traveling at night in Nevada. Their RV was cut in two. The members of Rufio suffered bruises and cuts, but everyone has been able to leave the hospital. One of their crew is still hospitalized with damaged spleen, more detail on which is not yet available. The driver of the causing vehicle is on life support. They are going to take a few weeks to recover from injuries.

Rufio has been forced to cancel a couple dates this week in Pocatello, ID and Anaheim, CA, however they still plan to perform June 29th at the Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA with Taking Back Sunday and on their U.S./Canada tour with Strung Out.
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