By all accounts, The Dwarves are some wild and wacky, nasty and wasty, rough and tough dudes. They sing about having sex- alot. Their album covers feature nude chicks covered in blood. On stage fist fights are as common as down strokes. Their guitarist often plays au naturale (if yaknowwaddaimsayin). They got kicked off Sub Pop records for staging a hoax by announcing that the same guitar player was killed in a knife fight over crack… and they even graciously accepted flowers in remembrance!

But, with a new album right around the corner, one wonders, just how much of the Dwarves is a calculated attack against society norms and just how much is primal howling? How much of lead singer Blag Dahlia, birth name Paul Cafaro, is an exhibit of the human condition and how much is cartoon given life? Punknews interviewer John Gentile recently sat down with Blag to get the low down on these animals called The Dwarves and also to catch some info on the new release.

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Though Bad Religion has posted a myriad of status updates through Twitter and Facebook, the band officially announced the onset of recording today. Guitarist Brett Gurewitz commented on the new album:

While we’re celebrating our 30th anniversary as a band this year it’s also a time when Greg and I have embarked on new creative pursuits which have informed our songwriting process. I’m a new parent again and Greg a new author having just completed his first book Anarchy Evolution. So the songs are a distillation of where we’ve been and who we are now…a natural evolution of creativity. Being a new parent has colored my whole world. “As a result I’ve written songs that at least for me, are somewhat less angsty and more introspective and vulnerable. The experience has emboldened me to take some creative risks as a songwriter that I’ve not allowed myself to take before.

Dr.Greg Graffin also commented:

We wouldn’t embark on this new creative endeavor, Brett wouldn’t have embarked on parenthood, I wouldn’t have embarked on writing a book, if we hadn’t reached a place in our lives where we felt the confidence that we had something to offer and that’s what these songs represent. They represent a new found confidence that things are starting to make sense to us.

The album sees the band reuniting with producer Joe Barresi (Queens Of The Stone Age, Tool) who recorded New Maps of Hell. The record is expected in the Fall.
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Face to Face frontman Trever Keith has updated on the status of the band’s long-awaited new full length which was promised just under a year ago. He noted:

Back in California for a week of preproduction, then it’s in to the studio for the new face to face record.

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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Killswitch Engage have posted an elaborate new video for “Save Me” from their 2009 album, Killswitch Engage.

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Derron Nuhfer of Gunmoll and Less Than Jake has joined James Austin of Anchor Arms to form Eight Ghosts. The band claims to be influenced by “90’s emo bands” and describes their sound in terms of Get Up kids, Murder City Devils, SDRE, Knapsack, Jimmy Eat World, Mineral, Deftones, Neil Diamond, Screeching Weasel

The band will be releasing their debut through a partnership of Fail Safe Records and Death to False Hope Records. They are currently recording their EP, Heart Conditions and guests include Karl from Greenland is Melting on banjo and Susannah Caviness on percussion.
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According to a Tweet from Max Bemis of Say Anything, his band, Motion City Soundtrack and Saves The Day will be touring together this fall. The news comes on the heels of an update to Saves The Day‘s profile on Vagrant Records official site which lists the band as “alumni” which indicates the band has likely left the label or been dropped.

The band last released Under the Boards. Say Anything issued a self-titled album last year and Motion City Soundtrack made their major label debut this year with My Dinosaur Life.
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Our stream today comes from Orlando, FL-based Gatorface. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, Wasted Monuments.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Today, we’re stoked to bring you a stream of Thought About Growing Up, the new EP from Cincinnati, OH’s Mixtapes. The four-song set follows up Maps, the band’s debut from earlier this year. Both releases are available for download from Death to False Hope Records.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Hopeless Records has revealed that it will be reissuing The Wonder Years‘ 2010 album, The Upsides this Fall. The band spoke to Punktastic about the signing and noted that the album will feature new artwork and 4 new songs – 1 full band, 1 acoustic plus there’ll be an acoustic version of ‘Washington Square Park’ and a re-worked version of ‘Logan Circle’.

The record itself earned four stars from our reviewer.
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Epitaph Records has announced their latest compilation since retiring Punk-o-rama in 2006 and just one release of the Unsound compilation that was supposed to replace it. The record is titled New Noise, Volume 1 and is due out June 15, 2010. The comp. will be priced at $2.99 at all digital media stores and physical copies will only be available as a limited edition at this summer’s Vans Warped Tour. The fourteen song compilation will feature music from Veara, Sing It Loud, Our Last Night, Parkway Drive, Set Your Goals, Alkaline Trio, Frank Turner, Off With Their Heads, Street Dogs, New Found Glory, Heartsounds, Every Time I Die, Escape the Fate and I Set My Friends On Fire.

Parkway Drive, Street Dogs and I Set My Friends On Fire will premiere brand new songs, which will be exclusive to the compilation until the release of their new albums.

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