Our friends at the BBC let us know about the latest episode of the BBC Radio 1 Punk Rock Show. The show airs tonight from 2am to 4am GMT (9pm EST, 6pm PST) tonight and is available for streaming in it’s entirety via this link.

The show tonight will feature a live performance from UK-based The Legacy, a much buzzed Epitaph act Gallows will be dropping by for an interview and to act as guest DJs for some of the show. The show is promising new music from Against Me!, Municipal Waste, The Living End, The Unseen, Green Day, The Explosion and tracks from Thrice, Warzone, Tim Barry, Tiger Army, Alexisonfire, Mad Caddies, Sick of it All, Rise Against and many more.

You can check out the show here.
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Chuck Ragan‘s recent seven-inch series The Blueprint Sessions has been made available via iTunes. The series consists of four seven inches, and eight studio recording that had previously been available exclusively on vinyl from No Idea Records. They were recorded and produced by Mitch Townsend last year, prior to his signing to SideOneDummy.

You can preview or purchase all four sessions via these links: The Blueprint Sessions #1, The Blueprint Sessions #2, The Blueprint Sessions #3, The Blueprint Sessions #4 .
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Nerf Herder has wrapped up work on a new album. The band had been on an extended break, but announced the news today:

Parry, Steve & Charlie just finished up recording a new Nerf Herder album! Can you believe it???…We sure can’t! The release date is still unknown. Here are the 13 new titles, with sample lyrics. Some of these won’t make it on the album…don’t know which ones yet.

The band released their last full length, American Cheese, in 2002. It was followed with a reissue of their 2000 EP My EP.

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PETA2 has recruited a number of bands for a new campaign targeting notorious fast food establishment KFC. The organization tapped Rise Against, Thursday, Silverstein, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, The Sleeping, Story of the Year and Hawthorne Heights for the new PSA and notes:

Chickens raised and killed for KFC endure the worst abuses imaginable—their bones are often broken, their throats are slit while they’re still conscious, and many are scalded to death in defeathering tanks. Workers at a KFC “Supplier of the Year” were documented punching live birds, spitting tobacco into their eyes, and spray-painting their faces

Though both are vegans, Tim and Joe from Rise Against note that the campaign is not asking people to stop eating meat, but primarily aiming to draw attention to animal welfare issues.

Please note that the video contains disturbing images.
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