The two bands responsible for all the ills in America – at least until the advent of violent video games – have announced a co-headlining tour together this summer. Slayer and Marilyn Manson will be joined by Bleeding Through on the tour which kicks off near the end of July.

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More music from Tim Armstrong‘s album, A Poet’s Life is available online.

You can check out “Translator” via a special page on Interpunk.com. A companion video is available on YouTube.

A Poet’s Life and is due out on CD+DVD May 22, 2007.
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Motion City Soundtrack has announced the dates for a summer tour in support of their upcoming third full length. The record is titled Even If It Kills Me and is due out July 17, 2007. It is the follow-up to Commit This To Memory which was released in 2005.

Supporting the headlining tour will be Sherwood, The Higher, and The Forecast. Tickets for the all of the band’s headlining dates will go on sale Saturday, May 12.

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New York’s Jesse Malin will be touring with Acute beginning next month. Malin is touring in support of his third solo full length Glitter In The Gutter. The record was released via Adeline Records / East West.

The album features guest apperances from Bruce Springsteen, Ryan Adams, Chris Shifflett of the Foo Fighters / Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and Josh Homme of Queens Of The Stone Age.

Malin was the frontman of glam-punk group D Generation, which disbanded in 1999. Glitter In The Gutter follows up 2004’s Artemis released The Heat.

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Giving Chase have announced a European tour in support of their upcoming new album. The record is titled A Cheap Print of a Masterpiece and is due out June 19, 2007. It is the follow-up to Nothing Ever Changes which was released in 2003.

Giving Chase will also be touring the US and Canada for five weeks in June and July in support of the album with Ryan’s Hope. A full US tour is being booked for the fall as well.

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Seventh Star has posted a trailer for their upcoming DVD. The DVD is a companion to their forthcoming Facedown Records release The Undisputed Truth. The album, which has the theme of “restoration through creation,” will be released June 12.

The disc promises live footage, studio sessions and behind the scenes interviews.

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Canadian punk act Wednesday Night Heroes have announced a number of tour dates in support of their upcoming BYO debut, Guilty Pleasures, which is set for a June 5th release.

The band has also posted two of the songs from the record on their myspace page which you can find here.

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Here is the latest iteration of the GR2 top 15 tracks.  I'm currently working on a small update for the station and hope to have it up by mid-week.  We'll see what gets in the way however.. 

1. Pennywise – Wouldn't It Be Nice
2. Rise Against – Black Masks and Gasoline
3. Dropkick Murphys – The Auld Triangle
4. Tiger Army – Annabel Lee
5. Strike Anywhere – The Promise
6. This Is My Fist – Story of Reconversion
7. Strung Out – Bring Out Your Dead
8. The Bad Rackets – Couple Million Miles
9. One Shot Left – Just Because
10. Ann Beretta – Straight Shooter
11. Minor Threat – Straight Edge
12. Rancid – Corruption
13. Decendents – Hope
14. Anti-Flag – Turncoat
15. Swingin' Utters – Fifteenth and T