Canadian pop-punk superstars Sum 41 have wrapped up work on their next full length. The sessions will form the first album from the band without founding guitarist Dave Baksh who left in May.

We have finished our new album. We still don’t have a name for it yet though. It will be coming out this summer. We are now about to start auditions to find a touring guitarist. We have no idea how long this will take so I can’t really tell you when we will be back on tour. If all goes well we should be back playing shows in mid april. We will keep you all updated here as frequently as possible. Thanks for all your support and I can’t wait for you to hear this album.

The band released Chuck in 2004.
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Just completed uploading 34 new tracks to GR2:  The Punk Phase!

These are the tracks that I added: 

 There are a number of other tracks that I wasn't able to get up, and I'll try to get those in next week to spread things out a bit.

 The entire GR 2 Playlist 

It's Sunday March 11th, 2007. To the jet stream has been kind to us and we're finally starting to see the snow melt up here in North Org'ville. I tell ya, after a month or so of arctic air a high of 2 degrees celsius is reason to party. We creep just above the freezing point and suddenly everyone's naked. You folks down in the warmer zones will never understand.

The people must have something good to read on a Sunday

Bad news all around in the mainstream pop-punk realm. It came to light that Fall Out Boy lifted lyrics from celebrated hardcore act American Nightmare / Give Up The Ghost. GUTG vocalist Wes Eisold settled out of court with multi-platinum act. A courtroom is where Good Charlotte's Joel Madden may find himself, as the frontman was accused of battering a woman this week. Hawthorne Heights is at least having some luck in the legal realm, as a judge ruled in their favor in one part of their war with Victory. Nothing particularly dramatic happened to Panic! At The Disco, but they did try their hand at controversy with a "mature" rated video. Allister? Heck they just sat the whole thing out.

Against Me! announced a major tour this year with Mastodon and Cursive among others. Band frontman Tom Gabel also spoke with the National Post the band's upcoming New Wave. The Beastie Boys announced a new record this summer, a return to action that Adam Yauch says will feature more live instruments than their previous. Yauch's also in the producer's chair on the new Bad Brains record, but you knew that. There's trouble in Denmark as members of Level Plane act Graf Orlock as well as Comadre were arrested for, essentially, "looking punk." This crazy week brought you a new studio journal from favorites Strung Out, a new video from Lifetime, and a good ol' "Top X albums" list for music nerds to rip apart.

We brought you a lots of new streams this week, including selections from the Pop Punk's Not Dead compilation, music from South Korea's the Geeks, the split from Leftover Crack and Citizen Fish, Chris McCaughan's new project Sundowner, and anticipated new music from Hot Rod Circuit. Our MP3 Of The Week introduced you to the Chinese Telephones and brought you an old favorite from the Dismemberment Plan, while our Video Of The Week featured Against Me!' performing a new song in Richmond.

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Boulder, CO’s Signal to Noise have embarked on a month-long tour in support of their upcoming debut, Kodiak. Included in the tour is a stop at this year’s South By Southwest in Austin, TX as part of the Eyeball Records showcase

The band also recently performed live on Park City TV.
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Sound Scene Revolution has posted their newest episode. This week it features Geoff from Defiance, Ohio chatting it up with Punknews.org’s own Justin August. Since soundguy Nariman was unavailable to make it Rich ran the knobs while Justin talked on for about 50 minutes with Geoff about Columbus, what DIY means to him and how the whole “we’re giving this album away for free” conversation went with No Idea.

You can hear the interview here or subscribe via iTunes. Expect to see the text of the interview here in the coming weeks.
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Jonah Matranga is heading on tour with Joshua English and Frank Turner this coming week. The trio will be starting out in San Antonio, hitting the ubiquitous SXSW, and then going up the California coast up towards Washington state.

English, formerly of Boston indie op outfit Six Going on Seven, will be supporting his forthcoming album Trouble None on Welcome Home while Frank Turner (ex-Million Dead) is supporting his Sleep is for the Week full length onXtra Mile Recordings.

Welcome Home recently released a split 12″ from Matranga and Turner that features Jonah covering “All I Want” by UK songwriter Babybird and Billy Bragg’s “A New England” while Frank offers his take on the American classic “You Are My Sunshine” and Smudge/Lemonheads’ “The Outdoor Type.”
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The lineup for this year’s Warped Tour continues to grow with the recent additions of My American Heart and Bleed the Dream. Both bands will be playing June 28th through August 25th.

You can check out the rest of the lineup here.
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Solid State Records have posted an e-card for Life In Your Way‘s recent release Waking Giants. The album, which is the band’s Solid State debut, is the follow-up to 2005′ Ignite And Rebuild.

You can check out the e-card here.
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