As we at Punknews begin gearing up for the inevitable chaos that is this year’s Fest , we have teamed up with the fine people behind this years FESTivities (zing!) to bring you a series of interviews with some of the bands playing this year. Kicking off our series is Gainesville’s (by way of New Mexico) own Spanish Gamble. The boys sat down with No Idea’s own Tony Weinbender to discuss touring, drinking, cooking and of course, Fest.

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Today we’ve got a new tour blog from Boston’s own Have Nots. The band is on their first UK and European tour and will also be supporting The Street Dogs’ upcoming holiday shows. The band is continuing to support their debut Serf City USA.

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Today’s stream is the new split 7″ from Long Beach, CA’s Joyce Manor and fellow Californians Summer Vacation.

Head to Joyce Manor’s Punknews.org Profile to hear it. It’s available from Muy Autentico Records.
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Municipal Waste have posted the video for “Wolves of Chernobyl.” It’s from last year’s Massive Aggressive.

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The Casting Out and A Death in the Family have been added to Samiam‘s recently announced headlining tour of Europe. It kicks off tonight.

These are the final dates for The Casting Out before their indefinite hiatus and the reunion of vocalist Nathan Gray’s previous band Boy Sets Fire in December.
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Bedouin Soundclash have announced a run of November and December tour dates with Moneybrother joining on the bulk of the US dates but not on the Canadian leg of the tour.

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Lemuria‘s van was robbed and destroyed over the weekend, here’s what the band said-

Our van was robbed and destroyed this weekend, luckily all of our equipment wasn’t inside it. We left it at a Pep Boys (cause we had a gift certificate there), they fixed it and left it overnight in their parking lot unlocked. Someone tried to hotwire it and was unsuccessful, leaving us with a dead van.

The band was just confirmed for the second date of the Bouncing Souls‘s Home for the Holidays shows and are working on their new album for Bridge Nine Records.
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Weezer has released another pair of songs from their upcoming Pinkerton [Deluxe] reissue and their recently unveiled B-sides compilation Death to False Metal. All four of the songs were written in the 90s/early 00s period of Pinkerton.

Both songs are available via Weezer’s official forum. You can find Death to False Metal‘s “Blowin’ My Stack” here and Pinkerton‘s “Getting Up and Leaving” here.
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Weezer has released another pair of songs from their upcoming Pinkerton [Deluxe] reissue and their recently unveiled B-sides compilation Death to False Metal. All four of the songs were written in the 90s/early 00s period of Pinkerton.

Both songs are available via Weezer’s official forum. You can find Death to False Metal‘s “Blowin’ My Stack” here and Pinkerton‘s “Getting Up and Leaving” here.
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Washington local news outlet TBD spoke to Roger Miret of Agnostic Front about the death that occurred after their show and led to the arrest of five employees of the club hosting the show. Along with the arrests, the club’s liquor license has been suspended and a vigil was held for Ali Ahmed Mohammed by the cities’ Ethiopian community.

Miret commented on the mood after the show:

The vibe outside the club, I didn’t like it. I told the guys, ‘Let’s get out of here.’ I’m from the streets of New York City, and you can feel the uncomfortableness of the street, you know? I felt it, and so did the other guys….We were taking photos, signing autographs. You could tell there was people trying to mingle in that weren’t a part of the scene.

We had a wonderful experience [before that] to be completely honest. It was the best show of the whole tour. The whole place was just on fire with joy that we were there. People were really respectful. No violence, no fights, none of that stuff. Whatever happened that night had nothing to do with the actual show.

While the five were charged with aggravated assault, prosecutors have not ruled out elevating the charges depending on the outcome of the medical examiner’s report.
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As Bad Religion continues to celebrate their 30th anniversary, Epitaph Records has unveiled a new deluxe box set featuring each and every Bad Religion album (including major label releases) on limited red vinyl. Contents include How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, Into the Unknown, Suffer, No Control, Against the Grain, Generator, Recipe For Hate, Stranger Than Fiction, The Gray Race, No Substance, New America, The Process of Belief, The Empire Strikes First, New Maps of Hell andThe Dissent of Man. The set will run you $200 via Bad Religion’s webstore.

Just to reiterate, the box will include the first official pressing of Into the Unknown in 27 years. If you may pardon our editorializing for a second: “This looks amazing.”

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Darkest Hour are headed to Europe in early 2011 for a headlining tour supported by Protest The Hero, Born of Osiris and Purified in Blood. Next month, the band will headline a North American tour as well.

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