In a blog post, Frank Turner announced plans to release a new EP titled Rock & Roll. Due out December 6, 2010 via Xtra Mile Recordings, the EP was recorded in September. Frank promises five new songs and notes:

I, for one, am very excited about it; it’s kind of a taster for the new album (although only one song from the EP will also be on the new record) which is due early next year. The EP is being released in the UK, but we’re sorting out shipping details for everywhere across the world so people in the USA, Europe and further afield can get a copy too. It feels good to be getting new material out there.

Frank released his Epitaph Records debut, Poetry of the Deed in 2009. Xtra Mile released his previous album, 2008’s Love, Ire and Song.
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While The Ergs! remain broken up, they are breaking their break up for one day to help raise money for a friend’s medical bills. The band will be performing one night only to raise money for medical bills. They said this on their website:

For one night only The Ergs! and Hunchback will reunite to kick medical bills in the arse. Jackie Nixon (J Nixon’s mom) is battling cancer. We want her and her family to use their energy to fight this disease, not worry about bills. Help us help them and come support this cause! All proceeds go directly to the Nixon family. Information about the show is on Lauren Measure’s amazing flier. Tickets go on sale (prob next tuesday? finding out today) Also on sale that day: posters drawn by Perry Shall, Marissa Paternoster, Jason Insult, and Mike Diana! Tshirts designed by Bryan

The show is set for December 3, 2010 at Asbury Lanes and will also feature Hunchback.
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Epitaph Records signing Heartsounds have booked a number of supporting dates over the next few weeks. Along with a show at The Fest 9, the band will be supporting A Wilhelm Scream, Alkaline Trio and Bouncing Souls over the next month.

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We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• Envy – Recitation
• Jimmy Eat World / We Were Promised Jetpacks – live in New York
• OFF! – 1st EP
• Unbroken / Ceremony / Ritual – live in London
• Negative Approach – Friends of No One EP
• After the Fall – Eradication
• Various – Too Much Music… Too Many Bands: Twenty Years of Boss Tuneage Records
• Gatorface – Wasted Monuments
• The Dead Girls – Out of Earshot 12″
• Salinas – Salinas

You can check out any of our 9708 reviews right here.
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Drag The River, a band that is still bad at breaking up, have released a new collection of demos entitled 2010 Demons. The album compiles 10 of 24 songs the band tracked this past summer that’ll eventually be re-recorded for a new studio album in 2011.

It’s available as a donation-based download at their Bandcamp page. German label Hometown Caravan will be releasing 2010 Demons on vinyl; more info on that is available here.
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The UK’s Rebellion Festival has announced the beginning of their 2011 lineup. So far, the Blackpool-based festival has confirmed Cock Sparrer, The Damned, The Boys, Anti-Nowhere League, Major Accident, Goldblade, Random Hand, The Restarts, Bootstroke (Greece), Splodgenessabounds, Reazione, Drongos for Europe, Kunt and the Gang, Dirty Revolution, Rust (Australia), Jaya the Cat, Instant Agony, Choking Susan (USA), Picture Frame Seduction, Pink Hearse, Threats, Short Bus Window Lickers, Monkish, Fire Exit, Chas Palmer Williams ( Lightyear) and Hotwired.

It will take place next August from the 4th through the 7th.
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Once upon a time, in a galaxy of 78 planets called The Keywork, Coheed and Cambria Kilgannon fight a battle that ultimately leads to deaths of themselves and their children. This past Spring, Coheed and Cambria released Year of the Black Rainbow, the latest, but first chapter in the Armory Wars saga – a four-part science fiction concept that has guided all of the band’s albums since its debut with Second Stage Turbine Blade back in 2002. Geeky? Yes. Pretentious? Maybe. Unique? Absolutely. Drummer Chris Pennie wasted some holiday time from his home in north-west New Jersey to chat with Punknews contributor Gen Handley about life in Coheed and Cambria, his past in the Dillinger Escape Plan and how playing drums for Coheed songs on Rock Band isn’t exactly comparable to the real thing.
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The third leg of the Where’s The Band? Tour has been announced, this time covering five dates on the east coast and featuring Dustin Kensrue (Thrice), Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams), Chris Conley (Saves The Day, Two Tongues), and Anthony Raneri (Bayside).

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Smoke Or Fire have announced four post-Fest dates around the southeast. All shows will feature support from Pericles and the final show of the run in Richmond, VA will also feature Frank Turner.

Smoke or Fire are gearing up to release their third full-length The Speakeasy on November 9, 2010.
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Micheal “Eyedea” Larsen, member of The Rhymesayers passed away at 28. According to Twin Cities City Pages, he was found yesterday morning. His mother, Kathy Averill said this on his Facebook profile:

it is with great pain and sadness that I tell you my son Mikey (Eyedea) has passed away. At this time we kindly request your respect and our privacy as we process this devastating loss. On behalf of Mikey’s family, close friends and fans, thank you.

Our deepest condolences to his friends, family and fans.
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Rancid have posted the video for “Young Al Capone.” The track comes from Rancid (2000).

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