Our stream today comes from Swansea, UK-based the Arteries. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full-length, Dead Sea. The record drops today in the UK and is headed for a digital and vinyl release in early 2011 via Paper and Plastick.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Side One Dummy Records have announced a pre-order for a new 7″ single from Fake Problems. The wax will feature Real Ghosts Caught on Tape first single “Soulless” as well as two non-album B-sides.
Check out more info here.
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Canada’s Silverstein have announced their departure from their longtime home at Victory Records and the fact that they have begun work on their fifth album:
I’m glad to hear you guys are stoked for a new album from us, but the only thing true about what was reported is that we ARE working on new music. Our new record will NOT be called Set This All Ablaze, and we have left Victory Records. We have never been more excited for everything going on with Silverstein right now.
The band last released Shipwreck in the Sand. We spoke to vocalist Shane Told about the record last year.
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The award-winning fantasy strategy RPG series, Age of Wonders, is now available on Steam!
The complete first three games from the series can now be purchased as a Trilogy or as separate games. The games are fully patched up – master the magic, unite the ancient races and crush your enemies.
Playing alone or with friends, you will be immersed in the rich fantasy world, hand drawn graphics and strategic options. Start building your fantasy empire today!
The Trilogy pack contains:
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Cave In have revealed the details for their upcoming odds and ends collection entitled Anomalies Vol. 1. It’s due out December 14, 2010 via Hydra Head Records. Once out, it’ll follow-up Anomalies Vol. 2: Live at Mazda Palace, Milan, Italy 10/27/03. The album includes three originals and covers of songs from Bad Brains, The Cure, Codeine and Black Sabbath.
The band has been hard at work on a new full-length entitled White Silence as well.
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Saves The Day have completed recording their long-awaited full-length Daybreak; no other details are available as of yet, but we’ll keep you posted. Guitarist Arun Bali announced the news through his twitter account, noting that the band had spent 498 days working on the album.
Daybreak wraps up the trilogy that began with 2006’s Sound the Alarm and continued with Under the Boards in 2007. Daybreak was meant to conclude the narrative in 2008 but various trials and tribulations have delayed its completion until now. The band recently released a stopgap EP entitled 1984.
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The latest track unveiled from the upcoming Bad Religion tribute Germs of Perfection comes from Guttermouth in the form of their rendition of “Pity.” The track originally appeared on BR’s 1982 debut full-length How Could Hell Be Any Worse?. Head to Guttermouth’s MySpace page to hear the track.
Germs of Perfection is being curated by SPIN and MySpace Music and will be released for free download on October 19.
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Though Brand New Lungs is only a few months old, Swingin’ Utters have already announced plans for a follow-up in the form of Taking The Long Way, due out November 23, 2010 and boasting three more new songs.
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Juicebox Recordings have unveiled a new covers compilation entitled Our Favourite Songs. The comp features eleven Canadian bands – including Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, Junior Battles and The Decay – offering their takes on songs from Blink 182, Jimmy Eat World, Green Day, Atom and His Package and others.
It’s available as a donation-based download here.
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Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I’m Adam White and I’ll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here’s what got the community talking this week:
With that we hand over this Sunday evening to you, the Punknews community. From that glorious, likely bearded rabble we’ve see the creation of everything from message boards and Punknews fantasy sports leagues to even a band or two. So talk amongst yourselves and we’ll see you Monday…
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Topshelf Records have announced plans to pick up Grown Ups and give their recent full-length More Songs a proper North American release. You can check out a pre-order here. The band remains signed to Big Scary Monsters in the UK.
Grown Ups, along with many others, will be appearing at The Fest 9 over Halloween weekend in Gainesville, FL.
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The bearded rapscallions behind The Fest 9 have released the schedule for this year’s Fest-ivities. Turn on your printers, grab your highlighters and head here to check it out and inevitably groan about the conflicts to your message board or commenting section of choice.
The Fest 9 happens October 29-31 in Gainesville, FL and will feature performances from Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, The Suicide Machines, Municipal Waste, A Wilhelm Scream, Paint It Black, Strike Anywhere, Fake Problems, Frank Turner and hundreds more.
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