After news hit that Enjoy The Ride would be pressing Rx Bandits‘ 2001 album Progress on vinyl, the band posted a critical blog update on their Facebook Profile:

Apparently DTR is making more money from our album Progress by selling it for a vinyl pressing we were not asked nor do we get 1 cent from it, just business as usual for DTR ripping off bands.

The label has since removed the order from their website, but promises that the album will go on-sale on vinyl this Friday at 2pm.
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With their final recordings set for release November 16, 2010, The Methadones have also announced their final show. The pop-punk outfit will perform their final show on November 13th at Reggie’s Rock Club in their hometown of Chicago, IL. The bill will feature support from like-minded punk outfits including The Copyrights, The Soviettes and the Jetty Boys. Find out more here.

The Methadones split up in June after 17 years together. Over the years The Methadones released material through A-F Records, Thick Records, It’s Alive Records, Underground Communiqué and Red Scare, with the latter label issuing the band’s last full-length, 2007’s This Won’t Hurt… Meanwhile, Vapid continues to stay busy with both Screeching Weasel and Riverdales
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OFF! have posted another new song from their upcoming set of EPs due out November 23, 2010. The band is the new project from Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks), Dimitri Coates (Burning Brides), Steven Shane McDonald (Redd Kross) and Mario Rubalcaba (Rocket From The Crypt, Hot Snakes).

Find the song via Fader.
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Terror have announced a European headlining tour beginning in January. The run will feature support from First Blood, 50 Lions and Backtrack.

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Oregon’s Clorox Girls have posted two new songs, “Genocide” and “Bad Girls.” The tracks are expected to appear on a forthcoming 7-inch and split 7-inch coming soon, likely in the new year.

Check out the songs on their Myspace page.
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The newly moved Portland, OR based Seventh Rule Records has announced that they will be releasing the debut album from Brooklyn doomers Batillus. The New Yorker described the band as “a sludgy four-piece that slows monstrous Black Sabbath riffs to a crawl to produce highly textured compositions of droning doom-metal,” which means that someone at The New Yorker has actually seen a metal band play live.

The album is titled Furnace, and was recorded in Chicago by Sanford Parker (Pelican, Yob, Nachtmystium) with an early spring release window.
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Dallas, Texas-based Fair to Midland have signed to E1 Music. The band is working on a new album set to be released in Spring 2011.

The band has enlisted producer Joe Barresi (Tool, Queens of the Stone Age) to record the album. The new record follows Fables from a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True. Check out some music on their MySpace page.
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Did y’all think we would forget about bombarding you with live videos from Fest 9? As the kids say nowadays, “HELL no.”

Tonight’s installment features those cads in Fake Problems, who thought it would be cute to play an entire set of old songs at The Fest, sending the Sunday afternoon crowd at The Venue into a tizzy. Click below to watch the band perform “My First Million,” with Jeff Rosenstock of Bomb The Music Industry! on saxophone. The song comes from the group’s 2006 effort, Spurs and Spokes / Bull > Matador.
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For almost fifteen years now, Brent Eyestone has been a busy dude. In 1996, he started his own label, Magic Bullet Records, and put out Boy Sets Fire‘s first cd, This Crying, This Screaming…. Since then, Eyestone has expanded his operation and now runs the label in conjunction with Magic Bullet Skateboards in Fredericksburg, Virginia. While Magic Bullet isn’t necessarily a household name, a few of its artists-i.e. Charles Manson, All-American Rejects-certainly are. Don’t let those two names shape your opinions though. Eyestone’s Magic Bullet roster is chocked full of punk and hardcore mainstays, and all sorts of interesting side projects and reissues. Punknews interviewer, Michael Dauphin, recently caught up with the no-bullshit Eyestone to discuss his label, the artists and the shape of independent music.

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Black Cards, the new project from Fall Out Boy‘s Pete Wentz, have posted their new video. Pete announced the project in July and talked about the influence of songs like “Two Sevens Clash” and “Warriors.”

Wentz’ bandmates from Fall Out Boy remain active in a variety of projects, including hardcore act Burning Empires, metal project The Damned Things and performing with Earth Crisis.
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In an ambitious, if slightly obsessive take on film and punk rock, editors Bryan Connolly and Zack Carlson have assembled a 600 page book devoted to the appearances of punks and new wavers on film in the last century. It documents 1100 feature films and includes interviews with the cast/creators of works like Repo Man, The Decline of Western Civilizationand more. Some people featured in the book include Richard Hell, Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat, Lee Ving of Fear, Exene Cervenka and John Doe of X, Keith Morris of Black Flag and Circle Jerks, Youth Brigade‘s Shawn Stern and many more.

Check out the book here.
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Our stream today comes from Grand Rapids, MI-based Shores. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, Coup de Grace.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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