Against Me! has announced the dates for their Australian tour in support of New Wave with Long Island’s Crime In Stereo in tow. Both bands are supporting their new releases, with New Wave and Crime In Stereo Is Dead being their most recent releases. You can check out the tour poster here.

Additional dates are expected.
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Super Hero Hype has revealed the track listing to an upcoming soundtrack to the popular show, Heroes. The disc will include contributions from Brighton Port Authority featuring Iggy Pop , New Pornographers, Panic at the Disco, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Death Cab for Cutie, Imogen Heap and others.

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Mr. Shevchuk has recently posted a new blog discussing a recording update on LaGrecia’s upcoming debut for Suburban Home Records. He included:

After countless trips back and fourth to Exeter-Recordings in New Jersey, many beers and bottles of whiskey, chain restaurant meals, our record is finally finished. It will have 11 tracks and is yet to be titled. We have a mastering date scheduled at West West Side for mid March and are looking at a release sometime in May.

They have also posted the song “According To My Notes” on their Myspace page which you can listen to here.
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Mr. Shevchuk has recently posted a new blog discussing a recording update on their upcoming debut for Suburban Home Records. He included:

After countless trips back and fourth to Exeter-Recordings in New Jersey, many beers and bottles of whiskey, chain restaurant meals, our record is finally finished. It will have 11 tracks and is yet to be titled. We have a mastering date scheduled at West West Side for mid March and are looking at a release sometime in May.

They have also posted the song “According To My Notes” on their Myspace page which you can listen to here.
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Deathwish has signed Boston-based hardcore outfit the Carrier. The band made their debut last year with a 7-inch EP on Words of War, and released their first proper album titled One Year Later last winter.

The Carrier will release their new 7-inch EP, No Love Can Save Me on Deathwish soon. Recorded by Jay Maas at The Getaway Group (Meltdown, Shipwreck a.d.), the release promises “impassioned vocals and towering guitar melodies that sway and swell before crashing forth with explosive energy.”

You can check out some music on their MySpace page.
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Huntington, WV based pop punk band Sarasota have posted 4 songs on their MySpace page in anticipation of the release of the their self-titled debut. The band features ex-members of Digger and TConnie Dungs. The record is self-released and will be available at their live shows.

Virginia-based Conditions, which includes Brandon Roundtree formerly of Ferret act Scarlet, as well as members of Race The Sun, FIAD, Motion Picture Demise, and Tragedy Letters have posted a new track. You can find “The Machinist” on their myspace page.

The River City Rebels have posted a new track ‘A Little Bit Longer’ from the forthcoming, untitled (as of now) album. The band also plans to release a limited vinyl release of their 2007 release ‘Keepsake of Luck’ (Silver Sprocket / Springman Records), 200 of which will be colored. You can check out the song on their myspace page.
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According to a short paragraph in a recent LA Times story, veteran punk act Rancid are currently recording for three weeks at George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch.

The story notes:

Outside the theater I see some guys with tattoos and skater-metal hair. It’s the band Rancid, visiting the ranch scoring stage for a three-week album session. (The place has lot of music clients; the Rolling Stones, Herbie Hancock, Faith Hill, Third Eye Blind and Kronos Quartet have recorded here, some looking for the perfect acoustics, others for a studio with no pubs in sight).

As I pass Rancid, they are discussing the vagaries of punk-rock credibility while sipping tea and coffee drinks. I bite my tongue and keep walking.

Rancid is hard at work on the long-waited follow up to 2003’s controversial album, Indestructible. Earlier this year, the band issued B Sides and C Sides.
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Looks like Fall Out Boy‘s recently announced Michael Jackson cover was further along than first indicated. The final studio version of the track (featuring John Mayer) can now be streamed online. To their credit, it’s a lot more faithful than this cover.

You can check it out here.
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Anti- has signed William Elliott Whitmore. Details on William Elliot Whitmore’s Anti- debut will be available shortly.

You can check out some music on his website.
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