Warped Tour 2008 performer Katy Perry has posted her second video, “I Kissed a Girl.” The track comes from her Capitol Records debut, One of the Boys.

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Seattle quintet The Girls will return with a new full length CD / LP on Dirtnap Records this September. Titled Invisibles, the band’s sophomore full length was recorded by Martin Feveyear at Seattle’s Jupiter studios. Earlier the band described the sound of the record as “forging more toward a Wire/Devo twitchy-ness.”

The band now consists of original singer Shannon Brown and guitarist Zache Davis along with bassist Griff (Tourist), keyboardist Derek Mason (the Catheters), and drummer Elie Goral (Raz Rez).
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Charlie Angus, formerly of Canadian punk act L’Etranger and alt-country outfit Grevious Angels has become an MP representing Timmins-James Bay for the left-wing New Democratic Party in Canada. In that capacity he is leading the charge for Net Neutrality in Canada. (For those unfamiliar with the issue, please check out this “news” report.)

Angus wants Parliament to debate the topic, and his brief bill amends Canada’s Telecommunications Act to prohibit various forms of discrimination. His major issue is with the notion of internet users being referred to incessantly as “consumers” and talks instead of them as “citizens” and believes the Internet as a hugely empowering medium for democracy. Unlike the United States, Canadian ISPs like Bell Canada have already begin throttling competing services when they introduced their own video store.

You can check out some details and clips of a recent rally here.
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Thursday and Hot Water Music will co -headline a show with Paint It Black supporting on July 12th, 2008 at Terminal 5 in New York City .

Tickets at the 3000-capacity venue are $25.00 and available here.
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Jade Tree and Eyeball post punk collective Milemarker have announced plans to reunite for a tour of Germany and Denmark beginning in late June.

While the band never formally split up, they have been largely inactive since the release of their 2005 Eyeball album, Ominosity. That album followed 2002’s Satanic Versus
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Gatsbys American Dream vocalist Nic Newsham’s new provocatively named new project, Keith Ledger has posted the Monroe Demos featuring the first three tracks from the self-described punk band.

You can check them out here.
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1917 Records hardcore act Violation has posted a new song from their upcoming album, Devoured which is due out July 29, 2008. The band has also produced a mini-documentary of the recording process and you can find that here.
The song is available here: “No Solace.”

You can catch them this summer either at Sound and Fury, This is Hardcore, or at one of their tour dates with War Hungry and Let Down.
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Bloomington, IN übergroup Good Luck are in the midst of their debut tour. The band is currently running up and down the Eastern Seaboard in anticipation of their upcoming CD. You can hear six songs from Into Lake Griffy at their MySpace page.

The band features Ginger Alford of One Reason and Matty Pop Chart.

The tour dates can be found below.
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Blacksburg, Virginia’s The Two Funerals have posted a new song titled “Grey Skies” online. The track is from their forthcoming Tell Yr Story seven inch which will be available in August via The Cottage Records and come with a digital download. You can hear the track on their MySpace page.

Regensburg/Würzburg/ Zwiesel, Bayern Germany’s Red Tape Parade have posted the song “Towns” from their split with End of a Year which will come out in June on the German label Cobra X Records. You can check the song out on their MySpace page

Newtown, Pennsylvania’s Attracted To Miss, featuring members of Valencia, Procession Came Opposite, and Among Criminals have posted three new songs on their MySpace page. This is the first release of new music from the band since the PumpkinEater Records Compilation Volume One: Envision in 2003.
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