Lawrence Arms, Jay Reatard and Bouncing Souls are the latest additions to this year’s Riot Fest.

The three bands joined the already confirmed list which includes The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, ALL, The Casualties and feature Leftover Crack, TSOL, Municipal Waste, Anti-Nowhere League, Teenage Bottlerocket, Mustard Plug, Big Drill Car, Paint It Black, Valiant Thorr, Reagan Youth and many more.

The event is set for October 10-12 in Chicago, Illinois. The three-day event will take place in several venues across Chicago, including the Congress Theatre (October 12), House of Blues (October 10), Double Door and Cobra Lounge (October 10 and 11).
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Suburban Home Records has announced that they will be releasing Bridge, the upcoming solo effort from Lagwagon vocalist Joey Cape.

Virgil Dickerson of Suburban Home says

For those of you who don’t know, Joey Cape is the front man of Lagwagon, Bad Astronaut, and one of the singer/songwriters of the Suburban Home act, the Playing Favorites. I first met Joey through his label, My Records. Besides being an amazing musician, Joey ran one of my favorite labels in the late 90’s. He put out the first albums by both Nerf Herder and Adventures of Jet and put out a few releases for Armchair Martian, all bands I love. He has remained relevant over 20 plus years of writing and recording music and he is recording some of his greatest music now.Source Continue reading Suburban Home to release upcoming Joey Cape (Lagwagon) album →

Fort Wayne, Indiana’s garage / blues / punk duo Left Lane Cruiser are headed out on the ” Hillgrass Bluebilly” tour this summer with Bob Log III and Scott Biram. The band will play shows across the US this August with a quick hop over the Atlantic to play France’s Le Tractor Blues Festival.

The band is supporting their Alive Records debut Bring Yo Ass To The Table.
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Who’s driving this thing? As Brian goes off to discover himself in some foreign country, I, Jesse, will be taking over the new reviews. You can expect me every Tuesday and Friday through August 12. Bear with me. This is a bit harder than it looks.

• The Offspring soldier on with yet another release, this one titled Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace
• Architecture in Helsinki get jiggy with some remixes on their new EP
• Hifi Handgrenades drop their debut to some positive encouragement
• You may not weigh a ton, but Circles [Philadelphia]‘s new release does
• More at the reviews page

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Anberlin has unveiled a new track from their forthcoming release New Surrender. You can stream the song, titled “Disappear,” on the band’s MySpace.

New Surrender is the follow-up to 2007’s Cities.
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State of Mind Recordings has signed Nashville, TN’s Dolarhyde. The band, who lists MxPx, Lifetime and the Movielife as influences, will release a currently untitled full-length this fall.

You can check out demo tracks from the band on MySpace.
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Jack’s Mannequin has set September 30 as the release date for their sophomore effort The Glass Passenger. The album, co-produced by lead vocalist Andrew McMahon and Jim Wirt (Incubus, Hoobastank), is the follow-up to the band’s 2005 debut Everything in Transit.

The band recently embarked on a tour with Paramore.
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Household Name Records will release Milloy‘s sophomore full-length Creating Problems while Practising Solutions August 4. In honor of the release, the label has posted two tracks from the album online.

You can stream “Breach” and “Pockets” by clicking here.
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Alkaline Trio, Atmosphere, Flobots, Flogging Molly, Gogol Bordello, the Kooks, Mickey Avalon, NOFX, Pennywise, Reverend Horton Heat, Rise Against and Thrice are all slated to perform at Queen Creek, AZ’s Edgefest 2008.

The event will take place September 27 at Schnepf Farms.

Tickets for the fest are currently available through Lucky Man.
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Sweden’s Ninja Dolls have announced that former drummer Peter Bergman has left the band and are now searching for a new drummer. The band plans to release an EP titled Hemmingway is to be released later this year to be followed by shows in Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands. Check their MySpace page for details.

Rockaway, New Jersey’s Killed By The Bull has released one track off of their upcoming 7″ on MySpace.

Kent, OH’s Annabel have announced their Summer of Fun Tour with Delay In support of debut EP Now That We’re Alive. The song “Boquet Mines” is now online, as well as their acoustic Pink Couch Session where they perform the song “Parade Rest.”
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Eulogy Recordings has added Ocala, FL’s own Paddock Park to the label roster. The band is currently at work recording its yet-to-be titled Eulogy debut at the Wade Studios (A Day to Remember.)

You can stream tracks from the band’s previous EP With False Hope on MySpace.
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Punk icon Jello Biafra and spoken word turned hip-hop artist Saul Williams recently gave an interview to Billy Jam at WFMU for the “Put the Needle On the Record” radio show. You can take a listen to the interviews here as well as the playlist of the songs played during the radio show.

Biafra recently recorded two songs for a seven inch with Zen Guerillas, while Saul Williams released The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! last year as a collaboration with Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor.
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There is a week left for interested bands to enter the Independent Music Awards. Punknews.org, along with members of Black Flag, Glassjaw, Biohazard, As I Lay Dying, CMJ Music Marathon and others will be judging the punk category and we’re hoping you’ll send in your band so we can take look.

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