Tom Morello, the outspoken guitarist, producer and activist from Rage Against The Machine has announced plans for his second solo album as The Nightwatchman. The record is titled The Fabled City and is due out September 30, 2008. It comes just eighteen months after his solo debut, One Man Revolution.

Tom adds:

My goal was to capture the energy and emotion of The Nightwatchman live shows. There is a much more rocking quality to this record, solos and riffs, mixed with darker acoustic songs.

Along with the solo work, Tom has been active as producer for the major label debut from Outernational and plenty of reunion dates with Rage.

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While his bandmate from Plus-44, Mark Hoppus, keeps busy producing the new album from New Found Glory, Travis Barker continues to contribute his trademark drumming to hip hop tracks. The latest is not a remix, but an official track with popular artist, The Game.

Barker recorded “Dope Boys” for The Game’s upcoming album, “L.A.X.” and has posted a video of his performance online. He previously remixed songs from the likes of Rihanna, Flo Rida, Busta Rhymes and others. Unlike previous studio videos, Barker has a guest in the studio who seems to be responsible for “shirtless hip hop posing.” See if you can spot him.

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Popular Mississauga, ON-based punk act The Fullblast have announced plans for a reunion/final show set to take place July 30th at the Reverb in Toronto. The show will be part of the Famoose Friends & Fashion Pelts Tour with A Wilhelm Scream and Living With Lions.

The band adds:

This will give us a chance to play one last show together – something we weren’t sure we’d ever see happen. Its really exciting and we hope some of you will come out, maybe some of you will even travel some distance to come. We’ll be playing somewhere in the neighbourhood of 15 songs – so it should be a fun night spanning the whole catalogue.

The band released Short Controlled Bursts in 2005.
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No Age have released the new video from their 2008 album, Nouns. Despite its awesomeness, it is Canada Day and MTV is celebrating the birth of the nation by making the video US-only.

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Funeral For A Friend have announced a title and release month for their upcoming self-released new full length. The album is titled Memory and Humanity and is due out on their own Just Us Records ln October.

The band also shared this with Rock Sound:

There is quite a broad concept in this record, ‘But the title is a good summation of what the album is about. A lot of it is Matt’s (Davies, vocalist) experience growing up and the memories he had from his childhood. There is also a lot of thought provoking stuff that focuses more on social commentary in the songs too.’

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