Nine Inch Nails performed their track, “Wish,” with help from Dillinger Escape Plan live in Adelaide last month. The original song comes from Nine Inch Nail’s 1992 EP, Broken and the song was covered by DEP for their 2006 EP, Plagiarism.

The footage is available in HD quality right here. Some other HD recordings from the same show are also streaming there.
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Ghosts and Vodka have resurfaced. The band was an instrumental project from guitarist Victor Villareal (ex-Cap’n Jazz), guitarist Sam Zurick (ex-Cap’n Jazz, Joan Of Arc and Make Believe), bassist Erik Bocek (ex-Tetsuo, ex-Joan Of Arc) and drummer Scott Shellhammer (ex-Tetsuo, American Heritage)

The band had this to say:

We just got done having our first practice in 8 years or something like that. Honestly I can’t remember the last time we were all in the same place at the same time. At any rate… It happened. We will keep you posted.

The band split up in 2001 and released Addicts and Drunks posthumously in 2003.
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The main lineup has been announced for this summer’s With Full Force festival set to take place July 3-4, 2009 at Flugplatz Roitzschjora in Löbnitz, Germany.. Headliners include Social Distortion, Bouncing Souls, Motörhead, Comeback Kid, Ignite, Suicidal Tendencies and Hatebreed.

Also set to appear are August Burns Red, Bring Me the Horizon, Deadline, Deadlock, Dimmu Borgir, Down, Maroon, No Turning Back, Parkway Drive, Terror, The Red Chord, Walls of Jericho and Warbringer

Check out the full lineup here.
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Saskatchewan-based three piece garage punk act Ultimate Power Duo are set to release their new record The New Normal on March 17th. The band recorded with producer David J. Taylor (Despistado, Sylvie, Geoff Berner), crafting a 13 track album that finds the once fairly irreverent band taking a darker turn. It follows up 2006’s We’re In Control Now.

We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length for you. You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile. You can also download the track “Jack The Space/Time Continuum Ripper.”
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All-American Rejects have announced the first batch of tour dates on their upcoming I Wanna Rock tour. The band is touring in support of their 2008 album, When The World Comes Down.

The run will feature support from Shiny Toy Guns, Ace Enders & A Million Different People, Vedera and The Upwelling.

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According to this Pitchfork report, legendary proto-punk Iggy Pop is preparing a jazz album based on the novel, La Possibilité d’une île. Iggy explained (somewhat):

At one point, I just got sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music, and I was starting to listen to a lot of New Orleans-era Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton type of jazz. And I’ve always loved quieter ballads as well.

The record is due out May 18th and a preliminary website is available.
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Looks like last week’s rumoured Sublime “reunion” rumour bore fruit. According to this report, original Sublime members , Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh took to the stage with new a singer and performed under the name Sublime; the first time doing so since May 25th, 1996. The performance took place on February 28th at Cantino Los Tres Hobres in Nevada.

There is a wealth of footage from the show available on YouTube here.

Last year, a slide show on The Bamboozle‘s official website also hinted at a reunion although Sublime effectively dissolved after the death of vocalist Bradley Nowell in May of 1996.
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The Phenomenauts have announced a line-up change along with west-coast tour dates with Peelander-Z, The Punk Group, and Maldroid. “JoeBot 2.0” and “Captain Chreehos” are being replaced by “Leftenant AR-7” on guitar and vocals and human “Chief Nick Wayzar” on the stand up bass.

Click Read More for the band’s upcoming west-coast tour dates.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced an early release for their upcoming album, It’s Blitz due to a leak. The band explained:

The cat’s out of the bag after IT’S BLITZ! escaped from our clutches into the big bad world last week. Why should some have and some have-not? YYYs have been brimming with nervous excitement in anticipation of releasing this record to the world! Leaks are NO FUN but it’s out of our hands. Can’t help but ask ourselves, “What would the PHILOSOPHER do in times such as these?” We now present PART II of the SNAKESWEAT TRILOGY, Mr. Brian Chase soothing our troubled souls in THE PHILOSOPHER. LUV YYYs

The album will be available digitally on March 9th and 10th in Europe and the US respectively. A physical release is set for March 31, 2009 in the US.
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Simi Valley, CA’s Strung Out have posted the track “Lost Motel” to Fat Wreck Chord’s website. The song appears off the band’s new singles and rarities comilation, Painkillers & Prototypes set for a March 31, 2009 release.

You can check out the track list for the album here, or visit Fat to hear the song.
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Moshcam filmed Jay Reatard‘s recent visit to Sydney, Australia and have posted a stream of the proceedings online.

Check out the show here.

Jay released Matador Singles ’08 last year.
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Shook Ones and Red Tape Parade have confirmed the dates for their tour of Europe and the UK this April and May.

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According to the bands Myspace page, Banner Pilot has set dates to start recording a new album and release this Fall. Bassist Nate had this to say in their latest blog:

So we’re in the process of writing the next album. We’ve got 10 or 11 songs now, at varying degrees of completion, and i have one more that’s basically just a demo on my computer with drum machine drums and stuff. We’re hoping to record in late January or February, but we’ll see. The end result will be 12 new songs.

The band released Resignation Day in 2008
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