Green Day have announced shows in Scotland, Ireland and England this fall. The shows are in support of 21st Century Breakdown which is due out May 15, 2009.

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Nightmare of You have announced their next full length and posted the instrumental title track from the album. The record is titled Infomaniac and is due out July 21, 2009. It is the follow-up to Nightmare Of You which was released in 2005.

Check out “Infomaniac” on their myspace page.
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Our stream today comes from Worcester, MA-based Last Lights. We’ve got a stream of the band’s final discography No Past No Present No Future.

Vocalist and songwriter Dominic Mallary suddenly and tragically passed away last December from a brain aneurysm. Nearly a thousand faces were present at his memorial services, including Andrew WK who performed and fulfilled one of Dominic’s wishes.

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Teenage Bottlerocket will be hitting the studio next month to record their Fat Wreck Chords debut. The band had this to say:

Our recording session at the Blasting Room begins next month. This will be our 3rd record with the studio. We are slated to track the new full length with Andrew Berlin, and mix with Jason Livermore. The yet to be titled record will be our first release on Fat Wreck Chords. We can’t fucking wait!!! We are also playing the Insub Fest Pre show at the Otto bar in Baltimore on June 25th.

The band released Warning Device in 2008. The album was voted the fifth best of 2008 by Punknews.org readers.
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A Wilhelm Scream have posted the second of their videos documenting their recent touring adventures. The band released Career Suicide in 2007.

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Whilst in the UK last week as part of the ongoing Supporting Caste tour, Winnipeg’s Propagandhi recorded a live session and interview for BBC radio’s ‘Lock Up’ punk show.

The show will air on Tuesday 28th April at 2-4am UK time, and will be available to ‘listen again’ online for a week afterwards here.
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Sounds like Mark Hoppus has inherited bandmate Tom Delonge’s gift for mysterious promises. The Blink-182 bassist spoke to MTV about their recent “video” shoot.

He explained exactly this much:

It’s definitely not what it seems to be. It’s not really a music video shoot, and it’s not really a movie shoot. It’s something that no other band has done, and the technology behind it is ridiculous. I don’t even know how to explain it. I can tell you this … when everything is finished, you won’t be seeing a big green wall behind us.

The band reunited this year and will be touring with Weezer in the summer.
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UK-based hardcore act Gallows have launched a stream of their highly anticipated sophomore full length, Grey Britain. The record is due out May 5, 2009 via Warner Music Group and is the follow up to Orchestra of Wolves which was released in 2007 via Epitaph Records in the US and In at the Deep End in the UK.

You can check out the stream on their myspace page.
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Long Island’s We Are the Union have joined Paper and Plastick and have released a new 3-song EP, The Gun Show Must Go On, which is available for $2 directly from the label.

We Are The Union recorded the new EP with Matt Allison (Alkaline Trio, Less Than Jake, Smoke Or Fire, Lawrence Arms) at his Atlas studio in Chicago and was mixed by Bill Stevenson (Rise Against, Black Flag, Anti-Flag, NOFX). The band will head back to the studio this June to finish recording their debut with Allison, which will be released this Fall on Paper + Plastick. All 3 tracks will appear on the full length.

Pick up a copy here.

The band self-released Who We Are in 2007.
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Frank Turner met up with Mike Davies of BBC Radio 1 in LA to perform a new track which will likely appear on his upcoming album, Poetry of the Deed. He released Love, Ire and Song in 2008 and will be touring with Fake Problems and The Offspring this year.

Check out the performance here.
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Haste The Day, The Chariot, Sleeping Giant, Project 86, Oh, Sleeper, Gwen Stacy, Agraceful, For Today, A Plea For Purging and Corpus Christi will be touring together this summer.

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Damiera has parted ways with label, Equal Vision Records. The band had this to say:

After nearly four years and two releases together, Damiera and Equal Vision Records have decided to part ways. We are going to spend much of this summer working on our next album, with a planned release in 2010.

They released Quiet Mouth Loud Hands in 2008.
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Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I’m Adam White and I’ll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here’s what got the community talking this week…

This was another week of Scandinavian music piracy stories. Many of you wrote in regarding the Pirate Bay trial in Sweden, in which the four founders of the popular BitTorrent tracker were found guilty of promoting copyright infringement. Meanwhile over in Norway a study suggested that pirates buy ten times more music than those who never participate in file sharing. The 2009 Lollapalooza festival will feature bands such as Rise Against, the Beastie Boys, Neko Case, the Constantines, the Gaslight AnthemM, Deerhunter and Lou Reed among many others. 88 Fingers Louie (minus Joe Principe) are set to reunite in August. This week also had pointed words for popular punk/glam metal act Avenged Sevenfold, who were called a “gimmick” by Avenged Sevenfold.

Against Me! is planning to release The Original Cowboy via Fat Wreck Chords. The record features never-before-heard demos for the As The Eternal Cowboy album. Face To Face is in the studio recording a Rise Against cover for an upcoming split. 311 have revealed the track listing for their upcoming album Uplifter. NOFX are streaming their upcoming album Coaster. They also performed tracks acoustically on MySpace’s Transmissions. Green Day posted a video for their new single “Know Your Enemy.” The band also announced a May 16th performance on SNL along with their upcoming tour routing. The Bronx also unveiled their video for “Knifeman.” Finally Social Distortion‘s Mike Ness joined up with a PETA campaign against factory farming.

Punknews.org is proud to continue publishing road journals from Mike Hale (Gunmoll, In The Red). Having packed up his belongings, moved out of his apartment, and committed himself to living as a touring musician, Mike has some tales to tell. Check out Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and now Episode 9 of For Those Still Standing. Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Comeback Kid (Episode 4, Episode 5), and Bridge and Tunnel (Episode 1).

This week’s Editors’ Picks recommended music from Disguster As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new full length from Allston, MA’s Kill Conrad, and Austin, TX’s Broken Gold (members of the Riverboat Gamblers. So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from NOFX, Mike Hale, So Many Dynamos, and Rivers Cuomo (live) with tours kicking off from Bouncing Souls / the Loved Ones / Black President (US), Fake Problems / William Elliott Whitmore (US), the Human Abstract, Vanna, Oh, Sleeper (US), Virgins (UK), and Testament / Unearth (US).
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