The first batch of bands has been announced for FYF Fest (formerly Fuck Yeah Fest). The event will take place September 5th, 2009 at Los Angeles Historic State Park. Acts confirmed so far include Matt Skiba from Alkaline Trio, The Black Lips, Converge, Darker My Love, Fucked Up, Har Mar Superstar, Japanther, Lightning Bolt, Lucero, Mika Miko, No Age, Nobunny, Carbonas, The Thermals, Times New Viking, AA Bondy, Avi Buffalo, Cold Cave, Crystal Antlers, Dios, Eat Skull, Glass Candy, Katie Stelmanis, Kurt Vile, NinjaSonik, Peanut Butter Wolf, Telepathe, The Strange Boys and Tim & Eric.

You can find more details here.
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In a post on his MySpace blog, The Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon dismissed rumors of a planned solo record, as reported by the New York Times:

Hey there’s an article in the NY Times about me doing a solo record. That’s nice of them to write about me, but there isn’t any solo record planed. I’m neck deep in writing another Gaslight Record for Side One Dummy and I’m far too busy to do anything else. Thanks everybody.

Fallon did recently release a split 7″ with Chuck Ragan entitled Gospel Hymns, and The Gaslight Anthem will continue to support 2008’s The ’59 Sound this fall with a tour alongside Murder By Death, The Loved Ones, Frank Turner and others.
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Atreyu have set a title and release date for their next album. The record is titled Congregation of the Damned and is due out October 27, 2009. It was produced by Bob Marlette and mixed by Rich Costey. The band is promising a fall co-headlining tour with Hollywood Undead set to kick off in mid-October.

Vocalist Alex Varkatzas explained the title:

I wrote the line ‘congregation of the damned’ for one of the songs on the album and it got me thinking, It kind of feels like in a lot of ways that we, as members of a society, are just gathering around and collectively getting fucked over. When you look at what’s going on in our economy and how other people treat each other, it’s kind of like we’re all just lemmings. We’re lined up blankly staring blindly at nothing and just going along with the flow like a congregation of the damned. So this record really reflects my thoughts and feelings about that in every possible way.

The record is the follow up to their major label debut, Lead Sails Paper Anchor which was released in 2008
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Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz gave fansite The BR Page the following update on the progress of the band’s next album:

“I’ve also been writing some songs and am looking forward to demoing them with Brooks and the others as soon as they’re off the Warped Tour.”

Frontman Greg Graffin recently announced that the band does indeed plan to have a new album ready for a 2010 release. When released, it’ll be the band’s first studio album since 2007’s New Maps of Hell, which was repackaged into a deluxe edition in 2008.
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It’s Alive Records will be releasing a new 7″ from The Methadones entitled Gary Glitter on August 25, 2009. The record can be pre-ordered from Interpunk at this page.

The band last released a split with The Copyrights in 2008.
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Hour of the Wolf and Wolves & Thieves will be touring together this month.

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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 week The Fest announced more bands playing this year’s weekend in Gainesville. The new additions include a Gunmoll reunion show and apperances from Carpenter, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves, Vicious Cycle, American Steel and Drag The River. Dead to Me posted the song “Modern Muse” from their upcoming full length African Elephants. The band also announced that guitarist / co-vocalist Jack Dalrymple did not participate it the recording, nor will he join the band on upcoming tours. Bassist / vocalist Chicken insists that Dalrymple is still in the band though, he’s just taking a fatherhood sabbatical. With their recent reunion the Get Up Kids are getting all nostalgic on us. In a recent interview Jim Suptic discussed his love for Fugazi and outright apologized if the Get Up Kids’ influence help create today’s glam rock-like emo / punk scene.

Suburban Home announced the next three Under The Influence pairings. Look for splits between O Pioneers!!! and New Bruises, Joey Cape paired with Mike Hale, and Kevin Seconds with Kepi Ghoulie. Jello Biafra has returned with a new band dubbed Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. The band features Billy Gould of Faith No More, Kimo Ball of Freak Accident, Ralph Spight of Victims Family, and Jon Weiss. The record The Audacity of Hype will arrive in October on Alternative Tentacles. Banner Pilot has posted the track “Greenwood” from their upcoming Fat Wreck Chords debut Collapser. Panic at the Disco has unveiled the song “New Perspective” from soundtrack to the upcoming film Jennifer’s Body Label Paper + Plastick also offered up a free digital sampler this week. Chuck Ragan has announced the dates for the 2009 Revival Tour with Jim Ward (At The Drive-In, Sleepercar, Sparta), Tim Barry (Avail) and Dave Hause (The Loved Ones). Brand New has tour dates coming up with Manchester Orchestra, Thrice, and Glassjaw. AFI has shows scheduled in support of their upcoming Crash Love. Polar Bear Club will play dates in Europe followed by CD release shows. Have Heart‘s world-spanning final tour continues with appearances from Crime in Stereo, Cruel Hand, End of a Year and Foundation. The Letters Organize have announced a reunion show this August in Atlanta, GA. Fake Problems tour plans continue to fluxuate with the cancellation of four more shows. Finally this week saw a contestant on Indonesia Idol perform NOFX‘s “The Brews.”

This week we spoke with solo artist Frank Turner (interview), drummer Benny Horrowitz of the Gaslight Anthem (interview), Paint It Black frontman Dan Yemin (interview) and vocalist Efrem Schulz of Death By Stereo (interview). As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new 12 inch EP from Doylestown, PA’s Balance and Composure, and the new 7-song EP from Boston’s Ringers.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Darker My Love, Hawthorne Heights, Norma Jean, the Real McKenzies and Zebrahead with tours kicking off from the Breeders with Times New Viking and Whispertown 2000 (US), Franz Nicolay (US), Portugal. The Man (US / Canada), the Melvins with Down (US), Harvey Danger (farewell tour), and High On Fire with Early Man (California).

Also keep an eye out for Punknews’ Ben Conoley at PokerNews.com where he’s writing a weekly Poker Playlist.

Click Read More to check out our ongoing contests, new streaming music, social networking links and more.
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The Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club has announced a new full length album from Vic Ruggiero, front-man of The Slackers. Entitled On The Rag Time, the record features Vic playing an assortment of new songs, originals, and Slackers favorites, solo on an old-timey piano.

The Bicycle Club has also announced a new re-mix record from Boston’s Big D And The Kids Table entitled Rude Remix Revolution. The record features fifteen new remixes by the likes of Ben C of Sonic Boom Six, Blue Banshee, Paul Kolderie’s The Babysitters, dj BC, ATOM, Aber N. Stein, Babylon Party Machine, Scott Grella, Big D’s own Stovetop, and Bi Anal Ham Sandwich.

Both records will be in stores September 15 with distribution by the recently formed Independent Label Collective, but are available for mail-order now from the Silver Sprocket website
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The_Network have posted the first song from their forthcoming Blackmarket Activities album, Bishop Kent Manning. The record is due out September 15, 2009.

The album was produced by Kurt Ballou (Converge, Trap Them) at Godcity Studio and mastered by Nick Zampiello (Torche, Unsane) at New Alliance. It aims to “follow the epic story of a corrupt televangelist’s decline.”

Check out the first song from the album, “You Fucking Fakes,” on their myspace page.
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A brief clip of Brand New‘s upcoming single, “At the Bottom,” can now be streamed here, where artwork is also available. The song will be digitally released August 11th.

The song is taken from the band’s highly anticipated Daisy, due out September 22 on DGC / Interscope / Tiny Evil.
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Panic! at the Disco have unveiled their new single, “New Perspective,” at their MySpace page. It’s the band’s first new material since half their lineup was gutted last month. The song will appear on the soundtrack to the upcoming Cody Diablo film, “Jennifer’s Body,” the former of which is due out August 25 on Fueled by Ramen.

The band has also brought back the exclamation point in their name, as shown by the specific depiction of the band name in this very post.
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