Weston have announced another batch of shows next month and are also planning to release a new live record. Titled This is my Voice and This is my Heart – Live at Maxwell’s, the album is their release first since 2001’s The Massed Albert Sounds.

Along with 13 songs from A Real Life Story of Teenage Rebellion and Got Beat Up, the album will include one brand new song “Pucker Up Baby.” Each copy will include a digital download of an expanded version that includes 18 songs and some extra shenanigans and banter. Orders will go through Black Shirt Music.

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Hatebreed and The Casualties have announced five shows together to close out 2009.

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Our stream today features the brand new split 7-inch from Run For Cover Records pop-punk bands, Transit and Man Overboard. The four song split features two songs apiece from the bands.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Though they’ve offered little in the way of details or explanation, it looks like Portland and Seattle-based Anchor Down have called it quits. The band posted just a sentence-long update on their MySpace indicating as much: “(2007-2009) We had a good run…”

They most recently released Steel to Dust in 2009.
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Transit and Make Do and Mend have begun announcing dates for a tour starting in late December and running through January 2010.

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In a new interview with Unbound Culture, The Menzingers talked about some of their plans for 2010 and the follow up to their 2009 EP, Hold on Dodge and 2007 album, A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology. The band revealed the likely album title, Chamberlain Waits and expects (but not promises) that it will be released on Red Scare. They had this to say about it:

The first album was just a collection of songs that we had. We had some of those songs for a couple years and went through a lot of different changes, and when it was time to put out an album, we kind of just took what we had and wrote some new ones and kinda put everything together. But with this album, it’s all at that certain time and all songs we wrote from scratch, basically, It’s very reflective of everything – personally, what’s been going on in our lives, and bands we’re been listening to recently, and it’s very relevant at the time for us.

Check out the full interview, which also explains the album title, here.

The band is expected to hit the road with Broadway Calls for a North American tour in 2010. Recording is tentatively scheduled for January 2010.
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MxPx have announced another new release on their freshly launched label, Rock City Record Recording Company. The record is titled Punk Rawk Christmas and is due out December 1, 2009. As the title suggests, the 12-song album will feature a mixture of previously released and new Christmas-themed music.

In addition to the digital downloads available at most online retailers, the release will bring with it 3 physical edition variations: The RED Edition through Amazon on Demand, The GREEN Limited Edition sold on mxpx.com and includes 2 Bonus tracks plus a photo pull out cover and The Limited Edition 7″ Vinyl – features “Christmas Day” and their most recent track, “Punk Rawk Christmas”on side A, and acoustic versions on side B

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On the heels of the news that they’ll be supporting AFI, Ceremony has announced plans to record their next album in January 2010. The band will enter the Polymorph Recording studios with Dan Rathburn to record their yet-to-be-titled third full length in January of 2010 and their new material is “very simple straight ahead early punk rock, but other songs are pretty obscure, almost a Death In June sounding”, said guitarist Anthony Anzaldo.

They released Still Nothing Moves You in 2008.
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SideOneDummy Records has some photos of an elaborate new Gaslight Anthem-themed mural painted on the side of a new store in the Floyd’s Barbershop chain in Venice Beach, CA.

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Blink 182 will be entering the studio in January. Co-vocalist/bassist Mark Hoppus offhandedly referred to the recording session in a Twitter status update saying:

Listening to demos. [I] might produce a few things before Blink-182 goes into the studio in January.

The band had originally revealed intentions to record a new album after their 2010 Tour of Europe, but the band may have pushed up it’s timeline.
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The Strokes will begin recording their next album shortly. And according to bandmates Julian Casablancas and Nikolai Fraiture they could be doing so as soon as January next year. Fraiture said this:

While the guys are in LA, I went to scout some studios in NYC with Ryan [Gentles – The Strokes manager] today for what looks like Jan recording.

The band’s 2001 album, Is This It?, was named best of the decade by NME.
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Machine Head have announced a European headlining tour with support from Bleeding Through, Hatebreed and All Shall Perish.

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Helen Earth Band, which features former members of Counterfit and Finch, have released a new record, titled Our Own Ghost City.

The album is available via iTunes, Amazon, and Bandcamp, with hardcopies available through interpunk.com.

Check out some music on their MySpace page.
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