Youth Brigade and Bullet Treatment will headline a show with Channel 3, The Stiches, Blockage, Werewolf and Fiction Reform. The show is to benefit Ian Mcdougall of Riverboat Gamblers who was injured in a bike accident.

The even will take place Alex’s Bar in Long Beach, CA, starting at 5pm and will include various giveaways and raffles from Volcom, Fat Wreck Chords, Basement Records, TKO, Razorcake, BYO and more. It takes place December 13th.
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While his previous band may have put out one of NME’s favorite records of the decade, former Libertines and Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty may still be crazy.

According to a AFP report, the vocalist was pulled off stage at a weekend music festival in Germany after he began signing Nazi anthem “Deutschland, Deutschland ueber alles” during his set, reports said on Monday. The lines come from the first verse of the “Song of Germany,” which was used as the national anthem by the Nazis.

Attendees at the on3 festival in Munich booed Doherty, but he carried on singing until removed from the stage.
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Bouncing Souls have posted the final track in their song of the month series. Titled “Never Say Die/When You’re Young,” The band explained the track: It’s a battle cry for the lifers to keep carrying that torch and burning it bright, but it’s also directed at the youngest ears of tomorrow’s generation. Find the truth inside, express it, and never give up.

The band is also promising to compile all twelve songs into a new CD, Ghosts on the Boardwalk, which is due out in January on Chunksaah Records.

Check out the new song on their Facebook page or buy it from their webstore.
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Matador has detailed the upcoming full-length from Ted Leo And The Pharmacists.The Brutalist Bricks will see the light of day on March 9, 2010 and serve as the band’s debut for their new label and first full-length since 2007’s Living with the Living. Check out the cover art at the record’s release page and download an MP3 of the first single, “Even Heroes Have To Die”, right here.

The band has also booked a handful of American east coast dates, as well as three dates in Spain. Following the Spanish gigs Leo will head to the UK for some solo engagements.
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In an interview with Spinner, Alkaline Trio guitarist/vocalist Matt Skiba speaks more about the sonic direction of the band’s upcoming seventh album, which will be co-released by Epitaph Records and the band’s own label, Heart & Skull. Skiba claimed that the band looked to its hometown of Chicago, IL for inspiration, saying:

“While we were there recording, we saw a lot of old friends we haven’t seen in a long time … We’ve always been big fans of Screeching Weasel, Pegboy and Naked Raygun, our forefathers in the Chicago punk scene. Hanging out with everybody then playing Riot Fest with all these great bands we grew up seeing, I think those influences seeped in a lot more.”

Skiba also cites Social Distortion as a big influence on the record, and notes that he wrote eight songs for the album while bassist/vocalist Dan Andriano penned three, among other things. Check out the interview here.

The band’s new album is tentatively scheduled for a February 2010 release.
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Weezer and Paramore are the first two acts announced for The Bamboozle 2010. The bands will headline the event set for May 1st and 2nd at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, NJ.

Tickets go on-sale this Friday here.
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Activision has announced the December additions to Guitar Hero 5. The game will be adding a three-track package from The Fall Of Troy with “Panic Attack,” “A Classic Case of Transference” and “Single” set to be added on December 3rd. Two weeks later on December 17th, the game will add Nada Surf‘s “Hi-Speed Soul,” Pavement‘s “Cut Your Hair” and “Sister Jack” by Spoon.

On December 22nd, the game will add “New” by No Doubt.
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Into It. Over It have posted a new song from their forthcoming split with Bob Nanna & Lauren Lo on Evil Weevil Records. The band is the new project from Evan Thomas Weiss of The Progress, Damiera, Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start and others.

Check out “Billings, MT” on his MySpace page.
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