Run With The Hunted have unveiled a new track from their upcoming full-length for Panic Records, which is slated for a November 23, 2010 release.

Head here to listen to “Occam’s Razor.”
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Post-punk pioneers Gang of Four have announced a US headlining tour set for early 2011. The run is in support of the band’s upcoming album, their first album of new compositions in sixteen years. The record is titled Content and is due out January 25, 2011 via Yep Roc. The album will be available in a standard CD release and on vinyl. It will also be available in the Ultimate Content Can – this contains the new album on CD, a book version of an art piece Jon and Andy have done on ceramic tiles depicting the last 40 years of world history, a book of lyrics, a book of Rotoscoped photographs of the band’s emotions, vials of band members’ blood and a scratch and sniff booklet which reflects the key areas of human activity.

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Bad Books have posted their new video. The band is the new project from Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra‘s Andy Hull. The album features five compositions each from both Devine and Hull, with the members of Manchester Orchestra filling out the sound and the band. The self-titled debut was released via Favorite Gentlemen Recordings, the record label that was founded and has been run by Manchester Orchestra since 2007.

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Thursday will be headed out on a Full Collapse 10th anniversary tour in early 2011. The band will be supported on all dates by Underoath and the shows will feature Collapse performed in their entirety on each date. Vocalist Geoff Rickly said this about the tour:

Full Collapse was a record that changed the course and shape of my life. We began touring for it in basements and VFW halls, continued, opening for bands like the Murder City Devils and Rival Schools and ended up as a full time touring band meeting hundreds of thousands of people with whom we formed deep and lasting connections.

Time passes and we embrace new music and different goals but, ten years later, Full Collapse continues to move people and for that we are very grateful. This tour is a celebration of those times and the end of a chapter in the life of Thursday.

Prior to the tour, the band will be performing the album at a December 30th supported by Four Year Strong and Acid Tiger and taking place in at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ.
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Motion City Soundtrack has announced the Popsickle Festival. It will take place December 18th at Minneapolis’ First Avenue. Other bands set to perform include Minus The Bear, Foxy Shazam, Gold Motel, A Great Big Pile of Leaves, Now Now Every Children, One for the Team, Gospel Gossip, Take Cover and The Chord and the Fawn with more to be announced.

MCS Frontman Justin Pierre explained:

We wanted to start a festival in the vein of what Lollapalooza was to me in the early ’90’s — a bunch of bands that most likely would never have toured together, but were all doing something interesting and unique in that particular point in time. Our version of that will be much smaller of course, but the idea is the same. We hope to make this an annual festival that takes place in Minnesota every winter and hopefully can continue to grow in both scope and girth.

Tickets go on sale Saturday, November 13th at noon.
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After news hit that Enjoy The Ride would be pressing Rx Bandits‘ 2001 album Progress on vinyl, the band posted a critical blog update on their Facebook Profile:

Apparently DTR is making more money from our album Progress by selling it for a vinyl pressing we were not asked nor do we get 1 cent from it, just business as usual for DTR ripping off bands.

The label has since removed the order from their website, but promises that the album will go on-sale on vinyl this Friday at 2pm.
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With their final recordings set for release November 16, 2010, The Methadones have also announced their final show. The pop-punk outfit will perform their final show on November 13th at Reggie’s Rock Club in their hometown of Chicago, IL. The bill will feature support from like-minded punk outfits including The Copyrights, The Soviettes and the Jetty Boys. Find out more here.

The Methadones split up in June after 17 years together. Over the years The Methadones released material through A-F Records, Thick Records, It’s Alive Records, Underground Communiqué and Red Scare, with the latter label issuing the band’s last full-length, 2007’s This Won’t Hurt… Meanwhile, Vapid continues to stay busy with both Screeching Weasel and Riverdales
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OFF! have posted another new song from their upcoming set of EPs due out November 23, 2010. The band is the new project from Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks), Dimitri Coates (Burning Brides), Steven Shane McDonald (Redd Kross) and Mario Rubalcaba (Rocket From The Crypt, Hot Snakes).

Find the song via Fader.
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Terror have announced a European headlining tour beginning in January. The run will feature support from First Blood, 50 Lions and Backtrack.

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Oregon’s Clorox Girls have posted two new songs, “Genocide” and “Bad Girls.” The tracks are expected to appear on a forthcoming 7-inch and split 7-inch coming soon, likely in the new year.

Check out the songs on their Myspace page.
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The newly moved Portland, OR based Seventh Rule Records has announced that they will be releasing the debut album from Brooklyn doomers Batillus. The New Yorker described the band as “a sludgy four-piece that slows monstrous Black Sabbath riffs to a crawl to produce highly textured compositions of droning doom-metal,” which means that someone at The New Yorker has actually seen a metal band play live.

The album is titled Furnace, and was recorded in Chicago by Sanford Parker (Pelican, Yob, Nachtmystium) with an early spring release window.
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Dallas, Texas-based Fair to Midland have signed to E1 Music. The band is working on a new album set to be released in Spring 2011.

The band has enlisted producer Joe Barresi (Tool, Queens of the Stone Age) to record the album. The new record follows Fables from a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True. Check out some music on their MySpace page.
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Did y’all think we would forget about bombarding you with live videos from Fest 9? As the kids say nowadays, “HELL no.”

Tonight’s installment features those cads in Fake Problems, who thought it would be cute to play an entire set of old songs at The Fest, sending the Sunday afternoon crowd at The Venue into a tizzy. Click below to watch the band perform “My First Million,” with Jeff Rosenstock of Bomb The Music Industry! on saxophone. The song comes from the group’s 2006 effort, Spurs and Spokes / Bull > Matador.
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