Quebec melodic punk act, Mute, are currently in the studio recording a new full-length album.  If you don’t believe us, check out this video recording drums in pre-production.

Not many (or any) details have been announced yet regarding the release but the new album will be a foll0w-up to 2008’s “The Raven.”

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House Boat (featuring Grath and Ace of The Steinways, Mikey Erg, and Zack Off-With-Their-Heads/Dear Landlord/Rivetheads) is heading into the studio this weekend to begin recording their 2nd full-length album, which they will release sometime next year on Traffic Street Records.  The band also added a brand new song to their MySpace page titled “Throwing In Those Weird Chords Did Wonders For The Copyrights And The Dopamines” and I have no idea what it is from or if it will appear on the upcoming album but it’s worth checking out nonetheless.

House Boat released their full-length, The Delaware Octopus, last year on It’s Alive Records.

Buffalo, New York pop-punk outfit, Lemuria, are streaming a new song titled “Wise People” right here.  The track will appear on the band’s upcoming album, “Pebble,” due out January 11th.

“Pebble” will be Lemuria’s debut for Bridge Nine Records. Be sure to check out all their tour dates here, these guys (and gal) are great live!

Okay punk fans, I’ve got a new band for you guys to check out. They are a French punk rock act called Brain Shake. They’ve posted a few new songs “The End of the World”, “50th Floor”, “Young & Free” (featuring The Rabble) & “Holes” off their upcoming sophomore  album, “Pills & Love” which will be released in January on Carnage Records.

You can listen to them here.

The band released their debut album “Human Comedy” in 2009.

Bass player Matt Riddle of the San Jose, California punk rock outfit No Use For A Name has been released from the hospital.  Singer and guitarist Tony Sly writes that requiring surgery after “some guy named Jamieson ruined his gall bladder,” Matt is recovering well but is still in extreme pain and will require post-operation attention in about a month. As a result, the band has no choice but to cancel their upcoming Almost 25th Anniversary tour through the United States.

In the meantime, the band will be working on their upcoming DVD and hoping to play their actual 25th Anniversary in 2012 while “narrowly escaping every single crumble of asphalt and dirt in a limo for an hour and a half only to end up on a bullshit ship piloted by John Travolta”.



Florida’s mysterious rock rebels Against Me recently did an interview in which they discuss their departure from ailing record label Warner US, and while frontman Tom Gabel is not worried at all, he is pointing some serious fingers.  Accusing the label of mishandling the band, Gabel says that “every radio station in Canada played the unfinished version of ‘I Was A Teenage Anarchist’ because someone fucked up.  And it’s just like, are you sure you’re paying attention to what you’re doing?”

On top of losing their label, the band has at least temporarily lost drummer George Rebelo, previously of Hot Water Music, due to that band’s upcoming Australian tour dates.  According to Gabel, “he’s the drummer of Hot Water Music you know so it’s not like us firing out our drummer or anything like that”.

Check out the full interview over at Rocksound.

Catch Against Me! headlining across the United States in January and February, and supporting the Dropkick Murphys after that.

San Diego pop-punk act, Love Beats War, is streaming all 3 songs from their brand new EP, “Watch Me Let Go,” on their MySpace page.

The EP was officially released last week on iTunes.

Pop-punk act, Orange, posted an update on their happenings recently.  According to said update, the band is entertaining offers from various major labels for their next album, stating:

We have been meeting with various major labels the last few weeks such as Jive, Sony and Warners just to name a few. Will we strike a deal? Who knows! But it’s all quite exciting as they’ve all approached us and really love the band.

Also in the works is a cover of The Beatles song “Help.”

Were almost done recording our brilliant cover version of the beatles classic HELP. Perry and I are sharing lead vocal duties this time and our good friend and fellow tour mate MC LARS will also be featured on the track! Can’t wait to get it out there especially as it’s just in time for the beatles revival.

They didn’t mention when the cover song might be released or if they have studio time booked already but we’ll keep you posted.

Orange released their last album Phoenix in September on Hellcat Records.

Strung Out are beginning to assemble a retrospective album and need some help from their loyally inked fans. The music portion of the album is already in the works, and will include a number of “surprises, both new and old.”

The band is asking that all fans with Strung Out tattoos send the band high-quality photos of their tattoos along with their full name, city, state, and country of residence, to be included in a massive gallery in the album’s packaging. You can email your submission to strungouttattoos@gmail.com The deadline is January 31, 2011.

The band’s latest album “Agents Of The Underground” was released on Fat Wreck Chords on September 29, 2009.

Progressive Hardcore act No Bragging Rights are streaming a new song titled “Blind Faith” on their MySpace page.

The song will appear on the band’s upcoming album “Illuminator,” which will be released on 1/11/11 on Blk Heart Group.

No Bragging Rights released their last album, ”The Consequence Of Dreams,” in March, 2009.