A couple of days ago, we wrote that Bad Religion were rumored to be playing at this year’s KROQ’s “Almost Acoustic Christmas” and today, it’s been confirmed that the band will indeed be playing on the first day. Bad Religion will join Social Distortion, Jimmy Eat World, My Chemical Romance, A Day To Remember, The Smashing Pumpkins, and more. For full details, click here.

The band’s latest album, “The Dissent of Man”, was recently released on Epitaph Records.

Los Angeles based street punk veterans, The Generators, have inked a deal with DC-Jam Records to deliver the group’s next full length release.

This, the band’s eighth record, will be tracked at The Mouse House Studios in Alta Dena and produced by award winning producer Rich Mouser (Oleander, Weezer, Less Than Jake).

“We are excited to get back into the studio again and are fired up with some great creativity. We aim to fuse together the sound & spirit that we had when we started the band 14 years ago, with where we are today. We are stoked to be on DC-Jam Records and we really look forward to working with them on delivering this new release”.

The Generators will be touring both the U.S. and Europe in support of this new release which is due to hit store shelves in early 2011.

Pop punk legends Screeching Weasel released a re-issue their 1998 album “Television City Dream” on Fat Wreck Chords on November 9th. Now, A week later, Fat Wreck has made available for download the song “Speed Of Mutation.” Click here to get it.

Screeching Weasel came out with their last album “Weasel Mania” in 2005 on Fat Wreck Chords.

New York based pop-punk act Bayside have released another song off their upcoming album “Killing Time.” The song “Sick, Sick, Sick” is streaming on the band’s Facebook page.

“Killing Time” is set to be released through Wind Up Records on February 22nd, 2011. Aside from a live album, the band’s last release, “Shudder,” came out in 2008 on Victory Records.

My Chemical Romance have announced the dates for “World Contamination,” their full US/Canada tour in April and May in support of their upcoming album “Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys.” Click here to see when they’ll be in your town.

“Danger Days…” is set to drop November 22nd on Reprise Records. This album is the band’s first studio album in four years

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During a recent concert, pop-punks Yellowcard revealed that their new album is titled “When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes.” The band also performed a new song titled “For You And Your Denial.” You can watch it here.

The band’s last album with Paper Walls, which was released in 2007 through Hopeless Records. [Read more…]

San Diego post-hardcore act In Fear and Faith have posted the music video for the song “Bones.” Watch it here.

The track is off their latest album “Imperial” which was released June 15th on Rise Records. [Read more…]

Fresh off their Asian tour, Melbourne’s Backyard Surgeons have posted the trailer for their punk rock documentary, “No Anaesthetic”.  Watch the trailer here.  The band took Qiao Li on tour to document their travels in a part of the world many bands avoid.  This is what he had to say about the film:

“Melbourne punk-rock five-piece Backyard Surgeons decided in 2010 that with no money, no label and no help they wanted to go on a road trip tour through post-communist China and South-East Asia.  31 days, 18 shows, 14 cities, 4 countries, 1 band.  They walked, they ran, they drank, they fell, they fought, they swore, they laughed, they sang, they dreamt, they reflected, they learnt. They had the time of their lives. What started out as a DIY touring holiday became much, much and I was there to catch it all on camera.  No managers, no money, no limits, no regrets. NO ANAESTHETIC.”

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Talk about being asleep at the wheel.  Somehow it managed to escape my attention that the lead singer of Christian melodic hardcore act Take It Back! left the band last August.  As a trained, pretend-professional, punk music blogger there’s really no excuse for this lapse of coverage, especially since I really like this band, but I’m about to make it up to you punk news readers right now because there’s been a recent development.  A development that even the band has failed to announce yet and we’re going to beat them to it right… NOW.

Take It Back! is streaming 3 brand new tracks on their MySpace page which feature their new singer which may or may not be Keevan Merrill who helped the band out vocally on tour after former singer Nick Thomas left the band.  The songs are simply titled “Track 1”, “Track 2” and “Track 3” and man, the new singer sounds nothing like the old one.  Not sure how I feel about this yet.  Give them a listen and judge for yourself whether this is an improvement or not.

Take It Back! released their last album, “Atrocities,” last year on Facedown Records.  Nick Thomas left the band amicably to pursue academic achievements.

Salt Lake City pop-punks The Hung Ups have just added a couple of new tracks to their MySpace page. The songs “Beautiful,” “Hungover,” and “Robert Is Our Biggest Fan” are off the band’s upcoming album.

The Hung Ups last released “Red Rocket” in 2009