Oregon punks Clorox Girls have just posted three new songs on their MySpace page for our listening enjoyment. Looking At You is featured on the band’s 2007 album, J’aime Les Filles, while Genocide and Bad Girls appear to be unreleased. In a recent blog, the band announced that they will have a 7″ and 7″ split coming out soon, so keep checking back for more updates.

Listen to all the songs here.

Ex-Chiodos frontman Craig Owens and his new band D.R.U.G.S. have just posted a new video on their YouTube page. The video is actually pretty thrilling, and has great production quality. Think any zombie movie, yet not. While there’s no actual information or updates on what the band has been up to, the end of the video does feature Craig staring stoically at the camera before blasting into a clip from one of the band’s new songs. Watch the entire video here.

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Vancouver, BC punk rockers Cambridge sat down with Rebel Time Radio in October to talk about their recent tour, their new album and to pretty much just have a good time. Jesse Lebourdais also does a few acoustic numbers for the show. You can check out the podcast here.

Cambridge released their second full-length, “This Is Not A Victory” last summer via Rebel Time Records.

Life On Repeat have announced that they have cancelled the rest of their tour with Mozart Season due to unforeseen circumstances. However, they also had some good news as they have announced the completion of their upcoming full-length which will be out on Equal Vision Records early next Spring. You can read it from the horse’s mouth here:

“For reasons beyond our control, we have to cancel the upcoming tour dates with our labelmates, Mozart Season. We deeply apologize to anyone coming out to see us, and we PROMISE we will be back soon.They will still be out on the road – so we hope that you can still make it out and show them your support. On the bright side, we have officially finished recording our first full-length cd, set to release via Equal Vision Records in early Spring 2011. We could not be more stoked on how it turned out! Please keep checking back for updates on the record and of course, more tour dates in 2011. We love you all!”

The band notes that they will still be playing the Richmond, VA show with Conditions on November, 26th.

Motion City Soundtrack has unveiled the details of the first ever Popsickle Festival. The band apparently has plans to make the festival an annual happening and is meant to fill the void due to the lack of festivals during the winter months. Front man Justin Pierre had this to say about the festival:

“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.”

The Festival will take place in the band’s home town of Minneapolis, Minnesota on December 18th. The line up  includes the likes of Motion City Soundtrack, Minus The Bear and Foxy Shazam. For the full-line up, details and how to get your tickets you can visit the visit the Festival’s official page.

Boston ska-punks Have Nots are still churning out video updates from their Euro tour.  This one is a bit more extensive than the last but I have no idea what is going on in half of it.  See if you can make more sense of it than I can.

Check out the video here.

Have Nots are currently working on a new album to be released on Paper + Plastick.

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Chris Creswell, front man of the Canadian punks The Flatliners, has written a lengthy blog about the band’s prolific October. If you happen to be looking for a way to kill a couple of minutes, Creswell’s account is quite detailed and entertaining, looking into his experience at CMJ, The Fest as well as a few other little things here and there. You can check out Chris’s pseudo-essay here.

The Flatliners have so far been very busy touring in support of their most recent album, “Calvacade,” which came out earlier this year through Fat Wreck Chords.

Today Tampa Bay, Florida’s Underoath released their seventh studio album, currently on Solid State Records and Roadrunner Records. This also marks the third appearance of producer Matt Goldman, who produced “Lost in the Sound of Separation” and “Define the Great Line” prior to that. “Ø (Disambiguation)” is also the first album without any of the founding members, as drummer Aaron Gillespie, the last remaining of the original line-up,  left the band in April. His replacement for the recording sessions is ex-Norma Jean drummer Daniel Davidson.

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Having thrown in the towel earlier this year, The Methadones have announced plans for their last show ever.  The show will take place this weekend on Saturday, Novermber 13th at Reggies’s Rock Club in Chicago. The Methadones’ last stand will also feature support from The Soviettes, The Copyrights and The Jetty Boys.  You can find out the details and RSVP to the show here.

The band’s last album, This Won’t Hurt, was released on Red Scare in 2007 and have plans to release a B-Sides collection on November 16th via Asian Man Records.

Folk-punk rockers The Riot Before have announced a set of European tour dates starting tonight. If you happen to be one of our European readers, you can check out the dates here.

The Riot Before is currently on tour in support of “Rebellion” which was released in April from prolific punk label, Paper + Plastick.

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