Spin.com is hosting a short, 15 second clip of a new My Chemical Romance song titled “Planetary (GO!).”

The song sounds pretty wild. Definitely doesn’t sound like the first two songs the band has put out, but then again those two songs don’t sound like other songs that the band has ever released. Click here to check it out.

My Chemical Romance will be releasing their fourth album, “Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys,” November 22nd on Reprise Records.

Swedish punk ‘n roll act Chuck Norris Experiment are streaming their entire new album titled “Dead Central” on Soundcloud. Click here to check it out!

“Dead Central” is due out in November on I Hate People Records. The band is currently on tour in Europe.  Check out the dates and locations here.

Underground Communique Records has announced a free sampler featuring a few new, unreleased songs and some select favorites from recent releases and a few kinda old releases.  The 14 -song compilation includes new, unreleased songs from Vacation Bible School, Olehole & Mexican Cheerleader. As well as previously released songs from: Hellmouth, Voice In The Wire, Explode And Make Up, The Copyrights, X One Way X, Shot Baker, The Methadones, The Honor System, Get Rad & the Killing Tree.

You can download it for free right here.

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Ever wonder where some bands come up with their band names?  Well, we do, and we’re sick of sitting around scratching our heads about it.  We’re hitting the streets (aka. “Internet”) to find the origins behind some of the more bizarre, intriguing or just plain random band names in the scene.  Every Wednesday we’ll be pulling the curtain back on a different musician and this week it’s New Jersey-based melodic punk outfit None More Black.

Our crack team of investigators have discovered that the band took it’s name from a line said during the cult classic mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap.” Spinal Tap’s lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel says while looking at the band’s album cover, “There’s something about this that’s so black it’s like how much more black could this be? The answer is none, none more back.” Check out a video of the movie scene right here.

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Whoa!  Blast from the past here.  Atlanta, GA melodic punk act Whippersnapper are back and are apparently writing new music after an 8 year hiatus.  You can even stream a demo on their Facebook page, though it doesn’t have any lyrics – I hate that!

The band’s prior release, “Appearances Wear Thin”, came out in 2002 on Fueled By Ramen Records.

In an interview with The Aquarian Weekly, bassist Jay Bentley was asked if Bad Religion would continue as a band after 30 years of recording of performing. He replied:

“As a band, you want to put out the greatest record in history. That’s one reasonable goal. [Laughs] You want to play Madison Square Garden once in your life. But all of those things don’t really make that much of a difference. I think right now, we’re in this wonderfully comfortable area where we’re allowed to create and we’re allowed to go and play. We’re just really happy. I think in 2000, if it would have stopped, I would’ve been fairly bitter. I look at it right now in 2010, and if it all stops tomorrow, I’m okay with that.”

You can check out the rest of the interview here.

Bad Religion is currently on tour supporting their new album The Dissent of Man, which was released almost exactly a month ago. Last week, they announced that they are going to release a vinyl box set featuring all 15 of their studio albums (including their 1983 long-out of print and forgotten album Into the Unknown).

A couple of weeks ago we reported that Georgia hardcore band The Chariot had made a new song available to stream on their MySpace page. The track, The Audience, will be featured on the band’s upcoming album, Long Live, which is set to be released November 23 on Good Fight Music. Here for you now folks is a free download for The Audience, coming to you courtesy of Shockhound. Get your free music by heading here.

Long Live is the followup album to their 2009 release Wars And Rumors of Wars, which was released on Tooth & Nail Records.

In honor of all the great acts hailing from Canada that are scheduled to play The Fest 9 in Gainesville, FL next weekend, donation-based record label JUICEBOXdotcom has released a compilation featuring tracks from The Flatliners, The Sainte Catherines, O Pioneers! and many more. To listen to all the tracks, head here.

For more information on The Fest 9, check out their website here.

Montreal punk group The Sainte Catherines are about to head out on a little tour across Quebec and Toronto as well the east coast of the US. The band just released their new album, Fire Works…..today, so they’ll be out on the road promoting the new jams. The album comes out on Anchorless Records and features 13 new tracks from the group.

For all tour dates, head here.

LA punks Drive A have been on tour the past several weeks, and have just posted a video update of their time in Canada. The band played shows in Toronto, Manitoba, Alberta, and British Columbia in addition to the shows they played stateside. The clip contains portions of Drive A’s live set, as well as the band goofing off around town, and a striking example of a Toronto-style ‘circle-pit’, if you can call it that. Check out the video here.

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