Streetlight Manifesto recently revealed some information about their plans for the foreseeable future in the form of a lengthy blog post on their MySpace. The band talks about their new album (of original material), an upcoming tour and even a curious little contest. The band notes that the upcoming album will be their last with Victory Records and their last corporate label release for that matter. You can read the post right here.

The band released the first installment of their “99 Songs Of Revolution” project earlier this year via Victory Records.

Anchorless Records has recently posted a video interview with Canadian punk rockers The Sainte Catherines. The band explains the significance of the album’s name as well as a few tid bits about the new songs, why they’re not as “macho” and discussed some of the little hiccups that occurred during the writing process. You can check out the video right here.

The Sainte Catherines will release “Fire Works” on October 26th, 2010 via Anchorless Records.

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Hardcore/Metalcore act, Auburn, has posted a new song up for your listening pleasure. You can listen to “Follow The Freeman” on the band’s MySpace page.

The Massachusetts’ band is currently working on their upcoming debut full-length to be released later this year.

Shortly after celebrating their 10 years as a 3-piece act, Gainsville’s natives Grabass Charlestons have decided to add a fourth member to their line up. The arrangement will feature Ryan Quinney (Fiya, Holopaw, Nervous Dogs) on drums while former drummer Will Thomas will move on to take up vocal and second guitar duties for the band.

The Florida act will debut their new line-up at this year’s upcoming The Fest 9.

The wait is finally over, folks. Myspace has teamed up with SPIN magazine to bring you “Germs Of Perfection” a tribute cover album to the legendary and still highly influential Los Angeles punk act, Bad Religion. You can find the free download of the tribute at Bad Religion’s MySpace page here (It’s in the upper left-hand corner right on the “The Dissent Of Man” banner).

The tribute features notable artist from all across the rock spectrum covering songs from the entire span of Bad Religion’s extensive discography. Some notable numbers include Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, Polar Bear Club, Frank Turner and even Switchfoot. There’s pretty much no reason not to get this.

The influential band is still going strong as of late with a new album under their belt and an accompanying tour. Frontman Greg Graffin has even found time to write a book in the midst of it all.

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

Los Angeles based street-punkers Dirty Filthy Mugs have premiered a music video for their song “Bodkin Downs” on BlankTV and you can check it out right here.

The song is the title track off the band’s brand new 7-inch released on BlankTV’s new record label, Patient Zero Records and you can purchase it right here.

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According to their recent blog post, Austrian punk rockers Red Lights Flash have called it quits. The band had this to say about the break up:

Dear friends, we say good bye!

14 exciting years have passed since we met and found redlightsflash as a very versatile project, both musically and ideologically, which turned out to be way more successful and exciting than we thought. Today, still the same 4 guys, but 4 albums, 65 songs, 14 tours, 700 shows in 18 different countries later, we decided to break new grounds in our lives. We all look forward to these upcoming challenges and projects, but on the other hand it will get impossible to give Redlightsflash – our passion and family – the time it deserves. Recently, we had the chance to play the biggest shows in our history and we have recorded an album, that we simply love – and so we had the feeling this is the best moment to close the book. Or to quote Neil Young´s words: “It´s better to burn out than just to fade away.” The circle closes. We say good bye. The music stays. It all makes sense. So thank you and good night!

The band has also announced two farewell shows featuring political-rockers, Anti-Flag. You can find show dates here.

Beloved nerd-rockers Weezer have posted a new song up for free download straight from their upcoming B-sides collection, “Death To False Metal”. the new song, titled “Blowing My Stack”, can be heard and downloaded here.

Between tours, reissues and the occasional 10 million dollar offering to disappear all together, Weezer have been highly prolific the past couple of months and have even promised a new album next year (Probably much to the dismay of the people offering them the 10 million dollars).

Weezer released their latest album, “Hurley”, On Epitaph Records earlier this year.

Antillectual have posted another new song off their upcoming album Start From Scratch. The song is titled “The New Jew” and you can give it a listen (as well check out the liner notes and lyrics) here.

The band had this to say on the song:

The first review of our album describes this song as “the strongest song on the album”. Please decide for yourself. You could consider this another new “old” song. An acoustic version appeared on our “Pull the Plug” EP and we recorded a demo of this song during the recordings of the Kid Dynamite tribute cover. Because of an out of tune guitar that was never released though …

And what a coicindence, this song could not have been planned better. It was originally written as a critique of Dutch right wing politics instigated by Geert Wilders and Rita Verdonk. Thank god we got rid of Rita Verdonk, but guess who will play a crucial role in last week’s installed government?

Our pen pal this week is our studio engineer Nico van Montfort. He also recorded our previous releases “Testimony” and “Pull the Plug” and has worked with almost all Dutch punk and hardcore bands. Prepare yourself for a very detailed documentation of how we recorded the album you have been listening to in the last weeks. *Nerd/engineer/musician alert!*

“Start From Scratch” is planned for a November 1 release and until then the band will be streaming one new song from the album each week.

The band’s last album Testimony was released in 2008.

In celebration of the release of their brand new album, “The Fire”, Senses Fail have posted the full album stream up for your listening pleasure. Though the band had just recently posted clips from all the songs a day ago, it seems they couldn’t keep them secret from you any longer. You can listen to the whole thing right here.

“The Fire” hit stores today via Vagrant Records. Their US Tour with Bayside will also have it’s first show tonight.