The Fest 9 has confirmed another batch of bands for their annual three day punk rock family reunion in Gainesville, FL being held this Halloween weekend (October 29th, 30th and 31st ).

The festival has recently confirmed: Paint It Black, Paul Baribeau, Fake Problems, 1994!, Aficionado, City of Ships, Franz Nicolay, Hot New Mexicans, La Dispute, Todd Congelliere, Living With Lions, The Takers (possible final show), Assassinate the Scientist, 10-4 Eleanor, Bent Left, Big Soda, Dickkicker, Dolarhyde, Douglas Shields and the X Factors, Dude Jams, Dukes of Hillsborough, Former Thieves, Giuseppe, Go Rydell, Gretski, Grids, Heavy Petty (A Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Tribute), Jared Grabb, Koji, Lindsey Mills, Little League, Mixtapes, Noise by Numbers, One Win Choice, Over Stars and Gutters, Pianos Become The Teeth, Punch, Rock Creek Jug Band, Rumspringer, Scum of the Earth, Shared Arms, Sister Kisser, Sleeping Spiders, Textbook Committee (Guided By Voices Tribute), The Anchor, The Bombpops, Timeshares, Toby Foster, Too Many Daves, Vacation Bible School, Young///Savages, Devout, Backpocket, Mauser, Divided Heaven, SMN, The Outsiders, and Towers of Hanoi.

In July, The Fest 9 announced a massive list of bands with highlights including Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Strike Anywhere, A Wilhelm Scream, Torche, Teenage Bottlerocket, Cobra Skulls, High on Fire, Hard Skin, the Suicide Machines, Valient Thorr, Smoke or Fire, Dead to Me, Defiance Ohio, Municipal Waste, Frank Turner, and Bomb the Music Industry to name a few. Also, this year The Fest 9 will be celebrating No Idea Records turning 25 years old with reunions from Twelve Hour Turn and Planes Mistaken for Stars as well as a whole cast of No Idea alumni performing.

The Fest 9 will host over 250+ bands over three days at 11 venues all within walking distance in downtown Gainesville, Fl.

San Francisco’s punk rockers Setoff are streaming the acoustic version of their track “…Dead” on their MySpace page.  The track will appear on the band’s upcoming acoustic release which they decided to record when they lost their bass player.

No word yet on the official release date of the album but we’ll keep you posted.

Michigan post-hardcore band Chiodos are streaming a new song on their MySpace profile. It’s titled “Love Is A Cat From Hell” and it will appear on the band’s upcoming album lluminaudio, due out October 5 through Equal Vision Records

This is the band’s follow-up to 2007’s Bone Palace Ballet and will be their first album with new frontman Brendan Bolmer. Former singer Craig Owens was dismissed from the band last September.

Dead To Me is back with 3 brand new punkrock songs released as a 7 inch called “Wait for it”. The new 7 inch will be released by Shield Recordings in Europe on September 10th and by Brick Gun Records in the US on October 30th. Until then you can stream the title track from the release right here.

Dead To Me’s latest full-length, African Elephants, was released last November on Fat Wreck Chords.

Ohio’s Two Cow Garage is coming out with their fifth studio album, called Sweet Saint Me, pretty soon. Vocalist/guitarist Micah Schnabel recently sat down and discussed the meaning behind the band’s first single off the new album, called “Lydia”. The video can be seen here. He also performs and acoustic version of the song.

Sweet Saint Me, released on Suburban Home Records, will be Two Cow Garage’s latest release since 2008’s Speaking In Cursive.

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The “Music 4 Cancer: The Cause” compilation will be released October 19th and they’ve finally announced the official track list from their epic lineup.  The 2 disc comp will consist of 48 songs, 33 of which are rare or unreleased, from artists such as Bigwig, Jason Devore (Authority Zero), Tony Sly (No Use For A Name), Joey Cape (Lagwagon), Rufio, Less Than Jake and more.  Scope out the full track list and list of contributors here.

Music 4 Cancer is a non-profit organization. It was created by Jay Epinat. Proceeds will be donated for cancer research. The reason behind the creation of Music 4 cancer is simple. Jay’s mother battled a Lymphoma. After months and months of suffering, she won her fight. A treatment found 5 years earlier saved her life. Without research his mother would have died. His goal is to collect money for cancer research and to promote punk rock and underground bands. I suggest all of you support this great cause and buy the cd. You’d get to help people and be rewarded with some great tunes.

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Here it is! Asian Man Records released some info on the Methadones final release. If you didn’t already know, the Methadones broke up a couple months ago. Well, their final release will be surfacing, featuring five new tracks and a handful of songs from a 7″ and their split with The Copyrights.

Check out the list of songs here.

The Methadones last album, This Won’t Hurt, was released on Red Scare in 2007.

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What was a Twitter blunder could end up being either really good news or really bad news. As some of you may know, Blink-182 has been rumored to be part of the lineup for Big Day Out for a few years now. Well, it seems like they’ll be playing in 2011.

Either that or the guy who tweeted this rumor will become #1 on America’s Most Wanted.

Apparently, this guy Danny Clayton, who happens to be the Channel [V] presenter, “accidentally leaked” this:

“Blink 182 are playing at Big Day Out. This is going to be the best BDO since 2000.”

Soon after, this loaded tweet was followed by a series of tweets that go like this:

“...turns out i wasn’t suppose to mention anything about Blink 182. Let’s forget this ever happened”

“Oh dear. You know when you read about those “Leaks” in the media. Turns out that’s what i am”

“Oh dear. I’m in trouble.”

Yeah, buddy, you ARE in trouble.

Now, this is nothing set in stone, as the official announcement for BDO will happen at the end of the month. But this seems promising. Hopefully it’s the truth. More details to come about Blink-182 and Big Day Out in general when they surface.

Blink-182 is currently working on their sixth album, their first album since their breakup and reformation.

Vacation Bible School have signed with Underground Communiqué Records in preparation for an as yet untitled full-length album. The band has started recording with Dan Precision (of 88 Fingers Louie, Rise Against) at Bombshelter Studio and with Joe Gac (The Catburglars, The House Gloria Vanderbilt) at Red Door Studios.

Vacation Bible School released a split with the Goddamn Doo Wop Band this past April on Traffic Street Records, another with Bi-Furious on Let’s Pretend in 2008 and a CD EP on Cassette Deck in 2007. Underground Communiqué previously released a Vindictives Tribute split 7″ with Vacation Bible School and Shot Baker in 2006; this will be the bands first collection of original material with the label.

The band will be playing the Fest 9 in Gainesville, FL this year as well.

He’s got a tie-died Rancid shirt and wears birkenstocks to work.  Is he a jerk? No, just confused.  Jeff don’t wear regular shoes.

You’ve heard the song.  If you haven’t, you don’t own one of the best punk rock albums ever recorded – “Punk In Drublic” by NOFX.  Anyway, turns out the subject of the NOFX classic ditty “Jeff Wears Birkenstocks” is indeed a real person.  He worked at Epitaph Records back in the day’s when NOFX was on the label and Fat Mike found it quirky that he listened to The Grateful Dead and wore birkenstocks despite the fact he worked at such a decidedly punk rock establishment.

Today, Jeff is in a Los Angeles based punk band called Punk is Dead who is set to release their debut EP “One Hesher, Two Punx, and a Hippy” on October 5th via Northeast Records. The band, also featuring Phil Drazic of Osker, is the only known punk rock band to exclusively play Grateful Dead covers. The EP contains six Grateful Dead classics such as Casey Jones, Playing in the Band, and Eyes of World.

Check out a couple of the tracks right here.