Epitaph Records has confirmed that Weezer will depart on a multi-city tour to play both the Blue Album and Pinkerton in their entirety. Here is the offical press release:

“This winter (November/December), Weezer will launch a multi-city U.S. tour, dubbed by fans as the “Blinkerton Tour.” The band will play two shows in each market-on the first night Weezer will play the Blue Album in its entirety, and the second night they will play Pinkerton in its entirety.”

No official dates have been set, but stay tuned to Dying Scene for the most up to date information.

Smoke Or Fire are set to release their third full length on Fat Wreck Chords titled “The Speakeasy” on November 9th. A member change welcomes Ryan Parrish (Darkest Hour) who lends his talent on drums; while this recording marks the first time Gwomper (AVAIL) was part of the writing process since he took over stewardship of bass when long time member Ken Gurley left the band.

Take a peek at what vocalist Joe McMahon had to say about recording The Speakeasy below:

We were so happy to be able to record the new record with Matt Allison in Chicago. Matt is not only a great friend of ours, but really becomes the 5th member of the group when you’re in the studio with him. We were working with a pretty slim time period on this record, and everyone really showed up. Ryan Parrish killed it on drums, and made such great contributions during the writing process. It was also a lot of fun to watch Gwomper record his Bass on the record. He gets so into it, I think he moves around more while he’s recording than he does on stage. The only hitch we ran into was me losing my voice half way through recording vocals. When that happens all you can do is wait until it comes back, and you have no idea how long that’s going to be. It took 6 days before I could start singing again. When the record was finished, Jeremy and I both agreed it was the first time we had left the studio with everything coming out exactly the way we wanted. The songs, the artwork…everything. We couldn’t be happier with this record.

The band released the 7 inch, Prehistoric Knife Fight, earlier this year through Fat Wreck.

Manitoba political punkers Terrorist are currently in the studio recording new tracks for a digital EP tentatively titled “Seditious Libel,” a testament to an old buzz word used to persecute early anarchists.  Here’s the update from the band:

We recorded all the vocal tracks last night, and all that remains is a final guitar session, to beef up the rhythm and lead tracks. Sonically I am super impressed with whats come out of us, and for the first time in a long time, am satisfied with my lyrical content. Its really hard dealing with the issues we try to tackle in a musical way. The songs are so fast that there is no time for lyrical meandering, and we have to cut to the quick, making it difficult to express such complex ideas.

The plan for these tracks is a digital EP for free download and maybe a tape/CD pressing. But primarily the songs will be available to download off of myspace/itunes, etc. So some places you will see this shit for free, others for pay.

Chicago-based punk band Rise Against have released the trailer for their upcoming DVD  Another Station, Another Mile and you can check it out right here.

The DVD will be released on October 5, 2010 on DGC/Interscope Records and will be available worldwide and also digitally through iTunes. It features performances of 14 songs recorded in locations throughout the world. These performances are interspersed with interviews with each band member of the band revealing the creative process that goes into making a Rise Against song and the history of each individual band member.

To view the DVD tracklist and a new clip from the DVD go here.

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Gypsy punks Gogol Bordello have released the music video for “Immigraniada”, off their latest album “Trans-Continental Hustle”, which hit stores in April, 2010 on SideOneDummy Records.

Click here to check it out!

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So this isn’t exactly set in stone but it looks pretty promising.  On the website of British online retailer, hmv.com, a pre-order has gone up for a new My Chemical Romance album titled “Danger Days: True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys.”  No official information has been released publicly yet by the band regarding the title or the release date but according to the listing the UK release date for the album is November 22nd.  It even shows an image of the cover art which you can see on this page.

The new album will be a follow up to 2008’s critically accalaimed The Black Parade.

You already know that Jim Lindberg, former front man of seminal punk outfit Pennywise, left the band last August. You already know that Pennywise found his replacement in Ignite vocalist Zoli Teglas and are currently working on a new album. You also probably know about the brawl that went down between a couple Pennywise members and a fellow band on this summer’s Warped Tour. You know about these things because you’ve read the press releases, or variations of them, fed to you by PR teams. But you only know what they want you to know. Unfortunately, “official statements” are usually nothing more than watered down marketing messages spun up by publicists and designed to suppress controversy and promote a positive public image. Well, that wasn’t good enough for us. We wanted the truth about why in the hell Lindberg would just up and leave a successful band he fronted for decades. We wanted to get a straight answer about when we could expect to see this new Pennywise album they keep talking about. And we wanted to know what Fletcher really thought about the band that got him tazed 5 times and thrown in jail for a night during this summer’s Warped Tour. After midnight, on a chilly night in Vermont we got exactly what we were looking for and more in a surprisingly candid interview with the big man himself, guitarist Fletcher Dragge, and bassist Randy Bradburry.

Check out the interview here and prepare yourself for the real, no bullshit answers you won’t find between the lines of an official press release.

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Michiganders, Small Brown Bike, have provided us with the second studio update for their upcoming No Idea Records release.  Not a ton of action in the video as they just recently began recording (with producer J. Robbins of Against Me! and Mewithoutyou fame), but it’s still a nice peek into what the album will be like.

Small Brown Bike issued a couple of 7″s recently.  Entitled Composite, Vol. 1 and Composite, Vol. 2, the EPs were released late last year and earlier this year, respectively.  This upcoming LP will be the band’s first in seven years since 2003’s The River Bed.

To commemorate the reforming of indie rock band, Pavement, Jimmy Fallon and his Late Night crew have launched a contest in which fans can have the opportunity to play on-stage with the band on the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show.  It’s too late to enter, but you can still vote for your favorite finalist here.

Amongst the contestants was an entry from Motion City Soundtrack singer, Justin Pierre.  Justin covered Pavement’s We Dance from the comfort of his living room/library.  (Un)forunately, Pierre wasn’t selected as a finalist, but he did a pretty bang-up job on the track.  Watch/listen here.

Motion City Soundtrack will be embarking on a six-week-long US tour beginning early October, co-headlined by Say Anything and with Saves The Day as support.  Check out the dates and locations here.

MCM’s latest album My Dinosaur Life was released January 19th on Columbia Records.

Missouri progressive punkers, Black For A Second, have uploaded what seems to be a new recording entitled Retarded Brains.  No word whether it’s from an upcoming release or if it’s been dug from the archives, but according to I Hate Punk Rock Records, the band will soon be releasing a split 7″ and a CD/LP.  If you like One Man Army, give this a listen!  Head over to the band’s MySpace to hear Retarded Brains and check out the other couple of tracks they have up there, too.

Black For A Second has a 2008 self-titled release out which can be purchased through iTunes (btw, have you seen iTunes Instant?  Rad!) or at one of their shows.