Look’s like one of Blink 182’s fans doubles as a camera man because they recorded what appears to be the entire first show of the Reunion Tour. All together, 23 songs were recorded and you can watch them by going to this fans YouTube page. I guess if you can’t make it to the show this is the next best thing!

James Montgomery from MTV gave the following review: “Rather, it was like they had just emerged from a time capsule, perfectly preserved. DeLonge still battered his guitar (and slurred the words like crazy), Mark Hoppus still struck at his bass (and pogoed a lot), and Travis Barker still bashed his kit (and didn’t wear a shirt).”

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My Life In Black And White have just uploaded new tracks to their myspace page including, “Bombs On Blair Mountain” and “Frontlines”. These tracks are featured on their upcoming album, “Hold The Line” which drops August 11th on Horns Up Records.

This is a follow up to their last album, “Bottles, Our Breakdowns” released in 2007.  You can check out a review of “Bottles, Our Breakdowns” here.

Stereo Dynamite Records ska band Keepin’ 6 is playing the Cutting Edge Music Festival next weekend! They are scheduled to perform on Saturday August 1st, on the Budweiser Big Rig Stage. Check out their myspace page for more info and to see who else will be playing over the weekend.

Strike Anywhere will be headlining the Bridge 9 Tour this fall, and joining them will be Polar Bear Club, Crime In Stereo, and Ruiner…all these bands are on Bridge Nine Records, which would make sense with it being the Bridge 9 Tour. The tour will coincide with the October 6th release of Strike Anywhere’s new album, “Iron Front”. You can check out the tour dates by going to the show’s section.

Guitar Hero will be showcasing the Vagrant Records Track Pack on their DLC Vault Tournament.  This world tournament will consist of 2 instruments, bass and guitar, and will have different levels of difficulty (easy, medium, hard, etc.) The tournament setlist includes: Thrice’s “All the World is Mad,” Senses Fail “The Martyr,” and Alexisonfire’s “Young Cardinals.” Enter to win different prizes such as Vagrant merchandise pack, albums, and much more.  Check the Guitar Hero page to see more details to enter and win. Rock on!

If you are attending Warped Tour and like Underoath, then you should check out the Invisible Children’s booth to enter a contest to win a Fender Underoath/Invisible Child jazz bass.  Runners up will win drum heads signed by: Thrice, Bayside, The Maine, Meg and dia, Saosin, All Time Low, and many more. Click here for more details.

Underoath’s latest album, “Lost in the Sound of Separation” was released in 2008 on Tooth & Nail.

Arkansas hardcore act Take it Back! is releasing a limited edition EP titled “Rumors of Revolt” August 18th on Facedown Records.  Only 1,000 copies  will be made and the album will contain 3 new songs as well as 2 cover songs (Black Flag’s “Rise Above” and No Innocent Victim’s “To Burn Again”.)  

Take It Back!’s last album, “Can’t Fight Robots” was released on Facedown in 2008.

The Flatliners have been in the studio for the last 4 weeks recording their newest album and apparently they are almost finished.  Below is the update from the band:

Things are certainly going well, and we’re so close I can taste it. We’re done all the “musicality” for the songs, and most of the vocals. There’s only one song to sing now, so we’ve started to getting crazy here people. Paul and I embraced our inner flower-children yesterday and had a full on drum circle happening. Aside from us wearing cotton/polyester textiles, it was real tribal. We had our friend Mich Verrier (Cavaliers, The Expos) come in to lend his talents behind the keys for a few songs, and it sounds so smooooooth. We were also lucky enough to get the lovely Britton Allison (Cavaliers, mega-babe) to sing a little bit for us. And we’ve been jamming on a baritone guitar here and there, because we secretly want to be Korn. Sorry to say it folks, but Nu-Metal is coming back, and we’re at the forefront.

The Flatliners released their last full length “Great Awake” on Fat Wreck Chords in 2007 and more recently contributed to half of a 7 inch split with the Ceremonial Snips.

Guitar Hero 5 will feature the unreleased single ‘Medicate’ off of AFI’s upcoming album “Crash Love”, available in the game weeks before the album’s September 29 release date.

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“Rhythms Del Mundo” is a compilation album that combines “the sublime talent of Cuba’s finest musicians with the unmistakable vocals of contemporary musicians.  The result is a unique formula merging Afro-Cubano rhythms with some of the most memorable songs of the last 40 years.”

Why, you ask?  To raise awareness for climate change, of course.  What does this have to do with Punk music?  Well, almost nothing, except that Fall Out Boy is one of the contributing musicians, doing a distinctly Cuban version of their Michael Jackson “Beat It” cover.

Whether you give a crap about climate change or not, the album actually has an interesting line-up and some of the song renditions are worth a listen.  You can hear a sample of all the tracks including Fall Out Boy’s right here, and you can check out the entire track listing on the Full Story page.

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