We've posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• Bayside - Shudder
• Tom Gabel / Emilyn Brodsky - live in Philadelphia
• Swingin' Utters - Hatest Grits: B-Sides and Bullshit
• The Ergs! / Hunchback - live in Asbury Park
• Useless ID - The Lost Broken Bones
• Pink Razors - Leave Alive
• Mansions - Mr. Boddy
• Off with Their Heads / Cobra Skulls - live in Cleveland
• Only Thunder - Lower Bounds
• Caterpillars - Caterpillars

Suburban Home Records has announced the signing of In The Red, the new project from Mike Hale of Gunmoll. The label draws comparisons to acts like Hot Water Music and Leatherface. The band is currently working on Volume 1.5 which will be their entire Volume 1 release recorded acoustically. And by year's end, they will begin recording the new album, Volume 2.

Check out some music on their myspace page.

Liza Graves of Civet recently visited TLC's LA Ink to record a segment on the popular tattoo-related show. Grave's band recently released Hell Hath No Fury and she spoke to us about the album in this interview.

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In a recent interview with Pitchfork, Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein discussed the possibility of a reunion for the critically acclaimed band whose final album The Woods appeared on a number of Punknews.org Lists for 2005:

Yeah, I don't think we're ruling it out. But it's not going to be any time soon. We probably wouldn't use the word "reunion" [laughs]. We would say that the hiatus is off. It's just semantics, but yeah [laughs]. "Reunion" is a scary word. There's some horrible connotations in the word "reunion" [laughs]. It involves a lot of, like, face makeup, and everyone commenting about how much older we look. It's precarious: the longer you wait, I think it gets worse.

Brian "Turd" Thixton of Les Turds has been killed in New Orleans. The band wrote about the incident in their blog:

I find out Brian Turd has been shot dead in the streets of New Orleans. I don't know so much how to take all this right now. I'm definitely angry at whoever shot him. I don't know the details but I do know that if you bring a gun to a fist fight then you are lower than cowardly. If it was a mugging then they are big piece as ass shit. You can look at Brian and just know you won't get more than 20 bucks and his life, any life, is so much more valuable than that.

I remember the first time I met Brian I was 16. He pulled up to my dad's house in a old big ass truck that would later come to be know the "Motel Dodge." He had Cannibal Corpse cranked and was sporting one hell of a mullet. He quoted the lines most would find most disturbing but he found most entertaining and would let out his patented Beavis and Butthead-ish laugh.

New Orleans has had "crime" cameras in the area for some time, but the cameras were damaged in the storm and so no information on what happened is currently available.

Our deepest condolences to his friends and family.

Cro-Mags have announced three shows in December. The band is performing with the lineup of John Joseph and Mackie Jayson from the original band. They will be joined by A.J. Novello (Leeway) and Craig Setari (Sick Of It All)

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Philadelphia, PA's Good Old War are offering the song "Weak Man" online through Fuse.tv. The song features vocals from Anthony Green [[Circa Survive]], [[Sound of Animal Fighting]] and guitar from Dave Davidson [[Maps & Atlases]] and is from their album Only Way to Be Alone.

You can listen to the track here.

With their new record in the can and ready for a February 17, 2009 release, Thursday have begun with the cryptic messages and other pre-album bits and pieces. To that end, the band is promising something for December 3rd, though it remains to be seen what that may be.

At the same time, the band has also posted a weird ambient collage on their myspace page titled "Black Smoke." The band is also headed to Canada later this month for a tour supporting Rise Against.

Long running Los Angeles-based radio station KROQ has announced the lineup for their upcoming 2008 Almost Acoustic Christmas. The event will feature a number of favorites including The Offspring, Rise Against, AFI, Slightly Stoopid, The Cure, Death Cab For Cutie, Stone Temple Pilots, Paramore, Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, Vampire Weekend, Hollywood Undead and more.

The event takes place at the GIbson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, California for two nights, December 13th and 14th. The full lineup can be found on KROQ.com (

Converge has posted an update on progress towards their next album for indie powerhouse Epitaph Records. The band said this:

We are currently writing for our new album, due out in 2009 on Epitaph (vinyl on Deathwish). We are also currently editing the upcoming "Thousands Of Miles Between Us" DVD for Deathwish. Shows? Some great plans ahead, news on those soon.

Along with writing the album, the band members are busy with a number of projects including [[Doomriders]], [[United Nations]] recording/production, Acid Tiger and more.

According to a bulletin from Descendents on their current status, drummer and producer Bill Stevenson is working on the next full length from NOFX. The bulletin doesn't give too much in the way of details but NOFX has been touring extensively in the past few years since the release of 2006's Wolves in Wolves’ Clothing. Stevenson was also behind the boards for that album.

Other plans for 2009 include US shows in January and February and a UK tour for next spring.

[[Less Than Jake]] have announced the first block of dates from their forthcoming Spring 2009 tour. The band will be supporting GNV FLA on the tour which will feature support from The Expendables.

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Members of Boy Sets Fire, Dear Tonight and Joshua Fit For Battle have unveiled a new project together. Dubbed Young Lady, the four piece recently recorded six tracks at Clay Creek Studios in Newark, Delaware and posted three of those on their myspace page. Their first show will be in Brooklyn, NY at Tommy's Tavern on November 25, 2008.

Check out some music here.

Chris Barrows' (Pink Lincolns) side project the Spears have completed its first batch of new material since the band's 2007 7" People are Bad. The band, featuring members of Hated Youth, Down by Law and D.R.I, will release their debut full-length this spring.

Indianapolis' own Lockstep has posted two new songs from the band's forthcoming full-length. You can check out "Hovey St." and "Phoenix Lament" on MySpace.

Deadlights (ex- Ace Combat, the Angry Toaster) has posted their new EP The Noisy Shore online. The tracks are available for streaming here.

We were thrilled when we heard our friend Mitch Clem would be publishing his first comic book, compiling much of his beloved Nothing Nice to Say material in a Dark Horse-issued trade paperback. So after reading through the book, we decided to get Mitch to tell us a little about his art, his process, Dillinger Four and a few other things.

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