This month Seattle's Big Eyes are celebrating the release of their second full-length LP, Almost Famous on Grave Mistake. Since 2009, four years and one US coast ago, they've been a hard-working band. Now based in Seattle after moving from Brooklyn, with a couple splits, 7-inches, and full-lengths under their belt, there's no end in sight - they've got a tour starting this month and a European tour in the works for fall. Punknews interviewer Stephanie Thornton had some questions for lead singer/guitarist Kate Eldridge about the new album, growing as a musician and bandmate, upcoming tour plans, and how to deal with being treated differently as a woman in the punk scene.

Holy Hell Records has announced they will release Jonah Vin's debut Awake In Your Sleep on July 1, 2013. The band features Look Mexico's Ryan Slate. You can click Read More for the cover art, track listing and to hear the single "From the Top" which will appear on the record.

Today's stream comes from Detroit, MI-based Old Gods. We've got a stream of "Slaughtered Vomit Doll" which will appear on the band's debut full-length Stylized Violence, due out July 23, 2013 via Forge Again Records. The band notabke features former Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Jeff Tuttle on vocals.

You can find it on their Punknews.org Profile.

Paramore have announced a string of arena dates in the Republic of Ireland and the UK, for September, 2013.

The band released Paramore in 2013. You can click Read More for the dates.

Today's stream comes from Orlando, FL-based Among Giants. We've got a first listen of their contribution to an upcoming split with Aspiga which is due out July 9, 2013. You can pre-order it here.

You can find it on their Punknews.org Profile.

We might go back to bi-weekly updates this week. FINALLY.

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

• Lemuria - Brilliant Dancer [7-inch]
• Mike McGonigal - Temperature's Rising: Galaxie 500 - An Oral and Visual History [book]
• Great Cynics - Like I Belong
• Vendetta Red - Scripture / Light Year Anniversary [2xEP]
• Peter Murphy - live in Philadelphia
• Ghostface Killah / Venice Dawn / Joie 13 - live in Baltimore
• Glossary - Long Live All Of Us [UK reissue]
• Manipulation - Manipulation
• Talk To Angels - This Broken Home
• Bad Ideas - Compromise [EP]

You can check out any of our reviews right here.

Ray Manzarek, keyboardist and co-founder of The Doors, has died at the age of 74.

Ray, who had struggled with bile duct cancer for a number of years, died at a clinic in Rosenheim, Germany. His wife Dorothy, and his brothers, were at his bedside. You can click Read More for the details.

The Clash have announced two releases to truly excite their fans. The first being a boombox box set titled The Clash Sound System. The box set contains "all of The Clash's seminal studio albums remastered, three-CD demos, non-album singles, rarities and B-sides, DVD of all videos with unseen footage by Julien Temple and Don Letts, original and newly commissioned Clash fanzines, exclusive poster, dog tags, stickers, badges and more." The box set is due out September 10, 2013 but can be pre-ordered here and here.

The Clash are also releasing a two-CD album of 33 classic Clash songs sequenced from their Brixton Fair Deal performance in 1982 entitled Hits Back. There are also eight bonus tracks and a set list handwritten by Joe Strummer. Pre-orders can be found here and here.

You can click Read More for more information.

Stick to Your Guns are streaming their cover of Inside Out's "Burning Fight." The cover appears on the band's upcoming split 7-inch with The Story So Far, due out on June 18, 2013.

You can click Read More for the song.

Trap Them have announced a few more tour dates this summer. The band reemerged this year to play the New England Metal and Hardcore Fest.

You can click Read More for the dates.

The Thermals have released a video for their song "The Sunset." The song appears on the band's latest album, Desperate Ground, released this year.

You can click Read More for the video.