Rocksound (link is temporarily down) is reporting another new side project formed while Fall Out Boy takes a break. The new band features Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley, Every Time I Die vocalist Keith Buckley and Anthrax guitarists Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano. The band will also feature bassit David Karon.

Joe Trohman explained the project and collaboration:

Scott's right hand is the reason I got into playing punk rock, hardcore and metal! Having Keith as part of the mix is insane, we all know he writes incredible lyrics but he is also a really good singer. That is showcased in Every Time I Die, but we want him to go more into singing than screaming on this project..

Drummer Hurley is also keeping busy with Burning Empires.

Dinosaur Jr. have begun announcing 2010 dates. The band will play a block of East Coast Canadian and US dates in January followed by a run through Spain in February and a trip to Australia in March. They released Farm in 2009.

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The Germs have announced UK and Europe date beginning now and running through mid-December. The band features actor Shane West, who played deceased-singer Darby Crash in the 2007 film What We Do Is Secret, stepping into the role as singer for the band.

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Spanish Gamble (formerly Dirty Money) have posted another new song from their upcoming debut for Paper and Plastick. The record is It’s All Coming Down and the album is set to be released in early 2010.

Check out the song on their MySpace page.

According to The PRP, Every Time I Die will be heading out for a spring tour with Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club and Trapped Under Ice.

The jaunt will form the band's 2010 Spring tour in support of their Epitaph Records debut, New Junk Aesthetic in 2009

In an interview conducted by our friends at Pastepunk, P.O.S. talked about some potential collaborations with Dan Yemin of Paint It Black:

Me and Dan Yemin have been talking about collaborating for almost two years now, just because, I met him at the Gainesville Fest a long time ago, and we already known that we were aware of each other through various correspondence via Dillinger Four in Minneapolis.

I named that song “Lifetime…Kid Dynamite” just because the chorus has a reference to Lifetime in it and I just figured it would be a good name for the song and apparently both Dan and Jason are fans of hip-hop, that was cool. I’m hoping me and Dan can collaborate in a big way, I’d like to do more just have him come sing out something or play guitar, I wanna do something big with that guy.

P.O.S. released Never Better in 2009. Paint It Black delivered the Surrender [7 inch] and Amnesia [7 inch] in 2009.

Check out the entire interview here.

Foo Fighters are on hiatus with members working on other projects. Nate Mendel is on the road with Sunny Day Real Estate and Dave Grohl has been supporting his new project, Them Crooked Vultures.

Dave spoke to Spinner about the reasons for the hiatus:

I think, to me, the most important thing was to give the audience a break from the band, not even that we need to stop playing, I feel like the world doesn't need another Foo Fighters record right now."

You have to consider a place like this, our studio, where when we come in here to do stuff it doesn't seem like much has changed," he says. "We might have nicer equipment, we might have a bigger set list, but honestly, it seems like everything around the band has changed in the last 15 years.

Outside of a few things, the way we work is still exactly the same because we never went into making an album feeling like we were the greatest, biggest rock band in the history of music. We've always felt like the underdogs. Going into make a record, I think it's important to feel like you're making your first record or you're the underdog because I never felt like we can just rely on the name of the band. There's no way. We have to actually try.

AFI have announced the support and dates for their first shows of 2010. The band will kick off the tour on January 15th and shows will mainly feature Bridge Nine Records hardcore act, Ceremony. Other shows will include Wolves And Thieves, Viva Hate and others.

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Carbon/Silicon, the ongoing project from Mick Jones of The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite and Tony James of Generation X have posted their second album for free download. The band, first announced in 2004, had become known for their open policy towards file sharing, making all recordings available freely online and encouraging bootlegging at live performances. The band has four songs available on their myspace page and countless more on their official website.

The new record follows their 2007 album, The Last Post, and can be found here.

Appleseed Cast has signed to Graveface and have announced a 26-date tour in which they will perform their two Low Level Owl albums in their entirety. The band will have a new live album available for sale on this tour, their first for the imprint Graveface.

Label mates Dreamend round out the bill, opening all of the shows on this tour. Dreamend features Ryan Graveface, the owner of the Graveface label and member of Black Moth Super Rainbow. Dreamend's latest album Long Forgotten Friend is out now on Graveface. Both The Appleseed Cast and Dreamend will have new full-length releases out via Graveface in late 2010.

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Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys and producer of the Bad Brains has joined ThinkFilm executive David Fenkel to found a direct-mail DVD program. The $150 subscription service, called 'Circle of Trust,' plans to ship a new DVD per month for its next 10 releases one week prior each film's official release to the public. Subscribers will also be able to purchase DVDs from the Oscilloscope catalog at half price.

Yauch told The Hollywood Reporter about his plans:

It's kind of like when you're a kid and get a magazine and you don't know exactly what you're going to get, but that's what makes you so excited about it, Hopefully we reach that level of harassment."

No word on what kind of films will make up the subscription services inaugaral lineup but the company owns the rights to Colin Beavan's environmental documentary No Impact Man and Oren Moverman's military drama, The Messenger. Along with his production and musical work, Yauch also frequently directed some of the Beastie Boys' more elaborate music videos under the name Nathanial Hörnblowér.

Kane Hodder has announced their two final shows before calling it quits. The band said this:

As you may have heard, the next two shows we play will be our last. Please come out to celebrate the end of the band. We're going to go out of this world the way we came in... with a crazy dance party. Kane Hodder will be playing 2 last shows with the "classic" lineup.as well as some songs with the newer line up.

The two shows will be a hometown show at The Coffee Oasis in Bremerton, Washington on December 18th followed by The 4th Annual “Home For The Horrordays" show with Schoolyard Heroes on December 19th in Seattle's El Corazon.

Sparks the Rescue have posted the new video for "We Love Like Vampires."

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The notorious homophobes at the Westboro Baptist Church will take a break from picketing the funerals of dead soldiers to go after pop-punk outfit All Time Low. The "church" posted an explanation of the reasons for the protest in their schedule, but the gist is this:

How do you know how far gone a society is? You look at their social icons. When you look at these gender-confused, haphazard freakazoids then you can plainly see that america is DOOMED, for real! This is the final generation, and a little concussion is the least of their worries. Here is what they have to look forward to when this once great nation finally falls - for her fall is already started. She is such a big, fat, disgusting, stupid whore that it is going to take a while to fall (brings to mind the comedy routine that Eddie Murphy does about his drunken cow of an aunt who falls down the stairs at each of their summer bar-b-ques as he was growing up). That is the picture of this nation falling slow, steady, hard and sure.

The statement goes on to call Obama to the Antichrist, before describing Cain as "the father of all musicians." For more information on the organization, you can check out this documentary produced by Louis Theroux titled The Most Hated Family in America, here.

The protest will be held outside the December 6th show at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia.

To celebrate the release of Cokie the Clown and My Orphan Year tomorrow, November 24, 2009, we've got some special prize packages from NOFX including vinyl, merch and more.

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