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

• Rise Against - Appeal to Reason
• Jolie Holland - The Living and the Dead
• Tegan and Sara / City and Colour - live in New York [first night]
• I Set My Friends on Fire - You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter
• King Tuff - Was Dead
• Decades - Numbered
• Street Dogs / Time Again / Flatfoot 56 - live in Chicago
• Coalesce - 012:2
• Smoke or Fire / Far from Finished - live in Philadelphia
• Shuteye Unison - Shuteye Unison

Georgia's Ninja Gun are still riding the crest of their latest album, Restless Rubes, released earlier this year on Suburban Home Records. What's more, the band will be playing The Fest this Halloween weekend in Gainesville, Florida. In our first in a series of interviews with bands playing The Fest, Michael Dauphin chatted with Ninja Gun's Jonathan Coody.

You can click Read More for the interview.

Red Scare has announced plans to release a tribute to Swingin’ Utters. The label explained:

Probably one of the most important punk bands to me and Red Scare, and in short, it's an honor to be involved with this. There's lotsa great bands offering up a song and you know we're gonna do right by the legendary SF punk band. We're thinking it's going to be called "Untitled 21" and look for it sometime in 2009!

Bands have already begun recording, but no word on who those bands actually are yet.

Today we've got fifteen copies of the latest issue of Define The Meaning Magazine, issue #7. The issue includes features with Matt Skiba, Toby Morse, Descendents, Loved Ones, Doomriders and more.

You can click Read More for the details.

Billy Bragg, Radiohead, Gang of Four, The Cribs, Klaxons and others have formed the Featured Artists Coalition. The goal of the group is to push for more control of copyrights and a bigger share of revenue for artists rather than the labels.

The group states their manifesto: No one knows what the structure of the music industry will look like in future. But all artists face the same challenges in today’s digital world, so we need to speak with one voice to help artists strike a new bargain with record companies, digital distributors and others. Together, the Featured Artists’ Coalition will stand up for all artists by engaging with government, music and technology companies, and collection societies, arguing for fair play and, where necessary, exposing unfair practices.

You can find more information here.

Our stream today comes from Long Beach, CA-based Joshua Lanes. The band is influenced by acts like Nirvana, Built to Spill and Naked Raygun and most recently released their new EP, The Dance Thunder EP.

You can check out the album on their Punknews.org Profile.

The Damned have unveiled details on their new album. The record will be titled So, Who's Paranoid? and will arrive soon via record label The English Chanel. The label will release the album digitally on October 28th, followed by a physical release on November 17th in the UK and the 12th of December in the US. The record will feature 13 new tracks, and you can find the track listing by clicking below. The cover art on display on the band's website looks like it may be a placeholder, but you can view it here.

The album follows up 2001's Grave Disorder.

All That Remains and the Haunted will be headed to the UK and Europe together in January.

You can click Read More for the dates.

Teenage Bottlerocket has announced a number of upcoming shows. These are in addition to their apperance at Riot Fest and upcoming dates with NOFX, Dillinger Four and the Flatliners. Click below for the details.

While they're in Chicago the band will hit Atlas Studios to record a few new songs. A 7" may be in the future, but nothing has been confirmed yet. The band released Warning Device earlier this year.

Rise Against will be playing a MySpace Secret Show tonight to coincide with the release of their new full length, Appeal to Reason. The show is set to take place at TT The Bears in Boston today as part of MySpace’s Secret Show series.

The band is asking fans to donate food which will go The Greater Boston Food Bank for entry into the show. The band has also partnered with Peta2 for the show who will be distributing literature inside the show. This is the first ever Secret Show in which MySpace have partnered with a charity.

The Greater Boston Food Bank's mission is to help end hunger in eastern Massachusetts. To achieve its mission, The Food Bank feeds more than 320,000 people annually in nine counties in eastern Massachusetts. MySpace Music has organized more than 150 Secret Shows since the franchise launched in February 2006 with artists like Gnarls Barkley, The Offspring, Neil Diamond, Slayer, Fran Ferdinand, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs performing in cities around the world.

Davison, Michigan's Chiodos have a tenative release date of September 2009 for their third album and are in discussion with superstar producer Rick Rubin to produce. Rubin's of course been behind important releaes from Johnny Cash, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Slayer, Beastie Boys, Metallica and others. The band tells Billboard that they plan to start writing in January in Lexington, KY. They've also indicated that they'll remain with Equal Vision Records for the new record, with frontman Craig Owens commenting that the label "can step up as much as any major can."

Chiodos will release a special version of their 2007 full length Bone Palace Ballet on October 28th. Bone Palace Ballet: Grand Coda will feature five new songs, acoustic versions of "A Letter From Janelle" and "I Didn't Say I Was Powerful" and a DVD.

Owens is also working on a number of side projects. He'll be part of a full length with Cinematic Sunrise, a group that features Chiodos keyboardist Bradley Bell, as well as a group featuring members of Circa Survive, Pierce The Veil, Amorosa and others. That project will be recorded with producer Casey Bates (Fear Before the March of Flames, Gatsby's American Dream) this December in Seattle.

Weezer have set multiple world records during the shoot for their new video, "Troublemaker." Records were set for Largest Game of Dodgeball, Most People in a Custard Pie Fight, Most People Riding on a Skateboard, Largest Air Guitar Ensemble, and Longest Guitar Hero World Tour Marathon.

The largest air guitar ensemble consisted of 233 participants, The largest game of dodgeball consisted of two teams of 50 people, the longest Guitar Hero World Tour Marathon lasted for 10 hr 12 min 54 sec and The most people in a custard pie fight was 120.

The track comes from their 2008 record, The Red Album. You can click Read More for the video.

Jay Reatard recently recorded a live performance and interview for The Interface. The performance coincides with Jay's second singles compilation in so many years, Matador Singles '08 due out today.

Jay commented on the singles format:

I've always done tons of singles, It's kind of been the most prominent format in my career. I've probably done 18-19 full-length records, and probably 40 or 50 singles. It just made sense when I was going to work with then out the door leading up to the first album. When I was talking to a few major labels, they said they were going to market me as the next Kurt Cobain. I was supposed to be the guy that's going to kill emo. I'm not inspired to do that.

You can check out the set here.

Derry, Northern Ireland's Fighting With Wire have signed to Photo Finish Records. The band has drawn comparisons to At The Drive-In, Fugazi and the Foo Fighters. Fighting With Wire plan to release their U.S. debut in early 2009.

The label is offering a full stream of their record here.

Minus The Bear have a free download of one of the new tracks from their forthcoming EP set to coincide with their upcoming Fall headlining tour. The track, along with several acoustic performances will appear on Acoustics.

You can find "Guns & Ammo," a new song here.

The band released Planet of Ice in 2007.