Congratulations! You're the lucky reader of the 47th edition of the Punknews.org Vinyl File. This column aims to keep you informed of upcoming releases as well as spotlighting interesting releases, your favorite bands' own collections and labels with a history of vinyl releases worth talking about. As always, Vinyl File is brought to you by Ben Conoley.



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As the band continues their reunion tour, Face to Face have booked a series of House of Blues shows in California and Nevada. The band's last album was How To Ruin Everything in 2002.

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Long-running Swedish punk act Millencolin recently sat down with The Intricate Industries Podcast to shed some light on their view of downloading, their career and more:

I don't like the downloading thing at all, it's my music why should you get it for free. It's terrible, the technology got out of hand before people knew how to deal with it, so it's just sad. I Like records too, I like CD's, I like to buy music. I have thousand's of CD's and I love it but for alot of kids now they have an ipod or mp3 player with 5000 songs and I don't like that.

It takes the heart and the soul out of music in a way....When I started off the whole thing was so cool with punk rock. You couldn't find a Bad Religion album in the store you had to get it....It was worth so much more.

You can check out the podcast here.

The band is touring South America and Europe in support of their new album, Machine 15.

Tomorrow, Minneapolis, MN's infamous Dillinger Fourwill officially unleash their new LP; which has been in the works for 6 years and has been aptly titled C I V I L W A R. Even though many have already "acquired" the record prior to its official release, our friends at Fat Wreck Chords are giving a few more freeloaders a chance to get the album and some other schwag.

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Canadian hardcore act Liferuiner has called it a day. The band, who famously were caught in an anti-graffiti sting, made the following statement:

We will be playing our last show ever on Saturday November 1st at the Grease pit in Milford, CT. The European tour has been amazing and as a band, we agreed to end things on a high note today after our show in France.

We apologize to anyone who was involved or planning on coming out to the Salt The Wound tour. We will most likely release our new material at some point via Uprising Records, for those interested.

Fall Out Boy has announced that they will no longer be releasing their new album, Folie à Deux, on November 4, 2008. The band explained:

Six months ago we thought it would be a fun idea to release our album on election day but this is not the election to be cute. This is the most important election of our time and, as much as the record is a social commentary and the term "folie a deux" is relevant to the candidates, we felt as though rather than making a commentary we were only riding the wave of the election. This seemed less and less like what we intended to do and more of a gimmick.

While we have all individually expressed our positions on the candidates that we support we feel that many of the interviews and press for the record have skewed us into a partisan band. While it may be obvious where we stand. We never intended to be the band that shoved our ideas down peoples throats. We only hope people look at the bigger picture and investigate the issues further on their own.

The band has been quite supportive of Senator Barack Obama, with bassist Pete Wentz hosting a fundraiser for the candidate in January of this year.

The album has been confirmed for a December 16, 2008 release.

Funeral For A Friend have launched a full album stream for r their upcoming self-released new full length. The album is titled Memory and Humanity and is due out on their own Just Us Records.

You can check out the album on their ilike.com page.

New Found Glory has revealed the title for their forthcoming debut for Epitaph Records. The long-running pop-punk outfit will be releasing their next full length in February. As reported earlier, the band has been working on the new studio album with producer Mark Hoppus of Blink-182.

According to this interview, the record will be titled Not Without A Fight, a title the band also explained:

I think it just kind of goes in with the whole idea that we’ve been around for a while and we really feel like a resurgence for us that after eleven years now we’re still relevant. We’re on tours with bands like Four Year Strong, A Day to Remember and ya know, a lot of these bands maybe they first got into bands like us, and it’s almost like another generation. But it makes us feel awesome that we’re still out here and I hope that people don’t just think we’re like the old guys out there. We’re really still trying to do this and we still have so much fun every night playing not just old songs, but new songs. I think if anything you can take the “Not without a fight,” like we’re not going down without a fight, and we’re still here.

You can find the rest of the interview here.

The band most recently released Tip of the Iceberg / Takin’ It Ova!.

San Pedro, CA's Killer Dreamer (ex members of the Jag Offs) are heading out on tour with Brooklyn's Japanther. The tour includes six dates with Underground Railroad To Candyland (members of Toys That Kill). Click below for the details.

Killer Dreamer will be supporting their most recent release on 45 RPM/Razorcake Records, titled 1,000 Years of Servitude. Japanther will be supporting their most recent release on Wantage USA, Tut Tut Shake Your Butt.

Berkeley, CA's Green Day have recently uploaded a brief video on YouTube of the band in the studio, working on the currently untitled follow up to 2004's American Idiot.

It was recently confirmed that Butch Vig (Nirvana, Against Me!) would be producing this album. The group also had success with their "side project" Foxboro Hot Tubs who released Stop Drop and Roll!!! earlier this year.

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AbsolutePunk is reporting that legendary singer/songwriter Elvis Costello will make a guest appearance on the upcoming album from popular act Fall Out Boy. The band told the website that "this isn't a typical appearance as he's alongside the guys in a couple of the decaydance bands on the song."

The record, titled Folie à Deux, will reportedly feature a number of guest appearances by musicians from several genres. The group recently confirmed the participation of rapper Lil Wayne and Blondie singer Debbie Harry. Expect the record on November 4th.

Travis Barker has posted a blog detailing his recovery. The Blink-182 / Plus 44 drummer and producer was recently in a plane crash that claimed the lives of four other people. Travis commented:

Like the doctors said from the beginning, its been a slow recovery process. I am coming up on the 7th of my surgeries Monday. Today I finally was able to move all my fingers on my right hand. Every step seems huge at this point, and Im doing EVERYTHING I can possibly do to get back to my kids. Yes, I did start eating meat again, but if it helps me to be home holding my little humans sooner, then its all worth it. The staff here are all bomb! Dr. Grossman and his staff are the best... Despite any rumors you might have heard, Ive been treated amazingly well, both here in LA and in Georgia. The hospitals Ive been treated at are THE BEST... I got to see AM the other day. Seeing him after he was discharged was an inspiration. I saw just how awesome the doctors' work here is, and got to see how well he is doing. I am so happy to see him doing well, and we are both so lucky and grateful that we are alive today.

You can read the whole blog at MySpace.

Chattanooga, TN's Across Five Aprils are calling it quits. The band announced:

I could spend all day on here telling you why A5A is calling it quits but the simple truth is we've all just gotten to a point where we have chosen to move on, and we wouldn't have changed our experience with A5A for anything in the world. A5A got to make some of our biggest dreams come true. We got to play with our favorite bands and we befriended our heroes and had the times of our lives. We have become world travelers visiting and playing in Mexico, Canada, Japan, Mainland Europe, UK, Scandinavia, and every state in the continental 48. It truly has been a wild and amazing ride.And we have gotten to write and perform music that was uncompramized and of our own convictions. We never conformed we never did anything musicaly except exactly what we chose. Thank you once again for letting us have this amazing opportunity.

While I cant take the time to tell you exactly why this is happening I can take some time and tell you what reasons are not true to dispel some common rumors that some inquiring minds will undoubtedly wish to now. We have not been dropped from VICTORY RECORDS, contrary to what the PRP reported. We are however not a CURRENT ARTIST because we have made the arrangements with VICTORY to disband. We want to thank TONY and VICTORY for their constant support in everything we did. I can also tell you we did not have a knock down drag out fight internally or with any other band. We are all still friends and will continue to stay close for the rest of our lives.

The band also announced their final tour. Click below for the dates.

Some of the new releases out this week.

• Lords - Fuck All Yall Motherfuckers
• The Jealous Sound - Got Friends
• Facing New York - Get Hot
• The Haunted - Versus
• Cruel Hand - Prying Eyes
• The Decemberists - Always the Bridesmaid: A Singles Series - Volume 1
• Between the Buried and Me - Colors Live DVD
• Comeback Kid - Through the Noise
• River City Rebels - In Love/Loveless
• Manchester Orchestra - Let My Pride Be What's Left Behind EP/DVD
• Copeland - You Are My Sunshine
• Dillinger Four - Civil War
• Unearth - The March
• Haste the Day - Dreamer
• Japanther - Tut Tut, Now Shake Ya Butt
• Dillinger Escape Plan - Under the Running Board [Reissue]
• Mikoto - We Are The Architects

You can find the full list of releases this week (and album covers) right here

Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I'm Adam White and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the strange, slow, old people in the community talking...

Sorry for the slow news day folks. We had some behind the scenes server voodoo to complete, plus it's Canadian thanksgiving weekend. That means that Aubin, Ben and myself were either binge eating or elbow deep in the Org guts. Everyone else? Well they spent the day failing you. Feel free to judge them.

With the US election nearing its climax more and more artists are speaking out and getting involved. This week saw the Foo Fighters criticize the McCain campaign for the unauthorized use of the "My Hero" from 1998's The Colour and the Shape. CBS prevents Sub Pop noise-punks No Age from performing on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson while guitarist Randy Randall was wearing a pro-Barack Obama t-shirt. Wasilla, Alaska's Portugal. The Man discussed their hometown's most famous export, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, in a new interview. Mainstream pop punkers Fall Out Boy donated $50,000 to fight a gay marriage ban that will be on the Californian ballot in November. Politics aside, this week continued to chronicle the recovery of Blink-182 / Plus 44 member Travis Barker. The drummer discussed his injuries and the jet crash that claimed four lives. His former band mate, Tom Delonge of Angels and Airwaves, also commented on the accident.

Green Day's still keeping their post-American Idiot plans under wraps, but word leaked this week that Butch Vig, whose resume includes records from Nirvana, the Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, AFI and Against Me!, would be working with the band. Tim Barry discussed his new record Manchester and the future of his much loved band Avail. Hellcat punk act Time Again announced a hiatus while a member pursues more spiritual goals. This week saw a full album stream of Dillinger Four's hotly anticipated full length C I V I L W A R. We also had new music from Jesse Michaels of Common Rider and Operation Ivy, another new track from The Bronx and a Nightmare Revisited cover from Tiger Army. We had the final batch of confirmations this week for The Fest 7. Look for the A.K.A.s, Nakatomi Plaza, Valient Thorr, and the Anchor at the Gainesville gathering this Halloween. The Offspring will head to Japan and South America in support of their record. The Ergs! are also on the road, playing their final shows across the US and Canada.

In recent days the music world also said goodbye to the Godfather of Rocksteady, Alton Ellis (1938-2008). This week we ran your votes through the cold, unfeeling Punknews computer-brain and calculated Your Favorite Records from September. The results saw records from Bridge and Tunnel, Young Widows and the Ergs come out on top.

This week we spoke with Jonathan Coody of Georgia's Ninja Gun (interview) and Nate Newton of Salem, MA's Doomriders (interview). We also spoke with Richard Minino, a.k.a. Horsebites. Richard's art has been seen on releases by bands like Less Than Jake and New Mexican Disaster Squad as well as on the posters of events like The Fest (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new EP from San Francisco's Shuteye Unison, an EP from Long Beach, CA's Joshua Lanes, and Boca Raton, FL hardcore outfit Fallen From The Sky.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from The Cure, Between the Buried and Me, Dillinger Four, Comeback Kid, River City Rebels and Lords with tours kicking off from NOFX (US East Coast), Strung Out (UK), Crime In Stereo / Polar Bear Club (US), Saosin (US), and Wednesday Night Heroes (Europe).

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