In my final segment of coverage of The Fest 6, I bring you a clip from Richmond, VA's The Riot Before, who performed an early set on the second day of the festival. The band also contributed a song to our Fest 6 compilation.

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Pulling Teeth have announced a South-eastern tour set to begin on December 27th in support of their new Deathwish album, Martyr Immortal. They will be joined on the tour by Reptilian Records hardcore/grind act Triac.

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Have Heart, Down To Nothing and Wake Up Call have scheduled a tour together beginning in late December.

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Northhampton, UK-based The Squids have been forced to cancel their American tour after a dispute over some inflammatory imagery used in the band's tour posters. According to a local paper, the band used the images of flaming stars and stripes pictures on a MySpace flyer for three New York shows, which prompted the US venues to cancel the band's gigs.

Singer Stuart Fraser explained:

We used a picture of an American flag and it said 'The Squids are coming to burn America'. We didn't think it was too offensive, just a bit rock 'n' roll. We were contacted by the venues, who said it was offensive and asked if we would take it down, but we said no. A few days later, all our shows were cancelled.

We're annoyed by what's happened. It was only a burning American flag. We didn't even know it was illegal to burn them. We just thought it was a bit of fun; we saw the picture and thought it would do. We wanted to show we were coming and we were going to make an impact, but they obviously have no sense of humour.

You can see the flyer in question here.

Though there was speculation about a self-released full length, Morrissey has opted to sign with Polydor for his next full length. He explained why to NME:

If they (Radiohead) think that can work that that's a wonderful world. And yes, you can look at record companies and you can easily assess that they've been ripping people off for years and years and years. The whole process is a gigantic rip off. But then there are people like me who need to be institutionalised... and I don't mean in an asylum!

Believing that several thousand people are working to get your music heard is more inspiring to me than anything else

Morrissey released Ringleader Of The Tormentors last year.

Gallows, Set Your Goals and SSS have announced a UK tour set to kick off in early 2008.

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Bomb the Music Industry! has posted a new track. The prolific band is currently in the midst of demoing for their next full length. The band adds:

Demo-ing/writing for the new record is getting started - lots of pianos, lots of baritone guitar and lots of programming n' samples. I think there's gonna be a ska song coming too so we can keep beating that dead horse. None of the songs are longer than three minutes so far either.

You can check out "25" on their myspace page.

Buzzcocks have posted an uncensored version of their video from 1999's Modern. The rarely seen video was directed by Eric Valette, whose first American feature film One Missed Call will be released by Warner Bros on January 4, 2008.

The Buzzcocks released their last album, Flat-Pack Philosophy, in 2006.

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No Use For A Name has posted another update on the progress towards their next record. The record will follow their last studio record, Keep Them Confused, which was released in 2005.

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Dates have been confirmed for Coheed & Cambria's upcoming run supporting Linkin Park. The band cancelled their scheduled appearances at the Soundwave festival in Australia to take part in the run, which will support their new album, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow..

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Some more information has surfaced regarding the acoustic benefit to be headlined by Against Me! at the Chicago stop of their ongoing tour.

According to reports, the benefit is to raise money for the cost of a life-saving bone marrow transplant for a six-year-old girl from Tifton, Georgia. Diana Olalde was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in May 2006 and was initially treated with chemotherapy. But when she relapsed in August, doctors explained that she needed the bone marrow transplant in order to survive.

Dates have been announced for a 2008 tour featuring Killswitch Engage, Dillinger Escape Plan and Every Time I Die.

The bands are touring in support of As Daylight Dies, Ire Works and The Big Dirty, respectively.

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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have posted the first two songs from their upcoming rarities collection. Besides rarities, the band recorded three new songs and recently hit the studio with their own bassist Joe Gittleman acting as producer. The record is titled Medium Rare and is due out December 18, 2007.

Though the band's last studio record, A Jackknife To A Swan, was released on SideOneDummy, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones recently announced b-sides and rarities collection will be released on their own Big Rig Records.

The label was formed by the band when they first signed to Mercury Records as an outlet for the vinyl versions of their albums. The major label pressed CDs and cassettes but allowed the band to self-press the vinyl under the imprint. For this collection, the band will apparently be resurrecting the imprint.

You can check out the songs on their myspace page.

Thrice has posted a special Christmas track for streaming online. The track was previously recorded and first surfaced a few years ago.

You can check out "Carol of the Bells" on their myspace page.

The Used have posted a demo of a new song which will presumably appear on a future release.

You can check out "Smother Me" on their myspace page.

Dan Eaton and Jake Ryan of The Chariot have unveiled their new project, Queen's Club. The band also features Jared Bond and Andrew Nichols and have two songs posted.

You can check them out on their myspace page.

Downers from Waterford, MI, have posted several new songs up. The band promises tracks in the vein of Refused and Give Up The Ghost and you can find them on their MySpace page

Empty Orchestra from Flint, MI, just finished shooting a new music video in Flint's historic Capitol Theater with director Mike Berlucchi. You can see "It Gets Better" on their MySpace page.

Former Beowulf frontman Dale Henderson has hitched his new band Kool-Whip to the new label Revell Records. The label's first release will be Dirty Movie from the band. Check out tracks from the album here, at the label's MySpace page.

According to a Reuters piece, one of the big major labels, EMI is planning to cut back the money they pay to the RIAA and the IFPI. The controversial trade group claims to represent all labels but is largely funded by the the "big four" labels, to the tune of $132 million annually each.

EMI officials would not comment on the reasoning behind the change, but efforts by the RIAA have not measurably demonstrated much in the war against internet downloading. In fact, embarrassing public lawsuits against people of limited means have done considerable public relations damage to the label's cause. In fact, a recent lawsuit had RIAA lawyers admitting that they've "lost money on this program."

EMI has been one of the more agile of the majors, quickly adapting their practices to new technology. It was the first of the big four to release music without DRM through Apple's iTunes stores and many others - a lead eventually followed by Universal and others.