Schlong, which features Operation Ivy's Dave Mello alongside his brother Pat and Gavin MacArthur, will be releasing their new record Singles 1989-1995 soon. The album is already available for digital purchase via their MySpace page.

This is the band's first release since 1996's Fish Booty.

Trever Keith (Face To Face, The Legion of Doom, Viva Death) recently joined the Radio 104.5 studio to perform an acoustic session of songs from his debut solo record Melancholics Anonymous. Keith whipped out "Everyone Hates A Know-It-All" from the Face to Face record Ignorance In Bliss.

You can check out the videos of the session here. You can stream the entire record at his website.

Time Again have cancelled their European Tour, scheduled to start three days ago. The band is saying that "serious health issues" have caused the cancellation and are hoping for a rescheduling in the future.

We are so sorry to everybody that helped us in any way with this tour. Normally we would push through it and go on with the shows, but we’re all in very bad condition. We will reschedule a tour, but it may not be for a few months. Again we’re really sorry and hope you all can understand.

Uprising Records hardcore act I Am The Ocean have recruited a new vocalist. The band explained:

Dreu Damian Hudson of Her Candane will be taking over as vocalist! We'll have a brand new track with Dreu up in the coming week. Her Candane have been hard at work writing their follow up to 2006's "No Battle" so no worries HerC fans, just come see what yer boy can do with us.

Forest Life Records, a young label from the midwest specializing in vinyl, has issued it's first release: a 7 inch vinyl of recent No Sleep Records signees La Dispute. This is the band's final independent release before their upcoming full length, "Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair," out on No Sleep Records November 11, 2008.

Also slated for summer release are a 12 inch vinyl from Valparaiso, Indiana indie band Native and a 7 inch vinyl from Grand Rapids, Michigan's Victor! Fix the Sun (Friction Records). The two bands will be touring the midwest and east coast in support of their respective records in July.

More updates, including a current release schedule, are available at the label's myspace.

Russ Rankin, vocalist for Only Crime and formerly Good Riddance, has announced a solo project. His first post song is a cover of Johnny Cash's "Walk The Line." According to the MySpace page, Rankin "is currently working on a brand new collection of his own songs which will be released as a solo project sometime in the near future."

You can find the track at his MySpace page.

Update: It looks like Russ has taken the track down. We'll let you know when it comes back.

Against Me! recently visited The Interface to record an acoustic set and interview for the Spinner program. Along with the performance of "New Wave," "Thrash Unreal," and "The Ocean," the band talks about reinventing Axl Rose and touring with the Foo Fighters.

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