Hopeless Records has announced the lineup for the 2009 edition of the annual Take Action Tour. The bill will be headlined by Cute Is What We Aim For and feature Meg and Dia, Breathe Carolina, Every Avenue and Anarbor.

The tour, now in its eighth year, raises funds and awareness for youth involvement in charitable action, and for the second straight year Take Action has chosen not-for-profit organization DoSomething.org to benefit from the funds raised and to help spread the message of action to young people across the country.

The tour has previously featured many future stars including: The Plain White T's, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Paramore, Every Time I Die, Jimmy Eat World, Avenged Sevenfold, Hawthorne Heights, Chiodos, Thrice, Anti-Flag, Silverstein, Dillinger Escape Plan, and many more.

These Arms Are Snakes have launched the new video from their 2008 Suicide Squeeze Records debut. The song comes from Tail Swallower and Dove which was released this year.

In December, the band will be touring with Trap Them and Narrows.

You can click Read More for the video.

After eight months of delay, Underground Communiqué has announced that Capital's 2006 album Signal Corps will finally be available on vinyl. The album was originally released by Iron Pier in 2006.

Our stream today comes from Bloomington, IN-based Medusa. We've got a stream of the band's new full length, En Raga Sul.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile.

Jesse Lacey of Brand New recently spoke to Alter the Press. In a revealing interview, he talks about his experience with the major label that released 2006's The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me:

I've never made money off a record sale. I made money on a record advance that has to do with the industry, a companies investment in me but I've never seen a return. For a band like us and Kevin to keep doing what we're doing is by doing shows. Why charge a kid for a record?

Give him an option maybe. If he wanted to buy it at your show for $5-10 and getting the packaging or wanting to buy it in a store but if quality of a music reaches a point online where it sounds as good as anywhere else, I mean I don't like paying for records either. When it gets down to it, most of the time I don't. As long as kids keep coming to the show, buying a ticket and wanting to experience the music with me in a setting like this then they can have it for free.

Check out the rest of the interview (which also features Kevin Devine), right here.

John "Porcell" Porcelly of Youth of Today, Judge, Bold, Shelter and more, has launched a new straight edge clothing line appropriately titled True Till Death. The company explains it's manifesto:

Straight edge. It's a choice. A conscious decision not to let chemicals or popular opinion be your ruler. In a world where being "cool" means intoxication and excess, it's a stance against.

Let them call it a trend. We know it's more. It's a common sense lifestyle that frees the boy from toxic control and releases the mind from clouded thoughts and dependency.

The X. It's more than fashion, It's a statement. Wear it proudly.

You can check out some of the company's gear here.

It might be a little odd, but legendary punk band, Bad Religion is selling a single shoe. Of course, the shoe is an exclusive, hand-painted Vans slip on, and the purpose is to raise money for the Keep A Breast charity. The shoe is actually part of a larger auction which features unique memorabilia from The Matches, All Time Low, New Found Glory, the Briggs, The Bronx and countless more.

Check out the whole auction here.

Black Fag, the "absolutely fabulous" tribute to Black Flag, has announced a tour of California in December. The "I Caught Henry Kissing Santa Claus" tour will see the parody act play a number of weekend shows in the state, including a gig at 924 Gilman. Click below for the dates.

Black Fag features the alter ego of Jeff Penalty, the punk filmmaker known for documentaries on the Bouncing Souls, Youth Brigade and most recently NOFX's "Backstage Passport." Penalty also controversially served as one of the recent vocalists of the Dead Kennedys.

Glassjaw have posted the first track from their long-awaited new album. The song is titled "You Think You're John Fucking Lennon" and will appear on the new record. Guitarist and songwriter Justin Beck has promised the record soon, but has remained elusive about the contents and other details of the record.

You can find the song on glassjaw.net.

If you're not hearing the song, just wait a few moments after the extended "intro" to the song.

Pennywise have announced their first two shows of 2009. The first one will be at the infamous "Hollywood Palladium" in Los Angeles. The second show will be at the House of Blues in Las Vegas. No word on whether these dates will form part of a longer tour just yet.

You can click Read More for the dates.

Copeland have posted a cover of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." The track was originally performed by Judy Garland but later popularized by Frank Sinatra. In 2007, ASCAP ranked "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" the third most performed Christmas song of the past five years.

You can check it out on their myspace page.

Despised Icon have announced the bulk of the dates for their forthcoming "Montreal Assault Tour" set to kick off in early 2009. The bill will feature support from Beneath The Massacre, Carnifex, Neuraxis and The Plasmarifle.

You can click Read More for the dates.

Some of the new releases out this week.

• Various - Vans Warped Tour 2007 [DVD]
• Panic! At the Disco - Live in Chicago
• Medusa - En Raga Sul