Better late than never, our Fest 8 videos continue tonight with a live performance from Orlando, FL outfit How Dare You. Despite some power issues at The Venue pushing back set times on Saturday afternoon, the crowd continued to wait outside the doors (have your bags ready!) and once inside, raged hard to the band's brand of melodic punk rock.

"Eat at Charlie's" comes from the band's 2008 full-length Comfort Road. The band's newest release is a split 7" with The Knockdown, out now on Kiss of Death Records.

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The results for your votes for the best albums of October are in. Leading the pack is Los Angeles, CA-based Chuck Ragan.

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Melodic hardcore band I Refuse have seen a lot of action over this past summer. The band enjoyed a North American tour, which included dates in Canada and the United States. In addition, they recorded and released their newest EP, Speaks Fork-Tongued, a recording replete with as many political overtones as chugging guitars. Self-proclaimed "foodie" and guitar player for I Refuse, Dominic Maggiolo, gives us some insight behind the band's moral underpinnings and ruminates over what it means to be a modern-day punk rocker in this candid discussion with Brandon Campbell.

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Constants are set to record with Jesu and Godflesh member, Justin Broadrick. The band is currently on a fall tour supporting their album, The Foundation, The Machine, The Ascension, and they have begun demoing with plans to begin tracking later this year in guitarist/vocalist Will Benoit's burgeoning recording studio, located in a historic barn deep in the woods of Connecticut.. They commented:

Justin remixed a song for the Japanese version of our last album (Stiff Slack Records), and we were really into the direction he took the music. After talking with him for a while, we asked if he'd be interested in mixing our next record, and he offered to produce it. The material so far is faster and heavier than anything we've done yet, and it's exciting for us to be working in a fresh and isolated environment, free from city distractions. Presenting our ideas to Justin, who has had such an impact on modern music - we've upped our level of intensity and focus. Surprisingly the process has been more inspiring than intimidating so far.

Broadrick began his musical career in grind-pioneers Napalm Death before forming industrial act Godflesh and then post-hardcore/shoegaze outfit Jesu.

Jason Mazzola, singer for Cloak/Dagger recently spoke to Decibal Magazine about his top 5 hardcore albums. He omitted Bad Brains, Black Flag, Minor Threat, and 7Seconds because he said they belong in a category of their own. Instead, he mentioned second wave acts like Turning Point, Youth of Today, In My Eyes, Gorilla Biscuits and Cro-Mags.

You can check out the list and explanations here.

You can stream Cloak/Dagger's brand new album, Lost Art, on their Punknews.org Profile.

Hear The Sirens have posted a new song from a forthcoming EP. The Livermore, CA-based band released Rebel Hearts Lost this year and will be supporting the Lawrence Arms on a upcoming California date.

Check out "Sum of All Parts"on their MySpace page.

Coverlaydown has put together a collection of classic punk tracks covered by folk artists and in folk styles. Among the acts covered are Agnostic Front, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Blondie, Husker Du, The Stooges, The Clash, The Damned, The Jam, The Ramones, The Wipers and Wire. Artists producing the covers include Indigo Girls, Lisa Loeb, Walter Schreifels and many more.

The compiler notes:

the thread that runs from folk to punk seems such a vibrant and easily spotted one to pull at

Check it out here.

Swedish punks Millencolin have finished a year and a half long tour in support of their 2008 record, Machine 15. Now, the members each have separate projects that they are working on until the time comes to record the next record.

The band had the following statement:

Mathias is currently at our Sound Lab studios recording the second Franky Lee album. Nikola Sarcevic has finished the recording of his new solo album. Larzon is playing shows with his Kvoteringen. A new album is recorded and will be out soon. Erik is working with his graphic design company Eckhouse Design. Currently he's working on Nikolas new artwork and lots more. Erik has also together with Sejka (former Burning Heart/Epitaph, now Live Nation) just started booking bands at the newly opened nightclub the Ritz in Örebro.

In an interesting interview with ITN News, Ed O'Brien of Radiohead suggests that bandwidth throttling (the practice of limiting the quantity of data a sever transmits and/or accepts within a specified period of time) may be a viable method to combat illegal downloading and filesharing. You can click Read More to check out the video.

Radiohead made waves in the worlds of music and technology by initially releasing their last record, In Rainbows, through their website as an optional 'pay-what-you-want' download. The move, initially thought by many to be a sign of sea change in the industry, was quickly revealed by the band to be a stunt thought up by their management, and the band drew more criticism when they elected to sign with another traditional label for physical distribution of the record, and then disappointment when the band revealed they would not reinstate the 'pay-what-you-want' option for their next record.

What do you think? Is bandwidth throttling an answer in the fight against illegal filesharing, or is it just a way of punishing everyone for the actions of the few?

Dead To Me is streaming their new album, African Elephants.

Check it out on their MySpace page.

Lou Koller, the lead vocalist of New York Hardcore legends Sick Of It All, has posted a message online regarding their new studio album. The message reads:

Whats up everyone. Well we're here Denmark for two days and its dark and cold here! As for us the drum tracks are done! 16 songs in two days, Thats how it's done! I think Armand buckeled down just to get to go to the scoccer game tomorrow ha ha. The tracks sound brutal!

They released Death to Tyrants in 2006.

According to a new interview, All Time Low is about to enter the studio to record a song for director Tim Burton's upcoming adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. The interview notes:

They will have a song on the soundtrack to the upcoming Tim Burton movie Alice. They are about to go in the studio to record it. I still have to transcribe my interview but I think its called Painted Flowers. I will let you guys know for sure later today when I go back over the recording.

You can find more details here.

Run For Cover Records has announced the signing of New Jersey pop-punk outfit Man Overboard. The band's first release for the label is a three song digital EP entitled Dahlia, which can be streamed and/or purchased here. The release follows up their 2008 EP Hung Up on Nothing.

More music can be heard at their MySpace page.

Like the controversial use of Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 5, the (still living) members of No Doubt are suing due to how they are portrayed and used in the semi-sequel, Band Hero. As with Cobain, the game allows you to use the No Doubt avatars throughout the game, both with their own songs and with other band's material.

Gossip site TMZ reports that "the band is particularly pissed" that Gwen Stefani's animated image can channel a male voice to sing "Honky Tonk Woman" by the Rolling Stones ... a song which contains lyrics about "having sex with prostitutes."

Activision responded to this controversy similarly to the Cobain incident, saying:

Activision has a written agreement to use No Doubt in Band Hero – an agreement signed by No Doubt after extensive negotiations with its representatives, who collectively have decades of experience in the entertainment industry ... Activision believes it is within its legal rights with respect to the use and portrayal of the band members in the game and that this lawsuit is without merit.

Frank Turner is the first supporting act confirmed for Flogging Molly's forthcoming Green 17 tour.

Frank has been on the road for the past few months supporting his Epitaph Records debut, Poetry of the Deed, released in 2009.

Toronto's Protest the Hero have announced several Canadian holiday shows in which they will perform their 2008 album, Fortress, in its entirety. Frontman Rody Walker explained:

We're playing a couple nights in Toronto and the surrounding area and there's also a Halifax show, and a Newfoundland show. We're skipping the rest of the east coast... because there are too many rocks and trees... and Arif's deadly allergic to rock of any form with the exceptions of prog and fraggle.

Rody also wants you to know that he bought Star Trek: The Next Generation on DVD.

The band released their live DVD+CD, Gallop Meets the Earth in 2009.

Biffy Clyro have launched a stream of their new full length, Only Revolutions.

Check it out on their MySpace page.

Vancouver's Carpenter have embarked on a cross-Canadian tour.

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