Tonight's Fest 8 video update stars Shook Ones, who ended The Fest for many of us on Sunday night with an insane cover of the Weezer classic, "Tired of Sex". There were technical difficulties throughout the end of the band's set and kids were going apeshit all over The Atlantic, so disregard the poor quality of the video and try to imagine being there (or reminisce, if you were there).

The band is currently on tour with Make Do and Mend and We Are The Union. You can click Read More for the video.

To go with the release of African Elephants on November 10, 2009, we've got a whole bunch of Dead To Me prizes to give away to four lucky winners.

You can click Read More for the details.

Cave In's critically acclaimed 12-inch EP, Planets of Old has been announced for a January 26, 2010 on CD+DVD. The release is expected to include the entirety of the limited 12-inch as well as a DVD featuring the band's reunion show from the Great Scott in Allston, MA this past July.

The album is not currently available for pre-order, but can be found here.

Unit 91, which features Jevin Kaye of Much The Same, Jared Rohde, Andy Lareau of Counterpunch and Josh Segal of Break The Silence, have posted their new EP. The 7-song EP was recorded, engineered and mastered by Mark Michalik (The Swellers).

Check out all seven songs on their MySpace page.

Manchester Orchestra have released the new video for "Shake It Out" from their 2009 album, Mean Everything to Nothing.

You can click Read More for the video.

John K.Samson of The Weakerthans has released his debut solo EP, City Route 85. The three song EP is the first of a series of recordings based on the roadways surrounding Samson's hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and it will be available as either a vinyl 7-inch or a digital download.

City Route 85 refers to Portage Avenue, a main street in Winnipeg. The songs on the three-song EP chronicle the plights of different people on Portage Avenue, including "Cruise Night"'s tale of a young man who wants to join the age-old Winnipeg tradition of driving up and down the street on Sunday nights and "Grace General"'s story of a character preparing to lose a loved one.

Check out the EP on iTunes here . John also has some music posted on his MySpace page.

Six years after the break up of Five Iron Frenzy, the band has revealed plans for an upcoming DVD release, set tentatively for this winter. According to the new site launched for the DVD, it will be titled The Rise and Fall of Fire Iron Frenzy and feature a full length film in the style of a documentary. There will also be a bunch of extras such as music videos, short films, commentary tracks and more. The band is also promising footage of the band's final show.

Originally formed in 1995 and disbanded in 2003, Five Iron Frenzy was a Christian ska/punk band with releases on 5 Minute Walk, Asian Man Records and others.

Bowling For Soup and MC Lars will be touring together beginning next week.

You can click Read More for the dates.

We've posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• Tegan and Sara - Sainthood
• Chuck Klosterman - Eating the Dinosaur [book]
• Billy Talent / Cancer Bats - live in London
• The Golden Age - Unlock Yourself
• Kowloon Walled City - Gambling on the Richter Scale [12 inch]
• Bearings - Bearings [7 inch]
• Family Force 5 - Dance or Die
• Jeff Caudill - Try to Be Here
• UNLIMITS - Mugen Shindoroomu
• Angercore - Time Reveals

Spin Earth has posted some video of Rise Against performing in Moscow, Russia. Along with interview footage, the video features clips of a few different songs.

Check it out here.

Bad Religion has announced some scattered dates over the next few months. First, the influential band will be performing at the "Laughs for Bald Bryan" fundraiser on November 20th, in Los Angeles. Bald Bryan was a worker on Adam Carolla's radio show, he was diagnosed with a brain tumour earlier this year, and there is a fundraiser to help pay for medical bills. For more details, check out here.

The band has also confirmed two shows in March at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, Nevada. The band will be performing March 26th and 27th currently. The band is also promising a tour of Europe in 2010 but no dates or timeframe have been announced.

Person L, the new band from Kenny Vasoli of The Starting Line, have posted the first single from their upcoming album, The Positives.

Check it out here.

Avenged Sevenfold has posted an updated on their upcoming plans and new record:

It has been awhile since we have shed light on our current doings. We have been focused on only one thing, writing and preparing to record what to me is our most personal and epic Avenged Sevenfold album. The reason is the fact that everything happening around us in the entire world might be a once in a life time source of inspiration and direction.

We have been harnessing every aspect of what makes A7X truly unrelenting and building off of that. I don’t think we sleep too much anymore because of the excitement we feel while writing this album.We are also in the final stages of solidifying our production team, studios and engineers so that the second the axe falls and the album is written we will spend day and night in the studio until it is complete.

They released Avenged Sevenfold in 2007.

SideOneDummy's Joe Sib has announced the fourth holiiday charity event to benefit Wheels for Humanity. The group refurbishes donated wheelchairs and hand fits them to children and adults with disabilities in developing nations. The bill will feature NOFX, Wax, Dead To Me and Nathen Maxwell of Flogging Molly.

Last year, the benefit concert at The Key Club in Hollywood, CA raised $38,000. Combined Rock To Roll fund raising efforts have raised over $87,000 since the annual event began in 2006. The average wheelchair costs $150 to refurbish, which means Rock to Roll has directly improved the lives of roughly 580 individuals in need. This is the first year the event will take place in San Francisco. Tickets go on sale Saturday, November 7 via Slims.

The Casualties have announced an international run through South America and Europe after their upcoming run with Less Than Jake wraps up at the end of November.

They released We Are All We Have in 2009. You can click Read More for the dates.

Legendary musician Ian MacKaye will be returning to Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. MacKaye, who founded Dischord Records and was a member of the Fugazi, Minor Threat and The Evens, will be speaking on November 20th at 7:30PM.

It will take place at the Barshinger Center for Music (619 College Ave) with a suggested donation of $5 and a limit of 500 seats allocated first-come-first-serve.

Ian last spoke at the college in spring 2006.

Pearl Jam wrapped up a four-night, sold out run at Philadelphia’s Wachovia Spectrum by dressing up in Devo’s famed jumpsuits and “energy dome” hats and launching into the band’s hit “Whip It” Halloween night.

You can click Read More for the video.

Rx Bandits have launched their own iPhone application and also contributed two songs to Tap Tap Revenge 3. The custom iPhone app connects users to the band's news, media, tweets and other networked content. The long-running band's iPhone app was created in conjunction with Mobbase

Check out the app here.

Paul Preminger, founding drummer of Vancouver-punks The Smugglers, has passed away from a heart attack. Smugglers vocalist Grant Lawrence remembered Preminger to Straight.com as:

A guy that hit the drums hard, and who lived hard. He was a Joe Pesci, bulldog kind of a guy, but very smart, very funny, and very kind.…He was one of those guys who’d sit on the couch and answer every single question on Jeopardy!, and you’d be like, ‘What the fuck? How does this Bukowski-esque character know all this?’

“He was much more experienced in every facet of life. He had a hundred stories. It was like touring with a merchant sailor. And he had a lot of strange quirks. He developed a quirk where he’d puke before every show, sometimes on-stage.

Paul recorded one album with the band before leaving in 1992 to become a chef. Our condolences to his friends and family.