Portugal. The Man's John Baldwin Gourley has posted some commentary on the nomination of fellow Alaskan Sarah Palin for vice president. Gourley, who also hails from Wasilla, Alaska posted a lengthy blog entry on the VP candidate:

We don’t need book burners and censors. Sarah Palin pushed to get the librarian of Wasilla fired when certain books were not removed from the public library. Who else in history has banned books? Not very good company is it? We don’t need aerial hunting… Again. We do NOT need this. I don’t know of any true Alaskan that feels it is good sport to shoot an animal from a plane. Sarah Palin disagrees. We needed votes to add the polar bear to the endangered species list. (I know, I know, that polar bear rug would really bring the room together!). Sarah Palin disagreed.

You can find the rest of the entry here.

The band will be releasing Censored Colors on September 16, 2008.

United Nations have run into distribution problems with their debut full length online at MySpace. According to a new interview, stores are refusing to carry the album due to the artwork:

We worked [on the cover art] with this British anarchist artist named James Cauty, and he did all this great stuff. But it had some copyright issues, and that's why all the distributors and stores refuse to carry it. We have 1,000 copies of this album sitting around with artwork that has been banned and we're trying to figure out what to do with those.

The art features imagery similar to the Beatles classic, Abbey Road but with some flaming modifications. You can compare the art with the album artwork here.

The rest of the interview can be found via MTV.com.

The project features Geoff Rickly from Thursday, Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw and Head Automatica, Chree from the Number 12 Looks Like You and Kiss It Goodbye's Eric Cooper. Though originally described as a "grind" side project, many have drawn comparisons to early screamo outfits like Saetia and the Gravity Records roster.

Sony has launched a teaser for the upcoming CD of The Clash's legendary Shea Stadium performance due out this October. Recorded at Shea on October 13, 1982, the set will include the band's entire performance as they opened for The Who on their "farewell" tour. The record is titled Live at Shea Stadium and is due out October 06, 2008

The tour came shortly after the release of the band's massive 1982 full length, Combat Rock.

The teaser features some live clips from the show as well as some comments and back story from co-vocalist and songwriter, Mick Jones.

You can click Read More for the video.

Fall Out Boy have posted a stream of the first single from their upcoming, fourth full-length record, Folie A Deux. The track "I Don't Care" will be featured in the upcoming comedy film "Sex Drive."

You can check out the track at the band's MySpace page.

Folie A Deux is out November 4th.


Editor's note: We're taking bets on how many comments with the clever retort "I don't care" will be posted. I'm guessing somewhere between 7 and 18. -chris

Hydra Head Records has announced their upcoming Champions Of Sound US tour. The trek will feature instrumental metal act Pelican, avant-metal group Kayo Dot, Cave In frontman Stephen Brodsky aka Stove Bredsky, and on select dates Zozobra. Click below for the dates.

Bredsky is currently supporting his latest The Black Ribbon Award.

Copeland has announced a headlining tour in support of their upcoming album for Tooth and Nail. The band parted ways with their major label last year. The band's next record is titled You Are My Sunshine and is due out October 14, 2008.

You can click Read More for the dates.

Italian grindcore band Cripple Bastards have embarked on a tour with Brutal Truth. The band is supporting their fourth fulll length album Variante alla Morte to be released on Shane Embury's FETO Records. The album will hav ea CD release and limited LP during the tour while a worldwide release is planned for October 15th. Dates can be found at the band's MySpace page or website.

Colorado's Only Thunder has set an October 28th release date for their forthcoming LP Lower Bounds. Bermuda Mohawk Productions will put out the record, limited to 500 copies (333 on orange/black/grey splatter, 167 on black) that will include a free CD. A record release show will take place on Saturday, October 25th in Denver, CO. The band, which features ex-members of the Blackout Pact and Ghost Buffalo, are playing this weekend at the The Gothic Theatre in Englewood, CO playing alongside Hot Water Music.

Hudson, Florida based label Coptercrash Records is gearing up to release the new 2xLP from The Saddest Landscape titled All is Apologized For. The set will come with a digital download card and bonus 7" for pre-orders. You can find more details at the label's website.

Last February we reported on a live performance from legendary San Fran punk group Flipper, to be held at Amoeba Records in the band's hometown. The famous record shop has graciously posted high-quality footage from the show online.

As a pioneering group in the west coast punk scene of the early 1980's, Flipper has been cited as a major influence by bands like NOFX and Nirvana.

You can check out the video below by clicking Read More, or at this link.

Amid a non-stop tour slated to end in mid-December to support Hail Destroyer, Cancer Bats’ latest release, vocalist Liam Cormier spoke with Punknews interviewer Zack Zeigler about strange gifts from fans, where the hell the name Cancer Bats came from, his least favorite part about being a musician, his mission through music and more.

You can click Read More for the interview.

A group of students from Full Sail University has put together a mini-documentary for Gainesville, FL-based beardcore label No Idea Records. We've received word that the video was completed for a final school project, and the director(s) have since graduated. Whether the video serves as a trailer for a full-length documentary feature are unknown, however, the posted 6-minute clip gives an interesting look into the label responsible for releases from bands like Hot Water Music, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Radon and many more.

The label also hosts the annual Fest each year. This year's Fest 7 will feature Bouncing Souls, Less Than Jake, Leatherface, Dillinger Four, The Lawrence Arms and many, many more over the weekend of October 31st in where else? Gainesville, FL.

You can check out the video below by clicking Read More, or here.

Bloomington, IN's Prizzy Prizzy Please have posted a track from their upcoming EP. The song, 'Melt Meltdown' will be included on their Joyful Noise debut PPPPPEP which is due in late October, shortly after their Riot Fest gig. The band will be touring the Midwest in support of the EP throughout November.

You can check out the song at the band's MySpace page.

Anti-Flag has commented on their participation in the recent protest performance at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota.

Yesterday we played a show on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol in opposition of the Republican National Convention. Before our set we had planned with Rage Against The Machine to have them come onto stage directly after our set and play a set of their own on our equipment. As is often the case at such events, all was proceeding peacefully and without confrontation until the police got involved. As RATM made their way to the stage, without reason or prior notification the police surrounded the band and informed them that they would be arrested if any of them set foot on the stage. As the crowd chanted, "Let them play..." a plan was formulated. Rather than bow to police oppression and law enforcement's blatant disregard for free speech and the Constitution, it was decided that RATM would walk around the stage into the audience and issue a statement. From there things took on a life of their own...

A full account can be found on the band's official blog.

Earlier today we posted some video footage of Rage Against The Machine at the same event. You can find it here.

Travis Barker, drummer of Plus 44 and previously Blink 182 and The Aquabats, recently spoke to Metromix Los Angeles about whether his former band Blink 182 will reunite in the near future, saying:

I don't know. You know, to be honest with you, I haven't spoken to Tom [DeLonge] in five years. I speak to Mark [Hoppus] every day, he's one of my greatest friends, so...that's the status of that. I think everyone would have to be friends, and I think we'd all have to want to do it in order for it to happen.

Blink 182 went an "indefinite hiatus" in 2005 after releasing the self-titled Blink 182 two years prior, in 2003.

San Diego's Unwritten Law has posted the cover art and a song from their upcoming live CD / DVD Live & Lawless. The album is due September 30th via Suburban Noize Records. You can stream "Shoulda Known Better" on the band's MySpace page. The cover art can be found here.

The performance captured on the set was recorded at the Key Club on the Sunset Strip in March of this year. The results fill a 16 track album (including hits "Up All Night," "Save Me (Wake Up Call)" and "Seein' Red") while the DVD features 22 performances, including a 5 song acoustic set.

Pennywise is gearing up to support their new single "Die For You," the second from Reason to Believe, with a series of radio festival appearances later this month. These shows include Le Festival Envol et Macadam on September 13th in Quebec City, the Q101 Block Party in Chicago on the 14th, the KEDJ Edgefest in Queen Creek, Arizona on the 27th, the Tuscon Electric Park KFMA Fall on the 28th, and Liskfest in Irvine, California in October 11th. As previously announced Liskfest will feature bands like Gorilla Biscuits, the Aquabats, Strung Out, the Vandals, Ignite, Death By Stereo, Strife, Every Time I Die, Rival Schools, H2O, Bleeding Through, and Set Your Goals.

Pennywise launched Reason To Believe with a two week promotion that had the record offered up as a free download via MySpace. The band moved 400,000 legitimate downloads in that period.