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Pro­pa­gandhi have announced that they will be releas­ing a split 7″ with Sac­ri­fice. The two bands will each put for­ward one cover, Propagandhi’s will be Tech­no­cracy, by Cor­ro­sion of Con­form­ity, and Sacrifice’s will be Rush’s Anthem.
Thrice have announced via twit­ter that they will be releas­ing a new record in 2011.
If you check out Tooth & Nail’s Act­ive Artists roster, you will see a sur­prise in the form of The Juli­ana The­ory.
A sur­vey by Rhythm magazine has voted Slipknot’s Joey Jord­ison as the best drum­mer of the past twenty five years, beating …

Anber­lin have brought for­ward the release date of their new album to Septem­ber 7^th. The first track from it, Impossible is avail­able as of today.
Less Than Jake have announced some tour dates in the UK in Novem­ber. For more details, you can check out where they’ll be play­ing here.
Watch a video here of Kid Cudi under attack by a man at a con­cert in Clev­e­land (US).
Sta­cey DuPree and Dar­ren King (of Eis­ley and MUTEMATH respect­ively) have tied the knot, you can see a photo on Sherri’s twit­pic.
The Fire, Senses Fail’s new album …

Sum 41 have gone on record say­ing that the new album won’t be all about Deryck’s recent divorce. Appar­ently, there’s “like, two songs”. They say that fans of Does This Look Infec­ted? and Chuck should love it. The album will be called Scream­ing Bloody Murder, and the first track will be Scum­fuck.
Accord­ing to this MySpace blog post, Yuri Ruley will be retir­ing from MxPx as of the 18^th July in order to spend more time with his fam­ily.
Linkin Park’s new record, A Thou­sand Suns, will be released on Septem­ber the …

Apo­lo­gies for last week’s lack of news… here’s twice as much this week to make up for it!
The Academy Is…‘s Wil­liam Beck­ett has star­ted work on writ­ing for their fourth album.
Bren­don Urie of Panic! At The Disco has told the world that the gui­tar and bass tracks for the new album are now com­plete, and Spen­cer says that the drums are done too.
Mat­thew Leone of Mad­ina Lake has been ser­i­ously injured. He inter­vened in a domestic argu­ment to stop a woman get­ting beaten by her boy­friend. He suffered some pretty heavy blows …

The Ataris’s Kris Roe was involved in a car acci­dent recently. He was wear­ing his seat­belt, and is expec­ted to make a full recov­ery.
Go here to watch Coheed & Cambria’s new video for Here We Are Jug­ger­naut.
The Used are work­ing on a new album, des­pite can­cel­ling their inter­na­tional tour.
It would appear that Punk Goes Pop will have a third volume, although the tweet sug­gest­ing it has mys­ter­i­ously dis­ap­peared.
Blink-182 will be record­ing again come June, accord­ing to the Chicago Tribune.
Can’t Be Tamed, Miley Cyrus’s album will be out on June 22^nd. …

You can stream a song a day from Amber Pacific’s new album, Vir­tues, by vis­it­ing their web­site.
Ace Enders have announced that they will begin record­ing their new album “in a couple of weeks”.
Tak­ing Back Sunday have begun work­ing on their new album, accord­ing to an offi­cial press release and Mark’s twit­ter. This will be their fifth album, and it will be recor­ded their ori­ginal line-up (see last week’s news).
The cause of Travis Barker’s plane crash has been offi­cially iden­ti­fied as incor­rectly main­tained tyres, and the pilot’s decision to abort the …

Kurt Cobain’s mother has been awar­ded tem­por­ary guard­i­an­ship of his daugh­ter, Frances Bean. Court­ney Love is not men­tioned in the court papers, and no reason is given for the decision. This is the second time Love has lost cus­tody of her daugh­ter.
AFI, Sick of it all, and The Dear and Depar­ted have announced some UK dates in April, 2010:
April 5 at Rock City, Not­ting­ham
April 6 at Brix­ton Academy, Lon­don
April 8 at ABC, Glas­gow
April 9 at the Academy, Manchester
April 11 at the Academy, New­castle
April 12 at the Academy, Birm­ing­ham
John Frus­ci­ante has …