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It seems as if Ernie and Company are going to be playing two special shows with Bouncing Souls this September in both New York City and Philly. Make sure not to miss these shows.

09.19.08 - New York City, NY - Teminal 5 w/ Sick Of It All and GreyArea - Limited presale tickets available July 23-25 from bouncingsouls.ducatking.com.  Tickets onsale to public July 26.

09.20.08 - Asbury Park, NJ - Convention Hall w/ the Jersey Shore Rollergirls - Tickets go on sale in August

09.21.08 - Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom w/ GreyArea, Everybody Out!, and The Hotspots - Limited presale tickets available July 23-25 from bouncingsouls.ducatking.com.  Tickets onsale to public July 26.

The Gaslight Anthem announced that between September 30th to November 23rd they will be opening a full U.S. (2 Canada shows) tour featuring Rise Against, Alkaline Trio and Thrice.

Although the dates have not been posted yet,  you can check out their tour dates with American Steel here

Long Island’s Vision of Disorder is planning another reunion this year, this time to celebrathe their upcoming DVD (which was recorded at their 2006 reunion.) The show will be held at the Crazy Donkey in Farmingdale, NY on August 16 with special guest (and awesome band) Mind Over Matter.

Here’s the trailer for the DVD:

Fucked Up’s new label, Matador, has released a downloadable MP3 of Fucked Up’s new song, “No Epiphany.” The song will be included in their upcoming album, “The Chemistry Of Common Life,” due out October 7.

Ceremony has released a new song on their MySpace called “The God Has Favored,” which will be released on thier newest album, “Still Nothing Moves You,” on Bridge 9.

From the official Metal Blade press release:

Metal Blade Records is proud to announce the addition of legendary Boston Mass metal act Overcast to its roster. On August 19th Overcast will release their Metal Blade debut, “Reborn to Kill Again,” a collection of eleven re-recorded classic tracks and 2 unreleased tracks produced by Adam Dutkiewicz.

“Finally, after much waiting and wondering if it would ever see the light of day, Overcast is Reborn to Kill Again! We are all very excited to be working with Metal Blade Records for this release. It is a legendary label that has been home to some of the most influential bands in metal history. It was actually Metal Blade who gave Overcast our first release on CD as part of one of the Metal Massacre comps way back in the day so it seems as if everything is coming full circle. The time has come once again for the beast known as Overcast to rise again. You have been warned,” comments Brian Fair.
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Dwid and company have posted a new Integrity song on their MySpace page called “Vvalpurgisnacht.” The band will also be playing several dates in Europe in July in August. While you’re at their page, you can also download classic integrity albums such as Humanity Is The Devil and Systems Overload.

Define the Meaning and Punkradiocast.com are proud to present a very special episode of Define The Meaning with special guests Walter Schreifels of Gorilla Biscuits, Quicksand, and Rival Schools. In this 2hour show DTM host Rajon talks with Walter about the recently announced Rival Schools reunion, living in Berlin, being a new dad, his solo project, the past Gorilla Biscuits reunion tour, and the possibility of a Quicksand reunion. In the second hour of the show Karen Mitchell talks to Michael Parks talks about Music By People Like Us compilation, how Michael feels about hardcore etc. We’ll also play the whole comp through and give away a few copies of Music By People Like Us.

The show will air on http://www.punkradiocast.com on Sunday June 15th, Friday June 20th, Sunday June 22nd at 11PM EST.

Boston’s Have Heart has posted a new downloadable song on their MySpace site called “Hard Bark On The Family Tree” from their upcoming album “Songs to Scream At The Sun” on Bridge 9 Records

Jamey Jasta and the gang will be releasing a covers-only album titled “For The Lions,” which includes Hatebreed’s renditions of classic songs by Misfits, Metallica, Judge, Cro-Mags, D.R.I., Negative Approach, Agnostic Front, Madball, Sheer Terror, and Obituary. “For The Lions” will include a 20 page booklet with comments from the band about how each song affected them. Expect “For The Lions” to be out later this year.

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H2O will be the special guests in tonight’s (Monday, June 2) Steven’s Untitled Rock show, which airs 4PM EST on Fuse. This episode will air the premiere of the band’s newest video, “What Happened,” from their newest album “Nothing To Prove.”

Earlier this afternoon Thursday announced that they are planning an evening with Hot Water Music and Paint It Black @ Terminal 5 in NYC.

This event will be held on July 12th, 2008. For more information please check out: www.terminal5nyc.com

Part 2 of a 3 part episode, Define The Meaning had the opportunity to sit down with John Joseph of the Cro-Mags and Bloodclot about his newest book, Evolution of A Cro-Magnon. In this episode, John Joseph defends his Krishna lifestyle and speaks out against the IRM and the hijacking of the Krishna movement. Interview by Justin Fullam. Production by Forrest Love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTc3XLL5hsQ

You can now stream the entire new H2O album Nothing To Prove aright here!

Hi all- Please note that the contact information for DTM has changed. Please be sure to go to the contact page and update your mailing lists according to the information that we have down. If you have any questions please email us! Thanks!!!

Here are two links to a quick trailer for Mesuggah’s - Bleed music video that Ian McFarland and Mike Pecci edited, directed, and wrote together. Be sure to check it out!

http://ianmcfarlandfilms.com/bleed.html or http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=33738815

If you missed H20’s music video shoot in NYC, I would recommend you go to this.

From their official press release:

After a lengthy hiatus that left the members of Ensign scattered dealing with line-up changes, deaths, marriages, side-projects, and varied touring crew work (Tim Shaw spent the last two years guitar teching for Rancid while Nathan Gluck tour managed Sick Of It All, Unearth and Bury Your Dead), Ensign are pleased to announce plans for their upcoming fourth full-length album, “Lost Message On A Fading Frequency,” the follow up to 2001’s “The Price Of Progression.”

Dates have been confirmed for September/October of this year and they will once again be entering Trax East in South River, NJ with long-time constituent Eric Rachel. The band is currently working on pre-production for the new album with former drummer Chris Ross (Nora) at his Casa De Ross Studio in Highland Park, NJ.

According to bass player Nathan Gluck, “Building off of the foundation that was laid with ‘Price’ we are pushing the envelope to encompass some of the heaviest and most thought provoking material in the bands 12+ year existence. The new material is drawing influences from all across the board and I can honestly say I haven’t been this excited in years.”

To date no record label or release date have been confirmed.

Post-Hardcore supergroup, Rival Schools, featuring ex-members of such bands as Gorilla Biscuits, Youth of Today, Quicksand, CIV, and Iceburn, have announced that they will be banding back together and recording a new album. Singer Walter Schreifels has confirmed tour dates in the U.K., possible U.S. dates, and a new album.

’’We have got this June tour and we still want to play some shows in the States. Especially if we are writing new songs it would be good to live in them a little onstage before we come to record anything. Whether the album is out first part of the year or spring we are not yet sure but we want to play out with new material to test it all out so expect a few more dates to be announced.”

Chuck Ragan of Hot Water Music, Tim Barry of Avail, and Ben Nicols of Lucero will be touring together this fall in a tour called “The Revival Tour.” Dates for this tour will be announced soon.

The Seattle hardcore band Sinking Ships have announced that they will be parting ways. The band’s last two shows will be at Rainfest in Seattle, WA and Sound & Fury Festival in Southern California.

The Fire Still Burns have posted a new song entitled “Come Hell or High Water” on their MySpace. The song will be included in their newest demo. For those that don’t already know, this band features ex and current members of NORA, Ex-Number Five, Lifetime, Elements DEC, Bigwig, Ensign, and Strength 691.

Static Radio NJ are giving away two songs online from their upcoming full length on Black Numbers, “An Evening of Bad Decisions.” The album is sceduled to be released this summer. You can download the two free mp3’s in the link below:

www.theblacknumbers.com/thisishowNJparties

MAJOR NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT: DEFINE THE MEANING
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For the past few months we have been working extremely hard on preparing for Issue #7 and I couldn’t be more proud of how it is turning out. And I must say I have never been so excited to work with any publication.

Define the Meaning has grown as you all have seen since issue #1 and were about to grow even more!

Last month while H20 was shooting their music video for ‘What Happened,’ in New York City, Define the Meaning was asked to stop by for both days of the video shoot and to see the band in action. Although both days were cold out side we couldn’t have spent a better time there with H20. We hung out with them, Lou from Sick Of It All, and Matt Skiba.

Now your probably wondering what this has to do with the next issue.

We’d like to announce that Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio) and Toby Morse (H20) will be featured on our cover and it will be our first color cover!
Not only that –Toby Morse (H20) interviewed Skiba about their new record ‘Agony & Irony,” (Epic Records) and Matt Skiba interviewed Toby Morse about their new record “Nothing To Prove” which will be released by Bridge 9 on MAY 27TH.

When H20’s music video for ‘What Happened,’ comes out in a few months be sure to look out for Define the Meaning in the music video shoot! We were able to get a few shots of the magazine in there.
Thanks to Toby and the band and Bridge 9 for hooking it up!!!!

Other interviews in Define the Meaning issue #7: Bridge 9 Records/Awake Strong (Featured labels!): Capital, Doomriders, Hot Water Music, Ian McFarland and Mike Pecci, Brooks from the Kidneys and Bad Religion: Goldfinger, Testament, Paul Booth, Social Distortion and a review of this years Black N Blue Bowl!

So you think all that news was a lot to handle? We have more news to add to this……we will not only have one cover but two different covers! The first cover will be featuring Matt Skiba/Toby Morse which will be sold all over the US/Canada and the second one will feature Mike Ness of Social Distortion (black n white cover).
We’ll only be printng between 100-200 copies of those and it will only be sold on interpunk. com and www. revhq. com

DEFINE THE MEANING ISSUE #7 INSTORES MAY 27TH!!!!!!

Thanks to Frank Pavich and Halo8 Define the Meaning will be giving away 5 FREE copies of the legendary N.Y.H.C. documentary.

N.Y.H.C is a two disc dvd that features interviews with: Madball, 108, Vision of Disorder,
25 Ta Life, Crown of Thornz, No Redeeming Social Value, District 9, Roger Miret (Agnostic Front) Jimmy Gestapo (Murphy’s Law) and more!

All you have to do is click on the banner and sign up. GOOD LUCK!!!!

Earlier this year, Define The Meaning had the opportunity to sit down with John Joseph of the Cro-Mags and Bloodclot about his newest book, Evolution of A Cro-Magnon. Interview by Justin Fullam. Production by Forrest Love. This is part 1 of a 3 part episode.

In The Studio with the Gaslight Anthem: Photo and Article by: Mike McDougal

Going into Mad Dog Studios in Burbank, CA with Gaslight Anthem today brought a new rejuvenation of sorts for my feelings on where music is headed. Stating that their influences range from Lucero, Against Me! And Jawbreaker, and combining a mixture of the three would create a volatile explosion in the heart of any grassroots punk fan. For me today, that explosion happened as I photographed the band in the studio and chatted with vocalist/guitarist Brian Fallon about the recording process for their latest album, ’59 Sound’, set to be released by SideOneDummy Mid August. Fallon states that this is a new step for the band since their previous albums have been recorded live, so to be in a studio is an incredible experience. Hot Water Music’s own Chris Wollard previously stopped by the studio to lend vocals to a track. Fallon exclaimed, “I don’t care if we sell one copy of the album, Chris from Hot Water Music did guest vocals!” From the clips of the upcoming tracks that I heard, the album has a blues feel to it, and the band stays true to their punk roots. The band made it very clear that they are in this for the love of the music, not for making millions, which completely revived my faith in touring bands.

Verse (Bridge 9) has posted ‘The New Fury,’ from AGGRESSION on their myspace page. AGGRESSION  has been recorded with Kurt Ballou at God City and with Jay Mass at the Get Away Group.

AGGRESSION will be in stores on June 10th, 2008.

Hatebreed has recently signed a new multi-tiered deal with Koch Records. As port of this new deal, KOCH will release a series of all new releases from the band, including their first live DVD to be released this year. Hatebreed frontman, Jamey Jasta, had stated, “The band and I had set out to find an aggressive forward-thinking marketing and creative team to release the first-ever Hatebreed live DVD experience, a live album, and a cool unique covers record project and teaming up with KOCH Records is a perfect fit. There are other important projects that we are planning to partner with KOCH Records to release. They are a smart company with a dedicated staff and I speak for the whole band when I say that KOCH just gets it and aren’t afraid to take risks and work their asses off. We are excited to start working together.”

By now, most of you have already watched the Inside Straight Edge documentary that aired on the National Geographic Channel. We’d like to know what you think of it. Please let us know your thoughts by posting in the comments section.

Threadbare will be reuniting for one show in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  The show will be a benefit to raise money for a memorial scholarship in honor of Stephanie Perry (sister of bassist Dustin Perry), who lost her brave fight with cancer in 2006. The show will be Friday, July 18 at the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis, MN with Story Of The Sea and other acts to be announced.

Madball has announced on their myspace blog that they have been chosen to be a nominee for ‘Favorite Indie Musical Artist at the 2nd Annual American Latino TV Awards this year. To vote for Madball you can go do so here: http://www.americanlatino.tv/awards/

MTV has recently posted Agnostic Front’s video for their track title For My Family. You can check out the video here: http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?artist=1549&vid=221508 For My Family was directed by Ian McFarland and Mike Pecci.

The series, entitled NOFX: Backstage Passport, premieres next Tuesday, April 15 @ 10 PM ET on Fuse.

http://fuse.tv/tv/nofx-backstage-passport/index.php

New Jersey’s Static Radio is doing something a little different to promote their new album, “An Evening of Bad Decisions.” Currently on tour with The Bouncing Souls, Static Radio will be handing out drop cards with a URL that will allow you to download two new songs from the new album.

If you can’t make it out to any of the shows, don’t worry. You can email phil@theblacknumbers.com to receive the cards in the mail.