No Idea Records have launched the official website for their annual music festival. You can find all the details on The Fest 7 at thefestfl.com.

With the new site comes the official band listing. The 250 band line up for the three day event will include acts such as Leatherface, Less Than Jake, Strike Anywhere, Dillinger Four, Atom and His Package, Municipal Waste, Coalesce, Dead to Me, Paint It Black, None More Black, Rehasher, The Lawrence Arms, The Falcon, Toys that Kill, The Ergs, The Methadones, The Holy Mountain, Armalite, Assholeparade, A Wilhelm Scream, Japanther, Able Baker Fox, Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves, Former Cell Mates, LaSalle, Bomb the Music Industry, The Arrivals, Bridge and Tunnel, New Mexican Disaster Squad, Off With Their Heads, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, Stressface, Ann Beretta, Broadway Calls, Cobra Skulls, City of Ships, Pink Razors, Drag the River, Whiskey & Co, Ghost Mice, Paul Baribeau, Fin Fang Foom, Shellshag, and the Bouncing Souls. The Souls had this to say about their performance:

2009 is the 20th anniversary of The Bouncing Souls!! We're getting ready to celebrate all year long... and just in time to get the party started is THE FEST!! We're thinking "kick-off party" on this one!! What better place than the city of Gainesville to get it started? and what better people than our good friends in Strike Anywhere, Less Than Jake, and the No Idea family? And what better day than Halloween, our favorite holiday for a show? You never know what costumes and themes we might come up with!!!! And like any Souls party, we'll drink a lot of cheap beer (maybe even 40's only??) and re-live the embarrassing moments of our youth... by playing songs from 1995 and earlier! That's right... The Good, The Bad, and The Argyle and Maniacal Laughter and maybe even a Green Ball Crew if the mood is right and the beer is wrong. Come party with us!

The event will take place on Halloween weekend, with shows taking place on 8 stages from October 31st, through November 2nd. For details on hotels, tickets and more info check the official website. For an up to date band listing click Read More.

Orange County's Zebrahead have been forced to postpone their US tour. Frontman Matty Lewis is experiencing problems with his voice and has taken a break on doctor's orders. The band apologized to fans:

Hey guys...sorry about this...in order for us to make sure that matty doesn't cause permanent damage to his voice we are having to postpone the USA tour. The Doc said we have pushed him to hard. Matty wanted to play the dates anyways, but it would be a horrible risk so we told him we can make it up to the USA. He was pissed at our decision, but we don't want him to have permanent damage to the vocal chords so SORRY USA this will be re-scheduled....the word of the day is Bummed..the way i feel!....We will be able to resume touring again with the UK/Europe Tour in October. Once again SORRY GUYS THIS SUCKS!...

Zebrahead is currently supporting their new CD / DVD Phoenix.

Doghouse Records has signed The Status from Atlanta, GA. The label will release the band's debut full length So This Is Progress on October 7th. The group will support with a US tour alongside bands like Bayside, the Matches, and Valencia.

You can listen to music from the full length, find tour dates and more at Doghouse's artist page or the Status' MySpace page.

The Swellers have posted 15 new "personalized" acoustic songs online at PureVolume as free downloads. The project emerged as a reaction to the song selling venture launched by Say Anything frontman Max Bemis earlier this summer (cough). Fans wrote into the Swellers with two paragraphs describing a personal problem, which the band turned into songs (for free) over the course of a week.

You can download 15 tracks at PureVolume with a 16th to be available through AbsolutePunk. A video documenting the song writing can be found below.

Ferret Music has signed Michigan's Hellmouth. The label compares the band to acts like Celtic Frost, Black Flag, Venom, Black Sabbath and Disfear. The four piece is currently working on their debut full length for the label, to be released later this year. You can check out some of the band's recent demo recordings at MySpace.

Legendary folk / punk singer songwriter Billy Bragg will hit the road in the US this October. The band band will play a dozen shows along the eastern seaboard in support of his new full length Mr. Love and Justice. Click below for details.

A studio performance from Billy was recently featured in Spinner's new Interface podcast. In it he sings songs from the new release and discusses politics and social issues in the UK. You can check it out here.

It's not a very informative update but I doubt many of you will mind. Todd Kowalski of Winnipeg's Propagandhi posted a brief update on the band's next record:

We are very, very hard at work on writing songs for our new record. It is going extremely well. We are literally spending almost every moment we are awake working on them. We are having a blast!! Time is the only enemy!!! Yikes!!!!!!

The band previously announced plans to hit the studio in October to record the follow up to 2005's Potemkin City Limits.

Bloomington, Indiana's Murder By Death has announced a fall headlining tour. The band will perform several festival dates leading up to a 28 date trek kicking off on October 22nd. The band will be joined on the road by William Elliott Whitmore and J Roddy Walston and The Business (not The Business). You can click Read More for all the dates.

Murder By Death has also announced a new 7" series that will feature the band trading cover songs with a variety of other acts. The first entry in the series will feature their tour mate William Elliott Whitmore and should be available for the tour.

The band is supporting their 2008 Vagrant released full length Red of Tooth and Claw.

On September 27th Sick Of It All, Cro-Mags (Jam), Murphy's Law, Maximum Penalty, Subzero and many others will take part in a benefit show for two members of the NYC hardcore community. The show, at Brooklyn's Studio B, will benefit Dr. Tom and Walter "Monsta" Ryan of Subzero and Merauder. You can find a flyer for the show here.

Sick Of It All last released Death to Tyrants in 2006. Punknews recently interviewed Cro-Mags vocalist John Joseph.

Supergroup United Nations are now streaming their debut full length online at MySpace. Head there to check out the 11 song collection. 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.

The record is due on September 9th via via Eyeball Records.

The Cure have revealed the title and release date for their long-awaited new studio album. The record is titled 4:13 Dream and is set for release on October 13, 2008. The band accompanied the announcement with minimalist artwork that may or may not be the art on the release. You can check it out here.

The release follows four singles and an upcoming EP. The band released new material on the 13th of every month leading up to the release of their new record. This included "The Only One" in May, "Freakshow" in June and "Sleep When I'm Dead" in July and "The Perfect Boy" in August. An EP of remixes titled Hypnagogic States will be released in September.

The record will be released by Suretone/Geffen and follows up 2004's sThe Cure.

Germany's Red Tape Parade have announced that Aaron Lisi (ex-Hope Conspiracy) and Robert Ehrenbran will be filling in for guitarist Ule Gigl on the band's upcoming European tour with the Casting Out. Uli will be unable to tour due to school. Lisi will play the September dates, with Ehrenbrand playing in October. Click below for the details.

The band recently announced details on their upcoming debut album Ballads of The Flexible Bullet. The delayed record will now see a release on September 24th. It will feature 16 songs, one featuring Nathan Gray (ex-BoySetsFire) on guest-vocals, and is produced by Mike D from the Californian hardcore act Missing 23rd. The record will be released by Let It Burn Records (CD) and Fields Of Hope Records (Vinyl).

Prescott, AZ's Hour of the Wolf will hit the road in October, playing The Fest in Gainesville, Florida followed by a handful of shows with Fallen From The Sky. Click below for the details.

The band is supporting 2008's Split with Lewd Acts.

Hollister, CA's ALLorNOTHING has signed with Ethos Records. The band is working on a new full length titled A City Built On Its Dead.

San Antonio, TX's A Kid Named Thompson has returned from a week at Black Lodge Recording and have finished recording a new 4 song EP. The band worked with David Chutka and producer Ed Rose (Get Up Kids, Motion City Soundtrack, Limbeck). Ed is currently mixing the album. The band will be self-releasing the new EP on CD, vinyl and digitall at some point in the fall.

Two members of now defunct Chicago act The Skies We Built have returned with a new band dubbed Voodoo Youth. The band has two songs online at MySpace and are currently booking tour dates.