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.

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Rancid has confirmed the support for the remainder of their North American and upcoming UK tour dates. The bands involved span two distinct generations and that's something of a testament to Rancid's appeal. On one hand we'll see the group playing with D.O.A., the Adolescents, T.S.O.L., Dr. Know, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Anti-Nowhere League, GBH and U.K. Subs. In the same tour the band will play shows their 90s contemporaries like Less Than Jake, H2O and the Aquabats. Click below for the updated info.

Rancid's long awaited follow up to 2003's Indestructible is still in the works. The band has announced that it will get some attention before the UK leg of the tour in November, but what that means is anyone's guess. The leading rumor right now is that the album will be titled One Way To Die, but since that information comes from both contentious Wikipedia edits and Punknews submissions from fans claiming "I heard Tim say it!" don't go getting it tattooed on the back of your head just yet. Whatever it's called, the album is being produced by Brett Gurewitz and will be their first to feature new drummer Branden Steineckert.

Nashville punk / blues duo the Black Diamond Heavies will hit the road again this month, kicking things off on September 9th in Kansas City. The first leg of their tour will wrap up with a two night stand (September 28 and 29) at Chicago's Riviera Theatre with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. A European and Australian tour will follow. Click below for the details.

The band is supporting their new album A Touch of Someone Else's Class, recorded with producer Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys at his Akron Analog studio.

This fall Worcester, MA's Four Year Strong, Brooklyn's I Am the Avalanche, Long Island's This Is Hell and Boston's A Loss For Words will hit the road together for a US tour. The bands will kick things off on the 14th in Tempe, Arizona, wrapping up in Buffalo, New York on the 30th. Click below for the details.

Portland, OR's The Decemberists have announced their Bridesmaid Revisited tour for the second to last month of 2008. The tour features dates on both coasts (though nothing in between) and will be in support of the band's forthcoming Always the Bridesmaid: A Singles Series which will see the release of three singles throughout the months of October and November. The band is also currently working on their follow up to The Crane Wife.

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Boston's Everybody Out! have confirmed some upcoming tour dates in the US and Canada. The band will support the Aggrolites this fall, and upcoming shows with the Bouncing Souls and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are in the wings. Click below for the details.

The band released the self-titled Everybody Out! this year via Taang.

Richmond's Strike Anywhere, fresh off off their west coast shows with Hot Water Music, have a European tour on deck. The band will hit the the UK, Ireland and Portugal to play shows with bands like All Idols Fall, The Cut Ups, and Four Letter Word. Following those shows the band will hit Japan for a set of dates with H2O and Blacklisted. Of course the band, like most it seems, has the Fest waiting for them and they'll pair up with Festmates the Bouncing Souls afterward for a few shows. make their way there with the Bouncing Souls. Click below for the dates.

The band is supporting Dead FM.

Celebrated Japanese hardcore act D.S.B. will be touring the United States, Mexico and Canada this fall. The band will play shows with bands like Government Warning, Poligro Social, the Casualties, Caustic Christ, 2nd Degree, World Burns to Death and Chronic Seizure. Click below for the details.

Post punk pioneers Wire have announced October tour dates in North America. The band will kick things off in Montreal on October 10th, with a routing that will see them on both coasts from New York to Los Angeles, wrapping up in Chicago on the 18th. Click below for the dates.

The band is supporting their 11th studio album (and 47th release overall) titled Object 47. The track "One Of Us" is available to dowload at the band's website.

The Horrorpops are gearing up for their It’s All Hallows Eve Tour 2008 which starts on September 24th. The Danish band will go coast to coast in support of their most recent album Kiss Kiss Kill Kill.

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Torche are heading out on tour. Forever. They'll be joined by label-mates Clouds, Louisville's Coliseum and San Francisco's Black Cobra. First, they'll be going to Europe with Pelican and in between legs with Clouds will be in Japan with Coliseum. They're supporting their 2008 release, Meanderthal.

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Slingshot Dakota has kicked off their two-month tour of the U.S. today by playing with Street Smart Cyclist, it being the latter band's final shows. The duo will head towards the midwest and make their way south towards the FEST. They released Their Dreams Are Dead, But Ours Is the Golden Ghost! earlier this year.

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Long running Swedish punk act Millencolin's world tour in support of Machine 15 rolls on. In the coming months the band will visit the a number of countries in Europe and South America, with dates scheduled into late December. The band's UK dates will feature Strawberry Blondes.

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Epitaph power-pop act Sing It Loud have announced a massive fall tour in support of their debut full length Come Around. The band is on the road now with Valencia, to be followed by a fall headlining tour and support dates for Cobra Starship.

The Minneapolis band will release the new album on September 23rd. The record was Produced by Motion City Soundtrack guitarist Josh Cain and mixed by Mark Trombino (Jimmy Eat World, Blink 182). The record features guest appearances by MCS' Justin Pierre on the song "We're Not Afraid" and All Time Low's Alex Gaskarth on "No One Can Touch Us."