Be Your Own Pet bring their song “Bummer Time” to life by breaking up after they finish their next few UK tour dates.

The band posted this announcement on their website.
“To all of our fans,We are sad to bring you the news that our upcoming shows in the UK (dates below) are going to be our last as a band. We thank you for all your love and support these past few years - its been a blast but the time has come for the 4 of us to go our separate ways.”

We can assume that their current side projects will continue on and new “ex-member” bands will sprout up soon. Perhaps they are trying to get out of the clutches of Universal?

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Brooklyn’s Dear Tonight have announced they are calling it quits after nearly five years as a band. If you haven’t check out the band’s 2007 full-length We Are Not Men, we highly recommend you do so now.

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Today seems to be a day for quitting, so we hate to bring you more news that will ruin your day. Beloved hardcore act Modern Life is War have announced that they will be calling it in after a nearly six year run. The group posted a lengthy MySpace bulletin explaining their decision, which you can check out after the jump. MLIW plan on doing a short tour, so make sure to catch it before they end up reuniting and playing huge arenas.

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More bad industry news comes our way and this time it’s just plain upsetting. The pioneering Gold Standard Laboratories label has announced that as of October 2007, they have ceased operations. The label posted a lengthy letter on their site explaining the decision and the future of their previously released music, which you can check out after the jump. GSL released albums from the likes of !!!, The Mars Volta, Arab on Radar, The Faint, The Locust, and tons of others.

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photo credit: Jason Fisher

The sad breakup of Brooklyn/Boston-based band The Explosion was reported earlier today by Punknews. The group has had label troubles since departing from Virgin back in February of this year. Details of their new album’s release are still up in the air, however, the band will be playing some farewell shows in the upcoming months. They definitely were one of the better punk-rock bands to emerge in the past couple of years.

The Explosion’s Myspace

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