Today we bring you a stream of Eternal Happiness and Good Health, the new full-length from Cincinnati’s Black Tie Bombers.

A recent review had the following to say:“The band’s greatest strength is its ability to combine hardcore, pop-punk, and melodic punk. From the pure hardcore 13 seconds of “Stairway to Heaven” to the pop-punky goodness of “Girl I Want to Mess Up Your Hair,” Eternal Happiness and Good Health demands repeat listens.”

You can check out the entire album at the Black Tie Bombers Punknews profile page.
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Looks like those waiting for that reissue of Operation Ivy’s legendary discography CD Energy will need to wait a little longer. The release has reportedly been pushed back to fall of this year, from the recently announced July 10, 2007 date.

The disc is expected by be released via Epitaph. The album is remastered and repackaged in a digipak.

The album was last released via Lookout! Records, but pulled from the label after a series of financial problems.
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Sick of It All and Comeback Kid have announced plans to visit Australia later this month. The two hardcore acts will kick off the tour on May 15th will be joined by local acts including Miles Away and Jungle Fever.

Sick Of It All is supporting their 2006 album, Death to Tyrants while Comeback Kid issued Broadcasting….

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According to bassist Peter Hook, influential post-punk/new wave act New Order has called it a day. The band formed in 1980 from the remaining members of Joy Division after the suicide of Ian Curtis. The band had agreed not to continue under the Joy Division name should any one member leave the band and so rechristened themselves New Order. Their debut release as New Order was the single “Ceremony”, backed with “In A Lonely Place”. These two songs were written the week before Curtis took his own life

Over the years, the band’s sound evolved and like Joy Division, proved wildly influential. The band became notable for fusing synthesizers and dance beats to rock structures on songs including “Bizarre Love Triangle,” “Blue Monday,” “Age of Consent,” “Ceremony,” “Temptation,” “True Faith” and “Regret.”

Hook along with New Order most recently contributed the score to Control, the upcoming biopic about Ian Curtis. The movie will premiere May 17 at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
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