Next week Philadelphia’s Giving Chase and Chicagoland’s Ryan’s Hope will hit the road together, forming an invading force that will storm the Canadian border and surely lay waste to the igloos that lie beyond. We’re giving away a pair of tickets for each show on the Canadian tour, so click below to get your name on that list!

But wait, you’re not in Canada yet you still want to share in the glory? Well then check below for our merch contest to win some neat swag from Punknews Records and Jump Start Records. That’s right folks, there are two contests to be found below, and we might just look the other way and let you enter both.

You’ll find the tour dates sandwiched between the two contests, so check them out. Giving Chase is supporting their recently released full length A Cheap Print of a Masterpiece, while Ryan’s Hope is spreading the gospel of Apocalypse in Increments.
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Permanent Me has posted the latest video from their new full length, After the Room Clears.

The video features models Boyd Holbrook and Tiah Eckhardt and you can check out the video via purevolume.com.
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The track listing has been announced for the Flatliners‘ upcoming full length The Great Awake. The 12 song follow up to 2005’s Destroy And Create will hit stores on September 4th, 2007 via Fat Wreck Chords worldwide and Stomp Records in Canada.

The band is currently on tour with No Use For A Name and Whole Wheat Bread.
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MxPx has posted a full album stream of their upcoming release, Secret Weapon. The album has been slated for release on July 17, 2007, and will follow up 2006’s Let’s Rock; as well as marking their return to Tooth and Nail Records.

The album is available for streaming on their myspace page.
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Today, our friend Ronen Kauffman released his first book titled New Brunswick, New Jersey, Goodbye and we’ve got something special to help you get a taste for his work.

Ronen, of course, is a veritable punk and hardcore renaissance man, juggling bands like Zombie Apocalypse, his blog Kamikaze Words and his podcast Issued Oriented. His book is a memoir set against the New Brunswick, NJ hardcore/punk scene of the mid/late 90’s. More than just an engaging personal account, it’s a story about personal growth, coming of age, and the real power of punk and hardcore.

You can check out the preface and first chapter as read by Ronen on his Punknews.org Profile.
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Our second of three new audio streams for today is an exclusive remix from The Static Age. The band is on tour right now and coming to a city near you so check out the song and then go check them out.

You can find the exclusive remix of “Lights in the Attic” on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Well, I’m back from school and I’m bringing a bunch of new streams with me. Today, we’ve got a good chunk of the brand new album from GuFF. The record is titled Symphony Of Voices and it’s the follow up to Engine Trouble which was released in 2003.

You can check out all the songs on the band’s Punknews.org Profile.
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The Cure recently spoke to Billboard about their upcoming thirteenth year together and they detailed plans to celebrate the ominous anniversary. Mastermind Robert Smith noted:

Rather than cut it down, at the stage we’re at with the band, I’m making this record because I want to enjoy the process and be proud of the finished result. It isn’t a commercial concern for me.

What will probably happen is that a double album will come out like a limited edition, mixed by me. A single-disc version, which I assume will be primarily chosen by the label, might get mixed by someone else in order to have a different thing. There’s a concern Cure fans will feel like they have to get both, but the fact is, I’ve agreed to sell the double version at a single album price, because I feel that strongly about it. It is almost impossible to get a double album nowadays. I naively thought my standing as an artist would push aside all objections, but the world gets ever more commercial as it turns.”

Songs will include “Lusting Here in Your Mind” (“It sounds suspiciously like heavy rock to me,” Smith says), “The Hungry Ghost,” “The Perfect Boy,” “Christmas Without You” (“That’s not a very happy song,” he says) and “Please Come Home.”

Smith promises the Cure will play new material during its fall North American tour, but not too much.

The band released The Cure in 2004.
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Today we’ve got a special offer for those of you looking for more Against Me!. We’ve teamed up with our friends at RecCenter.com to share an exclusive non-album Against Me! track titled “You Must Be Willing”.

To listen, all you need to do is sign up for RecCenter here.

By signing up you automatically become a friend of Against Me! on RecCenter.com and get first dibs on the exclusive track. RecCenter.com, a new music and community site, will officially launch beta in the coming weeks.

In related news, the band will join Glassjaw and be headlining day 1 of Saints & Sinners Fest on November 3rd.

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Since we know how much you guys enjoy these, here’s another interesting news report which could be described as “emo is the devil.” As usual, the piece focuses on cutting, but also throws in allegations of gender bending and brainwashing.

My Chemical Romance figures into the story heavily with several of the band’s recent videos flashed in the background as the narrator reads questions from another emo quiz.

You can watch the entire news story here.

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On the eve of their reissue of the classic The Color and the Shape, the Foo Fighters recently spoke to Billboard about their next and sixth full length. Tentatively titled Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace, the record is due out September 25th via RCA.

Frontman Dave Grohl noted this about the sound:

It has always been my dream to mix Steely Dan with Nomeansno. If anybody is going to do it, I’d love to be that guy.

There’s four-piece rock band sh*t, but then there are songs where the middle sections turn into this mass orchestrated swarm and ridiculous time signatures.

One song is dedicated to the two Tasmanian miners who were tapped underground for two weeks and, while awaiting rescue, requested an iPod with Foo Fighters music on it to help lift their spirits. Grohl was alerted of the situation by a staffer at the band’s Australian record company and wrote a note to the two men.

The band recently performed at Live Earth and has planned some one-off shows this summer, the Foos will play U.S. gigs in September and October, followed by arenas in the United Kingdom in November and Australia in December. Another U.S. run is on tap for early spring.

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Yellowcard has launched a full album stream of their brand new album. The record is titled Paper Walls and is due out July 17, 2007. It is the follow-up to Lights and Sounds which was released in 2006.

You can check it out on their myspace page.
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Now here’s a show you and your mom can both enjoy. Throwing caution and sensical pairings to the wind, Fagersta, Sweden garage punks the Hives have announced a North American tour opening for adult contemporary soft rockers Maroon 5. Seriously.

The band is apparently still working on that follow up to 2004’s Tyrannosaurus Hives. No release date or any other details are available yet, but as usual there’s a constant flow of cryptic (mis)information from the group on it. For all the fun hit up HivesMusic.com.
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