Tampa’s The Holy Mountain is calling it quits after five years. The hardcore / thrash act was quite prolific, releasing an album nearly yearly along with numerous EPs and 7 inch records. The band’s No Idea releases included Bloodstains Across Your Face In Decline, Entrails and most recently 2006’s Enemies.

In regards to their planned upcoming releases the band’s commented:

The split 5″ with Deathcycle has a cover and is about finished. Ask Nate at Gloom Records about that shit and when it might arrive.

Jeremy Clark is working on the new cover for the Cave Canem split 7″ on Alerta Antifascista and should have it done within a week or so. Everything else is ready to go for that one.

The Cobra Noir split 7″? We sent that recording off last October, I think. Last we heard, some guy that did the last Neurosis cover was doing the art and that is what they were waiting on. Sure. Contact Cyclop Media about the gathering of dust on that project.

And lastly, the split 7″ with Asshole Parade. Probably never going to come out. We may give up on them and release it as a one sided 7″ with an etched b-side, limited to about 47 copies after we destroy most of the pressing to make the remaining copies more rare. We may also put the word ISIS on the cover and the word Hydrahead on the back. Pre-orders available summer 2012.

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Youth Brigade are set to hit the road soon. They’ll play a trio of dates in Alberta this September, two with new Albertan labelmates Wednesday Night Heroes. In the fall they’ll follow with a number of US shows in California, Arizona, Florida (at The Fest) and Texas.
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Virgil and his band of troublemakers at Suburban Home will be releasing the debut album from the Playing Favorites. Formerly known as Dead Penguin, the band is the newest project from Joey Cape and features four of his closest friends. He’s been trickling out samples of the new music in the past few months.

The as-yet-untitled album will be mixed by Jason Livermore at the Blasting Room and is hoped to be released before the end of the year. Joey is also releasing an acoustic album via Bad Taste Records in Sweden.

Of course, fans know Cape from the nigh-seminal punk outfit Lagwagon as well as the more experimental Bad Astronaut, who released their final album this past year.
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Pitchfork is reporting that Ted Leo And The Pharmacists bassist Dave Lerner has left the band. This past Sunday’s show at Brooklyn’s McCarren Park Pool was reportedly Lerner’s last with the band. The split looks to be amicacable as “Leo toasted Lerner with a bottle of bubbly” during the performance.

No replacement has been announced yet but the Pharmacists have a break until September sees them out on the road again. The band released Living with the Living this year via Touch and Go.
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Evansville, IN’s Mock Orange has announced fall tour dates in the United States and Japan.

The Japanese dates will be with The Band Apart. That act recently joined Mock Orange for a split titled Daniel’s EP. The EP features features two original songs by each band and as well as a cover that finds the bands trading songs (The Band Apart’s cover reportedly manages to squeeze the entirety of Mock Orange’s Mind Is Not Brain album into one song). The EP was released by Japan’s Asian Gothic Records .
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With their new album set to drop this week, Eisley, has decided to give one of you an acoustic guitar. Using it, you can start up your own folk/punk group, sign to a succession of ever larger indies before making the jump to a major label and freaking everybody out.

The band’s new record is titled Combinations and is due out August 14, 2007. You can catch Eisley on a whirlwind tour through the United States beginning in early September.

You can check a video from the record as well as enter the contest right here.
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Redwood City raconteur Dante3000 recently had the chance to sit down and chat with MU330 front man, and solo artist Dan Potthast. The two talked about everything from playing solo, to the meaning of songs and even awesome amusement parks. Dan even drops some knowledge about a new label being started by Streetlight Manifesto brainchild Tomas Kalnoky, big news indeed.

The full audio of the interview, plus some of Dan’s solo music, can be found here. The end of the audio interview also contains directions on how to enter to win an Asian Man prize pack featuring both of Dan Potthast’s CD’s (Sweets and Meats and Eyeballs), The Lawrence Arm’s Cocktails and Dreams, the re-release of Alkaline Trio’s goddamnit and other Asian Man swag.
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We’re very happy to be bringing you a brand new stream from Philadelphia’s The Low Budgets today. The features Joe Jack Talcum of The Dead Milkmen and the band released their Chunksaah debut this month.

The band is described as “Devo meets Descendents” and you can see for yourself via their Punknews.org Profile.
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Voodoo Glow Skulls have announced a number of upcoming show dates, among them a tour with Left Alone and Mustard Plug.

The band will be supporting their new full length Southern California Street Music, which is set to hit stores on September 18th via Victory Records. Following the US tour the band will head to Europe with Left Alone, Against All Authority and Random Hand. Dates for that leg are still to be announced.
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The video for “One Quick Minute” by Lincoln, Nebraska garage fuzz bluesmen Brimstone Howl is now online. . The song appears on the band’s new Alive Records full length Guts of Steel.

The band is on the road now supporting the record.
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The Braves, which features ex-members of Gods Reflex and the Evergreen Trio, are calling it quits. The band posted the following info via their MySpace page:

As you can see, August 31st will be our last show as The Braves. This maybe should have happened a while ago, but the timing is right now, for various reasons. And as a way to tie everything up, we’ll be playing Love & Mercy in its entirety, as a five piece again with Phil. We’ll also be having a bargain blowout spring cleaning of sorts, and hopefully get rid of our remaining cd’s, record, and shirts. There may also be a DVD if we can cobble it together in time.

So thank you everyone who has supported us during the past 5 years, and we’ll have a new project sometime soon, so please check back. I want to give special thanks to Marc Ruvolo, Mike Gibson, Brian Lodis, Gina Ross, Rob Vester, Erin Balek, and all of the rest of our close friends and family who have helped us out any time we needed it.

The band last released Love & Mercy in 2005 via Johann’s Face.

Also, and confusingly, these are not the same Braves that recently signed to Pinky Ring Records. Those are from Brooklyn, these are from Rockford, IL.
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The Braves (ex-Gods Reflex and The Evergreen Trio) are calling it quits. The band posted the following info via their MySpace page:

As you can see, August 31st will be our last show as The Braves. This maybe should have happened a while ago, but the timing is right now, for various reasons. And as a way to tie everything up, we’ll be playing Love & Mercy in its entirety, as a five piece again with Phil. We’ll also be having a bargain blowout spring cleaning of sorts, and hopefully get rid of our remaining cd’s, record, and shirts. There may also be a DVD if we can cobble it together in time.

So thank you everyone who has supported us during the past 5 years, and we’ll have a new project sometime soon, so please check back. I want to give special thanks to Marc Ruvolo, Mike Gibson, Brian Lodis, Gina Ross, Rob Vester, Erin Balek, and all of the rest of our close friends and family who have helped us out any time we needed it.

The band released Love & Mercy in 2005 via Johann’s Face.

Also, and confusingly, this is not the same Braves that we recently reported as signing to Pinky Ring Records. Those are from Brooklyn, these are from Rockford, IL.
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