Polar Bear Club has posted a new song entitled “Our Ballads.” The song can be found streaming on the band’s MySpace page.
It’ll appear on the band’s first full-length, Sometimes Things Just Disappear, due out in the fall on Red Leader, following up on 2006’s zine-acclaimed The Redder, The Better EP (Triple Attack / Luchador).
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Denver’s own Moccasin have inked a deal with Buddyhead Records. The band is currently at work on a new full-length, which is expected to be released through the label late this year or early next year.
The new album will be the follow-up to last year’s Last Leaf EP.
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Our heroes in !!! have announced some dates in support of their 2007 Warp debut, Myth Takes.
Besides travelling through the United States, the band will be dropping by the best Canadian city as well as some place called Montreal.
The Punknews.org Vinyl File is back for week two. With a growing interest in collecting records, we hope to keep you informed with what’s out there so you can find it now and don’t have to sell everything you own to get it on eBay seven years down the road. Once again this column comes courtesy of New Brunswick’s greatest export, Ben Conoley.
This week debuts a new aspect of the column: the Vinyl File spotlight. Each week along with the list of upcoming wax we’ll take a look at an interesting vinyl release that you may have never seen. In the future we’re planning to bring you a look at some of your favourite band’s own collections. This week we’re looking at the Get Up Kids‘ Loveteller 7″.
Also below you’ll find a list of some great upcoming vinyl releases from bands like the Sex Pistols, the Draft, The Arrogant Sons of Bitches, Fucked Up, Appleseed Cast and more.
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Senses Fail have announced that they will be co-headlining a tour with New Found Glory this fall. The two bands are supporting 2006 releases, with NFG supporting Coming Home and Senses Fail touring on Still Searching.
Rounding out the bill and filling the opening slot will be Set Your Goals. The band is current showcasing material from Mutiny! on a European tour with No Trigger.
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Dear Tonight‘s We’re Not Men, doubts of masculinity or not, is arguably one of the year’s best debuts. To borrow a line from the namesake one of our faithful users, I’m not feeling creative right now, so let’s just say they “[bridge] the ever-widening gap between early emotional hardcore…and its latter-day counterparts.”
If that doesn’t do it for ya, luckily we’re streaming the first half of the record on their Punknews.org band page profile, with the other half available soon from our friends at Pastepunk.
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Coalesce has posted the first song from their upcoming 7-inch and iTunes digital release. The record is titled Salt and Passage and is due out September 11, 2007. The record is one of a handful of releases from the previously dormant band including a reissue of There is Nothing New Under the Sun in August and a four DVD box set due October 2007.
You can check out “Son of Son of Man” on their myspace page.
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Atreyu has announced the beginnings of a headlining tour in support of their upcoming major label debut. The record is titled Lead Sails Paper Anchor and is due out August 28, 2007. The band recently kicked off a summer run with Korn and Evanescence on the Family Values tour and will begin the headlining tour shortly afterwards.
Streetlight Manifesto have posted a brief note on their website along with some new tour dates. The band is promising “big, big, big news” which is either about their new album, or some new product from Apple.
In the mean time, the horn-infused combo has announced some more tour dates in August, coming shortly after the conclusion of their ongoing tour with Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish and Against All Authority.
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The Starting Line has posted the dates for a headlining tour in September. The band will be joined by Permanent Me and Four Year Strong for the month-long trek.
The band is touring in support of their recent release Direction, which is currently streaming on MySpace.
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Municipal Waste has posted their tour route for the next two months. In August the band will spend time in Europe, while in September, the band will head back to the United States.
The band released their newest full-length Art of Partying yesterday.
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Vinnie from Less than Jake has updated his blog with some news about the band’s upcoming plans, as well as talking cryptically about the unsigned ska/punk act’s label possibilities and hinting at self-releasing. He also takes a moment to endorse Slapstick.
Lots of people assume [the label] is Fat or SideOneDummy, hell I even heard someone saying we’d go to Fueled By Ramen.
The music business has always been a weird place to me, hell back in the 80’s labels owned the band hook, line and sinker. The magazine. Put good looking guys on covers of the magazine to sell more copies, bands dressed up in make up and teased hair. It was style over substance Bottom line these days of dwindling record sales is to take a large percentage of a bands publishing, merchandise, ownership of future projects of members individually and all without adding anything substantial to the pot itself except distribution. The question really is do young bands care about being “owned” in all these ways ? In my past experience, the answer is no.
He also adds some updates on recording plans:
Chris came up with a few songs so far and he played them for me, I’ve been writing lyrics a bunch and just stocking up on ideas for songs. I’m anxious to start work on a new record after tour is done.
Finally, he adds a shout out to the Lawrence Arms / Falcon / Sundowner tour, specifically making reference to the tour’s plans to showcase some material from Slapstick:
I’ve read that the [bands] are going to be playing some old Slapstick songs on an upcoming tour, I’d be really stoked to hear that, considering that we shared the stage a bunch early on, hell our first tour ever out of Gainesville had lots of shows with them. I’m shocked that kids over at punknews.org are even remotely stoked to hear some good old fashion mid 90’s ska punk. I remember getting a demo cassette tape from Matt, Slapstick’s old guitar player and it was like I had found another person in a sea of shit. Loved those songs then and still now.
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Chuck Ragan, former co-vocalist of Hot Water Music, has launched a full album stream for his debut studio full length. The record is titled Feast or Famine and is due out August 07, 2007. It is the follow-up to the live disc, Los Feliz, which was released earlier this year.
Recorded last April, Feast or Famine includes collaborators Jolie Holland, James Fearnley (The Pogues), Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio) as well as others and incorporates a broad range of instrumentation including banjo, harmonica, lap steel, organ, piano and percussion.
You can check out the entire album on his myspace page.
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