Inquisition have posted another video from their upcoming live CD/DVD, UPROAR: Live & Loud!. The video is for the studio version of the song “Uproar”, synced to footage of the band performing it on both nights.

The band recently announced a special pre-sale and theater viewing, taking place this Saturday in their hometown of Richmond, VA. Additionally, the band also launched a new website, with photos, video and more. UPROAR: Live & Loud! hits streets March 18 via No Idea Records.

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Punk rock’s leading non-musical periodical Punk Rock Confidential has officially launched a new line of t-shirts and to commemorate this incredible transition from paper to uhm, cloth, has put up a bunch of great stuff including subscriptions to the magazine, the official t-shirts AND a smelly, used t-shirt from Fat Mike’s laundry hamper.

The magazine enlisted the design prowess of Heather Hannoura and Shawn Peterson of Dogpile for the shirts and you can find them below.

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Wasilla, AK’s Portugal. The Man have announced a group of California tour dates featuring support from Foxy Shazam. They’ll be playing up and down the coast, giving all those sunny-stated residents a chance to catch the show.

The band previously announced that they had left Fearless Records and will attempt to self-release their new album.
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Today we’ve got some new music from Worcester, MA-based Smartbomb. The band includes two members of No Trigger and a third from Shock Nagasaki.

Their new EP, Chaos and Lawlessness is out now via Think Fast! and you can check out the entire thing on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Sleepercar, the project from Jim Ward of Sparta and At the Drive-In have set a release date as well as posting three new songs from their upcoming debut.

Jim mentioned the band to us in a recent Sparta interview, but he adds:

The first notes of “Fences Down” were written on a stage in Japan in January, during a moment of solitude at a soundcheck on what would be the final At The Drive In tour. I had been listening to the old 97’s and slowly discovering that some sort of country and rock n roll combination was taking me over.

I met some new friends who introduced me to the Flying Burrito Brothers and Gram Parsons and I was hooked. I made some half-joking plans to start a country band, but then got distracted by life. At The Drive In ended, Sparta began.

Additional musicians include 6-string guitar and farfisa by Ross Godfrey of Morcheeba fame, and Maura Davis of Denali and Ambulette sings on some songs. We mixed the record at Sonic Ranch with Justin Leeah at the controls.

The record is titled West Texas and is due out April 22, 2008. You can find three songs from the album on their myspace page.
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The Raleigh, NC based Birds of Avalon have fleshed out their upcoming tour in support of their new EP due out on on March 18th. The EP is titled Outer Upper Inner.

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Bloomington, Indiana’s Murder By Death will be heading out on a long tour, first supporting Clutch and then kicking off a string of headlining dates with support from O’Death and Kiss Kiss. The band previously released the Fuego! EP, their debut for Vagrant Records. Their full length, Red Claw and Tooth, is slated for a March 4th release.

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HORSE the Band have announced the schedule and some of the dates/routing for the first leg of their upcoming 40-country world tour.

We are still planning a DVD, reality-TV series, and feature length documentary as well as press coverage in National Geographic, Time, Life, People, etc. We’re still waiting on a few shows in China to be confirmed and the one show in Dubai. Dubai has been a nightmare to book. If anyone wants to help us out with Dubai email us at [email protected]. Anything else still TBA will be confirmed in the next week or so.

Leg 2 will include all of North and Central America and will take place this summer, hopefully for the most part on Warped Tour (if Kevin Lyman can fit us in somewhere, evidently it’s “full” but a few tens of thousands of emails, bribery, and straight-up blackmail could reveal an previously overlooked opening). If not we start picking off uni-haircut bands with colorful, whimsical ads in the first 30-40 pages of AP. No one will notice they’re gone anyway. We’ll definitely be hitting the US, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Panama at least.

Leg 3 will be in the fall. We hope to confirm 3 weeks in Brazil on the Vans Zona Punk tour, followed by shows in any other South American countries that will have us. The last show of Earth Tour will be in South Africa. By that time, if we aren’t dead, we’ll have played 6 continents in one year and made the world a much, much better place by making a lot of American Internet experts on various topics who have never done anything of note with their lives (you) insanely jealous and angry.

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Minneapolis-based music ensemble Banner Pilot have posted “Speed Trap” and “Cut Bait” off of their upcoming debt full length, Resignation Day. The band previously announced details about the album.

You can check them out on their Myspace.
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New York’s O’Death will be heading out on tour for March. Supporting them for the tour will be Langhorne Slim. O’Death previously released Head Home last year.

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New York’s O’Death will be heading out on tour for March. Supporting them for the tour will be Langhorne Slim. O’Death previously released Head Home last year.

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