Detroit’s Frank White have posted 3 brand new songs for download. The tracks include a cover of “Murder on My Mind” by the Lillingtons. The songs are available on their MySpace.

The Action Design, which features former mebers of Tsunami Bomb Emily Whitehurst and Matt McKenzie alongside Jaycen from Pipedown and Jake from Calcutta Bazaar, have begun posting dates for a southwest tour to take place this spring. Check them out at their MySpace page

Ian M and Pat Lillard of Riverboat Gamblers have joined with Rich Cali from Austin’s Leaves to form an Austin-based sideproject called Broken Gold. You can hear an acoustic demo at their MySpace page.
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In a rare, double-whammy announcement, Minneapolis, MN’s Tapes ‘n Tapes have declared that they will be releasing a new album titled Walk It Off via XL Recordings on April 8th and will be going on tour directly afterwards to support that new record. The album was produced by Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Sleater-Kinney, Weezer), and frontman Josh Grief recently spoke to Pitchfork in length about it. Tickets for the shows are available for pre-sale on the band’s website starting February 15th.

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Uprising Records has signed Los Angeles-based Katsumoto.

The band recently posted a new song online titled “Write Before My Eyes,” from their forthcoming debut LP Burn Em’ Down, Wipe Em’ Out!, which is due out this spring. You can check out the track on MySpace.
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Explosions In The Sky have added quite a few dates all over the world to their already packed touring schedule. The band will be joined by Eluvium and Lichens on separate legs including jaunts through Australia, the USA and Europe.

The dates can be found below and are in support of All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone.
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New England hardcore festival As One will take place on May 16th, 17th and 18th at Bobby Allens in Waterbury Connecticut. The fest will play host to over thirty acts, including 100 Demons, Ambitions, Bitter End, Blacklisted, Bracewar, COA, Cold World, Crown of Kings, Dead Black, Dead Up, Energy, Have Heart, Hostage Calm, Kill Boys, Living Hell, Meltdown, Mind Eraser, Mongoloids, New Lows, Palehorse, Reign Supreme, Shipwreck, The Carrier, Unforgiven and Wrench in the Works. More bands are expected to be announced soon including two special guests. Check the fest’s MySpace page for pricing and travel details.
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Music website You Ain’t No Picasso has rounded up fifty plus different covers as performed by the non-Canadian, Athens, GA based Of Montreal. Included are both live and studio recordings, featuring songs by Led Zeppelin, Creation, Prince, David Bowie, Sugarhill Gang, Buzzcocks, The Misfits, Gnarls Barkley and more.

You can find a link to that page here.
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Small Towns Burn A Little Slower has detailed their final record, So Begins the Test of a Man. The album will see a February 19 release through Dead Letter Records.

The Minneapolis based band broke up last month.
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Walnut Creek, California’s This Time Next Year will embark a West Coast tour with Thieves and Villians in March.

The band continues to tour in support of A Place for You, which was released last year.
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Sussex, New Jersey’s Folly has called it quits. The band has posted a statement (well, more a lengthy tome really) to their MySpace page explaining their rationale and giving their thanks. Among it they revealed:

So what’s next? We’ll be planning some “final shows” in due time, most likely in the NJ-NY-CT region abound. Ideally we wanted to get out to all the other states we love, (Florida, Texas, California, etc…) but it doesn’t seem likely we’ll do so. Also, to further extend going out the same way we came in, we decided to record some new tracks (currently doing so) and make them all available online. It’s the closest thing we could think of that resembled copying demo tapes and handing them out in the late 90’s. High speed dubbing ruled! Each song on the finale is named after a town we broke down in, written in bitter contempt and yet grateful resolution in leaving something we love so much. It’s somewhat of a metaphorical “concept album” that speaks for the culmination of the holistic Folly experience, from start to finish- old and new. It’s our requiem; the eulogy of our death. Consider this perhaps as the sequel to the band and the prequel to the rest of our lives. We’ll keep you posted soon about the last shows and hott lickz/sick chopz trax…

The band last released Resist Convenience on Triple Crown Records.
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