We recently spoke with New Jersey’s The Gaslight Anthem on the first date of their current headlining tour. The first installment features discussion on the band’s well-received debut LP, Sink or Swim, and their impressions on it’s unexpected success.

The clip also features a live track from the night’s performance, the title track from their new EP, Señor and the Queen. Check back next week for next installment.
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Dead Hearts have posted two new tracks which was presumably appear on their next full length. The material is some of the first new music from the hardcore band since 2006’s Bitter Verses

You can check out the songs on their myspace page.
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The Bad Boys For Life Tour featuring U.S. Bombs, Deadline, The Creepshow, Darkbuster, and Radio Dead Ones will be tramping through Europe from the end of March through the beginning of April. The last two dates will be part of the City Invasion fest with Agnostic Front and MDC.

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This week on the BBC Radio 1 Punk Show, the show featured Chris McCaughan of Sundowner and The Lawrence Arms. Chris played DJ on the show and played three of his favorite records.

Along with Chris, the show featured an interview/live session with Winnebago Deal-side project, The Dresdens.

You can check out the show online right here.
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Vultures United have announced a number of plans for the coming few months. First, the band has announced their first ever tour of the UK. The band will be spending two weeks in the country with Stoke, The Rivercard.

The band has also announced plans to record BBC Session at Maida Valle Studios in London. The studio is the site of the famous Peel Sessions which have featured Gallows, Hot Snakes, The White Stripes, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and others. The session leads into an appearance on the BBC Radio 1 Punk Show with Mike Davies.

Also slated is a release of their album, Dirt Hearts in Europe. The disc is coming out via Anchors Aweigh Records out of Cagliari, Italy. Finally, with regards to a new album:

We’ve actually already started writing. We’ve got 3 songs in the can “T-Rexellent!”, “I Don’t Need Drugs, I Need Money” and “Our Beloved Beatles”. It’s not for sure that we’ll be using these on our debut full length, but basically, shit’s underway. Our new 2nd guitar shredder James has contributed an unnamed track or 2, plus Richie’s got some stuff and Jordan’s got like 57 new songs to toy with. So the material’s there. We just need time to sort it out, decide what sucks, and forge ahead.

As far as labels go, we definitely know we’re not going to release this ourselves. Been there, done that. We haven’t really been talking to labels about the full length and probably won’t until all of the songs are ready to record, but we’re hoping to get something worked out for a Summer recording, with a possible Fall 2008 release.

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Cursive have announced a run of April dates with support from Team Love Records act Capgun Coup.

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The Bronx have posted an update on their plans for the coming months:

Today we start packing it in to the studio to begin work on 1 of 2 records. The first of which will be our mariachi record. 11 stellar tracks – highlights include “qualude quesadilla” & “if you build it, we will paint it”

4 weeks later we pack it back up and move into our own studio that our kick ass record label got us. Big game lodge. To record 11 blast punk tracks.

Both records should be released this summer worldwide. Double vinyl of both albums to follow. We are gonna try and do a studio blog or something. But we will prolly never get around to it, and blogs suck anyway.

The band has also mentioned the addition of two new members, Vincent Hidalgo of The Drips (which also features Matt Caughthran of The Bronx) and Brad Maggers of Your Highness Electic/Christiansen.
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The subject of one of the most popular stories of 2007, major label pop-punk act Mest, have announced a one-off reunion performance at the House of Blues in Anaheim, CA on April 17th, 2008.

Frontman Tony Lovato also plans to debut material from his new band, Kisses for Kings, along with material from the band’s back catalogue.

The popular band split up in 2006 after the release of Photographs in 2005. The big news last year was the shocking arrest of frontman Tony Lovato on murder charges. Lovato was accused of stabbing another man in an underground parking lot of an apartment building but was eventually released.
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While precious little has been revealed about Radiohead‘s success with the donation-suggested model, Nine Inch Nails‘ recent experiment has proven quite successful. Despite no marketing and no label, the donation-suggested 36-track album netted the artist a stunning $1,619,420 US.

The album can be purchased, completely DRM-free in both MP3 and lossless formats as well as CD and a $300.00 deluxe vinyl option. You can also download some of the album for free. The details can be found here.
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This Winter, Winnipeg’s own The Weakerthans visited Berlin, Germany to perform and Hobnox.com has compiled video of the entire show as well as an interview with guitarist Stephen Carroll.

You can check out the four segments here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.

The band released Reunion Tour last year.
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