Pennywise has a free download from their upcoming record Reason To Believe. The album will be released by Epitaph in Europe while MySpace Records will handle the US release on March 25, 2008.

As previously announced MySpace Records will offer up the album as a free digital download via a Textango promotion. Anyone who adds Textango’s profile as a friend on the social networking site MySpace will get access to the songs.

You can download “The Western World” courtesy of KROQ here.
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Satirical hardcore/punk outfit The Meatmen have unveiled a number of plans for 2008. The band is the brain-child of Tesco Vee, has existed off and on since 1979..

The band will be hitting SXSW before kicking off a tour in the Midwest and East Coast in March, April and May. A West Coast tour will hit in the summer. The band has also re-issued three of the band’s most popular albums, Rock ‘N’ Roll Juggernaut, We’re The Meatmen And You Still Suck! and Pope On A Rope. Later this year, the band will reissue War of the Superbikes 2.

In May the band will be releasing The Devil’s In The Details Vol 1, a DVD chronicling the band’s live legacy and Tesco’s TV show will be out in May. This will be followed by the the band’s first new recording in 12 years, The Meatmen Cover The Earth which will include Tesco’s favorite songs from the past 40 years.

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Be Your Own Pet have released the new video from their sophomore album. The record is titled Get Awkward and is due out March 18, 2008. It is the follow-up to Be Your Own Pet which was released in 2006.

You can check out “The Kelly Affair” in QuickTime format right here.
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End Sounds has uploaded “Suckers To The Side,” a new track from The Mag Seven‘s upcoming album Knife To A Gunfight on their MySpace page.

The band features Doni Blair from Only Crime and Hagfish and their album is due out May 13th.
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A full week of being beaten by some vague sort of flu, but the posts here are back as a friendly reminder of what’s up on that sidebar.

• Polar Bear Club‘s long-awaited debut full-length, Sometimes Things Just Disappear (which we’re currently streaming)
• The new album from indie-hop vet Why?, Alopecia
• Grand Archives, the self-titled debut from the former Band of Horses / Carissa’s Wierd member Mat Brooke
• The Agony Scene‘s Get Damned
• More at the reviews page

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Fat Wreck Chords have posted a song from Good Riddance‘s upcoming live record Remain In Memory – The Final Show. The 31-song set is due out March 18, 2008

You can check out “One for the Braves” and “Without Anger” (as well as the previously posted “Mother Superior” right here.

Good Riddance played their final show in their hometown of Santa Cruz, California on May 27th, 2007.
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Doghouse act Cruiserweight have posted four new songs from their upcoming full length, Big Bold Letters.

Along with the songs, the band has a new video for the track “Balboa” which can be streamed here.

The four new songs can be heard on their myspace page.

The Austin, Texas-based band released Sweet Weaponry in February of 2005.
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New Brunswick, New Jersey-based Let Me Run have signed to XOXO (Gaslight Anthem, All Rattle and Dust). The band begins pre-production for their debut full-length this week and has a tentative release date of September 16th, 2008.

You can check out three tracks on their MySpace page.
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The full trailer for the upcoming Chemical X DVD zine is now available for streaming on their MySpace page. The DVD will feature music from bands like Randy, Dan Padilla, the Copyrights, Peelander-Z, the Riverboat Gamblers, Off With Their Heads, Negativland, Japanther and more.

The DVD is due out June 8th and you can see the trailer below.
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Late Night Wallflower recently sat down with legendary punk rock frontman Henry Rollins to talk about his upcoming books and specials he is working on for ’08:

The Fanatic book is just the third installment of these crazy radio notes I make for my show. The damn thing is a hundred eighty thousand words. Way too much information about far too little. It’s all these bands I’m geeked out about. Discography information and all kinds of things like that. It’s a big book for ten bucks. A whole lot of paper for cheap and it’s a big labor of love for me

A Preferred Blur is travel stories from ’06 and ’07. It goes all around the world to Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Australia, Scandinavia, Europe, America, Canada, all these places. That one is finished and just needs to be edited.

Along with the books, Rollins is putting together three live and uncut specials for IFC who also host his talk show:

[IFC] said ‘where do you want to go?’ I said, ‘let’s do one in South Africa.’ The next one will be in a few weeks in Northern Ireland, in Belfast. We are doing one in New Orleans. I don’t know when that shoots.

Finally, Rollins weighs in on the ongoing election:

One day it looks like Hilary and one day it looks like Obama. For myself, I’ve never been the biggest fan of hers. I think she’s brilliant and she’s smart and if she becomes the front-runner then I’m going to vote for her. I don’t hate John McCain. I bet you he’s not a bad guy. I’m not a fan of Republicans. I’ll vote for Rip Taylor before I vote Republican. I’ve just got to have a new game plan, a new conversation with Iraq and health care.

You can check out the rest of the interview here.
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36 Crazyfists have posted a new song from their upcoming debut for Ferret. The record is titled The Tide and its Takers and is due out May 27, 2008.

You can find “Absent Are The Saints” right here.
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Dutch punk/hardcore outfit Discipline have unveiled some plans for their full length on I Scream Records. The band entered the studio last week to record twelve songs for Old Pride, New Glory which is due out in May 2008. Along with the new songs, the band is promising a bonus disc with eighteen covers recorded over the years.

For the covers, the band is tackling tracks by The Bruisers, Slapshot, Misfits, Social Distortion, Stranglers, Cock Sparrer, Sheer Terror and many more. The full track listing can be seen here.

Some of the band’s older material can be found on their myspace page.
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The Widow Jenkins, which features former members of Emery and Brazil, just posted a new demo for their song “The Skeleton Of Dorian Grey.” You can hear the track at the Warped Tour Battle of the Bands site. The band is currently writing and demoing for a full length to be released this summer.

Museums have posted their new EP can we meet in the middle for streaming until the release date of March 25th. Check it out at their MySpace page

They and the Children have posted two tracks from Home, their upcoming LP. The album is due out April 19th via Kill Normal. The Connecticut hardcore band promises “groovier” numbers more “nuanced and cerebral” than other local bands. CHeck them out at ye olde MySpace page.
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