Ted Leo and the Pharmacists has announced a UK-tour set to begin in mid-April. The band will be visiting Ireland, Scotland and England on the tour which is in continued support of Living with the Living.

Along with those shows, Ted will be joining Dropkick Murphys in MA for two shows in March.
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Dillinger Escape Plan have announced a two-week headlining tour set to begin in April. The jaunt will feature support from The Bled and Heavy Heavy Low Low and Dillinger will continue to support Ire Works.

Following that, the band will head to Japan for a short run with Pig Destroyer, At The Gates and Mayhem and then hit Australia for a run.

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New Found Glory have posted one of the rarities from their upcoming hits compilation. Set to be released by Universal, the twelve song album will include 10 of the band’s most popular songs and “Constant Static,” a track previously available only on a digital single. It will also include “Situations,” a song that previously was available only for streaming on warpedtour.com. The record is titled Hits and is due out March 18, 2008

You can find “Situations” on their myspace page.
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Circle Takes The Square will be hitting the studio in May to work on their first new material in four years. The band issued their last album, As The Roots Undo in 2004.

The band is also promising to document the process via studio blog when they begin recording. In the interim, the band debuted a live recording of one of the new songs set to appear on the album.
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After fleshing out their US Tour, Bad Religion has now added a wealth of new European dates surrounding their festival appearances.

Along with the touring, the band is also gearing up for the deluxe release of their 2007 album, New Maps of Hell.

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Blackheart Records is proud to announce that Seattle’s The Cute Lepers, formerly Steve E. Nix and The Cute Lepers, are now on the Blackheart roster. The band had this to say:

The Cute Lepers have officially joined forces with Blackheart Records…as in “Joan Jett & the fucking Blackhearts”, Blackheart Records! The album ‘Can’t Stand Modern Music’ will be released worldwide (aside from UK/EU, where Damaged Goods is handling the release) in May of 2008. We are very very stoked!! Currently we are on tour with the Horrorpops and Pink Spiders somewhere on the east coast, check the dates… if you come out to a show, starting today, we will have advance copies of the c.d. for sale as well as limited edition “tour only” green vinyl L.P.s specially pressed up by our friends at ‘1234GO!’ We’re looking forward to a load of touring supporting the album’s release in the warm weather…. this touring across frozen tundra business is just fine at the moment though!

The groups features Steve E. Nix, Chris B. and Steve Kix of The Briefs as well as members of the Spits, the Girls and the Stuck Ups. The group previously announced that 1-2-3-4 Go! will be releasing the vinyl version of their debut record, Can’t Stand Modern Music.
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Seattle’s The Presidents of the United States of America have posted the latest video from their fifth studio album, entitled These Are The Good Times People. The follow up to 2004’s Love Everybody hits stores on March 11th. The video was directed by Alfred Matthew “Weird Al” Yankovic. (On a related note, how sweet was this video. )

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A new interview with John Doe promises new material from classic punk outfit, X.

The original lineup of X, which does 20 to 70 shows a years, has concentrated exclusively on songs from the first five X albums but is now contemplating its first album of new songs since 1993.

He now finds himself wrestling with questions such as: Can I write new songs for X without sounding like an imitation of my younger self? How can I use older styles on my solo albums without being trapped by them? How much history do I let in and how much do I keep out?

The band’s last studio full length was 1993’s Hey Zeus!. Since then, the band delivered a live album (Unclogged), a double-disc anthology titled Beyond and Back and their 2004 hits compilation, The Best: Make the Music Go Bang!.
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Lansing, Michigan’sCavalcade has released 4 new songs from their upcoming full length, Into Bolivian. They can be listened to on thier MySpace page. The album was produced by Sean Peters (Summon, Masochist) and is expected to be available on March 30th through Bermuda Mohawk Productions or at thier show that night at Mac’s Bar in Lansing, MI.

Cleveland, Ohio’s SSCP are going out on tour around the Midwest and the East Coast. You can check out all available tour dates plus a slew of streaming songs on the band’s MySpace page.

Montreal, Quebec’s Reset will be releasing their fourth studio album, No Intensity, on March 18th. The group has posted a sample of a new track on their MySpace page.
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