Austin-based hardcore outfit Iron Age have announced their next full length. The record is titled The Sleeping Eye and is due out August 4, 2009. It is the follow-up to Constant Struggle which was released in 2006.
The band is premiering two songs from the album via the folks at Brooklyn Vegan and are hosting the title track on their myspace page.
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Hey folks. After a bit of a break, STA’s Season 4 is getting underway. The preseason began last night and the regular season is set to kick off June 3rd. ETTV will begin its coverage at the start of June.
We’ve been hard at work on another project and we’re hoping we can pull some of our viewers from that scene over to ETTV and vice versa, perhaps infusing a bit of fresh blood into the ETQW arena.
Be sure to tune in June 3rd. EnemyTerritory.tv is back!
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Punknews.org is proud to exclusively bring you the news that critically acclaimed melodic hardcore outfit Strike Anywhere has signed to Bridge Nine Records for their forthcoming album. Bridge Nine founder Chris Wrenn commented:
We’re really excited about working with such an established and hard working band as Strike Anywhere. I’ve wanted to work with these guys for a long time, I have been a fan since their first EP and look forward to helping them continue to spread their music and message
Strike Anywhere’s Thomas Barnett added:
Bridge Nine has a cool combination of hardcore roots and culture, a love for the life and message. We felt immediately connected to it and understood upon talking with Chris and Karl. They get what we’ve been doing for the past nearly ten years, and seek to collaborate with us from a place of honesty: old roots, new friendship. The Bridge Nine commitment to the original platforms of hardcore and punk culture while trying to push it forward globally with creative ideas and unity feels like a perfect fit for us. We feel it’s important to note that we have nothing but love and good feelings for Fat Wreck Chords. Our four years with that label were great times and a singular experience, so we go forward with their blessing and good will. For us, we just wanted to try something different and give this record a new home, new vision.
Strike Anywhere will be in the studio beginning next week with renowned producer Brian McTernan to record Iron Front. Thomas also commented on the new material:
there will be more of an expansion into both the melodic and heavier fast punk that are the foundations of our sound. Songs both global and personal, addressing topics such as borders, immigration, human rights, war, and the work left to be done in a Post-Bush America that still reveres corporate power and international empire. We have a few songs that deal further with issues of the earth, civilization and consciousness, punk songs about the apocalypse, and more events close to home inspiring a song about the limits of safety for the world outside of the gated suburbs, gun culture sickness, and police brutality.
There is a song about grief and memory, art and immortality. We also have the happiest, party-while-you-protest song we have ever written. The sound of the record may be a bit heavier and more noisy, a part of our darker, less optimistic side than say the folk influences and street punk jangle of Dead FM. We have mad love for that record though, it’s just time for the Iron Front and a return to roots and physicality.
Following their studio time, Strike Anywhere will head out across the US and Canada with Propagandhi throughout June, and the band will announce a special Fall tour in the coming months. Expect Strike Anywhere’s upcoming Bridge Nine full-length to hit stores in September of 2009.
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Mad Caddies have announced more festival dates in August. The band also posted a quick update:
So as many of you have seen we have added many tour dates and we still have many more to add. We promise US dates are coming any day now. We will be playing a hometown Santa Barbara concert soon. Thats all we have for now.
Bleeding Through have posted the video for “Germany” from their album, Declaration.
A track from the upcoming 7″ from Title Fight is up for streaming. You can listen to “Symmetry” at the Run For Cover Records myspace page.
The 7″ in question is entitled The Last Thing You Forget and the label is currently taking pre-orders for it, as well as for a 12 track CD of the same name.
The band last released Kingston [7 inch] in 2008.
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Pop-punk Four Year Strong have announced plans to release a new tribute album titled Explains It All. The band entered the studio with producer Machine (Lamb of God, Cobra Starship, Every Time I Die), along with cameos from Travis McCoy (Gym Class Heroes), Keith Buckley (Every Time I Die) and JR Wasilewski and Buddy Schaub (Less Than Jake).
They explained the notion:
We’ve always loved the 90’s. Pogs, “The Sandlot”, bowl cuts, “The Mighty Ducks”, JNCO jeans, “Full House”, Goosebumps books, Airwalks, “Home Alone”, the list goes on forever. Most importantly, there was the music. It’s what we grew up listening to. These songs have impacted us in some way and we want to share that feeling with you.
And so, we are proud to present Four Year Strong Explains It All. We’ve recorded some of our favorite songs from the 90s and this is our opportunity to show you guys some of the influences that helped make Four Year Strong what it is.
The record is due out July 21, 2009. It is the follow-up to Rise or Die Trying which was released in 2007.
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Rx Bandits and Dredg have announced the first half of their summer tour. The jaunt will feature Good Old War, Zechs Marquise and As Tall as Lions on various stops.
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Pour Habit have posted a free track from their forthcoming reissue on Fat Wreck Chords. The record is titled Suiticide and is due out May 26, 2009.
You can download “Institution” here or stream some other songs on their myspace page.
The band recently kicked off the Fat Tour through Canada and the US.
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Set Your Goals have announced a co-headlining tour with Four Year Strong. The jaunt will feature support from Fireworks on all dates, as well as the Swellers, Polar Bear Club, Driver A and Grave Maker on different legs.
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PETA2 has announced its nominees for the “Sexiest Vegetarians of 2009.” A small section of the nominees includes Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Kathy Coppola (Circle Takes The Square), Aaron Dalbec (Bane), Adam Carson (AFI), Adam McGrath (Cave In), Alex Suarez (Cobra Starship), Andy Hurley (Fall Out Boy), Ari Katz (Lifetime), Arif Mirabdolbaghi (Protest the Hero), Armand Majidi (Sick Of It All), Ben Bridwell (Band of Horses), Billy Hamilton (Silverstein), Brandon Barnes (Rise Against), Brian Bell (Weezer), Cedric Bixler-Zavala (The Mars Volta), Chicken (Western Addiction), Chris #2 (Anti-Flag), Chris Hannah (Propagandhi), Chris Head (Anti-Flag), Dave Hause (The Loved Ones), Derek Grant (Alkaline Trio), Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance), Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Greg Attonito (Bouncing Souls), Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), Jacob Bannon (Converge), Jeremy Hiebert (Comeback Kid), Joe Principe (Rise Against), Jon Josef (Cro-Mags), Justin Sane (Anti-Flag), Liam Wilson (Dillinger Escape Plan), Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio), Nikola Sarcevic (Millencolin), Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (The Mars Volta), Pat Thetic (Anti-Flag), Patrick Carney (The Black Keys), Thom Yorke (Radiohead), Thomas Barnett (Strike Anywhere), Tim McIlrath (Rise Against), Tim Millar (Protest the Hero), Tim Reece (The Album Leaf), Toby Morse (H2O) and Tom Gabel (Against Me!),
You can see who else was nominated here!
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Sum 41 recently posted the first in what may be a series of Metallica tribute performances. The show opens with “Blackened” from …And Justice for All and moves into “Enter Sandman” from Metallica and then concluding with “Motorbreath” from Kill ‘Em All.
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Blink 182‘s recent performance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is now online. The band performed two tracks, “All The Small Things,” from Enema of the State and “The Rock Show” from Take Off Your Pants And Jacket.
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