Every Time I Die frontman Keith Buckley was recently interviewed by UK-based Rock Sound and gave a few comments on the recording process of the band’s next full-length and debut for their new label, Epitaph:

“The new album is not yet done and we don’t know what it is called yet. We still have stuff to finish on the record when we get back from this U.K. tour [with GALLOWS] so we shall see about names then.”

“I am really surprised at how it came out,” he said. “I did not know that we had it in us to be this fast and heavy anymore. You listen to a lot of bands and you can pinpoint the exact time that the dudes decided they were too old for it and started going through the motions. We are not going through the motions on this record at all, it is a legit punk record.” The band released The Big Dirty in 2007.
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Lansing, MI’s Cheap Girls have announced the release date for the remastered reissue of their 2008 full-length, Find Me a Drink Home. The LP will be released on June 23, 2009 via the band’s new label, Paper and Plastick. The band also expects to have their sophomore full-length, My Roaring 20s, ready in time for a fall release.

The band also has some tour dates coming up in both the United Kingdom with Chillerton, as well as a few scattered American shows.
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Australia’s To the North will embark on a tour of their homeland in July with Grand Rapids, MI’s La Dispute.

To the North have a new 12″ EP on the way, while La Dispute issued Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair in 2008 on No Sleep.

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Maylene and the Sons of Disaster has posted a new track online titled “Just a Shock.” The song will appear on III, the appropriately named follow-up to 2007’s II.

III is slated for release July 7.
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Blacklisted announced at a recent show that they’ll begin recording their new full-length next week.

The only additional information given by frontman George Hirsch was that there will not be pre-orders.

The band was playing with Paint It Black, Crude and Unit 21 at The Studio at Webster Hall in New York City, a rare live appearance that followed a several-month period of inactivity and quietness. Hirsch explained, “Life takes its toll on you, sometimes.”

The album is expected later this year on Deathwish, following up last year’s Org favorite Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God.
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Best Friends Day 8 has announced its lineup. This year’s festivities will take place between August 20-23 in Richmond, VA and will include a 3 day scavenger hunt with elimination each day, with performances by Strike Anywhere, Torche, None More Black, Young Widows, Assholeparade, Off with Their Heads, Hellnation, Blotto, Lemuria, Pink Razors, Monikers, The Measure [SA], No Friends, Brainworms, Cannabis Corpse, Shellshag, No BS Brass Band, Virgins, Ultra Dolphins, Gatorface, Ringers, Wasted Time, Friendly Fire, Snacktruck, Magrudergrind, Constrictor, Psyched to Die and more.

A flyer for the fest can be seen here.
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Rx Bandits have posted the second new studio video as they prepare for their next full length The band released …And the Battle Begun in 2006.

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The Flatliners and Hostage Life have announced some Canadian shows together this month.

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Social Distortion, The Replacements and Elvis Costello will be added to Rock Band in the coming weeks. The popular game will be adding songs from all three bands as well as Disturbed and Steely Dan on May 12 (XBOX360) and May 14 (Playstation 3).

Social Distortion is contributing “Bad Luck,” “Ring of Fire” and “Story of My Life,” The Replacements’ add “Kids Don’t Follow” and Elvis Costello adds his classic song, “Radio Radio.”
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State of Mind Recordings will be releasing a new 4 song 7-inch for Buffalo, NY’s Rust Belt Lights. The band features current and former members of Dead Hearts, Daggermouth and Get Back Up and promise a “fast, melodic, and catchy punk rock experience that will have you singing along in no time. Think Lifetime, Kid Dynamite, or H2O.”

You can find music on their myspace page.
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Metallica hardcore outfit, Hellmouth, have earned a protest from a Indiana priest after a high school student brought home a flyer from Failure Fest 5 who showed it to his parents and in turn, his priest. According to a source:

The Priest looked up the band on the internet and saw the image of the priest on the band’s album cover 0and inverted crosses and pentagrams. He tried to pressure the promoter to kick the band off the bill and threatened to bring a protest if they play.

The album in question is the band’s debut full-length Destroy Everything, Worship Nothing via Ferret Records.
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Sean P. Rogan, the guitarist for Boston ska punks Big D and the Kids Table, has decided to give guitar lessons at each stop of the Van’s Warped Tour this summer. Sean had the following statement:

I have been getting some requests for guitar lessons at the Warped Tour this summer. I think it’s a great idea! If you are interested in getting a guitar lesson this summer, check out Big D, we’ll most likely be playing in a city near you. There are definitely enough hours in the day to get a lesson in. I’ll have plenty of guitars and all of my teaching things with me.

If interested, you can contact Sean via his myspace page.

Big D and the Kids Table is currentlly in the studio working on the follow up to 2007’s Strictly Rude and will be on the entire Vans Warped Tour 2009.
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Joliet, IL trio Ryan’s Hope have formed a pop-punk side project called The Reaganomics. Frontman Terry Morrow had this to say about the venture:

We’ve been dicking around with some pop punk type songs, and greg and nick have been doing a lot of writing and singing, so we decided to throw those ideas into demos and form a sort of side band called the reaganomics.

Some Reaganomics demos can be heard here, and the band plans to record more songs this June in Chicago, in addition to writing and recording new Ryan’s Hope songs before the summer ends.

Ryan’s Hope last released the Chaos EP in 2008, which is still available for free download at their website.
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