Gainesville, FL’s Whiskey & Co. have announced some tour dates for August. The band has spent the last few months at Crescendo Sound Studios (Hot Water Music, Against Me!, Leatherface, Fall Out Boy) recording their third album for No Idea Records. The record, entitled Rust Colors, is expected out by the end of year and will be the band’s first full-length since 2006’s Leaving the Nightlife.

All dates will feature support from Me and the Devil and The Company of Ghosts.
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Doomriders and Lewd Acts have launched new audio players featuring tracks from their upcoming albums.

Lewd Acts will issue Black Eye Blues on September 1, 2009 and you can check out the player here. Doomriders are planning Darkness Come Alive for September 29, 2009 and that is streaming here.
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Saddle Creek has announced the signing of Lawrence, KS act Old Canes and will release the band’s sophomore album, Feral Harmonic, on October 20, 2009. The band features Christopher Crisci, vocalist/guitarist of The Appleseed Cast, who constructed the record largely alone in his basement studio. The label notes:

“He [Crisci] played the majority of the instrumentation himself with additional help from a cast of musician friends contributing various parts, including trumpet, harmophone, cello, and hammer dulcimer, among other instruments. As recording was regularly interrupted by touring, work, other projects, and life in general, production on the album took nearly three and a half years to complete.”

The record will be the band’s first since Early Morning Hymns, released in 2004 on Second Nature Recordings.
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Evergreen Terrace, Emmure, Stick to Your Guns, For Today and Oceano are headed out on the “Hard Knock Life Tour” this fall.

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Buffalo, NY’s Unwelcome Guests have posted two new songs. “Warm Soon” and “Walking is Tough” come from the band’s forthcoming full-length, Don’t Go Swimming, which was recorded inside Watchmen Studios in Lockport, NY by Doug White. No word yet on a release date or label, but we’ll keep you posted. The band has previously released material on Dirt Cult Records, Art of the Underground, Salinas Records and Traffic Street Records, among others. Among those was a 2008 split 7″ with Orphan Choir and The Painter 7″ the same year.

Check out the songs at the band’s MySpace page.
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Mightier Than Sword Records has inked Massachusetts’ Mountain Man. The band contains ex-members of Verse and Last Lights and current I Rise.

The band is playing a practical fest at The Palladium today in Worcester, MA, alongside Four Year Strong, Set Your Goals, Vanna, Energy, Fireworks, A Loss for Words, the Swellers, Transit, Gravemaker, Lions Lions, Dylan Massucco, On Impact!, Short Ride, Teamwork, Thrash Unreal, the Appreciation Post and Such Gold; they’ll have 50 copies of their limited-​edition,​ hand-numbered demo on sale. Their next effort is a 10″ EP slated for a late fall release.
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Mock Orange plan to release Live in Brooklyn. As the name suggests, the disc will feature a live set recorded in Brooklyn, NY and the record is due out September 15, 2009. The recording was captured by Ken Heitmuller (Pernice Brothers) at Southpaw in during the tour that supported their latest album, Captain Love from 2008.

The record will feature material from Captain Love as well as Mind Is Not Brain and First EP and it was mixed by J. Robbins (The Promise Ring, Jets to Brazil) at Magpie Cage studios in Baltimore, Maryland. The band is also opting to give away a free downloadable copy of the live album to people who pick up their last studio album, Captain Love before September 15th.
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According to a Rolling Stone report, the previously unidentified victims of extortion by FSU’s Elgin James were Maverick-signed pop-punk outfit Mest.

As originally reported here, James is the alleged founder of infamous punk/hardcore gang FSU. He is also of Righteous Jams and appeared in the Boston Beatdown DVD series, National Geographic’s documentary on Straight Edge and also shot a film Goodnight Moon with Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy . Authorities allege James started the FSU street gang in Boston the 1990s to establish control over the punk rock scene there.

According to the original complaint, Mest was attacked in Boston and was told they could stop further attacks by making a $5,000 “donation” to FSU, according to the court.
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Prosthetic Records has signed Trap Them. The band is described as Swedish death metal, punk and d-beat and names bands like Entombed, Black Flag, Nasum and Tragedy as influenced. Prior to their forthcoming Prosthetic debut, the band will be releasing an EP through Southern Lord Records.

Trap Them has released several seven inches and EPs and two full lengths, the latest being Seizures in Barren Praise on Deathwish Inc. Check out some music here.
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A Wilhelm Scream have begun announcing dates for a US and Canada run set to kick off in late September. The band recently signed to Paper and Plastick and the band’s first release on the label will be a self-titled, five-song 12-inch out this fall. The band produced the EP in their home studio, and it will be mixed by Matt Bayles (Minus The Bear, Mastodon).

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Prior (and subsequent) to their upcoming shows with the Lawrence Arms, Teenage Bottlerocket and Cobra Skulls will be headed out for a tour together in October.

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The bill and some dates have been announced for the 2009 edition of the Revival Tour. This year, the tour will feature Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music), Jim Ward (At The Drive-In, Sleepercar, Sparta), Tim Barry (Avail), Dave Hause (The Loved Ones) and others.

Last year’s tour featured Chuck and Tim as well as Ben Nichols of Lucero and Tom Gabel of Against Me!. Only a few dates have been announced so far. You can click Read More for those.Source Continue reading Chuck Ragan / Jim Ward / Tim Barry / Dave Hause (Revival Tour 2009) →

We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• Reel Big Fish – Live! In Concert! DVD
• Big D and the Kids Table – Fluent in Stroll
• Social Distortion / Civet – live in Victoria
• Enter Shikari – Common Dreads
• Envy / Jesu – Split
• Circles – Lay of the Land [7 inch]
• Alexander the Great – Faces Change
• Rapid Cities – Machinery Saints
• Gray Young – Firmament
• D. Rider – Mother of Curses

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