Today we’ve bring you an exclusive stream of a track from the new Landmines EP, Hell Is What You Make It.

The EP was recorded in February at Atlas Studios in Chicago with Matt Allison (Alkaline Trio, The Lawrence Arms) and features guest drummer Michael McDermott (Bouncing Souls). The band will be appearing at this year’s The Fest 8, performing Sunday night at the Atlantic at 9:00pm.

You can check out the track “Sleeping Sidewalks” by heading over to the band’s Punknews profile.
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This Is Hell have signed to Rise Records. The band will release their 3rd full length in Spring 2010. The group previously released music on Trustkill Records, Think Fast! Records, Future Tense and State of Mind Recordings.

In late November the band will kick off a US tour which will wrap up the second week of December.
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Armor for Sleep has called it quits. The band released albums on Equal Vision Records and Sire and made this statement:

It’s been a little over a year since our last tour and some of you out there have kind of figured out whats been going on with us. We never wanted to burden you all with a formal announcement of any kind and cause some type of commotion- we just thought it would be better to kind of drift away nice and easy.

To me a song is like a snapshot of a moment, real or made-up, and the band that takes that snapshot is like a camera. I was really happy and proud of the pictures that came out of our little camera, but I would have much rather put in on a shelf for me and all of us to look at with fond memories than to feel this intense need to make it take high-def panoramic mosaics when maybe it was constructed to handle polaroid film. It’s as simple as that.

Read the entire statement here.
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To coincide with the upcoming release of their Greatest Hits on November 3, 2009, the Foo Fighters will be broadcasting a live performance from the band’s Studio 606 headquarters in Los Angeles.

You can find more details here.
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I’m posting this from Atlanta on the crew’s Wifi (it’s 11:50 a.m. as I schedule this). Fest onward!

• The Methadones – Gary Glitter b/w Over the Moon / I Believe [7 inches]
• By Surprise / Hightide Hotel – Split [7 inch]
• Dethklok / Mastodon / Converge – live in Hamburg
• Crow – Flock of Beast [7 inch]
• Higher Giant – Al’s Moustache [7 inch]
• Explode and Make Up – Explode and Make Up [12 inch]
• Mean Jeans – Are You Serious?
• Glocca Morra – The Working Bones, A Health Decline
• Violation – Devoured
• Barricade – Demons

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This November Toronto’s Artist Life will head out on the road with Edmonton’s Stereos as well as the Midway State and the Envy (not Envy). The tour, which kicks off in Windsor, ON on November 7th, will see the band hitting both the east and west coasts, wrapping up by late December.

The band will soon release a limited edition 180 gram vinyl that combines their Let’s Start a Riot and Let’s Start a Campfire EPs. The vinyl will be available on November 10th.
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Newcomer’s Junior Battles will be stirring up quite the ruckus over the next few months with appearances up and down the east coast, making stops along the way at Suedefest II and The Fest 8. With the well received debut of Hotel Bibles and a full-length album planned for 2010 you will be hard pressed not succumbing to the buzz this four piece has trailing them. Punknews’ Bill Leary caught up with vocalist Sam Sutherland before the band loaded into their van for their current string of shows.

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