These Arms Are Snakes have called it quits. The band explained:

It’s with a heavy heart we tell you that These Arms Are Snakes is no more. It’s been a great run and we’d like to send out a very hearty “Thank You” to everyone that we’ve worked with or anyone that we’ve toured with; anyone that lent us a floor, towed our van and/or trailer, lent a van, given us a listen, downloaded our records prior to their coming out, bought our shit, or asked us where our band name came from; everyone who cooked us food, made habanero-infused tequila, had a safety meeting with us, let Steve gyrate all over you, had to live with any of us, made us pay shitloads of money to get off your punk label, got us into LOST, found Steve drunkenly wandering the streets of Tokyo alone, played Madlibs in the van (plural nouns), lost money promoting one of our shows, took Chris to the hospital, put up with our drunken sorry asses, got into a fight with us, etc. etc.

The band released albums via Jade Tree Records}, Suicide Squeeze Records and others. Their most recent was Tail Swallower and Dove in 2008.
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Don Giovanni Records has posted a free sampler, featuring newish tracks from Screaming Females, Shellshag, and Black Wine, as well as other tracks from The Ergs!, The Measure [SA], For Science and others.

Check it out here.
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Peoria, IL’s The Forecast have signed to Eyeball Records; the label will release the band’s upcoming self-titled album on February 16, 2010. Once out, it’ll follow up 2006’s In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, the last of two records the band released through Victory Records.

A new song from the album entitled “Lost at Sea” can be heard at the band’s MySpace page.
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NOFX will embark on a tour this spring dubbed ‘Fermented and Flailing’. The long running band will make stops in the Pacific Northwest, the Canadian Prairies and the Midwest, before wrapping things up in the Southwest states. Alongside them will be labelmates Teenage Bottlerocket and Tony Sly.

NOFX will be supporting their recent EPs Cokie the Clown and My Orphan Year, while Teenage Bottlerocket continues to support They Came from the Shadows and Sly will be supporting 12 Step Program, due out February 16, 2010.
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Tokyo’s Polysics are headed to the US later this month in support of their new record Absolute Polysics. The MySpace Records band kicks things off at the Bottom Of The Hill in San Francisco on the 28th, wrapping things up on February 16th at Washington, DC’s Rock and Roll Hotel.
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