Punkrock veteran Tony Sly has been holding it down as No Use For A Name‘s frontman for 20 years now. He recently released his first solo full length titled 12 Song Program and on February 16th on Fat Wreck Chords. Punknews interviewer Kira Wisniewski spoke to Tony about the new record, the upcoming tour and drinking beer through your eye socket.

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The Slackers have titled their upcoming full-length. The Great Rocksteady Swindle is slated for a April 20, 2010 release through Hellcat Records, following up 2008’s Self Medication.

Check out the cover art at the record’s release page.
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Alkaline Trio will be performing on The Late Show with David Letterman on Wednesday, March 10. Check your local listings for times.

The band’s new full-length, This Addiction, was released today via Epitaph Records/Heart & Skull. They’re currently on tour with Cursive.
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Texas instrumental post-rockers This Will Destroy You have announced a bevy of releases in the coming weeks: a new full-length entitled Tunnel Blanket (release date TBA); an exclusive track on the upcoming Amnesty International PEACE compilation, due out March 1; a new two-song 10″ entitled Moving on the Edges of Things, to be released on April 17 in conjunction with Record Store Day; and a three-track single entitled Communal Blood, expected sometime in May.

Once out, Tunnel Blanket will follow up 2008’s This Will Destroy You.
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Sound as Language is hosting another free download this week. This time, it’s the demo from Boston, MA quartet Choke Up.

Head to this page to grab the download.
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XOXO Records will be releasing the new full-length from Toms River, NJ outfit River City Extension. The Unmistakable Man is slated for a May release.

Some music can be heard at the band’s MySpace page.
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In a recent interview with ThePunkSite.com, Tim Barry explained how he recently broke his hand in an altercation with a heckler:

“I was standing on stage and I was saying that I wrote this song (“Wait at Milano”) with my buddy Travis in mind because he is chronically depressed and I wrote it for him before he passed away and never told him it was about him. And I was quickly explaining that this song is about now and living lightly and more kindly in ways that perpetuate good so that there are things left for the people coming after us and as I’m trying to explain this the fucking guy just keeps heckling me brutally, so I invite him onstage. I said no one can hear you so I gave him a microphone. So I said now that you have had your say I’m going to explain to you again what this song is about. So I repeated my words “My best friend Travis killed himself” and he replied “well he doesn’t sound like much of a friend” and I just beat the living shit out of him on stage. And I am not at all proud of that because I tried deeply not to be the person I used to be because I used to fight a lot. It’s not healthy. I just snapped you know. I still don’t know what he meant. But he certainly couldn’t envision what was going through my head when he said that.”

Barry will soon tour the southeast and Texas with Ninja Gun before heading to Australia for the Revival Tour. He also recently gave an in-depth interview with Richmond’s Style Weekly.
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Laura Stevenson and the Cans will be playing a handful of gigs this weekend.

The band’s debut, Laura Stevenson: A Record is slated for a physical reissue through Asian Man Records on April 13, 2010.
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Today we’re proud to bring you a stream of the new full length from Leatherface. The Stormy Petrel is the band’s ninth full-length album and will be released by various labels world wide. The North American LP/CD version will be released March 23, 2010 via No Idea Records. Their version will feature an entirely different cover art and overall layout than the European, Japanees, and Australian versions released this week.

Check out the album on their profile.
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