Our stream today comes from Philadelphia, PA-based The Holy Mess. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new EP, Dismount.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Chunksaah Records has signed Trenton, NJ quartet The Great Explainer. Pete Steinkopf of Bouncing Souls will be producing the band’s upcoming debut 7″ for the label, with a summer release expected.

Some music can be heard at the band’s MySpace page.
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The Specials have announced a few select North American dates around their already announced appearance at this year’s Coachella festival.

The legendary band will also be performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on April 13.
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Beverly, MA’s Caspian have announced a lengthy tour that will take the band all over North America and Europe. Different legs of the tour will also feature Arms and Sleepers, Red Sparrowes, Constants and Ef.

While the band continues to support their 2009 full-length Tertia, The Mylene Sheath will also be reissuing two of the band’s past releases, You Are The Conductor and The Four Trees, both on March 16, 2010.
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Red Scare has announced that they’ll be releasing the new full-length from Orange County, CA’s Vultures United. The record is titled Savages and is slated for a March 16, 2010 release. The band will be playing an album release show on March 31 at The Crosby in Santa Ana, CA.

Three songs from Savages can be heard at the band’s MySpace page.
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The second annual Harvest of Hope Fest has announced a third round of confirmed acts for this year’s festivities. New additions include High On Fire, Kid Sister, Gringo Star, Port O’Brien, We Are the Union, Cheap Girls, Avi Buffalo, The Dig, Yelawolf, Young Brother, Barnaby Jones, The Duppies, Umoja Orchestra, Sunbears, Liquid Limbs, The Takers, Glorious Johnson, Bent Left, No More, Cassette, Antarctic, Toby Foster, Paleface, The Pauses, The Attack!, Premadonnasaurs, Scum of the Earth, Towers of Hanoi, Company Man, Lighthouse Music, The Ones to Blame, The Cougs, The Ex-Boogeymen, Superfish, 3rd Stone, Made of Hemp, Mindrise, BLORR, and Christina Wagner.

The festival will be happening at the St. John’s County Fairgrounds near St. Augustine, FL from March 12-14, and serves to raise funds and awareness for the Harvest of Hope Foundation, a charity organization that assists migrant farmworkers all over the country. Bands slated to perform include Billy Bragg, 7 Seconds, Anti-Flag, Leatherface, The Mountain Goats, Small Brown Bike, Coalesce, forgetters and a slew of others.

Ticket information is available here.
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