Atlanta, GA’s Campaign have posted their new EP, It Likes to Party, as a free download.

The release can be streamed at the band’s MySpace page and downloaded here.
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Our stream today comes from prolific Vancouver, BC-based pop-punk heroes The McRackins. We’ve got a stream of four songs from the band’s new full length, It Ain’t Over Easy.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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In a recent interview with ThePunkSite.com, Vinnie Fiorello of Less Than Jake and Paper and Plastick discussed plans for the label to begin living up to the ‘Paper’ half of its name, including two books written by Fiorello himself:

“I’ve been looking for it and I think that what you’ll see start to happen is over the next few months I have a lot of records that will be coming and then after that, I’ll be concentrating on a lot of print. I’ve been shifting through a lot of young comic book artists, I’ve been shifting through a lot of photo journalists who do photo books. So to be honest with you, I’ve just been kind of looking at other authors to do books from them. I think that probably around Christmas time you’ll see the paper side of the label pick up. … I have a book, an autobiographical book called Perfect Teeth that I’m about a hundred pages into. And then I have a tour story book called Fifty States that I’m almost completed with. Fifty States will probably be printed in a very Cometbus way, if you know that zine, it’ll be printed sort of like that. Everything will be hand written, everything will be very organic. It’ll be printed black and white. It’ll be tour stories. A nod to old punk rock: everything cut and pasted, everything halftone. It’s gonna be cool. You’ll see that probably around middle of the summer. And Perfect Teeth, I don’t know, it’s a work in progress. Hopefully it’ll see the light of day sometime next year. It’s [Fifty States] basically every lyric I’ve ever written for Less Than Jake with stories about those lyrics; with pictures and just generally a very extravagant sort of look at the writing process of the lyrics and where they came from. Stories about the lyrics and about being on tour, it’s the companion piece to a bunch of Less Than Jake records.”

Fiorello also talked about some future Less Than Jake releases, including reissues of the band’s past studio albums now that they’ve regained control of all of their recordings:

“August we’ll be doing a six DVD set of us playing all of our six records live. Then Christmas time will be the re-release of Hello Rockview and the re-release of Losing Streak. And then probably the late spring of 2011 will be Borders and Boundaries and then the late summer/early fall we’ll probably bring Anthem and In With The Out Crowd.”

Check out the interview here.
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Wisdom in Chains have posted a new video for “Back to the Ocean,” a track from the band’s new album Everything You Know.

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Absolutepunk is hosting a new track from Ann Arbor, MI’s We Are the Union. Head to this page to hear “One Million Motors.”

The band’s debut for Paper and Plastick, Great Leaps Forward, is slated for a March 30, 2010 release. The band will be appearing at the Harvest of Hope Fest in St. Augustine, FL this weekend and beginning in April, will hit the road with Such Gold and The Wonder Years.
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The Taylor Texas Corrugator, which features Greg Ginn from Black Flag, SST Records and others have announced a run of tour dates in April with support from CSC Funk Band (USAisamonster, GWAR, Talibam!)

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Exclaim has revealed that landmark Toronto hardcore act Fucked Up is planning a musical as their follow up to 2008’s The Chemistry of Common Life. Guitarist Ben Cook revealed to the music paper that the new record will be “the poppiest thing the band has ever done.” He commented “I’m pretty sure its called David Comes to Life, and it’s supposed to be a musical, but I’m not sure how that’s going to work really.” Cook goes on to claim that the band is trying for a “Blitz on Prozac” vibe with the project, referencing the British street punk band.

The new record is expected some time this year. Its predecessor won the $20,000 Polaris Music Prize in 2009. The singles collection Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2009 was released earlier this year.
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