For more than 20 years hardcore’s aggressive style and hard-line attitude has permeated America’s underground punk music scene. While many bands in the genre tend to take themselves and their music very seriously, Milwaukee’s Get Rad is one of the few bands that have been able to maintain their hardcore credibility using vicious musical and verbal attacks on all that they see wrong with world, while simultaneously allowing themselves to write songs about breaking into water parks and having fun with friends.

Get Rad’s bassist, Dave Rudnik, among myriad topics, discusses the band’s new album, their do-it-yourself approach to music and the death of fellow musician Mat Arluck in this interview with Brandon Campbell.

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Laura Stevenson and the Cans have announced a handful of northeast/midwest gigs, as well as one show in Canada.

The band’s 2008 digital release, A Record, is slated for a physical reissue through Asian Man Records on April 13, 2010.
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Saint John, New Brunswick’s The Motorleague recently won an East Coast Music Award for their video for “Hymn For The Newly Departed” from the Ian Blurton produced Black Noise. However, they weren’t done with the video camera and have earned a spot in the finals for The Canadian Internet Registration Authority’s Show us your CA contest. They’re the only band amongst the finalists vying to win some video gear. If you like their (quite funny) video, you can vote for them here.

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Ex-Anchor Down frontman Alexander Hudjohn has posted his new EP, Acreage, as a free download. The release notably features a guest appearance from Jay Northington of Nothington.

Head over to Hudjohn’s Bandcamp page to check it out.
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Bad Religion have added more gigs in California on the back end of their current tour.

The band’s 30th anniversary is shaping up to be a busy one, with a live album, European tour and new studio record planned.
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Our stream today comes from Minneapolis, MN-based All The Right Moves. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new self-titled EP.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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The A.V. Club has posted the second video of their new Undercover feature, a series of music videos that will feature 25 bands covering 25 different songs inside a small, round room at the site’s Chicago offices. This week’s chapter features Fruit Bats covering the 1983 basketball-centric Hall & Oates classic, “One on One.”

Fruit Bats last released The Ruminant Band in 2009.
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Reax is hosting a stream of a new track from Young Livers. “The Other Side of the Pendulum” comes from the band’s upcoming sophomore full-length, Of Misery and Toil, due out on April 27, 2010. Check it out here.

Next month, the band will embark on a European tour with labelmates Bridge and Tunnel. Before heading across the pond, though, the band will play four shows in Florida with Capsule.
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