Ann Arbor, MI ska/punk heroesWe Are The Union have unleashed their new full length Great Leaps Forward via Paper + Plastick. It follows up last year’s The Gun Show Must Go On EP. The fourteen song collection, which features songs like “Where’d You Go, Psycho Boy?”, was recorded and produced by Matt Allison, mixed by Matt Bayles and Bill Stevenson and features artwork from Derek Deal.

To celebrate the release Paper + Plastick has offered up a ton of We Are The Union swag, including a test pressing of the record, shirts, and multiple vinyl colorings.
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On April 13, 2010, much of the catalogue from seminal Chicago emo/post-hardcore outfit Braid will be reissued on vinyl, with remastered tracks and extensive liner notes from Bob Nanna and Todd Bell.

Today, we’re excited to team up with Polyvinyl Records to give one lucky reader a gargantuan prize pack that features all the reissues as well as four test pressings (Counting the doubles, that’s fifteen records total!).
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The Devil Wears Prada have announced a run of summer dates with Miss May I and Your Demise supporting.

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Horse The Band have announced a run of headlining dates with support from Endless Hallway, Oceana and pmtoday.

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Crime In Stereo, The Swellers and This Time Next Year have booked a run of dates in May.

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Our stream today comes from Los Angeles, CA’s Seaspin. The band, which features former members of Your Enemies Friends, recently released a new digital EP entitled Reverser via Buddyhead Records.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Chris Hannah of Propagandhi recently sent an update through the band’s mailing list. According to the update, the band continues to work on new songs and hopes to record their next full-length later this year for a new label. Also possibly in the works is a split 7″ with Canadian thrash legends Sacrifice as well as a live performance at this year’s Best Friends Day in Richmond, VA. More information is expected soon.

The band’s ‘new’ EP, Recovered, is due out tomorrow. It features three tracks recovered from the Less Talk, More Rock and How To Clean Everything sessions, mixed by Hannah and mastered by Jason Livermore. All proceeds from the EP will go to Partners in Health, an organization assisting Haiti as that country recovers from the devastating January 12 earthquake.
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Longtime clean vocalist and drummer Aaron Gillespie will depart Underoath at the conclusion of their ongoing European tour. The band made this statement:

We are taking this opportunity to sadly inform you the six of us have decided at the end of the current european tour, Aaron will no longer be playing in Underoath. This was not a decision made in haste but a thought out and prayed upon group agreement. It in no way effects any of the shows left on this tour. They will still be our best efforts and enjoyable experiences for all. For the future, Aaron will be pursuing other musical and ministry endeavors. As for the rest of us we will continue to work hard on the new Underoath record.

Gillespie was the only member left from the founding of the band in 1997. He will likely continue on with his rock project, The Almost.
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As I Lay Dying have posted “Beyond Our Suffering,” the first single from their upcoming Metal Blade Records release, The Powerless Rise, due out May 11, 2010.

Check out the song on their MySpace page.
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Sacramento, CA hardcore outfit Trash Talk have detailed their sophomore full-length. The record is titled Eyes and Nines and is due out physically on June 8, 2010 and digitially on May 18, 2010 via the band’s Trash Talk Collective imprint. Once out, it’ll follow up the band’s 2008 self-titled debut.

Eyes and Nines was produced by Joby Ford (The Bronx) and will feature guest appearances from Greg Hetson (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks) and Matt Caughthran (The Bronx, Mariachi el Bronx).

They’ll be supporting the new album on an upcoming tour with Alexisonfire, Therefore I Am and La Dispute.
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