Frank Turner has unveiled the winners of the “Try This At Home” single contest. First launched in May, the contest gave two bands/singers the chance to be selected to provide the B-sides for his 7″ single, Try This at Home. Turner said this:

I listened to every song submitted, which took a fair while, and I’ve actually had a really hard time picking just two songs (one UK, one ex-UK) for the single. There were a lot of awesome songs submitted, and I want to say thanks to everyone who took the time to upload their tunes. In the end I decided to mention some runners-up as well as the winners, the tunes were so great. So here we are.

UK Winner: The Retrospective Soundtrack Players – Real Cool Hand
Ex-UK Winner: Isaac Graham – Gold And Steel

Check out the runner ups on his blog.
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United Nations have released a new 7-inch EP on Deathwish. The band features Geoff Rickley (Thursday), Daryl Palumbo (Glassjaw), Chree from The Number Twelve Looks Like You, and Kiss it Goodbye’s Eric Cooper. The four song EP is titled Nevermind The Bombings, Here’s Your Six Figures and promises the “bygone days of the mid-1990’s “screamo” sub-genre. ”

You can stream some music from the EP on the order page.
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TMZ (sigh) is reporting that Marky Ramone, who took over drumming for the legendary Ramones for the release of Road to Ruin and remained as sole drummer for fifteen years, is suing the people behind his royalties agreement. According to a legal filing in New York Supreme Court, Marky says he signed a new royalties deal in 2005 but stopped receiving payments in 2008 due to “some allegedly shady business dealings.”

Marky claims that the company in charge of managing the bands royalties completely ignored the contract and took Ramones money that didn’t belong to them. Ramone claims he’s owed about $175,000 in back royalties and is also asking for $1 million in punitive damages.
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The latest episode of Chicago’s longest running music program, JBTV, has been posted. The newest episode features an all-punk rock lineup with segments featuring NOFX, Teenage Bottlerocket, No Use For A Name, The Lawrence Arms, The Menzingers and Dead To Me. As always, the program is hosted by Brendan Kelly of Lawrence Arms and Tobias Jeg of Red Scare.

Check out the full episode here.
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Jim Lindberg has unveiled his new punk rock project, The Black Pacific. Lindberg left Pennywise in August 2009 after spending more than two decades with the band. He was replaced by Ignite’s Zoli Teglas in February.

According to the band’s profile, the trio is signed to SideOneDummy Records and have posted one new track, “The System,” on that profile.

Jim’s last recorded album with Pennywise was 2008’s Reason to Believe.
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Australia’s Parkway Drive are streaming their new Epitaph Records album, Deep Blue. It’s due out June 29, 2010 and follows Horizons from 2007. The album was tracked and mixed in Los Angeles, CA by Joe Barresi (Queens Of The Stone Age, Bad Religion, Tool), and mastered by legendary mastering engineer Brian Gardner. Bad Religion guitarist and Epitaph Records owner Brett Gurewitz makes a guest vocal appearance on “Home is for the Heartless.”

Check it out here.
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The Hives have unveiled a cover of Zero Boys‘ classic track “Civilization’s Dying.” The song will appear with two other covers on an upcoming EP entitled Tarred and Feathered, due out digitally on July 2, 2010 and on vinyl a week later. Vocalist Pelle Almqvist explained the reasons behind releasing the covers EP:

“While working on songs for our new record, we wanted to sort of kick start the creative process by going into the studio to record. We had an idea of playing everything live, straight to magnetic tape. We didn’t have finished songs so we recorded some covers instead — mostly to test this modus operandi. Well, it turned out so well that we figured, ‘Hey, let’s share it with people. They deserve it.”

Check out the cover here. The band is currently at work on the follow-up to 2007’s The Black and White Album.
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Merrimack Valley, MA hardcore outfit The Effort have announced a lengthy summer tour in support of their upcoming LP for Panic Records, Wartime Citizens, due out July 4, 2010. The tour includes an appearance at Sound and Fury Festival.

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