The Swellers and Young Guns are headed to the UK at the end of the year. The bands will start off in Leeds on November 23rd and wrap up in Cardiff on the 5th of December.
The Swellers released Ups and Downsizing in 2009 on Fueled By Ramen.
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Toronto’s Dine Alone Records has launched an interactive sampler microsite. The website allows fans to design and create custom cover artwork for the collection of songs, which features new or recent music from Tokyo Police Club, Parlovr, Hot Hot Heat, Arkells, Walter Schreifels, City and Colour, Moneen, Attack In Black, Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, Alexisonfire, Dinosaur Bones and Attack In Black’s Spencer Burton.
You can find the sampler at dinealonesampler.com.
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Brazilian hardcore act Agrotóxico is getting ready to head to Europe for a tour that will bring the São Paulo based group to Germany, Czech Republic, France, Switzerland, Austria and Holland. It’s their fifth European visit as a band.
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Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley had to be hospitalized in Japan after being attacked by three people in a bar late last night. The Canadian pop-punk band has reported that following an MRI scan the singer was diagnosed with a slipped disc in his back. Despite the doctor’s advice to the contrary, the band is expected to play their planned sets at the in-progress Summersonic festival.
Further details on the attack are currently unknown.
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Updates to Counter-Strike: Source Beta have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Counter-Strike: Source Beta
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In The Hollows (Pulling Teeth, ex-Ruiner) have released a new split with Pala (Pulling Teeth) through Mightier Than Sword. The 10-inch/digital EP features two brand new tracks from both bands and limited edition vinyl colours. The record is being pressed in solid black, maroon with yellow haze and brown with a black splatter.
Each of the bands has posted a song from the split and you can find it on their respective MySpace pages here and here.
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Starting today the Counter-Strike: Source Beta will be available to all PC Counter-Strike: Source players. As we continue to update CSS and address issues, we want to make sure to not destabilize the core game. By releasing updates to CSS Beta first, we will be able to solicit community feedback before those changes are applied to CSS.
If you would like to be part of the group that helps us test future updates of Counter-Strike Source, please join the Beta – simply install and launch “Counter-Strike: Source Beta” from your games list in Steam. To give feedback on the changes, report bugs, or offer suggestions, please use the CSS Beta forum. Don’t worry, you can join the Beta program and still play the standard Counter-Strike: Source at anytime. The Counter-Strike: Source Beta is currently not available on Mac.
Here are the change notes for today’s CSS Beta release:
Additionally, we’ve made some Counter-Strike Beta only changes to simplify perf testing. These changes only exist in Counter-Strike Beta and will not affect Counter-Strike:
Friends of Makh Daniels, vocalist for Bay Area metal outfit Early Graves, have announced a benefit and memorial performance in honor of the singer. Makh was tragically killed in a van accident in Oregon earlier this week. The vehicle drifted off the right shoulder of the freeway as Daniels and his band were heading south on Interstate 5 near Medford, OR, en route to Reno, NV after playing a show last weekend in Eugene, OR. All proceeds from the door and a percentage of profits from the bar will be donated to Makh’s family.
His friends in Early Graves released a statement today:
There are no words that can properly say all the things that I want to say about our friend Makh Daniels. He is one of the most amazing writers I have ever known. He is incredibly funny. He is wise beyond his years. He is the most honest person you could ask for as a friend or a band mate. I had the pleasure to be in 2 bands with Makh and they were some of the best years of my life thus far. Sadly, Makh Daniels was taken from all of us. He wrote a lyric in an Early Graves song “To everyone that I’ve ever loved, I’ve Failed” but if there is anything that I could tell him is how proud I was of him and how much I loved him and how much his friendship meant to me. We were all like brothers.
To all of you guys, and to all of the amazing amount of love you guys have sent our way, Thank you. You guys are helping all of us get through this horrible time. We are nothing without each other right now and you guys are helping so much. But we’ve seen the whole community of metal and punk and hardcore musicians and fans join together in this trying time and I want to say how much it means to us and his family.
The show takes place tonight at the The Bamboo Lounge in Whittier, CA and will feature Antagonist, Exhausted Prayer and Destroy Judas plus more specials guests. Those wishing to donate to a fund in Makh’s memory can do so here.
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The Holy Mess have posted a new, recently recorded song. “Cigarette Reflections” was recorded last weekend (July 31 to be exact) when the band hit the studio to lay down a couple of new tracks that will presumably follow up the band’s recent 7″ for Evil Weevil, Benefit Sesh.
You can check out the song (with lyrics) and the band’s Bandcamp page or by clicking Read More. It’ll only be up for 24 hours, so act now!
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Las Crucas, NM punk rockers Shang-A-Lang are on tour now in support their upcoming Silver Sprocket/Face Palm release, Collection. The album features 22 re-mastered tracks from the bands previously released EPs and compilations along with plenty of previously unreleased recordings, and adorned with artwork and a poster by Mitch Clem of the Nothing Nice To Say web-comic. The album will be in stores September 10, 2010, and is available for mail-order now from the Silver Sprocket website. Remaining tour dates are on their MySpace page.
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Our stream today comes from Atlanta, GA-based instrumental outfit Gold Standard. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new self-titled demo.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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This fall Circa Survive is headed out on the road with Dredg. They’ll be bringing along Animals as Leaders and the newly reunited Codeseven.
You can see those dates below.
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Get Better! Records is planning Get Better Fest on April 8th and 9th of 2011 in Keene, New Hampshire. The aim of the fest is “to get more kids involved in the DIY punk scene and community.”
Bands confirmed include (but aren’t limited to) Spraynard, Landmines, Endless Mike and the Beagle Club, Young Mountain and more. You can see more details at the label’s MySpace page.
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