This evening, at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana, California, a number of bands will be performing together at a benefit in rememberance of Brent Liles of Social Distortion and Agent Orange. Liles was tragically killed in January of this year when he was struck by a truck as he rode his bicycle across a street in Placentia, California. Proceeds will go to benefit Liles’ daughter.

His former band, Agent Orange, will be headlining along with D.I. and Channel 3. Support for the event will be provided by JFA, Last Gang and the Unwanted Guests.

The will also be a raffle M.C.-ed by Joey Bondage of Narcolepic Youth and prizes will include original art by Rikk Agnew, gift certificates for local stores and photographers, vintage vinyl, skate decks, CDs, shirts and more.
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Pluto Records have signed “experimental metal veterans” the Dead See. The band, who are compared to Isis, Neurosis, and Mastodon, will release their Pluto debut on May 22nd. You can check out two tracks from the forthcoming release entitled Through the Veil on MySpace.
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Hotfoot Records have announced the signing of New York’s Bela Kiss. The band will be recording an EP next month with producer Mike Watts (As Tall As Lions, Hopesfall) for a late May release.

You can check out some music from the band here.
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So They Say will head into the studio May 14th to record their sophomore release. The band will be working with producer Matt Hyde (Slayer, Strung Out) for the release which is due out mid-summer.

The band is scheduled to appear on this years Warped Tour.
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Blue Cheer and An Albatross will be heading out on tour together early next month. The bands will see support from Doomriders, Stephen Brodsky’s Octave Museum, and Del Rey on various dates.

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Social Distortion have added more dates to their recently announced tour of the West Coast. In addition to the previously announced Canadian dates, the long-running band will be hitting California for a few dates.

The group has also announced that I Hate Kate and The Black Halos will be supporting them on the trek. Social D was in the studio as recently as this past December working on the follow-up to 2004’s Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll. There’s no word yet on when the new record will be released.

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According to Undercover.com.au, the Living End will begin recording a new album soon. Bassist Scott Owen notes, “we’re going to start making a new album at some point this year, so we’ll stop and start thinking about that very shortly.”

The band released State of Emergency last year through EastWest / Adeline.
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The Locust have posted a free downloadable track online. The song, “We Have Reached An Official Verdict: Nobody Gives A Shit” comes from their upcoming Anti- release, New Erections.

You can download the song here, or stream it on the band’s MySpace page.
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Riverboat Gamblers have unfortunately been robbed again. The last incident occured in October in Austin, Texas and happened yesterday in Montreal, Quebec.

The band had this to say:

Our van was broken into last night in Montreal… They broke our driver side window and stole Ian’s guitar and Fadi’s backpack with his passport The window was 500 bucks alone to fix…

The band is currently on the road with Against Me! and Fake Problems.
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The Number Twelve Looks Like You have announced a series of tour dates with HORSE the Band in April.

The Number 12 just finished up recording their full-length due out in June on Eyeball Records.
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Death Before Dishonor have announced that prior to the release of their Bridge Nine debut LP Count Me In on May 22nd, the band will release a limited edition 7″ and digital EP entitled Break Through It All. The EP will be released April 3rd and will feature the songs “Count Me In”, “Break Through It All” and the B-side cover of Cocksparrer’s “England Belongs To Me” with guest vocals from Blood For Blood’s Buddha.

The band will embark on a short tour with Casey Jones later this month.
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Off With Their Heads have dropped us a line letting us know “what’s up.” Well, what’s up is they are in the midst of a West Coast (US) tour and they have a few new songs up and some new releases on the horizon.

The tracks “Havenhurst” and “Fuck This, I’m Out” will be featured on splits with Blotto and Practice, respectively, on Snuffy Smiles records in Japan. The band is heading over to Japan this summer after the release of the two 7″‘s in May. “I Hate Myself and I Hope I Crash My Car Tonight,” the third track, will be on a split with The Dukes of Hillsborough from Tampa set to be released by ADD Records in April.

Also this May, the band will be on a 12″ four-way split with Drinkers Purgatory (LA), The Underground Railroad to Candyland (LA), and No People (Japan). This will be out on LA label Small Pool Records.

This flurry of activity follows their Recess-released Hospitals EP.

Oh, and click Read More to check out their West Coast tour plans, their East Coast tour plans and their Japan tour plans. Tour plans-a-plenty!
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Darkest Hour have set a title and approximate release date for their upcoming full length. The record, titled Deliver Us is the follow up to 2005’s Undoing Ruin and has the band once again working with the strapping young producer, Devin Townsend.

Guitarist Mike Schleibaum notes:

Working with Devin this time has been sick as hell. We have worked long hours on these songs and, honestly, our hands, legs and bodies haven’t hurt from playing so much since we can remember. We are truly stoked to present these songs on this record. It is some of our most complex, melodic, brutal, and aggressive songs to date. There’s some punk, metal, thrash, shred, prog, and even a little of Devin Townsend’s special sauce mixed in this metal gumbo

The band has also launched the first in a video series documenting the process.
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