AOL Spinner is hosting a free download of “In the Flicker,” a new track from Sundowner‘s new full-length, We Chase the Waves. Check it out here.

We Chase the Waves is the second release for Chris McCaughan of The Lawrence Arms under the Sundowner moniker (and first for Asian Man Records), and it’s due out on August 10, 2010. The LP follows up 2007’s Four One Five Two, released by Red Scare.
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It’s entirely possible that these songs have been up for months, but someone recently alerted us that Audio Karate have three new songs streaming at their MySpace page. The songs are presumably from the band’s next release, for which there’s no information currently available.

Audio Karate last issued Lady Melody in 2004 to critical acclaim, and went on hiatus shortly after its release.
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Augusta, ME hardcore outfit Cruel Hand is gearing up for the release of their new album Lock and Key on July 27, 2010 and to celebrate, we’re teaming up with the band and Bridge Nine Records to award prizes to a handful of our readers, including CDs and autographed posters.

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Poison The Well have announced an indefinite hiatus. The long-running hardcore/metal outfit explained:

So, after twelve years of being a band, countless tours around the world and records being released, we have made the decision to take some time to explore other interests in our lives. We’ve all reached a point where we feel like we need to take a step back from the band and pursue other things. PTW has been an all encompassing, full time thing for such a long period that this isn’t an easy thing to do. We want to thank everyone who has supported us in anyway, whether it be buying a record or a shirt, to the occasional robbery from time to time. Once again, thanks for everything and we couldn’t have done any of this without you.

The band released The Tropic Rot in 2009.
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Joan Of Arc, the experimental indie rock band fronted by Cap’n Jazz‘ Tim Kinsella, will be releasing an extremely limited cassette box set. Joyful Noise Recording will be releasing the box set – limited to 100 copies – along with digital downloads of the entire catalogue. The collection is housed in a custom-built wooden box, elaborately screen-printed, hand-numbered and each tape will be individually wrapped and featuring the original album art.

The $49 set will include Portable Model Of, How Memory Works, Live in Chicago, 1999, The Gap, So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness, In Rape Fantasy and Terror Sex We Trust, Joan Of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain… Eventually, All at Once, Boo! Human and Flowers.

Pre-orders are available here. It’s due out September 14, 2010.

The label has also compiled their 10 favorite Joan of Arc songs into a free digital sampler. You can grab that here.
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Brooklyn-based Sara Crow Goldstein has unveiled plans to shoot a new documentary about DIY ska/punk/etc. band Bomb the Music Industry!. She explains the project:

As the music industry shifts towards download and donation based formats for record release, my film surveys the current state of bands that have always used these methods. I take as my examples the Bomb the Music Industry! music collective, their label Quote Unquote records, and the DIY scene that has expanded outward from their base in Brooklyn. My hope is to expand the short cut of the film–which NYU’s Gallatin Arts festival accepted for screening earlier this year–into a feature length documentary. The feature will further elaborate upon the philosophies of Bomb the Music Industry! and Quote Unquote records founder Jeff Rosenstock and more specifically the way in which these ideas and practices pervade and are representative of the current state of DIY music in the United States.

In order to approach this latter topic I intend to film Bomb the Music Industry’s! upcoming summer tour of the west coast on which I will have the opportunity to study what I suspect is BTMI’s! major influence on musicians and fans as far from Brooklyn as the west coast. BTMI rarely tours the west coast, and this upcoming leg encourages a daily BBQ with the fans at each show: it is this long-distance community that I need to survey before I complete the film.

Check out a trailer for the film or offer your support here.
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Our stream today comes from Ribnica, Slovenia-based Golliwog. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full-length, Plague Allegiance.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Jimmy Eat World announced today via their rather prolific twitter account that their recently completed new album will be titled Invented and is due out September 28, 2010. No word yet on what label (if any) will be releasing it, but we’ll keep you posted as more details surface.

Once out, Invented will follow up 2007’s Chase This Light, released through Interscope. After utilizing Butch Vig as producer for Chase This Light and Gil Norton for 2004’s Futures, the band reunited with Mark Trombino for Invented. Trombino worked with the band on 2001’s Bleed American and the 2005 EP, Stay on My Side Tonight, and of course, 1999’s Clarity and 1996’s Static Prevails.
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Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants have posted a stream of their new album. The band is a new project from Chris Shiflett of Jackson United, Foo Fighters, Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, No Use for a Name and others. The self-titled record is due out July 13, 2010 via Le Coq Napoleon/RCA and sees Chris tackling “Americana-laced rock songs.” Chris attributes the sound to influences like classic country artists (Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings), rockabilly (Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran), and deep-rooted rock bands (The Rolling Stones, The Replacements),

Check out the stream here.
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