Alexisonfire are headed out to the Maritimes later this month with Cancer Bats and Attack in Black. They’ll be back in Ontario by August for the Cutting Edge Music Festival in Grand Bend with bands like Moneen, Protest the Hero, MSTRKRFT and others.

In a recent blog post the band revealed that earlier this year Dallas Green recorded a guest appearance for the new Every Time I die record The Big Dirty, due this September.
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Alexisonfire are headed out to the Maritimes later this month with Cancer Bats and Attack in Black. They’ll be back in Ontario by August for the Cutting Edge Music Festival in Grand Bend with bands like Moneen, Protest the Hero, MSTRKRFT and others.

In a recent blog post the band revealed that earlier this year Dallas Green recorded a guest appearance for the new Every Time I die record The Big Dirty, due this September.
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Snake Eyes, featuring ex-members of Terror and Carry On, has posted two new songs online from their forthcoming 7″/ digital download release from 1917 Records.

You can check out the new tracks on MySpace.
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Dead City recently reunited after 14 years of apart. The band is set to play four east coast dates this month and are boasting a line up that features guitarists John “Pugs” Licitra (of Iron Cross and Love and Hatred) as well as the Dead Boys Cheetah Chrome. The band kicks things off this Thursday in Boston and will wrap up on Sunday at Brooklyn’s Unity Fest.

Dead City formed from the ashes of Connecticut hardcore band Lost Generation by vocalist Joe Dias and guitarist John Licitra. Chrome, who had appeared as part of Lost Generation’s 1991 10th anniversary tour, collaborated with Dias on 5 songs that ended up on Dead City’s debut The Dead Sessions. That record, only recently released, brought material from both lineups. The band’s lineup for the tour combines both eras, and will thus feature Dias, Chrome and Licitra along with drummer Kenny Cushen and bassist Sean Sheridan.

The band plans to play handfuls of shows on both coasts, performing a mix of Dead City and Dead Boys tracks. Licitra has indicated that the band will hit the studio (Cheetah included) this fall to work on a follow up record.
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Dead City recently reunited after 14 years of apart. The band is set to play four east coast dates this month and are boasting a line up that features guitarists John “Pugs” Licitra (of Iron Cross and Love and Hatred) as well as the Dead Boys Cheetah Chrome. The band kicks things off this Thursday in Boston and will wrap up on Sunday at Brooklyn’s Unity Fest.

Dead City formed from the ashes of Connecticut hardcore band Lost Generation by vocalist Joe Dias and guitarist John Licitra. Chrome, who had appeared as part of Lost Generation’s 1991 10th anniversary tour, collaborated with Dias on 5 songs that ended up on Dead City’s debut The Dead Sessions. That record, only recently released, brought material from both lineups. The band’s lineup for the tour combines both eras, and will thus feature Dias, Chrome and Licitra along with drummer Kenny Cushen and bassist Sean Sheridan.

The band plans to play handfuls of shows on both coasts, performing a mix of Dead City and Dead Boys tracks. Licitra has indicated that the band will hit the studio (Cheetah included) this fall to work on a follow up record.
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Against Me! have confirmed more tour dates with Gaslight Anthem and Two Gallants. This follows festival appearances at Seattle’s Capital Hill Block Party and Chicago’s Lollapalooza.

The band will be supporting their new record New Wave. The band’s Sire debut arrives in stores on July 10th. The band recently posted their fourth “Making Of” video installment via their website.
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Every Time I Die has posted a new song online entitled “Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Battery.” The track is the first released from their forthcoming full-length The Big Dirty, which is the follow-up to 2005’s Gutter Phenomenon.

You can check out “Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Battery” here.
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Those Hellcat ska bands just live for the road. “Dirty reggae” practitioners and frequent Tim Armstrong collaborators the Aggrolites have expanded their never ending tour into the fall.

The band released Reggae Hit L.A. earlier this year and they appeared as Tim Armstrong’s backing band on the Rancid frontman’s solo album A Poet’s Life.
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Strung Out has announced dates for the first leg of their North American tour supporting Blackhawks Over Los Angeles. The band will hit the road with A Wilhelm Scream and I Am Ghost playing a number of dates in the US and Canada, with a second leg planned with I Am Ghost and Evergreen Terrace. Dates for the second leg should be announced as they’re confirmed.

Strung Out is currently touring Europe in support of their new record Blackhawks Over Los Angeles.
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Punknews.org will be hitting the road for two weeks to bring you a special contest. We’ll be traveling with the Gaslight Anthem and Signal to Noise across the U.S. and want you to come hang out. On a select string of seven dates, we’ll be giving one person per show a great prize package. Included are both bands’ new releases: The Gaslight Anthem’s Sink or Swim & Signal to Noise’s Kodiak, admission for you and a friend to the show, and…..an extremely limited edition Punknews.org t-shirt, made by the good folks at Jump Start Screen Printing. Plus, our pals at Punkstop.com have agreed to throw in both the red & white splatter and limited edition black vinyl versions of Sink or Swim to one grand prize winner to be selected from the contest winners.

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Bad Religion has posted a full album stream of their new record New Maps of Hell via MySpace. The record, their third since returning to Epitaph and their fourteenth overall album, is due in stores on July 10, 2007.

The band will headline this year’s Warped Tour to support the effort.
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What does the Fourth of July mean to you? To me, it means not having to work while drinking on my friend’s front lawn and watching half-drunken neighbors stupidly set off fireworks in the street with gaggles of eight-year-olds surrounding every pop and crackle. Ahh, independence. Anyway, yeah, Chris flaked out on posting the new reviews update news post, so here it is from me from here on in. I guess I am the reviews editor, though.

• The very male Brooklyn, NY collective Dear Tonight dropped their first full-length today entitled We’re Not Men
• Ska vets the Pietasters are giving away a 3-song digital teaser EP called Don’t Wanna Know in anticipation of their upcoming full-length; the least we could do is review it
• PA’s Giving Chase are giving skatepunk and melodic hardcore a reason to be best friends with their new deal, A Cheap Print of a Masterpiece
• Vancouver hardcore reps Go It Alone unleashed LP2 back in May; we (I) finally got around to reviewing it now. Oh yeah, it’s called Histories
• Several more over at the Punknews Review page
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Negative Progression has parted ways with Philadelphia’s Desoto Jones. The band, which features a emmber of The June Spirit, was set to issue their debut LP Aurora via the label but those plans have since changed. The band is currently unsigned and are planning to press a few copies of the record to sell at summer shows themselves.

NPR commented “we wish the band the best of luck because it is an awesome album.” Music from the upcoming release can be streamed via MySpace.
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