Long Island’s Stray From The Path have posted the video for “Damien” from their Sumerian Records album, Make Your Own History. The chaotic hardcore includes Dan Bourke (This Is Hell, Soldiers) on drums
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Even though MySpace is clearly trying to copy our (probably) award-winning Band on Band series, they did it with The Swellers and Face to Face so it will be forgiven. The article includes Jonathan Diener of The Swellers and Trever Keith of Face to Face. Jonathan had this to say about Face to Face and the tour:

It’s just a punk rock summer camp, it’s a festival where it’s not just great exposure for your band it’s great for networking with so many people and it’s something special for the people coming to watch you. Even though we only play 30 minute sets we can cram in nine songs because we don’t take breaks. The fact that Face To Face is even on this tour is amazing for us. We played with them at the Groezrock festival in Belgium and they were one of my favorite bands of the day, they just sounded awesome. It’s always cool when people say we sound like Face To Face to them because we grew up on Fat Wreck Chords and Epitaph. So when we were watching them we were like, “I hope we can be like that someday.”

Keith for his part commented on the changes over the 15 years of the tour. Face to Face performed on the inaugural version of the Warped Tour back in 1995:

Well, styles and tastes have changed considerably. [Laughs.] I’m glad to see there’s still a skate ramp out here and athletes, which is really cool. But it’s become more like a carnival. It’s become more like Spongebob Squarepants… it used to be a little more rock ‘n roll and now it’s a little more dayglo, you know? We also haven’t been on the Warped Tour in nearly a decade and for a veteran band like us it’s a good way to connect with a younger audience.

The Swellers are supporting their Fueled By Ramen Records album, Ups and Downsizing. Face to Face recently announced the completion of their first album in eight years.
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Comeback Kid will be headed across their native Canada this September with Madball and A Wilhelm Scream. The Winnipeg-based hardcore band is gearing up for the release of their next album, Symptoms and Cures, which is expected in Canada via Distort Records (The Bronx, Alexisonfire, Cancer Bats) and Victory Records in the US. An August 31, 2010 release is planned for both countries.

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Here’s another stream for your ears: It’s the new 10″ from Trenton, NJ’s The Great Explainer, The Way Things Swell.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Thursday has entered the studio to begin recording their sixth full length and second for Epitaph Records. The band will spend the next few months recording at Tarbox Road Studios in Fredonia, NY with Common Existence and A City by the Light Divided producer Dave Fridmann (MGMT, The Flaming Lips, Mogwai) and plan to release the new album in spring 2011.

Frontman Geoff Rickly commented:

We’ve worked with Dave Fridmann before, but this is definitely the most we’ve ever clicked with him. In style, this record feels like a radical departure from our earlier records but in substance it feels like a return. The songs are more vulnerable than they’ve been in a long time. Some of the song titles include “A Darker Forest” and “Little Sparks Against the Sun”… It’s very atmospheric and mood oriented so far.

Since the release of Common Existence in 2009, the band toured with Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, Bring Me The Horizon, Touche Amore, La Dispute, Young Widows, The Dear Hunter and Fake Problems. Rickly also contributed to his side project, the retro-screamo outfit, United Nations.
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Our stream today comes from Collingswood, NJ-based Aspiga. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length for Solidarity Recordings, Tense.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Swansea, UK-based The Arteries have begun recording their new album. Their previous record, , Blood, Sweat and Beers. was released by Household Name Records and Black Numbers in 2009 and the band performed at the 2009 Fest. The band is documenting the recording process on their official blog.

The new record will be titled Dead Sea and is expected later this year.
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We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• Amebix – Redux
• Save Your Breath – Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy EP [reissue]
• Danzig – live in San Francisco
• Everything Sucks – The Taxes in Texas 12″
• Between Resistance and Community: The Long Island DIY Punk Scene DVD
• Got No Shame – Hometown Underground
• Max and the Marginalized – Museum of Mistakes 12″
• Wavves – Wavvves
• Ministry – The Last Sucker
• Teen Idols – Teen Idols

You can check out any of our 9427 reviews right here.
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A Wilhelm Scream have premiered a new video for “Australias,” a track from the band’s 2009 self-titled EP

The band has also announced an extensive Canadian tour in the late summer/early fall, preceded by a handful of US dates. Both the video and the tour itinerary can be found by clicking Read More.
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Rancid continues to keep up with their promise to post a new video each week and have maintained the steady pace since kicking off the series on June 1st. The latest video is for the track, “Blackhawk Down,” from the band’s 2000 album, Rancid (2000).

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Hooky, a short-lived project from Matt Canino and Erica Freas of Rvivr, Latterman and Shorebirds, have posted a free download of their 2007 demo. The band performed only five shows in their short time together and recorded the six song demo. The band is asking for donations for those who download the record and add:

Hooky was a short, beautful, fucked up band from summer 2007 to spring 2008. We rocked hard, we stopped hard. Download our demo, or listen to it here, many of you have asked for this over the years and we’re finally making it available. Donations will go to the debt and then if that gets all paid up and we have cash left over, maybe we can do a 7″. Or order a pizza. It all depends on YOU!

Check it out here.

RVIVR released their LP this year to a great reception and can be downloaded at Rumbletowne as well.
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Iron Chic now has a new song online from their upcoming debut full-length, Not Like This. The song is called “Every Town Has an Elm Street” and can be streamed at both their label’s website and Facebook page.

The album is expected in August or September on Dead Broke, following on last year’s Shitty Rambo 7″. Rumor has it Mike Dumps will be posting the album for free digital download in addition to physical form.
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No Idea released a new Hot Water Music live 7″ this weekend. The 7″ contains live versions of “Wayfarer,” “Better Sense,” “Rooftops,” and “End of a Gun.” It was recorded at a live show at the Metro in 2008.

We reported earlier about the band planning new album following their recent spate of European dates.

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