Revelation Records has some goings-on as of late.

Sinking Ships has completed and titled their upcoming 7″, Ten., which will be released later this year and follow up on 2006’s Disconnecting. The band will head out on a summer tour with Have Heart and Soul Control next month.

End of a Year, who recently returned from a European tour, are in the initial writing stages for their next full-length. The Albany, NY-based band, who released Sincerely last year, is tentatively planning a west coast trip for this coming autumn.

Recent signing Living Hell has officially entered the studio to record their label debut. The band will also be playing Ventura, CA’s Sound and Fury Fest in late July.
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The Spill Canvas has posted the video for the track “Staplegunned” online. The song was featured on their recent EP and Warner debut Denial Feels So Good. You can check out the streams below:

Quicktime (220) / Quicktime (450) / Quicktime (700)

Windows Media (200) / Windows Media (300) / Windows Media (450) / Windows Media (700)

We posted an interview with the band this past week.
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Jade Tree Records has released the details for the upcoming Cloak/Dagger full-length debut, We Are, which is set to be released September 11, 2007. We Are is the followup to their previous digital-only EP Piñata Breaks, Demo Takes.

You can also download the track “Runways” off the record by clicking here.
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Said Radio, the new band featuring members of The Nerve Agents, Redemption 87 and Ceremony, is going back into the studio on Wednesday, June 20th to finish recording their debut EP for Mankind Records. It’s being recorded at the Art Of Ears in Hayward, California with engineer and producer Andy Ernst. Andy Ernst is a longtime member of the Northern California hardcore/punk community and has worked with everyone from Green Day, Rancid, AFI, and Tiger Army to Said Radio member’s former bands The Nerve Agents and Redemption 87. The still untitled Said Radio record will have a total of 8 songs and be released as a 12″ and CD.

Said Radio is slated to make their first appearance on July 23rd at the West Seattle Legion Hall in Seattle, Washington with Ceremony, Shipwreck and Ruiner, followed by several other shows on the West Coast including a slot on the Sound And Fury Festival at the Alpine in Ventura, California (July 27th-29th).

You can find more information at the band’s MySpace page, and MP3’s are promised to be posted on it sometime next week.
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The Story Changes have announced the details for their upcoming full length and we’ve got a brand new song from the disc streaming now.

The record is titled The Way of the Dinosaur and is due out July 10, 2007. It is the follow-up to Last Night a Rock Band Saved My Life which was released in 2005. The record was produced by Jamie Woolford(the Stereo, Let Go, Man Alive). The band has also launched a “mini-site” featuring new material, recording documents and more. You can find that here.

You can check out “Needle” on their Punknews.org Profile.

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Darkest Hour have posted the second new track from their upcoming full length for Victory Records. The record is titled Deliver Us and is due out July 10, 2007. It is the follow up to 2005’s Undoing Ruin as well as their rarities compilation, Archives which was released in 2006.

You can find “Stand and Receive Your Judgement” on their myspace page.

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Rat Scabies of the Damned has returned to the US to put the finishing touches on the upcoming Glass Heroes full length Liars, Cheats & Thieves!. Scabies commented “Due to conflicting times and both parties being busy… the cd has taken a bit longer than we thought… But rest assured..it’s gonna be tough sounding.” As previously announced the album will contain a cover of the Ruts‘ “Backbiter” with Ruts bassist Segs Jennings contributing.

TKO has yet to attach a release date to Liars but has several other releases from the Glass Heroes on deck. A 7″ single for the song “Get Out Alive” arrives this summer, as well as a digipak reissue of the band’s self-titled 2005 debut.
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Against Me! has posted a remix of the first single from their upcoming Sire debut, New Wave. You can hear the remix of “White People for Peace” their MySpace page. The remix was done by the album’s producer, Butch Vig (Nirvana, Garbage).

You might have missed what’s going on in Tom, Warren, Andrew and James lives lately as the coverage has slowed a bit. There’s been a video, the making of said video, limited 7″ preorder, a tour with some friends, and a limited, tour-only release.

Oh, and New Wave is due out July 10, 2007.
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Rx Bandits have officially allowed fans to record any of their live performances. They explained:

RX Bandits would like to invite anyone who would like to record audio at RXB shows to come one down and record. We will be allowing anyone who is serious about recording and who is willing to share live recordings of the show with everyone else. At the end of the year we will pick the “Best of the Bootlegs” and release this as a live set.

Music is great, let’s all share it…..

You can check out this blog entry for instructions on how to get your gear cleared.

The band released …And the Battle Begun last year.
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Epitaph has released the cover art and track listing for the Weakerthans highly anticipated fourth LP Reunion Tour. The 11 song full length was recorded in two sessions, 11 days in March of 2007 at Prairie Recording Co. in Winnipeg and four in April at Toronto’s Junkshop. The cover art for the release was done by Winnipeg artist William Eakin. Among the 11 songs are a new version of the previously released “Utilities,” what looks like a sequel to “Plea from a Cat Named Virtue” and a track named after the annual Canadian women’s curling championship.

The only downside is it’s a long wait to September 25th. Reunion Tour follows up 2003’s Reconstruction Site.
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In advance of the upcoming Anti- benefit CD Healing The Divide, a track by Tom Waits and the Kronos Quartet , featuring Greg Cohen, Philip Glass and none other than Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate the Dalai Lama will be released as a digital single. “Diamond In Your Mind,” a Waits / Brennan penned song that was originally written for soul artist Solomon Burke’s 2002 LP Don’t Give Up On Me, will be released as a digital single on June 26th. It’s one of four Waits tracks on the disc.

Healing The Divide: A Concert For Peace And Reconciliation hits stores on July 10th. It’s the result of a live show recorded on September 21, 2003 concert at New York’s Avery Fisher Hall, part of the Dalai Lama’s 20 day tour of the US that year. The label describes the event as a “a musical meeting of East and West, transcending cultural boundaries through music.” All proceeds from the release will go to the Tibetan Health Initiative, a program that provides health insurance and medical care to Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns living in refugee settlements. Each CD purchase will reportedly provide one year of health insurance.
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Indie/punk act The Cribs have announced the US release of their recent full length. The record is titled Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever and is due out July 17, 2007. The band, who hail from Wakefield in the United Kingdom, released The New Fellas in 2005.

The band will be appearing on Late Night with Conan O’Brien that same night and have also confirmed a full US tour set for July and August 2007. Dates and venues will be announced next week.

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Murrieta, CA’s Cosmonaut, which features former Finch member Nate Barcalow, has posted new music to their MySpace page.

Pop-punk act Made In Canada, who were as a matter of fact made in Youngstown, OH, have a number of songs online via PureVolume and MySpace, or so a die hard fan of theirs tells us. Personally I think they’re named after the late 90s Rick Mercer sitcom.

Washington DC’s Supreme Commander and New Jersey’s Alive At Last have released a split full-length CD on NJ’s Bishop19 Records. Music from the 12 song collection can be found on the label’s MySpace page.
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