Sherwood have posted their forthcoming release and follow-up to 2005’s Sing, But Keep Going A Different Life for streaming on MySpace. The album hits stores March 13th through MySpace Records. You can check it out here.

The band signed to MySpace Records this past October.
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The initial twenty bands scheduled for this year’s Sound and Fury Festival have been announced. So far, the bill includes 108, Go it Alone, Blacklisted, Shook Ones, and Sinking Ships, among many others. The rest of the line-up is to be posted later this month.

Tickets for the event, which will be held July 26th-29th (including the 26th warm up show) at Alpine Ventura in Ventura, California, are available here.

Blacklisted’s positive response from the festival last year caused the band to reconsider their plans to break-up.
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The Washington City Paper has posted a detailed look at the many figures and organizations involved in the battle over a proposed ban that would exclude all those under drinking age from clubs in Washington D.C.

The article discusses DC Council Member Jim Graham, who famously hosted an roundtable which saw noted DC music icon Ian MacKaye deliver a passionate defense of all ages club. Graham, a former alcoholic, is described as:

[rushing] to the cameras immediately following a problem or an incident at an establishment, before the facts are even known, and announces to the community: ‘I want this place shut down.’

It also talks to Dante Ferrando, owner of the famous Black Cat club who notes:

Music should be accessible to people of all ages. The reality of the live music business is that alcohol, to some degree, subsidizes the music.

Jean Homza, of the also notable 9:30 club, added:

There will never be another small entrepreneur that comes in and says I want to do an all-ages venue.”

Club owners have pooled their resources and hired a full-time lobbyist in the hopes of fighting a regulatory apparatus that they feel has become increasingly adept at punishing club owners.

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New York City ska stalwarts the Slackers have announced tour dates for the coming months. The band hits Japan and South Korea in March, returning to the US in April to play shows on the east coast and into Canada. Summer finds the band in Europe playing various festivals including Summerjam, Potsdam Ska Festival and Ilosaarirock Festival.

The Japaese dates will be accompanied by a retrospective CD titled Big Tunes. A new vinyl 45 will also hit the streets there with the songs “Yer Still Blue” and “Mama Told Me” included.

Also on April 14th the band will take over Brooklyn venue The Hook for Slackfest 2. The band will play with a number of their favorite acts including Mischief Brew, Mighty Fine, Lone Sharks, and Dub Is A Weapon. DJ Queen Majesty will be spinning old school reggae and ska at the event.
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Straylight Run have announced that they’ll be releasing their second full-length entitled The Needle The Space June 19th through Universal Republic Records. John Nolan had this to say regarding the album: “We’ve spent a lot of time writing, recording and producing this album. It’s been a very big part of our lives for the past year and a half and we are so excited for the record to finally be coming.”

The band released Straylight Run in 2004, followed by the Prepare to Be Wrong EP in 2005.
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Terror have posted the dates for an upcoming European tour with Full Blown Chaos. The bands will be joined by No Turning Back, Teamkiller, and Necro on various dates.

The band wrapped up their first headlining tour last month and continue to tour in support of Always the Hard Way.
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Bedouin Soundclash are hitting the road in April with Men Women & Children for a US tour in April.

The Ontario-based three piece continues to support their 2004 Union Label Group / SideOneDummy release Sounding a Mosaic, which has been certified Gold in Canada. The follow up album, Street Gospels, was produced by Darryl Jenifer of Bad Brains and will be released this year via the band’s Dine Alone affiliated imprint Pirates Blend in Canada and SideOneDummy elsewhere.
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After literally years of legal wrangling, the music production/remix team The Legion of Doom have officially released their popular online remix album, Incorporated. Interestingly, one of the more controversial tracks – a mashup of Taking Back Sunday and Senses Fail – now leads off the record.

The duo, consisting of producer/engineer Chad Blinman and former Face to Face frontman Trever Keith, blends electronic sounds and beats within the “mashed-up” product of two tracks from popular punk, emo and hardcore acts. The style of production is similar to that from producer Danger Mouse’s breakthrough work, the Grey Album; the popular internet phenomenon that mixed the Beatle’s The White Album with Jay-Z’s the Black Album.

The album is limited to a pressing of 3,000 and comes in a unique wallet-style package featuring cover art from Derek Hess. The album is available only through Illegal Art web store, here. The album is also being streamed in its entirety at the project’s Last FM page.

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Bright Eyes have announced the full US tour promised in January. The tour kicks off April 22nd and concludes with a seven day stay in New York City.

The band will soon release their new full length, Cassadaga. It is the follow-up to the recently released EP, The Four Winds and the rarities compilation Noise Floor.

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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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