Santa Barbara-based ska-punk act the Mad Caddies are set to release a retrospective album titled Consentual Selections on July 20th. The set features 20 songs selected by fans from the band’s five studio albums, one EP, and one live record. Two new songs have been included as well, titled “Save Us” and “Why Must I Wait.” The release will be available on CD, digitally, and on a limited pressing of 1,000 double vinyl sets. The packaging includes a track by track commentary by the band and over 150 photos.
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We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• Against Me! – I Was a Teenage Anarchist EP
• Stephen Egerton – The Seven Degrees of Stephen Egerton
• Balance and Composure / Tigers Jaw – Split
• Hammer Bros – Sleep Forever EP
• The Hollowpoints – Old Haunts on the Horizon
• Thinking Machines – Work Tapes
• Cheap Sex – Dead Today: Five Years of Cheap Sex DVD
• Jonah Matranga / Kevin Seconds – split 7″
• Jack Boulware / Silke Tudor – Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day [book]
• Young Generals – Demo 7″

You can check out any of our 9316 reviews right here.
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Welcome to our latest band on band. In our elation of (and subsequent over saturation for) their upcoming joint release this edition we feature the remarkably different O’ Pioneers!!! and Junior Battles. One comes from sunny Texas, the other from the barren wilderness of Canada. One has four members, the other is an ever changing line up rivaling that of Mexican boy band Menudo (both in number of members and pre-teen sex appeal). Yet, somehow they came together for a split 7″ on Kiss of Death Records. Read on to hear the men discuss bad tattoos, good fast food and strange animal dances.

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Antillectual are in the midst of an extensive European tour.

The Dutch band plans to release their new full-length, Start from Scratch, this fall. Once out, it’ll follow up 2008’s Testimony.
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Touché Amoré have posted a song from their upcoming split with La Dispute, which we detailed here yesterday.

Check out “I’ll Get My Just Deserve” at the band’s MySpace page.
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Terror will soon embark on a extensive North American tour alongside Gravemaker, Foundation and Naysayer in support of their upcoming full-length, Keepers of the Faith. Today, we’re teaming up with the band to give two winners tickets to a show on the tour of their choice, with the grand prize winner also snagging a copy of the band’s previous full-length, The Damned, The Shamed.

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Philadelphia, PA’s Good Old War have a launched a stream of their self-titled sophomore full-length. It’s due out on June 1, 2010 and follows up 2008’s Only Way to Be Alone. The band is currently on tour in support of the release.

Check out the stream at the band’s MySpace page.
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Gainesville’s Young Livers are currently touring out to Chaos in Tejas and back.

The band is supporting their sophomore full-length for No Idea Records, Of Misery and Toil.
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Though the band recently called it quits, Isis isn’t going out quietly. The band is currently on their final tour alongside Melvins and Cave In, and have announced plans to release a split with the former through Hydra Head Records.

The Isis side of the split will feature “Way Through Woven Branches,” a track from the Japanese version of their recent full-length Wavering Radiant, as well as an unreleased track entitled “The Pliable Foe.” The Melvins side will feature alternate versions of “Pig House” and “I’ll Finish You Off,” two songs that will first appear in their original incarnations on that band’s new full-length The Bride Screamed Murder.

The split is due out on July 13, 2010.
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Collingswood, NJ outfit Aspiga have joined Solidarity Recordings. The label will issue the band’s debut full-length, Tense, in July. The band cites Osker, Jawbreaker, Hanalei, Fingers Cut Mega-Machine, and Desaparecidos as influences.

Two songs from the release can be heard at the band’s MySpace page and a third track can be streamed at the label’s MySpace page.
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Shortly after wrapping up their current tour with Coheed and Cambria and Circa Survive, Torche will embark on a headlining tour alongside Beings.

Torche’s split 10″ with Boris is slated for a June 29, 2010 release through Hydra Head Records.
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Our stream today comes from Bloomington, IN’s Take Manhattan. We’ve got a stream of the band’s recent EP, An Audio Coloring Book. The band will be supporting the EP on a tour that kicks off tonight; dates can be seen here.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Hopeless Records has added Philadelphia, PA’s The Wonder Years to its roster. The band had this to say about the move:

“Hopeless was the right choice for us. We’ve never been concerned with sounding like the other bands on a label. I mean, when we signed with No Sleep there were two other bands on the label. One sounded like Botch and the other sounded like Modest Mouse. For us, it’s more important that a label gets us and what we want to do and after a ton of meetings with Hopeless, we know that it’s the right home for us. The roster is small and so we know we won’t get lost in the mix. The staff members are hard working and super nice. We respect all of the charity work the label does and are excited to be a part of a label that has such an interest in helping people. Hopeless has an amazing back catalouge full of some of my all-time favorite records and we’re really honored to have the chance to even be mentioned in the same breath as some of their bands.”

The band released a full-length, The Upsides, earlier this year through No Sleep Records. They’ve also got a bunch of touring lined up through the next few months.
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