Australia’s Carpathian have announced the title of an upcoming 7″. Wanderlust is expected out soon via Deathwish Inc., and more details regarding the release are to be announced shortly. In the meantime, a song from the release can be downloaded as part of Deathwish’s new label sampler, which we recently detailed here.

The band will also be hitting the road this summer for extensive tours of Australia and Europe with Ghost Town and Ruiner, respectively.
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Dear Landlord has announced their first-ever tour of Europe, kicking off on May 4 in Arnhem, Netherlands.

The band continues to support 2009’s critically and community-lauded full-length, Dream Homes. A video of their recent set at Gainesville, FL’s The Atlantic has been unveiled as well; you can check that out here or by clicking below.
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Paper and Plastick is hosting a stream of “CSJ,” the opening track from Let Me Run’s upcoming EP and debut for the label, Broken Strings. Check it out here inside the audio player on the right-hand side of the site.

Broken Strings is due out on June 15, 2010 and once out, will follow up 2009’s Meet Me at the Bottom. It’ll also be the band’s first output with their new lineup.
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According to the Asian Man Records newsletter, Smoking Popes are currently holed up inside Atlas Studios with producer Matt Allison working on their next full-length. A release is expected later this year, and once out it’ll follow up 2008’s Stay Down, though in the interim the band released a compilation entitled It’s Been a Long Day.

Also expected later this year through Asian Man are reissues of the Popes’ first two full-lengths, 1993’s Get Fired and 1994’s Born to Quit. The band will be performing at Insubordination Fest in June.
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We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• Get Up Kids – Simple Science EP
• The Mountain Goats – The Life of the World to Come DVD
• Frank Turner / Dave Hause / Northcote – live in Vancouver
• Caspian – You Are the Conductor EP [reissue]
• Disembodied – Psalms of Sheol
• Like Bats – Like Bats demo EP [reissue]
• Boiling Over – Trash City 7″ EP
• Scarlet Fever – Burn Out the Sun…Stay Out All Night
• Last Plague – Sex and Murder
• Wesley Wolfe – Storage

You can check out any of our 9226 reviews right here.
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Orlando, FL-area hardcore outfit Boxing Day (ex-No Harm Done, Offsides) have posted their demo as a free download and announced the routing for a summer tour. Grab the demo here and click below for the tour dates.
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Everyone’s favorite (read: only) rabbit-faced revivalist, Nobunny, will soon hit the road for a few weeks of dates alongside The Spits.

Nobunny continues to support 2008’s Love Visions, while The Spits will be supporting 2009’s IV, which is currently streaming at their Punknews.org page. In related news, our own Rich Verducci recently interviewed Nobunny as part of his podcast, Sound Scene Revolution. You can check that out here or via the iTunes store here.
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Hawthorne Heights have posted another new song from their next album. The record is titled Skeletons and is due out May 18, 2010 via Windup.

Check it out here.
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Dr.Acula have launched a stream of their new album, The Social Event of the Century, released this week on Uprising Records.

Check out the album on their MySpace page.
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On May 11, 2010, Piebald will be releasing their upcoming farewell DVD set, Nobody’s Robots. The DVD spans more than three hours, with an hour long documentary feature that highlights the bands career and offers a behind the scenes look into the their lives, music, friends, and fans. The film then flows into the bands final Boston show in its entirely; filmed April 19th, 2008 at the Middle East Rock Club in Cambridge, MA.

We’ve got prizes for three winners
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Long running German psychobilly outfit Mad Sin have posted the new video from their upcoming record, Burn and Rise. The record will be their first for People Like You Records. The record is due out April 23rd.

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We’re thrilled today to shine the spotlight back onto Winnipeg, Manitoba singer-songwriter Greg MacPherson. We’ve streaming his new Smallman Records full length, Mr. Invitation, The record, Greg’s first since 2005’s G7 released Night Flares, features contributions from Jason Tait of The Weakerthans and Ryan Ahoff of speed-metal act Annihilator.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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We’re thrilled today to shine the spotlight back onto Winnipeg, Manitoba singer-songwriter Greg MacPherson. We’ve streaming his new Smallman Records full length, Mr. Invitation, The record, Greg’s first since 2005’s G7 released Night Flares, features contributions from Jason Tait of The Weakerthans and Ryan Ahoff of speed-metal act Annihilator.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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