Bouncing Souls have detailed their annual Home for the Holidays shows. The long-running band will be performing on four nights in late December at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ with a different set of opening acts each night; among said openers are Strike Anywhere, The Menzingers, H2O, The Swellers, Leftover Crack and several others.

Limited “Fan Only” presale tickets will be available through Chunksaah Records starting tomorrow, with tickets going on sale to the general public this Friday, October 22. The band is currently on tour with Bad Religion and Off with Their Heads.
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Portland, OR’s Dark Country have posted three songs for download. The band features former members of Anchor Down, Knifetalk, Auralust and The Knifeswitch.

Find the tracks on their Bandcamp page.
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After a period of relative quiet it appears Beastie Boys are back at work on their new album. According to the front page of their website, the previously announced Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 will continue to be delayed indefinitely, but the band does intend to release Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 in spring of 2011. We’ll keep you updated as more details become available.

The band’s most recent studio album was the instrumental The Mix-Up, released in 2007.
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Our stream today comes from Plattsburgh, NY melodic hardcore trio Lie Captive in the form of their three-song demo.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile. It’s available for free download from Death to False Hope Records.
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Social Distortion has set an (official) release date for their long-awaited new album. The record is titled Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes and is due out January 18, 2011 via Epitaph. After years of working with various producers in the studio, Mike Ness took on the duty for the first time with their new album. The band entered a Burbank studio in early 2010 where they recorded for the next several months in between spring and summer tour dates which included Lollapalooza and Outside Lands. In early October the band wrapped up recording before heading out for their fall US tour.

Mike Ness commented:

It’s something I’ve always wanted to do. I love being on that side of the board. Even though I’ve co-produced all of our records, I always was there for everything. It just came to a point where I was like ‘I think I want to try this, I want to do this ourselves.’ By being at the helm this time allowed so much more focus for me to the fine details of every aspect of it, whether it was performances, or tones, or arrangements, backing vocals….everything.

The first single from the album, “Machine Gun Blues,” will be released on November 9th, 2010 via iTunes.

The band kicked off a headlining tour supported by Lucero and Frank Turner this month.
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After a few weeks of unveiling the tracks one by one, today’s the day you can finally download the MySpace/SPIN-curated Bad Religion tribute, Germs of Perfection. It features covers from Tegan And Sara, Guttermouth, Cheap Girls, Polar Bear Club, Ted Leo, The Weakerthans and more.

Grab the download here.
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Nightmares For a Week will be releasing their full length debut in December. The record is titled Don’t Die and is due out December 7, 2010 via Academy Fight Song. The band has posted the first song from the album (which will soon appear on a 7-inch) titled “Veins” and you can find that on their MySpace page.

We reviewed their debut, A Flood Tomorrow, from 2009 and called the release “one of the best EPs of the year.”

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In a blog post, Frank Turner announced plans to release a new EP titled Rock & Roll. Due out December 6, 2010 via Xtra Mile Recordings, the EP was recorded in September. Frank promises five new songs and notes:

I, for one, am very excited about it; it’s kind of a taster for the new album (although only one song from the EP will also be on the new record) which is due early next year. The EP is being released in the UK, but we’re sorting out shipping details for everywhere across the world so people in the USA, Europe and further afield can get a copy too. It feels good to be getting new material out there.

Frank released his Epitaph Records debut, Poetry of the Deed in 2009. Xtra Mile released his previous album, 2008’s Love, Ire and Song.
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While The Ergs! remain broken up, they are breaking their break up for one day to help raise money for a friend’s medical bills. The band will be performing one night only to raise money for medical bills. They said this on their website:

For one night only The Ergs! and Hunchback will reunite to kick medical bills in the arse. Jackie Nixon (J Nixon’s mom) is battling cancer. We want her and her family to use their energy to fight this disease, not worry about bills. Help us help them and come support this cause! All proceeds go directly to the Nixon family. Information about the show is on Lauren Measure’s amazing flier. Tickets go on sale (prob next tuesday? finding out today) Also on sale that day: posters drawn by Perry Shall, Marissa Paternoster, Jason Insult, and Mike Diana! Tshirts designed by Bryan

The show is set for December 3, 2010 at Asbury Lanes and will also feature Hunchback.
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Epitaph Records signing Heartsounds have booked a number of supporting dates over the next few weeks. Along with a show at The Fest 9, the band will be supporting A Wilhelm Scream, Alkaline Trio and Bouncing Souls over the next month.

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We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• Envy – Recitation
• Jimmy Eat World / We Were Promised Jetpacks – live in New York
• OFF! – 1st EP
• Unbroken / Ceremony / Ritual – live in London
• Negative Approach – Friends of No One EP
• After the Fall – Eradication
• Various – Too Much Music… Too Many Bands: Twenty Years of Boss Tuneage Records
• Gatorface – Wasted Monuments
• The Dead Girls – Out of Earshot 12″
• Salinas – Salinas

You can check out any of our 9708 reviews right here.
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Drag The River, a band that is still bad at breaking up, have released a new collection of demos entitled 2010 Demons. The album compiles 10 of 24 songs the band tracked this past summer that’ll eventually be re-recorded for a new studio album in 2011.

It’s available as a donation-based download at their Bandcamp page. German label Hometown Caravan will be releasing 2010 Demons on vinyl; more info on that is available here.
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The UK’s Rebellion Festival has announced the beginning of their 2011 lineup. So far, the Blackpool-based festival has confirmed Cock Sparrer, The Damned, The Boys, Anti-Nowhere League, Major Accident, Goldblade, Random Hand, The Restarts, Bootstroke (Greece), Splodgenessabounds, Reazione, Drongos for Europe, Kunt and the Gang, Dirty Revolution, Rust (Australia), Jaya the Cat, Instant Agony, Choking Susan (USA), Picture Frame Seduction, Pink Hearse, Threats, Short Bus Window Lickers, Monkish, Fire Exit, Chas Palmer Williams ( Lightyear) and Hotwired.

It will take place next August from the 4th through the 7th.
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