Last Sunday, I battled the post-Nascar race traffic from Richmond to catch Fake Problems and Gaslight Anthem at a small theatre in Washington, DC. Though only a small amount of people showed up, both bands played with the energy you’d expect in a high-capacity venue. Afterwards, all nine folks from both bands managed to defy the very logic of physics and geometry by fitting in secure places to sleep in my small living room. It’s like someone in the group was a Tetris master.

This week’s video comes from Fake Problems, and features the track “Real Problems in SRQ”, a true story about the band’s run-in with the law a few months ago.
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Revelation has posted brief updates on two melodic hardcore acts from their roster.

Sinking Ships have entered the studio to record a new 7″, which will follow up 2006’s Disconnecting.

Capital has titled their nearly completed sophomore full-length Homefront. It will follow up 2006’s Iron Pier debut, Signal Corps. The band also still has a completed split with fellow Long Islanders Crime in Stereo to be released some time on State of Mind Recordings.

The label itself was a recent subject of Virgil Dickerson’s IndieHQ.com interview series.
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Mayday Parade, Bedlight For Blue Eyes, Driver Side Impact and Sick CIty have booked a tour together kicking off later this week.

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Wisdom in Chains has posted some new music from their upcoming re-release via Eulogy Recordings. The record is titled Class War and is due out June 19, 2007.

The three tracks: “The Land of Kings”, “Life isn’t Fair”, and “Cap City” were recorded at Mountainside Studio in Tobyhanna, PA in February of 2007 and are new to the reissue. You can check them out on the band’s myspace page.
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Seminal bay-area pop-punk band American Steel has signed to indie behemoth Fat Wreck Chords. The band had the following to say:

Hey gang, Five years after our last show, we played a house party together again as American Steel. We have also started recording a new studio record for our friends at Fat Wreck Chords. Five years ago, we were tired, listless and frankly not having as much fun as when we first started off. Our attitude has always been to do whatever, whenever, and most importantly to have a good time, so we called it a day. Gladly, this preserved our friendships and love for the music we had created. Basically, we missed playing the songs and still have something to say. It is often a farcical and self absorbed world that many rock groups find themselves in, and while we have always been concerned with expressing our views on ideas like equity and justice, we’ve also tried to not take ourselves or the music industry too seriously. So we’re kinda playing things by ear, but we will be playing shows, doing tours, and putting out a new record, probably in September 2007. As for Communique , a band which some of us have been playing in for last few years, it is basically in a holding pattern for 2007 but is by no means dead. Thanks for all the support and radness over the years and we’ll see y’all soon!

Love,
AmSteel

The band’s last release was 2001’s Jagged Thoughts. They will be playing their next show on June 16th in San Francisco at the Bottom of the Hill with labelmates Dead to Me.
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