The Epitaph Tour 2007 Kicks off in a couple of days and features Escape the Fate, The Higher and I Am Ghost.  You can check out free downloadable mp3s from each band via Purevolume.

 

Here are the tour dates: 

02.02.07

Pamona, CA

Glass House

02.03.07

San Diego, CA

Soma

02.04.07

Tempe, AZ

The Clubhouse

02.06.07

Dallas, TX

The Door

02.07.07

Austin, TX

Emos

02.08.07

Houston, TX

Warehouse Live

02.10.07

Orlando, FL

The Social

02.11.07

Tampa, FL

Orpheum Theatre

02.12.07

Jacksonville, FL

Jack Rabbits

02.13.07

Atlanta, GA

Masquerade

02.14.07

Carrboro, NC

Cats Cradle

02.16.07

Charlotte, NC

Casbah

02.17.07

Towson, MD

The Recher Theatre

02.18.07

Philadelphia, PA

North Star Bar

02.19.07

So. Hackensack, NJ

School of Rock East

02.20.07

New York, NY

Bowery Ballroom

02.22.07

Hartford, CT

Webster Theatre

02.23.07

Providence, RI

The Living Room

02.27.07

Buffalo, NY

The Icon

02.28.07

Pittsburgh, PA

Mr. Small's Theatre

03.01.07

Cleveland Hts., OH

Grog Shop

03.02.07

Detroit, MI

Shelter

03.03.07

Chicago, IL

Metro

03.03.07

Boise, ID

The Venue

03.05.07

Minneapolis, MN

The Loft @ The Barfly

03.07.07

Lawrence, KS

The Bottleneck

03.08.07

Denver, CO

Marquis Theater

03.09.07

Salt Lake City, UT

Avalon Theater

03.12.07

Seattle, WA

El Corazon

03.13.07

Portland, OR

Hawthorne Theater

03.16.07

San Francisco, CA

Slim's

03.17.07

Los Angeles, CA

El Rey Theater

 

Be My Doppelganger have posted two of the three songs from their upcoming Convertible Girls 7inch. The record is due out in april on Bitchin’ Riffage Records. You can check out the music on their myspace page.

Indiana’s The Widow Jenkins have posted a new demo. The band features former members of Brazil and Underminded and you can check out “Sincerity and the Damned” on their myspace page.

Let’s Try Leaving have posted two songs from their new EP, The Warmest Winter. The band describes their sound as “honest Midwestern punk rock” and you can check out the songs on their myspace page.
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Our friends at The Syndicate have posted a new track from Lifetime‘s upcoming self-titled full length.

You can check out “Northbound Breakdown” right here.
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Just a few weeks after rumours began to spread, confirmation has come in that the Police will reunite this year for the Grammys in an event that will mark their 30th Anniversary.

This would be the first Police tour since the band broke up in Melbourne, Australia in 1984. The band consists of pop-sensation Sting on bass and vocals, Andy Summers on guitar and Stewart Copeland on drums. They last performed together in celebration of their 2003 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The trio, who won five Grammys in their 1980s prime, join a live performance line-up that already includes Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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The Bloody Hollies are headed out on tour in February and March in support of their new Alive Records full length Who To Trust, Who To Kill, Who To Love. The trek includes a show with labelmates Radio Moscow and a stop at SXSW in Austin.

The new record follows up the band’s 2005 full length If Footmen Tire You. That album was nominated for Rock Album Of The Year at the San Diego Music Awards.
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Along with their upcoming new full length, Big D and the Kid’s Table will be releasing a split with China’s Brain Failure. The 12-song split features six tracks from each band.

The split CD is entitled “Beijing To Boston” and will be available via Bad News Records on February 20th. The vinyl will see a release via Springman Records soon after. Dicky Barrett (Mighty Mighty Bosstones) and Marc Orrell (Dropkick Murphys) make special appearances on the Brain Failure tracks. You can check out Brain Failure’s “City Junk” and Big D’s “Digging In Your Nails” here.

Read more at: Continue reading Details, music from Big D and the Kids Table / Brain Failure split →

More additions have been confirmed for this summer’s Warped Tour. The latest include Alkaline Trio, Norma Jean and Hot Rod Circuit.

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Blacklisted have posted some tour dates, mainly for the US East Coast. The mini-tour kicks off February 23rd in Florida and winds up in Pennsylvania.

The band recently finished recording their forthcoming EP Peace on Earth, War on Stage.
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I recently spoke with Benjamin Kowalewicz, frontman of Canada’s own Billy Talent. By all accounts, Billy Talent live an interesting life; in Canada, they are full-fledged rock stars, winning major music awards and fawned over by mainstream news and music outlets like few others. Yet in America, they’re a relatively new band, still building steam on their two full length albums, Billy Talent II and Billy Talent.

Ben and I discussed everything from their “feud” with Fucked Up, to working with legendary Canadian broadcaster Alan Cross.

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Chung Ho Records has posted some videos from the now defunct popular Canadian punk band Belvedere. They were filmed on a Dominican television show in March of 2003.

Belvedere called it a day nearly two years ago after their final release Fast Forward Eats the Tape.

Former Belvedereans Steve Rawles and Graham Churchill recently resurfaced with This Is a Standoff posting their debut tracks.
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Details about The Stooges‘ brand new record, titled The Weirdness have come in. The record will be released March 20 via Virgin Records. The album marks the seminal band’s first proper release in almost 34 years.

This album features three of the four original band members – Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton and drummer Scott Asheton, and the ex-Minutemen and fIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt fills in the final spot.

The band will start touring in support of the album this spring. Along the way are plans to stop for a peformance at this year’s South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX on March 17th.

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Wisam Alshaibi and Billy Joe Bailey, both formerly of The Blackout Pact have announced plans to tour the Middle East – including Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Egypt – to shoot a documentary about punk and skateboarding .

Wisam explained:

A lot of the kids in these country’s have been defined by stuff that doesn’t matter to them, Religion, Ethnicity, Religious Sect, etc – all stuff that isn’t up to them, all things that limit them…

I remember when I was young, I had punk rock and skateboarding to protect, to make me a part of something that was bigger than me, something that didn’t care that I was Iraqi, something that made me friends..

For more information, you can visit Wisam’s myspace page.
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Since everyone loves ordinal rankings, here is another Top 25 Punk Albums list, this time from IGN.

The list includes Punk in Drublic, Milo Goes to College, Big Black, Double Nickels on the Dime, Operation Ivy, Stiff Little Fingers, and more actually fairly represent both some of the earliest bands (Ramones, Clash, Richard Hell) and more recent and American acts who are frequently left off.

You can check it out here.
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