Posted by aubin on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 4:30 PM (EST)
Warped Tour has confirmed six more additions for the 2012 tour. They are: Born of Osiris,
Chunk! No Captain Chunk!,
Divided By Friday,
Motionless In White,
Transit and
Wax.
The Arrogant Sons of Bitches have made their one-off reunion into at least a two-off, adding a second show at New York's Webster Hall, with Dan Potthast (of MU330) and Shinobu opening, along with a "special guest." The show will take place on May 26th, and tickets go on sale Saturday, February 18th.
Contributed by aubin. Posted by john on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 3:00 PM (EST)
New Jersey's Let Me Run will be entering the studio next month to record a new album with producer J. Robbins, at Robbins' Magpie Cage Studios in Baltimore, MD. The record will be titled Mad/Sad, and the band is aiming for a summer 2012 release. XOXO Records and Taking Flight Records will be jointly releasing the album.
Mad/Sad< will be the follow up to the band's 2011 self-titled EP.
Posted by john on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 1:30 PM (EST)
New York's Sick of It All and Agnostic Front will be bringing their NY United tour to Australia this May. For most dates, they will be joined by Australia's Toe to Toe.
Contributed by alex101. Posted by aubin on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 12:30 PM (EST)
Mest have released a new single titled "Almost." The song was promised two weeks ago and also came with the news that the band would be releasing a new album in the Spring. Mest's last studio album Photographs was released in 2005 on Warner Bros. Records. The band subsequently split in 2006.
The band has been writing new material since at least June, and several new songs have surfaced in Green Day's sets over the past year, including "Carpe Diem" and "Stray Heart." Whether or not either song makes the final album remains to be seen, of course.
Posted by adam on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 11:00 AM (EST)
Cincinnati, Ohio's The Dopamines will return to It's Alive Records to release their upcoming third album Vices. The label wrote:
Five years ago on Valentine's Day Jon Lewis wrote the lyrics for what would become the first song on the first album of the first record by The Dopamines. At the time The Dopamines s/t LP was only our second album we were the sole label responsible for releasing on all formats. It was the first time we were doing so with a band's debut release. It was a big deal for us...
Watching them climb out of the basements and onto the stage and then head out across the country and later across Europe was incredibly exciting! It was also something we took a lot of pride in having been a part of.
Things got shitty in the real world which caused big problems for the label. Time was needed to regroup and rethink how this label could survive. The Dopamines second album Expect The Worst was released by another label and we had to watch with both bitter sweet happiness and huge regret as it rocketed them up to a whole new level of awesome.
I swore if an opportunity to do another album with them ever arose, we weren't going to pass on it for anything. That opportunity just knocked down our door a short while ago...
Vices will see a spring release this year. The band's prior album Expect the Worst was released in 2010 by Paper + Plastick. For April Fools last year we published around a dozen ridiculous reviews of it. I'm partial to this one (but I'm biased), but there are a few gems in the batch.
Posted by adam on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 10:30 AM (EST)
Modern Action Records has released a new 13 song digital comp of unreleased demos and rarities titled D-Sides. It features music from The Briefs, The Stitches, Smogtown, and The Bodies among others. The music is available free to anyone who signs up for the Modern Action at modernactionrecords.com.
The Briefs have of course been in the news recently as one of the acts slated to perform at this year's Punk Rock Bowling in Las Vegas. They'll perform at the event alongside Rancid, NOFX. Pennywise, and The Adicts.
Posted by aubin on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM (EST)
Bob Mould of Husker Du, Sugar and his eponymous albums, has announced some scattered dates in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the seminal Sugar album, Copper Blue. If you haven't heard it, you can find out why it was so widely acclaimed on Spotify or Rdio.
Posted by john on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 9:30 AM (EST)
The second Smash It Dead Fest is set to take place March 23rd - 25th in Boston, MA. The festival will feature bands as well as feminist workshops. Proceeds will support the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center