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.

You can click Read More for the song.

Green Day have begun work on their follow-up to 2009's 21st Century Breakdown, according to a tweet from frontman Billie Joe Armstrong. He writes: "Happy Valantine's day! Officially started recording the new record today. It's FUCK TIME!!!!"

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.

Bomb The Music Industry! have posted a new song titled "Snow Charges." The record will likely appear on the forthcoming sequel to 2011's Vacation.

Find it on their Tumblr.

The band also confirmed a run of US tour dates beginning a month from now.

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.

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.

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.

You can click Read More for the dates.

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

Bands set to perform include: Spraynard, Ampere, The Credentials, Surrender, Aye Nako, Foreign Objects, Rations, Dead Uncles, Cinders, Don't Panic, Spoonboy, The Inhalers, Sick Fix, Death First, Cloud Rat, Curmudgeon, Congenital Death, Rosenkopf, Teen Wolves, No Sir, I Won't, Shoppers, Titfit, Boilerman, Nature Boys, Escalator, Troubled Sleep, Parasol, Nona, Sparkle Shit, and Dangerous Ponies.

More information is available on the festival's website and Facebook page.

Treasure Fest, a two day festival held in Charlotte, NC, have announced the details for their second year. The fest will feature acts such as Algernon Cadwallader, Restorations, Double Negative, Sundials, Worn In Red, Leather, Black Wine, Museum Mouth, Glocca Mora, The Emotron, Red Collar Young and in the Way, and many more. It will take place May 18th-19th.

A complete list of bands can be found here.

On this, the second episode of Some Party: the Punknews.org Ontario, host Adam White continues to explore independent music from the Org's home province of Ontario, Canada. Once again we present an eclectic mix of local punk rock and its genre-defying offshoots, from singer-songwriter to alt-country to folk.

On this episode we feature music from Crusades, Wayfarer, Elliott Brood, Bry Webb, Baby Eagle and The Proud Mothers, TV Freaks, Julianna Riolino, The Penske File, The Creeps, Sparrows, Cousin, The Dirty Nil, and Shit From Hell. You can find the full track listing below.

Click Read More to stream and/or download the show, or subscribe via RSS (MP3 / Enhanced AAC) or via the iTunes Store. We're also looking for bands for the next episode and invite you to submit a few here.

Today, Useless ID released their Fat Wreck Chords debut, Symptoms, which is also streaming on their Punknews.org Profile. To celebrate the new record, the band has put together three prize packages for one grand prize winner and two runner ups.

You can click Read More for the details.

The Menzingers have just announced dates for their headlining spring tour with Captain, We're Sinking, Cheap Girls, and The Sidekicks. The tour is in support of their latest album, On The Impossible Past, which you can stream now.

You can click Read More for the dates.

Letlive. have released a new video for their track, "Muther," from 2010's Fake History which was reissued on Epitaph Records last year.

You can click Read More for the video.

Our second stream today comes from Philadelphia, PA-based Kite Party. We've got a stream of the band's new full length, Baseball Season, which is available today through Animal Style Records.

Kite Party self-released "Baseball Season in 2011. The record has now been reissued by Animal Style Records onto 2 different colors of vinyl.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile

So, today we're quite proud and excited to bring you a full album stream of the new record from our pals in The Menzingers. The Scranton-based band is going to release their Epitaph Records debut, On The Impossible Past next Tuesday and we've got the whole thing for you to stream below. It's the first full length since Chamberlain Waits which Punknews.org named the second best record of 2010.

You can click Read More for the songs.16

Oregon pop-punkers Broadway Calls have just announced via Facebook that they will be heading into the Blasting Room in Ft. Collins, Colorado next month to record a new full-length album for release on SideOneDummy Records.

The band writes:

Next month, we'll be spending a few weeks in Ft. Collins at the Blasting Room making our new record for SideOneDummy Records ! While there, we figured it would be a good idea to play a show in Denver, because it's always a good idea to play a show in Denver. So on Friday March 30 we are playing a FREE ALL AGES show at Illegal Pete's in downtown Denver. Come hang out. We'll be studio weary and very ready to play a show at this point, and we love you. So we'll see you there.

The band released their Toxic Kids EP last year on All For Hope Records and their last full length, Good Views, Bad News in 2009.