This Friday, Los Angeles' Old Man Markley will be performing at The Echo in LA with Ellwood. Punknews.org will be giving one lucky reader a bundle of Old Man Markley goodies that includes 2 passes to Friday's show, a t-shirt, an LP and CD of Old Man Markley's latest release Guts N Teeth, a tour copy of the Party Shack 7-inch on pink vinyl, an Old Man Markley kazoo, and an Old Man Markley washboard that the band will personally sign at the show.

2nd runner up will receive a copy of Guts N' Teeth as well as a copy of Ellwood's Lost in Transition whereas the 3rd runner up will receive Guts N' Teeth.

You can click Read More for more tour dates and for details on how to win.

Last year Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids, New Amsterdams) set up a Kickstarter account to fund the recording of his new album. Pryor ended up exceeding his goal and the result was 2012's May Day.

A track from the album, entitled "Polish the Broken Glass", can be found here.

Pryor last released Confidence Man in 2008 on Vagrant Records.

Punknews.org will be giving one lucky reader a copy of the new record, May Day. You can click Read More for details on how to win

Singer / songwriter Mark Kozelek of Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters fame is making a single Ontario stop on his ongoing winter tour. He'll appear at the L3 Nightclub in St. Catharines, Ontario on Monday, February 6th, 2012. We're giving away a pair of tickets to the show. Click below for the details.

Kozelek recorded six studio albums with Red House Painters, four solo albums, and four with Sun Kil Moon. His most recent was Sun Kil Moon's, Admiral Fell Promises which was released in 2010.

Some Party: The Punknews Ontario Podcast is thrilled to launch a series of contests tonight giving you the chance to see some fantastic live acts from Ontario's burgeoning independent music scene. Today we've got a pair of tickets to see Toronto-based alt-country three piece Elliott Brood perform in St. Catharines, Ontario this Thursday at L3 Nightclub. You can find more details on the show here and click below to enter.

Elliott Brood released their acclaimed new full length Days Into Years last year via Paper Bag Records. The band will be hitting the road soon in the US with Vancouver garage duo The Pack A.D..

San Francisco, CA's Dead to Me will be kick starting their European tour with an acoustic performance January 15 at the Ramones Museum in Berlin, Germany. Along with the acoustic show will be a Harsh Vibes art show with drummer, Ian Anderson's art on display. Fans who bring in articles of light colored clothing can have them print screened with limited edition designs from the band.

Punknews.org will be giving one lucky winner an original work of art from Ian Anderson plus a copy of Dead to Me's latest record, Moscow Penny Ante. The first runner up will receive one of 50 limited edition Dead to Me silk screened posters from John McCarthy of Dark Arts Lifer. Second runner up will win the split 7-inch with Off With Their Heads and The Riverboat Gamblers that was only available during their tour last year.

You can click Read More for the details, a picture of the artwork from Ian, and the silk screened poster from John McCarthy.

Matt Pryor, of The Get Up Kids and New Amsterdams fame, is doing a small run of house solo shows, aptly titled "The Living Room Tour." And you, lucky reader, can win a pair of tickets to one of the shows below. Winner picks the show they want to attend and can bring a plus one. If you don't want to gamble your odds of winning, you can pick up tickets right here. Pryor is gearing up for the release of his sophomore solo album, May Day, which has been funded by way of Kickstarter. His first solo album, Confidence Man, was released in 2008.

You can click Read More to enter.

To celebrate the career-spanning box set from Lagwagon, we've got a copy of the set, a poster and signed drumhead for one grand prize winner, and a signed poster for 3 runners up.

You can click Read More for the rules and entry form..

On December 1st, White Wives will be embarking on a Winter tour to wrap up 2011. To coincide with the tour, the band and Punknews.org have launched two separate contests. The band's own contest - which includes a Go Pro camera - can be found here. The Punknews.org-exclusive contest includes White Wives vinyl albums as well as a suitcase-style record player to play them on.

You can click Read More for the details.

In September, legendary thrash pioneers Anthrax released their 10th full length, Worship Music. The album reunited the band with vocalist Joey Belladonna who had not recorded with the band since 1990's Persistence of Time. The new record featured 13 originals and a bonus cover of Refused's "New Noise." To celebrate the release, the band has put together two prize packages of Worship Music merch for two lucky winners.

You can click Read More for the details.

On November 22, 2011, Fearless Records will be releasing Punk Goes Pop 4. Coming a year after the third Punk Goes Pop and 11th in the Punk Goes series. The new edition will feature covers of Chris Brown, Eminem feat Rihanna, Ke$ha, Taylor Swift, Adele, Britney Spears, Bruno Mars, Kanye West, Cee Lo Green, Nicki Minaj, Wiz Khalifa, Mumford & Sons, and Katy Perry.

To celebrate the decade long series, we've got a full set of compilations to give away including: 2000's Punk Goes Metal, 2002's Punk Goes Pop, 2003's Punk Goes Acoustic, 2005's Punk Goes 80's, 2006's Punk Goes 90's, 2008's Punk Goes Crunk, 2009's Punk Goes Pop 2, 2010's Punk Goes Classic Rock and Punk Goes Pop 3, 2011's Punk Goes Pop 4 and more.

You can click Read More for the details.

You can preview Pierce the Veil's Bruno Mars cover via Idolator and Go Radio's cover of Adele via AbsolutePunk.

Are you heading to Gainesville, FL for Fest 10, but ticketless? We've got weekend passes for Fest 10, and thought it would be fun to give them away to someone truly deserving? How - well how about a scavenger hunt?

Here's the deal, the first person to our table at the registration with our list of specific items will win one (1) weekend pass and a gift certificate for some awesome food at Boca Fiesta. We'll also have one (1) weekend pass (without a Boca Fiesta gift card) for the second person with the specific items.

So, what do you have to do? Bring these items to the Punknews.org table at the registration flea market on Friday, October 28th. DISCLAIMER: YOU ARE NOT GUARANTEED TO WIN. SOMEONE MAY BE FASTER THAN YOU, SO PLEASE DO NO COME TO GAINESVILLE WITH THE EXPECTATION THAT PUNKNEWS.ORG WILL PROVIDE YOU A WEEKEND PASS.

Ok, so here's what you need to obtain:

1. A gasoline receipt dated October 27th,2011 or later for the EXACT amount of $6.66.
2. A picture (digital is fine) of you in front of a "Welcome to Florida" sign
3. Anything with a picture of image of an alligator on it.
4. The homepage of Punknews.org PRINTED on physical paper, from Friday, October 28th, 2011.

That's it. Good luck. See you in Gainesville.

Your pals in Banner Pilot will be releasing their third album Hearts Beats Pacific on October 25, 2011 and to celebrate this milestone, the band has some stuff to giveaway and has enlisted us to do the giving away, uhm. of.

You can click Read More for the details.

Earlier this month, Look Mexico released the Real Americans Spear It 10-inch via Adeline Records. To celebrate, the band provided us with one rare test pressing of the album to give away to a lucky Punknews.org reader. All you have to do is click Read More for a chance to win it.

You can click Read More for the details.

We have yet another vinyl contest from Paper and Plastick this week, in which one lucky winner will obtain a vinyl prize pack with all three variants of Proud, the new full-length from Boston, MA's Have Nots. Click below to enter.

The band is currently on tour with Big D and the Kids Table.

We've got another Paper and Plastick vinyl contest this week in which one lucky winner will receive all three variations of Landmines' latest effort Commerce and Marx. Click below to enter.

Commerce and Marx is streaming at the band's Punknews.org Profile. Landmines will be performing at The Fest 10 in Gainesville, FL later this month.