The Briggs have tiled their upcoming record Come All You Madmen. The full length was produced by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones' Joe Gittleman and will hit the streets on June 17. The cover art and track listing for the 12 song record have been unveiled as well, and you can click below for the details.

The Briggs are planning to perform on the entirety of this year's Warped Tour.

Deathwish Inc. has signed Cohoes, NY's End of a Year.

The band will release their label debut in the form of an EP this coming fall, with a full-length to eventually follow. However, it will be preceded with a multitude of 7"s on various labels that the band has lined up, including splits with Shook Ones, Scream Hello, Red Tape Parade and others. You can check out the details on a MySpace blog posting. Or can you click Read More.

Their last major release was 2006's Revelation-released Sincerely, though the interim has seen them release splits with Fire Team Charlie (God, There's a Lot of Pawn Shops and Check Cashing Places in This Town) and Kids Explode (That Owl Is Staring at Me), as well as the We Understand Europeans Are a Sexual People 7" under the curious Barf Spectrum moniker.

Additionally, the band has announced some tour dates for Europe. Get those with a click of Read More as well.

We're thrilled to announce that Ryan’s Hope have unveiled their free five song demo EP online. You can download the Chaos EP at the band's MySpace page or nicely tagged from DivShare. The Joliet, IL three piece is following up their 2006 full length Apocalypse in Increments, which we had something or other to do with. The songs include "Madness Ensures," "We Will," "Choose Blasphemy," the power-hoedown "Bloodline," and new fan favorite "Bastard Epidemic." Get stoked.

In the coming weeks and months the band will play shows with bands like Strung Out, Project:Threeville and others. You can click Read More for the dates.

Ajax, Ontario ska-punk act The Johnstones have posted seven songs from their upcoming record Sex online for your previewing pleasure. You can check them out over at MySpace. The new full length hits stores on June 3rd via Stomp Records.

The band will support with a tour of Ontario and Quebec with the New Cities, followed by a stint supporting Hedley and appearances on this summer's Warped Tour.

Schlong, which features Operation Ivy's Dave Mello alongside his brother Pat and Gavin MacArthur, will be releasing their new record Singles 1989-1995 soon. The album is already available for digital purchase via their MySpace page.

This is the band's first release since 1996's Fish Booty.

Trever Keith (Face To Face, The Legion of Doom, Viva Death) recently joined the Radio 104.5 studio to perform an acoustic session of songs from his debut solo record Melancholics Anonymous. Keith whipped out "Everyone Hates A Know-It-All" from the Face to Face record Ignorance In Bliss.

You can check out the videos of the session here. You can stream the entire record at his website.

Time Again have cancelled their European Tour, scheduled to start three days ago. The band is saying that "serious health issues" have caused the cancellation and are hoping for a rescheduling in the future.

We are so sorry to everybody that helped us in any way with this tour. Normally we would push through it and go on with the shows, but we’re all in very bad condition. We will reschedule a tour, but it may not be for a few months. Again we’re really sorry and hope you all can understand.

Uprising Records hardcore act I Am The Ocean have recruited a new vocalist. The band explained:

Dreu Damian Hudson of Her Candane will be taking over as vocalist! We'll have a brand new track with Dreu up in the coming week. Her Candane have been hard at work writing their follow up to 2006's "No Battle" so no worries HerC fans, just come see what yer boy can do with us.

Forest Life Records, a young label from the midwest specializing in vinyl, has issued it's first release: a 7 inch vinyl of recent No Sleep Records signees La Dispute. This is the band's final independent release before their upcoming full length, "Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair," out on No Sleep Records November 11, 2008.

Also slated for summer release are a 12 inch vinyl from Valparaiso, Indiana indie band Native and a 7 inch vinyl from Grand Rapids, Michigan's Victor! Fix the Sun (Friction Records). The two bands will be touring the midwest and east coast in support of their respective records in July.

More updates, including a current release schedule, are available at the label's myspace.

Russ Rankin, vocalist for Only Crime and formerly Good Riddance, has announced a solo project. His first post song is a cover of Johnny Cash's "Walk The Line." According to the MySpace page, Rankin "is currently working on a brand new collection of his own songs which will be released as a solo project sometime in the near future."

You can find the track at his MySpace page.

Update: It looks like Russ has taken the track down. We'll let you know when it comes back.

Against Me! recently visited The Interface to record an acoustic set and interview for the Spinner program. Along with the performance of "New Wave," "Thrash Unreal," and "The Ocean," the band talks about reinventing Axl Rose and touring with the Foo Fighters.

You can click Read More for the video.

Star Fucking Hipsters, the new project from Sturgeon of Leftover Crack have posted an update on progress towards their next full length. The band also includes Slackers drummer Ara Babajian and Frank Piegaro of New Jersey's Degenerics.

All tracking (aka music, vocals, subliminal messages demanding your undying obedience) have been recorded and will be mixed at Motor studio with Mr. James Mcmann in S.F. in the early half of June. These electronically "shamed" replicated discs will end up being shoved into containers with similarly abused art, lyrics and song titles and in one final vile humiliation they will bare the stamp of their unhuman sociopathic oppresors: FAT WRECK CHORDS.

And yes, this was basically a blog to announce that we have signed our debut record over to FAT and it should be out by October if all goes smoothly.

The band has also booked two shows at the end of this month. The first at The Silent Barn in Brooklyn on May 29th and the second at the Meatlocker in Montclair, New Jersey on the 30th.

Dead To Fall have posthumously posted the new video from their 2008 album, Are You Serious?.

You can click Read More for the video.

Even though we claimed this was the final list of Warped Tour bands, the Kevin Lyman-run machine continues to confirm acts and have added a number of new acts to the list. Among them are Gaslight Anthem, Be Your Own Pet and Black President as well as several others.

You can click Read More for the new list.

According to a new group formed by independent promotors in Chicago, the city wishes to pass a law that claims to rid the city of shady promoters but the strict rules enacted in the law will make many DIY shows impossible.

The new law will require that promoters are over 21, and creates new rules for standing room venues as well as steep insurance requirements that will inevitably be passed along to showgoers.

For more information, you can visit this page.

A commenter points out this Chicago Tribune article which provides some independent criticism of the bill:

It requires any independent promoter hoping to do business with city clubs to buy a license for $500 to $2000 (depending on the size of the venue) plus acquire at least $300,000 in general liability insurance. In effect, this would impose a double layer of regulations on any independent event at a club that already holds a public place of amusement license but which has fewer than 500 “fixed” seats.

The ordinance in effect singles out some of the city’s most respected clubs and theaters, including Metro, Schubas, Park West, the Vic, Buddy Guy’s Legends, Martyrs, the Hideout, the Riviera, Uncommon Ground and dozens more establishments with a history of running safe, well-managed events. Many of these venues rely on independent promoters to bring them events and help keep them in business.