Against Me! is streaming the title track from their upcoming album “Total Clarity” on their MySpace page. The track is the 4th from the album that the band has streamed in as many days.

“Total Clarity” is a compilation of the band’s unreleased songs and demos recorded when preparing to make the album “Searching For A Former Clarity”.  It’s set for a May 24 release on Fat Wreck Chords.

Against Me! is currently on tour, so head to their Dying Scene Shows page for more information on dates and locations.

After a lot of hard work Simi Valley punk band Majority Lost are finally releasing their new self-titled album. You can stream the album in its entirety and name your own price for the album here. Recommended for fans of good punk rock!  Here’s what they had to say,

New Album up on Band Camp Now!! Itunes soon. Produced by Grammy Award winner Jared Kvitka (Iron Maiden, The Matches, Sparta, Gogol Bordello) and Jordon Silva (Flogging Molly, Weezer). Def. Some good shit! And…Name your own price. Big thanks to Jared, Jordon, Pete, and our wives and girlfriends for putting up with us and this process. We’re pretty proud of what we’ve created and it wouldnt have been possible without their support.

The band’s previous release,”…Falls Off The Bandwagon EP, came out in 2009 on Horns Up Records.

English pop-punkers Caves have announced that their debut album “Homeward Bound” is finished. It is due for release in early July in the UK. YOYO Records are handling the vinyl release and Specialist Subject are doing the CDs.

To listen to two tracks (“Same Way Back” and “Taking On The World”) click here.

Swedish metallers In Flames have premiered the video for “Deliver Us” from the upcoming album “Sounds of a Playground Fading”. You can check it out here.

“Sounds of a Playground Fading” is due out on June 21 on Century Media.

Louisiana hardcore act Iwrestledabearonce have decided to move away from making hardcore and focus instead on black metal.

Guitarist Steven Bradley explains why:

“We were sick of getting lumped in with ‘scene’ and ‘whatever-core’ bands, so we decided to embrace our roots and just go straight black metal on the new album… I’d say 90% of the new record is straight-up black metal, so we had to change our image to match…Because of course that’s just as important, if not more so, than the music.”

Let’s hope that last sentence is a bit tongue-in-cheek. The band have an album out later this year on Century Media.

The Summer Set have revealed the artwork for their upcoming album “Everything’s Fine” <=. As you can see it involves some people and some sad faces, suggesting that just maybe everything isn’t fine.

The album is out on July 19 via Razor and Tie Records.

Joseph Lacy, former guitarist for the pop-punk band Transit has formed a new band, Sleepsick. The other members of his band are currently in college so he is writing and recording songs on his own acoustically.

You can read a statement he wrote about his new band here and watch videos of Lacy playing the new songs “Don’t Talk” and “Wind-Up Birds”.

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The Word Alive are streaming a new song titled “Lights and Stones” and you can check it out here. The track is featured on the upcoming deluxe re-issue of their 2010 album “Deceiver” on Fearless Records.

The band’s front man Tyler “Telle” Smith said this about the tune:

“‘Lights And Stones’ was the first song we’ve written since Deceiver, and I think we picked up where we left off. We’ve all worked really hard to improve and I think you can see some progression from all aspects. I tried personally to push my screaming range to a more dynamic and diverse sound, and then tried to really focus on the character of my voice. I think overall this is one of my favorite songs we’ve ever written. As far as our Deluxe Edition, we wanted to do more than just one new song or a video or one remix—we wanted to put a lot into it to give value to the fans. So we included two brand new songs we recorded right before our headlining tour, three remixes and two videos including a live video we shot while on our headliner. I think it’s a pretty rad way to start our summer on the Warped Tour by releasing some new material. Stay tuned, it’s going to be awesome!”

Kansas City’s The Get Up Kids have announced two Southern California shows in August. The band will be playing August 13th in LA at The Satellite and August 14th in Pioneertown at Pappy & Harriet’s.

The Get Up Kids will join New Jersey Emo/Pop-punkers Saves The Day on a 10-date, co-headlining tour this summer. The band will hit up the Midwest and the East Coast. Click here for the first leg and here for the second.

Florida emo group Anberlin have announced a free show in London at The Garage on Wednesday July 13. This is to make up for having to cancel their one off London show in order to tour the US with 30 Seconds to Mars.

They will also be playing at Sonisphere festival on July 10 and a show at York Fibbers on July 12. Unfortunately neither of these dates are free. You can read the whole statement from the band here.

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