In honor of the bands soon to be released 7″ split, new tracks by both Nightmares For A Week and Joshua. You can check out “There Are No Rules” by Joshua here, and “Doomsday Party” by Nightmares for a Week here.

The split will be released May 17th via Limited Fanfare.

When I hear the words “California” and “punk rock” together, I think of seminal punk band Face To Face (as should the rest of you). We’re now counting down the days until we can grab Face To Face’s highly-anticipated release Laugh Now, Laugh Later, coming out in a little over 2 weeks. Today, you can treat yourself to another song off the new album, called “Blood In The Water”. Check it out here.

Laugh Now, Laugh Later will mark Face To Face’s first album of new material since 2002’s How To Ruin Everything. Be stoked.

California’s pop punk group This Time Next Year has recently wrapped recording their newest album. This album, titled Drop Out Of Life, was produced by Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory fame, and is expected to hit stores this summer. Today, they have posted the title track, and you can listen to it right here.

This Time Next Year’s last release was their 2009 debut album Road Maps And Heart Attacks, released on Equal Vision Records.

Casey Lee, best known for playing guitar in the band Fake Problems, has posted an EP of a random assortment of songs he wrote and recorded in his spare time. He has this to say about his solo work.

“The songs are in no particular order since this was never recorded or meant to be any kind of record. The recordings of these songs are how they sounded exactly then. It was never meant to be a single piece of art and most certainly was never meant to be finalized or set in stone in any sense. These songs will change along with everything else. I put them all together because it seemed easier to be able to download them all at once (duh).”

The best part is it’s free! Download it here.

Casey Lee is planning a few dates for a solo tour along the East Coast this June.

Punk-turned-hard-rock group Nations Afire has a new acoustic song out there for anyone to listen to via YouTube. It is to be available “soon” for digital download. All proceeds will be donated to the Japan relief effort. Check out the song here.

Nations Afire has been relatively quite in regards to new music, marking this song as their first new material since last year.

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The Gainesville, FL post-hardcore band Cutman has joined-up with Underground Communiqué Records for their ‘as-yet-untitled’ debut LP that will be released this October, at the Fest. The band has previously released two 7″s “Big Deal” and “No Trick Pony” with Team Science and Kiss of Death (respectively) & last appeared on the “#1 Reason to Move to Gainesville” Compilation on No Idea Records and the “Live from the Atlantic, Vol III” LP Compilation on Sound Study Recordings.

They will enter Black Bear Studios in Gainesville this summer to wrap up the recording and begin planning the release of the album at the Fest 10 in October 2011.

You can stream a few of the band’s tracks on their MySpace page to check out their sound.

There For Tomorrow has announced a brief June headlining tour with Life On Repeat, Oceana, and Conditions. Short but sweet, the guys will start out in South Carolina and make their way through Florida, Tennessee and more. You can check out the dates here.

There For Tomorrow have an upcoming record due sometime this year. Life On Repeat will release Struggle + Sleep on June 14th. Oceana is currently working on a new record.

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Since it’s almost time for Bamboozle, it’s pretty obvious that some bands are getting ready for their upcoming set. And such is the case for New Found Glory. In this video, you can watch the guys practice Ramones covers (with Marky Ramone) for their Hoodwinked set at Bamboozle.

The Bamboozle Festival will take place April 29, 30 and May 1 at the new Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey. New Found Glory’s most recent album “Not Without A Fight” was released March 2009 via Epitaph.

Sad news for all you Artist Vs Poet fans. The band announced that vocalist Tarcy Thomason and drummer Joe Westbrook have decided to leave the band. On a brighter side, the remaining members have insisted they are not breaking up. Here’s what the remaining members had to say.

The band will be continued on by Joe Kirkland, myself (Jason Dean), and Dylan Stevens. Joe will now be playing guitar and also singing lead vocals, Jason will still be playing bass guitar and failing as usual, and we are now welcoming our newest member Dylan as guitarist and singer. Joe K and I realize that the departure of Tarcy and Joe W may come as a shock to some of you and let us assure you it was a shock to us. These were two events that were completely out of our control. We began to look back on all the years and all the support and love we have received from every single one of you and we decided that we were in no way done with Artist Vs Poet. We would like to say thank you to everyone who has supported us in the past and we could not say THANK YOU enough to everyone who continues to support us with this new line up.

Artist Vs Poet, the band’s self-titled album, was released in 2008 on Fearless Records.

You’ll recall that last week, we brought you a story about the Westboro Baptist Church protesting a Less Than Jake show. This week brings us a very similar, equally ice-cream-headache-inducing story.

The ‘wingnut o’ the week’ this time is Glenn Beck, and the band is My Chemical Romance. Confused as to what the connection could possibly be? Oh, keep reading…

Mr. Beck apparently thought this week was the perfect time to use his Fox News show as a platform to discuss an episode of “Glee” that he watched two months ago. In that episode, the cast of the show performed “Sing” by My Chemical Romance. Beck calls the performance brilliant, but proceeds to dissect the lyrics word-by-word, deride the song as “propaganda,” and use it as an intro to a brief story about his half-Korean Chief of Staff, who grew up without a TV.  See, crystal clear now!

I’ve watched the clip four times, and consider myself an intelligent chap, and I haven’t the foggiest idea what he’s actually talking about. Oh, and he gets MCR’s name wrong. Anyway, watch the whole segment here and see if you can decipher it.

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