Buffalo melodic punk /pop-punk act Rust Belt Lights recently discussed their album “These Are The Good Old Days,” the Buffalo music scene, touring, the future of the band and more.

You can stream the album and read the interview here.

The band’s split 7″ with I Call Fives was released April 5th. Rust Belt Lights released their latest album “These Are The Good Old Days” last November on Paper+Plastick Records.

Pennsylvania based pop punk act Handguns recently performed acoustic versions of their songs “A Year In Review” and “Wait Up!”

You can watch the performances here.

The songs appear on their recently released album “Don’t Bite Your Tongue” which dropped February 22nd, 2011 on Pure Noise Entertainment.

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This is f’ing terribe.  As some of you may know, Rochester punk band Such Gold had to drop out of their recent tour, but then never really gave a reason as to why.  Rumors began to spread around the internet but front-man, Ben Kotin, set the record straight stating he had been stabbed multiple times outside a party three weeks ago.  Here’s his full official statement:

“First of all I would like to apologize for pulling out of the Manscout Jamboree tour so last minute but I assure you that we would not bail on such an amazing tour without a good reason. There have been a lot of rumors flying around the Internet and I think it’s about time to clarify things. About three weeks ago I was stabbed multiple times outside of a party. I can’t go into any details but I will say that I’m lucky to be alive. I want to thank all my friends and band mates who saved my life. I’m very sorry to leave you all to decipher whether the rumors were true or not for so long but I felt it was necessary to keep to myself for a certain period of time.

There’s no telling exactly when I will be well enough to perform again but Such Gold will be doing some dates in the month of May with one of my best friends Skylar, from an awesome Massachusetts based band called Building, filling in for me. I ask that you treat him with as much respect as you would me or anyone in this band. Again I’m very sorry to leave you to speculate on what happened for so long. I can’t wait to get back on the road and hang with all the amazing friends and fans that I’ve met over these past few years. I also want to thank everyone who did know about this for their love and support throughout these past few weeks. Every day I wish we could be hanging out with The Wonder Years, Fireworks, Make Do And Mend and Living With Lions but soon enough Such Gold will be coming back harder than ever and I can’t wait!

– Ben Kotin, Such Gold”

Such Gold will be releasing a split with Into It. Over It. They released their last EP “Pedestals” last year on Mightier Than Sword.

This has gotta be my favorite news of the day!  San Francisco’s longstanding punk rock heroes the Swingin’ Utters are now offering a full album stream of their new record “Here, Under Protest”.  Do yourself a big favor and go listen to it!

Once you’ve had a chance to listen to the album, you can also check out a Dying Scene review of it right here.

“Here, Under Protest” is the first full length album from the Swingin’ Utters in eight years!  Comprised of 14 songs in total, the album will be released tomorrow, April 26th, on Fat Wreck Chords.

Tampa’s superstars of screamo Underoath have just premiered the music video for the song “Paper Lung” off their latest record “Ø Disambiguation”  Head on over to their website to check it out!  Don’t be alarmed if you have to choose one of three sharing options (Facebook, e-mail, etc) before you are granted access.

Underoath must be quite proud of this video, the second off their last record, as the production values look to be about as professional as they come.  Looks a little like it cost more to produce than most bands will make in their entire careers.

“Ø Disambiguation” is Underoath’s seventh album and was released November 9th, 2010 on Roadrunner Records.

Against Me! have just announced details of the upcoming EP they mentioned somewhat mysteriously earlier this month.  The album is titled “Russian Spies/Occult Enemies” and will be released June 14th on Sabot Productions.  Singer, guitarist, and songwriter Tom Gabel also offered up lyrics to both songs.  Check them out here!

The famous and busy four piece out of Florida is unleashing this record upon the masses in addition to “Total Clarity”, a collection of demos and rarities scheduled for release May 24th on Fat Wreck Chords.

Against Me! most recently released “White Crosses” June 7th, 2010 on Sire Records.

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Lead singer and guitarist Brian Fallon of The Gaslight Anthem recently appeared on “Hoppus on Music”, and you can check out a video of his appearance right here.

In a panel discussion, Fallon offers a few quick thoughts on song writing credit in the music industry, and a little bit more.  In addition to his thoughts, viewers may be entertained by show host Mark Hoppus (bass payer and vocalist for Blink 182, in case you’ve live in a cave your entire life).

The Gaslight Anthem released their third full length album, “American Slang”, June 15th 2010 on Side One Dummy Records.

Silverstein fans should be happy to learn that a full stream of the band’s new record “Rescue” is now available right here!  Follow the band’s advice of “stream today and go purchase the album from your local record store tomorrow!” and you’ll make the Toronto-based screamo act real happy.

“Rescue” is the fifth full length record from Silverstein and it does in fact drop tomorrow on Hopeless Records.  By the way, that’s the cover art just over to the left.  Now you know what to look for.

Start your Monday morning off right with “Lone Wolf”, another song from The Old Firm Casuals‘ debut record.  If you don’t listen to it, you might make Lars angry.  You probably wouldn’t like Lars when he’s angry, so just give the song a listen right here.

The “oi/punk/street punk/whatever we want it to be” sound of the Old Firm Casuals debut can be found on a self-titled seven inch record that was just released on Friday April 22nd through Oi! The Boat Records.

If you read the interview we did a few weeks ago with Lagwagon-frontman-gone-solo-artist, Joey Cape, you know that it’s not likely we’ll be seeing a new Lagwagon album anytime soon.  Cape has been focusing more on his solo, acoustic stuff as of late but for those who enjoy his louder, faster musical endeavors this news may bring a smile to your face.

It looks like Joey Cape has formed a new band called Joey Cape’s Bad Loud and they’ve just wrapped up recording a full-length album made up of mostly songs from his solo albums “Bridge” and “Doesn’t Play Well With Others.”  It was produced by Bill Stevenson and Andrew Berlin, in which both of them have produced for bands such as Rise Against to Descendents, The record was also mixed by Jason Livermore from Blasting Room Studios. Since this is a band it is unlikely that Joey will release this one directly through his website. They’re currently speaking to various labels for the upcoming release. We’ll see. DS will keep you posted.

In other Joey Cape news, he is releasing his recent “Doesn’t Play Well With Others” album on CD and vinyl on June 1st.  Pre-orders are available here.