Margate has released a new video for their cover of “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver in their latest installment of their “Live From Room 57″ series. Check it out right here.

Each Friday for 30 weeks the band will post a new video that features a live performance by the band with “no overdubs, auto-tune or studio trickery” involved.

Margate’s last album “On The Other Side” came out in August of 2009, and you can download it–as well as the audio for all of the Room 57 Sessions–on their site for the punk rock price of “Pay what you want”. NICE!

The band is also accepting pre-orders for their upcoming EP “Rock ‘n Roll Reserve” via Kickstarter.

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Tom DeLonge’s space rock group Angels & Airwaves is finally releasing their sequel to LOVE, aptly titled LOVE II. It was supposed to come out on Valentine’s Day of this year, but clearly that didn’t happen. It will, however, come out with the release of their film, also titled LOVE. Gosh, it seems like Angels & Airwaves is taking the Beatles’ song to heart…all you need is love. That was a bad pun.

LOVE (the movie) and LOVE II will be coming out November 11th. Tom DeLonge said so, so it must be true. You can find out more about the movie here.

Bummer! Such Gold has been forced to pull out of their upcoming tour dates due to a band member getting involved in an incident.

“Due to a serious incident involving a member of the band, we regret to inform everyone that we will not be participating in the ‘Manscout Jamboree Tour’ this April/May. More details surrounding the cancellation will follow shortly. We sincerely apologize for any disappointment this may cause, we promise to see you soon.”

And later they updated the general public with:

“We appreciate the support. We want you all to know that this is a serious situation, we were looking forward to this tour so much, and to have to cancel on such tough circumstances is a bummer to ALL of us. We will however after everything is better, make it up to everyone! Thank you again for the love and support!”

No word yet on the actual incident, but rumor has it that frontman Ben Kotin was stabbed at a party after Such Gold’s Boston show. Yikes! If that’s the case, here’s to ya, Ben. Hope for a speedy recovery.

But does this mean we’re getting the comeback album we were promised 2 years ago? This highly-anticipated album has been in the works since Blink-182 got back together in February of 2009. Travis Barker, while on the road with Lil Wayne, tells the fans that the album is past the halfway mark. Cool. Does that mean we get the album this year? Barker hopes for a summer release to coincide with a summer tour. Read the full interview here.

The still-untitled upcoming release is said to be part 2 of 2003’s also untitled album, released on Geffen. I don’t care if it’s a completely new sound for them, I just want my Blink album that I was promised 2 years ago!

Remember when the Ataris were going to release that new album like two years ago? Yeah, I forgot about it, too. Yes, they gave us a teaser in the form of a randomly-released 7″ a few months ago, but we really wanted the real effing deal. Looks like we’re finally getting it this year (hmm, sounds like another pop punk band I know… *cough cough* blink-182!). The band released an update, saying:

Dear world. It is official. The Ataris will finish recording “The Graveyard of the Atlantic” in May. The album will be released later in the year on Paper + Plastick. Check back often for more info, new music and many other big surprises coming soon!

So there ya go. The Graveyard Of The Atlantic will be coming out “sometime, 2011” on Paper + Plastick. This will be the followup to their…interesting 2007 release Welcome The Night.

Earlier this week, we told you that Four Year Strong keyboardist Josh Lyford left the band. Today, we bring you this interview detailing the steps leading up to his departure. In addition, he talks about what he’s doing next in terms of music. Looks like he’s set with his hardcore band, Foxfires. Anywho, check out the interview! It is enlightening.

The remaining members of Four Year Strong are currently touring with Rise Against and Bad Religion, while also working on new material for the followup to last year’s Universal Republic Records release Enemy Of The World.

Boston’s punk group Transit recently toured with Senses Fail, and has a couple live videos for you to enjoy from their stop in Anaheim last month. Click here to watch “1978” and “Stays The Same”, as well as an interview.

Transit is heading into the studio this summer to record their upcoming full length on Rise Records. They will release a limited edition 7-inch on Record Store Day, the follow-up to their “Something Left Behind” EP which was released last February via Mightier Than Sword.

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Ska/punk act We Are The Union are currently in the studio recording a new EP for Paper+Plastick Records.  They’ve been periodically posting video updates documenting their antics while recording and you can check out the latest one right here (it’s got a couple snippets of new songs, which sound pretty good actually).

The band’s last album Great Leaps Forward was released March 30th, 2010 on Paper + Plastick Records.

Long-time running Orange County punk act Zebrahead are currently in the studio and will be releasing a new album this summer.

We will keep you posted as more details are announced.

The band latest album was 2009’s “Panty Raid.”

Pure Noise Entertainment are giving away a free download of their 2011 Spring Tour Sampler.

It features songs by Stickup Kid and more.

Snag it here.