Against Me! has just announced the dates for their U.S. headlining tour beginning May 31st in Millvale, PA. These guys apparently don’t waste any time, after finishing their May tour in Australia with Off with Their Heads they’ll be playing all across the country at a number of festivals including Warped Tour, Sasquatch, and Best Friend’s Day. You can check out their entire spring and summer tour dates here.

On May 24th Fat Wreck Chords is releasing “Total Clarity”, a collection of demos and unreleased songs the band recorded when preparing to make the album “Searching For A Former Clarity”. You can check out the track listings for the album as well here.

Michigan’s post-hardcore band Small Brown Bike is streaming another new track off their upcoming album “Fell And Found.”  It’s titled “Rescue Mission” and it’s said to be one of the highlights of the album.  Give it a listen here.

“Fell And Found” will be released April 26 on No Idea Records. The group’s last LP, The River Bed, came out way back in 2003, though the band released a couple of 7-inches, The Composite Vol. 1 and The Composite Vol. 2, in 2009 and early 2010.

The band previously released three other tracks “A Minor Movement” “In Need Of Everything” and “As We Go” which are all available for a listen as well here.

Fat Wreck Chords band Pour Habit has released yet another song off their upcoming album “Got Your Back.” The track, titled “Teens Turned to Fiends,” comes with an aggressive punch fans new and old should already be familiar with. You can check out the new track on their website here.

“Got Your Back” is due out April 12th, 2011, and every Monday until the release date they will be streaming a new song from the release.

Pop punkers All Time Low are streaming a brand new song for their upcoming album “Dirty Work.” The track is titled “I Feel Like Dancing” and it was co-written by Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo.  Give it a listen here.

“Dirty Work” is slated for a June 7th release on Interscope Records.

Yellowcard took a couple of years off between albums, during which band members went to school, bought houses, worked with other musicians and generally grew up. Now they’re back – older and more mature, maybe, with some rest behind them, but still pumping out classic, quality songs.

When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes is ten tracks of solid pop-punk, complete with catchy hooks and smooth harmonies.

They jump right off with “The Sound of You and Me,” which opens with some pumping punk guitars then breaking down melodically with ample use of the group’s most unique element, the violin. The second track (“For You and Your Denial”) really showcases the string, opening with what sounds like it should lead into a sassy orchestral arrangement instead of a pop-punk number. But it launches into classic-sounding Yellowcard at their best, with clean vocals and a chorus that will be stuck in your head for days, perhaps prompting you to break out in song at the worst possible moment. “With You Around,” the third track, opens with a seemingly simple and yet fantastic riff, slowly building into even more candy-sweet pop-punk that name-drops Saves the Day.

The album features a couple of ballads (“Hang You Up” and “Sing For Me”), which offer a little break from the rest of the uptempo numbers. The slow songs are subdued and “Sing For Me” almost drags, but both still manage to beautifully showcase the band’s musical restraint and maturity and strongly feature vocalist Ryan Key’s talent for melody. They’re the sort of tracks you may not always be in the mood for, but when you listen to them you won’t be able to resist singing along. The songs in the middle of the album (“Life of Leaving Home,” “Hide” and “Soundtrack”) are all strong and fun to hear, as is the penultimate track “See Me Smiling.” The closer, “Be The Young,” is slightly slowed-down but still driving, and ends the album on a good note.

Where Yellowcard really shine is in their hooks. Each song has its own catchy part, whether it’s the guitar riffs, vocal melodies, pounding drums or lilting violin, keeping you going from beginning to end. Fresh off their two-year hiatus, When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes invokes the band’s past without dwelling on it. The time off seems to have rejuvenated the group, allowing them to keep being themselves but develop and move forward. They’re back, and with this record fans should be happy to welcome the return.

Los Angeles punk rockers Civet are heading out on a short tour of the Western United States in support of their new album “Love & War”.

Civet will headline the “Cryin’ Wolf” tour through ten shows across seven states, all featuring the awesome Continenal from Boston as main support.  All dates can be seen right here.

Civet released “Love & War” February 22nd on Hellcat Records.  Continental last released the EP “Death of a Garage Band” on Old Shoe Records.

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Is it me or does it seem like the last Alkaline Trio album just came out?  Not that I’m complaining.  I’m stoked to report that according to Alkaline Trio co-vocalist, Matt Skiba, both his new solo album and the new Alkaline Trio albums are finished.  He even states, the new Alkaline Trio “will be out soon.”

Skiba released his last solo album, “Demos,” in August of 2010.

The Alkaline Trio album is [presumably] an unplugged album that the band announced back in December. Stay tuned for a release date or any other information. Alk3 recently announced a short US tour this spring. Their last album was their 2010 release “This Addiction.”

Street punks The Rotten are on tour now all across Canada, and you should check them out if you can!

Humble apologies go out to the fine folks in Montreal and Sherbrooke, as the tour has already passed you by.  The tour gets going again this Thursday, April 7th in Thunder Bay and you can check out the full dates here.

The Rotten’s latest album was “Enemy of the State” released on Rebel Time Records.

Bad Religion recently recorded a short live set at Guitar Center Hollywood, and the performance will air on DirectTV this summer, according to several tweets by singer Greg Graffin.

While no dates have been announced as to when exactly the performance will air, Graffin mentions that the episode of Guitar Center Sessions featuring Bad Religion is “in post production” being given the “3d Panasonic treatment”.

Bad Religion’s most recent album, “The Dissent of Man” was released back in September on Epitaph Records.

Long-running SoCal punk act Pulley have finally announced the details surrounding their first new release since 2009’s “Time Insensitive Material.”  The band has recently recorded three tracks (“No Man’s Flute”, “The Long and the Short of It”, and “Which Way to Go” – a cover version of a tune by Austin, TX punk legends The Big Boys), and plan to release them via an EP titled “The Long And The Short Of It” on June 28th.  The EP will be available in 7-inch vinyl from When’s Lunch Records, and digitally through the band’s own label, X-Members Records.

Producer Matt Hyde, who worked with the band on “Matters” in 2004, and “Time-Insensitive Material” in 2009, oversaw the recording process once again. In keeping with the vibe and spirit of an old school 1980’s era seven inch, Pulley commissioned their old friend and prolific artist, Brian Walsby (Melvins,7Seconds, Flipside, Maximum Rock & Roll, etc.) to handle the cover illustration.

Fans will also be pleased to know that the band is also currently planning a full length record to be released in early 2012.