It seems like we never get big tour announcements from Chicago celtic-punks. Rather, we get small show announcements every week. But hey, that’s okay, that’s okay.

The band has extended their tour well into the summer, with dates ranging from the East Coast to the Midwest to Europe. Find out if they’ll be near you by visiting their tour page.

They’ll be playing a ton of headlining shows, in addition to a variety of festivals. Joining them will be Roger Miret and The Disasters, Street Dogs, and the The Mahones, to name just a few.

The band recently re-released their 2010 album Black Thorn on special vinyl with bonus tracks, available exclusively in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. You can purchase that here. While you’re at it, check out a review of that album, from Dying Scene with love.

Flogging Molly frontman Dave King dropped a bombshell on the punk world today, when he suddenly stopped speaking in an Irish accent. The shamefaced King then admitted, in a perfect midwest dialect, that he is actually from Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

“I got the idea one day as a teenager, when I heard that Ireland, like Idaho, was known for their potatoes,” explains King.  “I had just seen the mock horror film “The Leprechaun” and for some reason I spent the rest of the day doing a horrible Irish accent.  It was annoying as hell to my family and friends, I’m sure, but I started to see the world differently and I desperately wanted to hold on to that feeling.  I just stuck with it and slowly I got better and better with the accent.  Eventually everybody I met just assumed I actually was from Ireland…”

King has promised that from now on, there will be no more cases of mistaken hometowns for him. He is proud of his Idaho heritage, even if he admits that he finds the lack of an accent to be rather boring.  He even stated that a Flogging Molly album sans the accent is already in the works.  Details on that can be found here.

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Swedish punk band twopointeight have signed a deal with Belgian label I Scream Records to release their next album, twopointeight II. The album was recorded in 2009 and 2010 and will be released this summer. You can check out a teaser video for the album right here.

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Berkeley, CA 21st Century Rock ‘N’ Rollers The Atom Age are heading out on a month long tour covering a good chunk of the US. The band will be supporting their new 7″ entitled “Kiss The Ring” out on Solidarity Recordings and Quote Your Pulse Records. The 7″ includes two new originals and two 60’s garage punk covers. The vinyl comes with a real Persian jewel that will allow you to actually “Kiss The Ring.”

You can pre-order the 7″ on the band’s official website and check out the tour dates here.

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Dead End Social Club Records has announced that The Olympia, WA trio Happy Noose has released their debut LP through digital download retailers iTunes, Napster, Amazon and CD Baby among others. The physical vinyl copy of the record does not ship until May 1st.

Happy Noose is a trio that provides a unique approach to punk rock music born out of a collective idea of musical resistance to dominate culture. This debut lp follows a well received cassette release in the fall of 2010; now the band, with more studio time, has added to their power-trio style of punk rock by demonstrating their unique sens of pop and punk aesthetics.

You can listen to two of the tracks from the album (“Seven Seas” and “One Way Ticket”) on the band’s Facebook page.

Warbird Entertainment‘s recently signed punkers Karbomb headed into Monster Zero studio last weekend w/ Joe Queer to record their full length debut on Warbird.

Karbomb’s E.P. “Dick Move” is going to be re-released on April 26th and the full length will follow this summer.

North Carolina metal band Between The Buried And Me have posted their upcoming EP, The Parallax: Hyper Sleep Dialogues, for you to stream here. The album cover looks like –<<– that and it will be released on April 12 through Metal Blade Records.

BTBAM released a Best Of album through Victory Records this week, with 20 previously-released tracks and 5 new ones.

SoCal punks Unwritten Law released their newest album, Swan, on Tuesday through Suburban Noize Records. To promote the new record, the band has released a music video for the aptly-titled track Swan Song – you can check it out here. You can also stream the full Swan album on Spinner and check out our review of it here.

Tragic Hero Records has announced their latest collaboration, the signing of New Jersey post-rock band In Other Words. The band plans to release a full-length debut album this summer. Drummer/vocalist Anthony Ruggerio said, “We could not be happier to be part of the Tragic Hero family! We are looking forward to being on the road as much as possible to support our upcoming full length.

LA punk outfit Drive A have given their fans a taste of what will be hitting the digital shelves on April 5th. The band have posted up the album artwork and tracklisting for “The World In Shambles,” a digital-only release that will be available through iTunes and Amazon. You can find the tracklisting here.

In addition to giving out some new details regarding the album, the band has posted the official music video for “Revolt!,” a track from their last album, “The Marked Man” EP.  You can check out the video here.

“The Marked Man” EP was released in January.

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