Today pop-punk band Citizen released their split with The Fragile Season entitled “The Only Places I Know.”

The band has also announced plans to release a split with Dublin pop-punkers Starters later this Fall on Either/Or Records.

If you’re unfamiliar with Citizen check out our interview here.

Kansas City’s The Get Up Kids recently appeared on Fuse Tv’s “Hoppus On Music.” The band performed “Shatter Your Lungs” off their new album “There Are Rules.”

Check out the video here.

“There Are Rules” hit stores January 25th on their own label Quality Hill.

Hot Water Music frontman and folk revivalist Chuck Ragan took time out of his tour with Social Distortion to perform his song “Let it Rain” at the Dickies Showroom.

Check it out right here.

Chuck Ragan released his latest album “Gold Country” in 2009 through SideOneDummy Records.

While this Green Day story isn’t exactly “awesome as fuck,” it is still pretty cool. The fellas are teaming with seminal Minnesota rockers Husker Du for a split 7″ exclusively for Record Store Day.

One side of the split will feature Husker Du’s original version of “Don’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely,” while the other side will feature Green Day’s cover of the same song. Click here for videos of each band’s performance.

Record Store Day 2011 is April 16th.

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In anticipation of tomorrow’s release of his long-awaited solo album “Give The Drummer Some,” Travis Barker is streaming the whole shebang in its entirety over at his MySpace page (and yes, someone still uses MySpace). Click here to check it out.

The Blink-182 and Transplants drummer hits the road with Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj and Ri”The Boss” Ross this week, on a tour that will carry them coast-to-coast over the next six weeks.

English punkers Radicus have revealed the cover art for their upcoming ep “The Bigger Noise” and you can check it out over on the left. No word on when the EP will be released via Disconnect Disconnect Records but we’ll keep you posted.

To get yourself familiar with the band check out their Band Spotlight.

Arizona-based emo pioneers Jimmy Eat World are staying busy in 2011. We announced a while back that they’ll be touring Japan and Australia within the next few weeks. Today, J.E.W. announced additional US and Canada headlining dates that will keep them out until June. Pre-sales and public sale dates are set for later this week. Click here for the details.

Jimmy Eat World are still on the road supporting last year’s “Inverted.”

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Florida natives Nightlights have announced U.S. / Canadian tour dates. Visit here for dates and locations.

Nightlights will release their debut full-length “So it Goes” this Spring on Mightier Than Sword / Eulogy Recordings. “So it Goes” will be a follow-up to 2010′s debut EP “Long Way Home” on Anchorless Records and Get Outta Town Records. Check out our interview with the band here.

Some albums are instant classics- the albums that people still talk about twenty years down the line and revere- while others take some time to grow. The Young Leaves fall in to the latter category, but given the chance, “Life Underneath” will work its way into the hearts of many.

The Young Leaves have certainly done their homework before releasing “Life Underneath.” Hearkening to influences like Taking Back Sunday, early Alkaline Trio and Blink 182, The Young Leaves are poppy and emo enough to be endearing, but not so emo that people will point and laugh at them. Sure, they sing about how life sucks and relationships go awry, but they do it without overdoing the stereotypes of a genre that has seen livelier days.

What separates The Young Leaves from many other bands of the same genre is that they retain the energy of their early days. Though they proclaim in “The Basement Song” that their early work wasn’t very good, they stuck at their craft and continued to play what sounds like high-energy basement shows, and it’s finally paying off.

While the album opener, “Scumbag,” gives the impression that “Life Underneath” will be another album of broken hearts and despair, the band counteract this feel by making the song a very high-energy track that draws the listener in. Tracks like “How Badly Do Things Suck Right Now” and “Last Laugh” see the band channeling early Blink 182, while attempting to assert their independence from, well, everyone that could attempt to hold them back. “Scumbag” sounds like it could have come directly from a Taking Back Sunday b-sides album, while “Sleepyhead” sees The Young Leaves sounding much like early Alkaline Trio.

The band still certainly have some learning curves ahead of them. Their sound is likely not fine-tuned yet, and The Young Leaves could definitely stand to brush up on their guitar solos (the one on the track “Sleepyhead” is borderline painful- but manages to never stumble into headache-inducing territory). Fortunately, in due time, The Young Leaves have the energy and raw talent to become your new favourite band.

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Edmonton pop punk band Freshman Years three new tracks for free download on their Facebook page and are streaming two additional new tracks on their MySpace page.

The five tracks come from their upcoming album “Riverdale,” which will be digitally released soon (expect a physical release a bit later).