Kansas City’s The Get Up Kids are continuing the promotional tour for their recent album, “There Are Rules.” Over on their facebook page, the newly reunited band are posting live renditions of songs from a recent session they did with Last.fm. Every day this week will feature a new track. So far we’ve got “Automatic,” “Regent’s Court” and “Pararelevant.” Click the song names to check them out.

“There Are Rules” was the Kids’ first release since 2004’s “Guilt Show,” and was released on their own Quality Hill Records.

In anticipation of the March 22nd release of their Fueled By Ramen release “Virtues and Vices,” Panic! At The Disco have released a short film entitled “The Overture.” As you might expect from the Panic! boys, this is not your typical promo video.

Set in what appears to be modernized mid-1800s London, the video features copious bow ties, a set of Tweedle Dee + Tweedle Dum -eqsue twins, ballet, a stuffed zebra, and riot police. Hey, why not? Click here to check out the clip in all of its awesome bizarreness.

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Maine hardcore act Cruel Hand are emerging from hibernation and hitting the road. The Bridge Nine fellas announced today that they are booked for Rain Fest in Seattle on May 27th, alongside the likes of 7 Seconds, Make Do and Mend, Nails, Punch and a host of others. They’ll then continue on down the coast for a week’s worth of California dates. Click here for all the info.

Cruel Hand’s last album, “Lock and Key,” was released last July through Bridge Nine.

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2011 is shaping up to be the busiest year in a decade for SoCal vets Face to Face. A day after announcing that their long-awaited album “Laugh Now, Laugh Later,” will be released on May 17th, the band announced that they are hitting the road with fellow Cali punkers Strung Out.

The first batch of dates have been announced, and encompass much of Canada and the East Coast. Click here for the list.

“Laugh Now, Laugh Later” is the follow-up to 2002’s “How To Ruin Everything.”

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So you’ve decided to go to Austin (or already live there). And you want to enjoy yourself among the myriad indie rock, folk and acoustic acts that dominate the hipster pilgrimage that is SXSW.

Believe it or not, there are punk bands playing the festival, so you can find something more entertaining to do than, say, Photoshopping anarchy symbols on top of the festival’s logo. Anyway, here’s a guide to the punk bands and showcases gracing this year’s South by Southwest festival.

We’ve already reported that Fat Wreck Chords and Shirts for a Cure will host showcases on March 18 and Bridge Nine will host shows from March 16 through 19. We also thought we’d break it down day by day so you can get a handle on when the punks are playing.

Of course, half the fun of big music festivals is discovering bands you’ve never heard before. So we tried to include some of the lesser-known punk bands on the list, and the size of the fest means we can’t by any stretch pretend this is an exhaustive roster of who will be playing. The full festival schedule is here.

But we put together a short list of shows that we’d be sure to check out if we were going down there (especially if we figured out a way to be at multiple shows at once). Check it out here.

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New Jersey’s My Chemical Romance have added a few more European shows to their tour. They’ll be in Spain, Italy and Austria in June. Check out the new dates here. And head over here to see the full tour and get ticket info.

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Boston celt-punks Dropkick Murphys new album, Going Out in Style, debuted at number 6 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. This is the highest chart debut for the band to date. Check out our review of the album here.

A video for the first single from the album, “Memorial Day,” will debut on MTV2 and MTVU on St. Patrick’s Day.

In other Dropkick news, the band is scheduled to play two shows at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City with Against Me! on Thursday and Friday. There was a two-alarm fire at the venue on Tuesday night, but according to the box office the shows are on as scheduled.

Chicago punks Rise Against will be streaming their performance at London’s Electric Ballroom on March 16, which is the day after their new album, Endgame, comes out. Around 9:10 PM UK time (which is 4:10 PM on the east coast and 1:10 PM on the west), head over to the band’s website, where you’ll be able to choose between three different camera views to watch the show. You can RSVP to the event at the band’s Facebook page.

Endgame will be released on March 15th and will a follow-up to their latest album Appeal To Reason, which came out on Interscope in 2008.

It’s that time of the week again – more bands have been announced for the 2011 Warped Tour.

D.R.U.G.S. has joined the roster, as well as Cold Forty Three , Demerit, Gatsby’s American Dream, Good Guys In Black, Machree, The Sheds, Veara, and Vonnegutt. These bands join a long list of acts, including DC Fallout, The Menzingers, Larry and His Flask, The Black Pacific, A Skylit Drive, Unwritten Law, Blacklist Royals, Of Mice & Men, Sharks, The Aggrolites, The Exposed, Lucero, Big D and the Kids Table,Set Your Goals, The Ready Set, There For Tomorrow and others.

For a full list of bands check here. And go here for dates. More bands will be announced weekly until they reveal the main stage acts on March 26.

Seattle goth punks Aiden are streaming a new track from their upcoming album, Disguises. The song is called “Hysteria” and you can check it out here.

Disguises drops March 29, 2011 on Victory Records and is a follow-up to From Hell…With Love, a live album that came out last year.

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