DC Fallout, Eyes Set To Kill, Pepper, The Narrative, Windsor Drive, Sick of Sarah, Neo Geo, My Arcadia and Big Chocolate have been added to the Vans Warped Tour 2011 line-up.

These bands join a long list of acts, including 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.

D.R.U.G.S. has shared a little of their studio process in the form of a making-of video. The short clip shows the band working on the track “Sex Life,” off their brand new self-titled debut album.

Check it out here.

D.R.U.G.S.’ self-titled debut was released February 22nd on Sire Records.

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The Gateway District is a band full of people with a lot of commitments. Nate Gangelhoff is in Banner Pilot, Brad Lokkesmoe is in Dear Landlord, Maren Macosko was in the Soviettes and Carrie Tennant was in the Salteens. The four members spend a lot of time in different cities, but they managed to record their upcoming album, Perfect’s Gonna Fail, which is due out in April. Gangelhoff recently sat down to talk about the band’s busy schedule, the new album and his upcoming book, Hit the Ground Stumbling.

Read the interview here.

Gateway District’s last album, Some Days You Get The Thunder, was released in 2009 on It’s Alive Records.

New Jersey folky-punk rockers The Gaslight Anthem recently performed a new song titled “Biloxi Parish” at the Metro Theatre in Sydney Australia.

You can watch a video performance of the song here.

The band’s latest album, “American Slang,” came out this past June on SideOneDummy Records.

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Virginian pop-punker’s Sing Me Insomnia are streaming their entire new EP “No Time To Waste” on their purevolume page.

The album was officially released March 1st (yesterday).

Ohio’s Hit The Lights have posted an acoustic version of their new song “Get To You” and you can listen to it here.

The band released their latest LP, “Coast To Coast,” in 2009 on Triple Crown.

Canadian hornless-ska band Feast or Famine have released a new video for their song “Another Pandemic.” Watch it here.

The song is off of their latest album “Edmonton & Company” that was released last year and the video has a few guest appearances from musicians in the Edmonton music scene. It features James Renton from Fire Next Time, Lane (Rusty) Olsen and Daminh Nguyen and Andrew Nguyen from The Weekend Kids.

The boys in Feast or Famine have been quite busy lately. Along with shooting a music video they performed acoustically on BalconyTV Edmonton, as well as electrically on Breakfast Television, and were Sonic 102.9’s Band of the Month in February.

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Ska-punks Brixton Robbers have posted a free download of their album “Rocks & Cranes” on Death To False Hope Records.

You can grab the album here.

Their music is recommended if you like The Flatliners, The Suicide Machines or Leftover Crack.

Reggae-punks Authority Zero have posted the video performance of their song “Liberateducation” which originally aired on Fuel TV’s “The Daily Habit.”

Check out the video here. You can also watch their performance of “Get it Right” here.

Both songs appear on their latest album “Stories of Survival” which was released June 22nd through Viking Funeral Records.

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Of Mice and Men recently posted a third video update  for their upcoming  release on Rise Records.  This will be the second studio release for the post-hardcore California act.  The video highlights a nice selection of different vocal parts and recording.

Be sure to check out the video here.

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