Recently reunited fan favorites The Get Up Kids have posted the music video for their song “Automatic.” You can check it out here.

The song appears on the band’s new album “There Are Rules,” which hit stores January 25th on their own label Quality Hill.

Philadelphia’s punk rockers The Anchor Boys have been added to this year’s Summer Sanitarium tour, according to the band’s Facebook page.

You read it right.  The tour headlined by Metallica, that has in the past featured bands such as System of a Down, Powerman 5000, and *cringe* Limp Bizkit, just added punk rockers the Anchor Boys.  No other details are currently available.

The Anchor Boys are set to release their debut album “The Devastator” February 22nd on Panic Records.

Vocalist / guitarist Jesse LeBourdais of Vancouver, BC punk act Cambridge has announced that he will be recording a new 2 song solo EP entitled “Little Mountains,” which he hopes to have out before the start of his tour in March / April. He’s also going to be working on a new full-length album later this year.

He released his latest solo album “The Worst Kind of Ambition”  in 2009 and it can be streamed here. You can also stream Cambridge’s entire discography here.

Flogging Molly have announced the official release date and unveiled the cover art for their upcoming album titled “Speed of Darkness.” The record will be available May 24th on Side One Dummy Records.

While the record will not be available on the band’s upcoming Green 17 Tour, there will be a presale option offered at each stop.  According to Flogging Molly’s e-mail newsletter, $25 will get you a limited edition t-shirt and a copy of the record, as well as a URL to download the album the day it is released.

Check out this Green 17 Tour e-card to view all dates on the tour, buy tickets, and hear a song from each band on the tour.

Flogging Molly’s last album was “Float,” released March 4th 2008 on Side One Dummy Records.

L.A.’s Celtic-Punk stalwarts The Mighty Regis have announced the dates for their annual St. Patrick’s Day tour. This year’s sojourn has the septet playing 17 shows in 22 days (up from 16 days last year), and takes them across the country for the first time since their 25-date run on last year’s Vans Warped Tour.

Highlights of the tour include a main stage appearance at this year’s National ShamrockFest in D.C., headlined by Dropkick Murphys, as well as the band’s first trip to Chicago for their St. Patrick’s Day show at Ballydoyle Pub. Click here to check out the full dates.

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“Not A Dream, But Never The End” is the debut Indelirium Records release from Italian rockers Whales’ Island. The quintet, based in Palermo, Sicily, Whales’ Island dub themselves “a melodic band, a little bit hardcore, a little bit punk, a little bit indie rock,” and cite Set Your Goals and Polar Bear Club as influences. Upon first listen, their description is right on the money.

The album starts with the feedback-heavy intro of “We Are Alone,” which turns itself into a damn fine song, complete with some of the greater guitar hooks I’ve heard in a while from a young “punk” band. The chant of “we are…we are” sounds oddly nu-metal, and a tad out of place. Lead singer, Turixxx (yes, that’s his name), has a very distinct, gravely voice that reminds the listener (or at least reminds me) of a young, Italian Bruce Dickinson or Ian Astbury. At first, it was pretty cool, but it ended up grating on me after a while.

“I Can’t Walk Again” follows the opener, and leads into the Pulley-esque title track, “Whales.” Pretty solid hardcore inspired punk tune. “Sorry” is much in the same vein, though it features a hip-hop style outro that seems out of place. “Identity” begins with a solid bass groove (I’m a sucker for a bass intro), and features a sound bite of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech (a la Living Colour) for some reason.

“Time Flies” is perhaps the best tune musically on the album, and while a tad corny, the “time flies” line in the chorus seems to work. Sloppy outro, though. “Values” is another tune that is solid in its indie/hardcore style, though I think some of the lyrics got lost in translation (something about looking for “a breath of sound to explain what I feel”) amid the sloppy chorus. Album closer “Breathing…Running” is the requisite acoustic tune that young bands seem compelled to write, for whatever reason. Doesn’t fit the rest of the album, though the song is okay-crafted and thus the album doesn’t particularly suffer from its presence.

As stated above, a couple of the tunes get a little muddy at times, and Turixxx’s voice does become  a little irritating, though it almost left me wondering what the album would have sounded like if the tunes were sung in Italian rather than in English, as I couldn’t really make sense of the message the boys were trying to relay. “Not A Dream, But Never The End” does feature some of the cooler cover art I’ve seen in a while, and is a solid debut release that does a decent enough job of putting the band’s own spin on their highlighted hardcore, skate punk, indie rock influences.

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Massachusetts hardcore-punk act Defeater are streaming their song “Dear Father” off their upcoming “Empty Days and Sleepless Nights,” and you can give it a listen here.

“Empty Days and Sleepless Nights” is due out March 8th on Bridge Nine Records.

News is typically pretty slow on weekends but every once in a while you get a whopper like this on a random Sunday afternoon.  On May 24th Fat Wreck Chords is releasing “Total Clarity”, a collection of demos and unreleased songs (and some demos that got leaked, wink, wink) from Against Me!.  The songs were apparently recorded when preparing to make the album “Searching For A Former Clarity”.

The cover art is right there <= and you can check out the track listing here.

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Sacramento screamo act, Ten After Two have released a new single entitled “Before You Know It” which is off their upcoming album The Truth Is… slated for release March 29th on Rise Records.

Check out the song here.

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Any fan of Polar Bear Club should check out this remix of the song “Drifting Thing” done by Team Goldie.  Its actually really interesting.  It’s got Pianos so you know its classy!  You can stream it and download it for free right here.

The original version of the song appeared on Polar Bear Club’s last album “Chasing Hamburg,” released in 2009 on Bridge 9 Records.