In the mood for a little free Canadian punk rock? Montreal punkers Pole Position released a new five-song EP today, entitled “Sister Mary’s Dirty Harry.” For your enjoyment, Brad and the boys are allowing you to stream it or download it for free over at their Bandcamp page! Click here to check it out.

Word on the street is that Pole Position are still working on a forthcoming full-length, though we don’t have any additional info about it at this point. As usual, we’ll spill the beans as soon as we hear!

Jonesing for your daily Go Radio fix? The Florida pop-punks recently discussed in a video interview the inspiration for their new album, “Lucky Street.”

The end of the video features a clip from upcoming single “The Truth Is.” Click here to check it out.

“Lucky Street” is due March 1st on Fearless Records.

Everyone’s favorite Riverside six-piece hardcore pop-punkers, A Shipwreck A Castaway, have released a new song on their facebook BandPage. The new track, entitled “More Machine Than Man,” is from their long-awaited upcoming album, “Life In General.”

No word yet on a solid release date for “Life In General,” which marks their first release for Anchor Eighty Four Records, but we’ll keep you posted.

The 14th release of Suburban Home Records‘ “Under the Influence” series will feature Ruiner and Attica! Attica!.  The series showcases bands covering songs from bands that have influenced their song writing. In this release, Ruiner will cover “Morning Glory” by Oasis and Attica Attica will cover “The State Lottery” by Propagandhi.

The 7 inch will come with a coupon that will allow you to download the tracks as mp3s. Pre-order info will be announced soon.

This release might end up being Ruiner’s final release as they unfortunately broke up last summer.

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Sweet! Well I guess this counts as an early Valentine’s Day gift from Paper + Plastick Records. They are offering up a 40 song free sampler download featuring songs from A Wilhelm Scream, The Riot Before, Coffee Project,  Shook Ones, We Are The Union and just about every other band from their entire roster.

You snag your download here.

Farewell Continental is the mysterious, five-piece Minneapolis fuzz rock outfit that serves as a break from Richard Kimble’s day job (you know, chasing one-armed wife-killers and running from Tommy Lee Jones of course).  EP#2 is their latest Paper + Plastick release, and features six songs of poppy, noisy, upbeat indie rock music with lyrics of failure, angst and total destruction, which makes for an interesting dichotomy.

Album opener “The Great Decay” has a classic indie-rock sound that wouldn’t appear out of place on a Silversun Pickups album.  The call-and-response interplay between Allie Fox and Kimble on vocals sounds sweet and playful despite their asking you to “fuck the world with me.”  “Son of a Bitch, Son of a Whore” continues with bright, poppy melody and features an unfortunately catchy, sing-a-long chorus. I say unfortunately catchy because one listen will have the line “she’s a son of a bitch, she’s a son of a whore” immediately stuck in your head and you will find yourself singing it out loud at the copy machine in the office and prompt a lot of odd glances from co-workers.

“Camera Ready Kids” and “Western Boys & Girls” keep the tempo upbeat, the latter a mid-tempo rocker that has Fox and Kimble again trading lines off-and-on.  “Total Devastation” is a return to the ala-Silversun Pickups sound of “The Great Decay.”  The album’s closer, “Our House,” is a cover of the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young classic, and is actually pretty true to the original. While they don’t quite harmonize like CSNY, most people don’t so that is not a knock on Farewell Continental’s version. FC are able to put their own futuristic, indie rock spin on the song while not upsetting those who hate to have a classic tampered with.

EP#2 is a great, albeit short, album that strives to put a modern spin on classic early 90s indie rock (think Pavement or Dinosaur Jr or Flaming Lips only good), and fires on all cylinders.

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Bayside have released a brand-new official music video for the track “Sick, Sick, Sick.” The song is from the band’s upcoming full length, “Killing Time,” which is due out on February 22nd on Wind Up Records. You can check out the video here.

Bayside last released “Shudder” in 2008 on Victory Records.

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Kingston, Pennsylvania punks Title Fight have given their debut LP an official release date and tracklisting. The album, which will be released via SideOneDummy Records on May 3rd, is entitled “Shed,” and you can check out the track listing here.

If you still can’t wait to hear new music from the band, they just posted a free download of the track “27” on their tumblr account. Check out the track here.

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The Sainte Catherines have unleashed a new video for the track “D’You Guys Wanna Fucking Party After This? No.” You can check out the video here.

The song is from the band’s release “Fire Works,” which came out last year on Stomp Records (Canada) and on Anchorless Records (US).

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Fans who cannot wait to hear the upcoming album from A Skylit Drive, entitled “Identity On Fire,” can head over to Purevolume to catch the exclusive stream.

The band, who are currently on tour with Thursday and Underoath, will be unleashing “Identity On Fire” on February 15th via Fearless Records.