I’m stoked! A while ago we reported that Swedish melodic punk act Atlas Losing Grip were working on a new album.

They recently announced that their new album will be titled “State of Unrest” and are streaming three new demo songs “Bitter Blood”, “Different Hearts” and “Unrest” here.

You can also watch their studio video here.

Atlas Losing Grip released their last full-length, “Shut The World Out”, in 2008 on Bells On Records in Japan and on No Reason Records, Shield Recordings, and Dv’s Records in Europe.

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Texan post-hardcore band Everyone Dies In Utah have posted a new song streaming on their MySpace. The song is called “Bed Bath & Beyonce” and is from their upcoming album called “Seeing Clearly.” The song is also available for purchase on iTunes.

“Seeing Clearly” will be the band’s first release for Tragic Hero Records.

White Wives (feat. Chris Head and Chris #2 of Anti-Flag) are streaming a new track off of their upcoming EP ‘Situationists,’ due out in February on Lock and Key Collective. Give it a listen here.

To see the band’s short run of tour dates with Cancer Bats and Worn Out Tigers, click here.

Over the last week or so, New Jersey punk rockers The Gaslight Anthem have been slowly releasing their 2011 European tour dates. Take a look here. Among others, the band will share the stage with the Foo Fighters and Blink 182.

The tour will be supporting the band’s newest album, ‘American Slang,’ which was released in 2010 on SideOneDummy Records.

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Chicago Celtic punk outfit Flatfoot 56 have announced a handful of European tour dates. Check ’em out here.

The band will also be touring the United States this spring with Lionize and Authority Zero. For a full list of their tour dates, check out their site’s tour page.

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Auckland gutter punks, Dole Day Rage, are streaming a brand new song on their MySpace page.  It’s titled “Break This City” and it will appear on the band’s upcoming full-length album.

No word yet on an official release date or album title but we’ll keep you posted.

Yeah, Social Distortion released their last album nearly two weeks ago, but frontman Mike Ness has told Exlaim another record is apparently in the works. Although it’s not known when it’ll be out but Ness is hoping it won’t take another eight or seven years to make. He explains:

“Although this record is out, I’m going to continue the process of writing so maybe there won’t be such a large gap between records. Even when the record’s done, it doesn’t mean the creativity of writing is.”

The last Social D album, “Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes,” came out on January 18th. It’s their first album since 2004’s “Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll” and first release on the legendary label Epitaph Records (the home of many well-known punk bands like Bad Religion, NOFX, Pennywise, The Offspring, Rancid, Bouncing Souls, just to name a few). This spring, the band will go on tour to support the new record.

Nightmares For A Week don’t follow the norm. They’ve carved out their place in the niche market that is the almagation of pop, indie, folk and punk and they deserve all the accolades that will surely be coming their way. Their most recent release, “Don’t Die” contains catchy pop hooks, well written musical orchestrations and above all, lyrically its easy to relate back to the trials, tribulations and jubilations that one experiences in day-to-day life. All these qualities combined are the result of these three talented musicians doing what they love to do and nothing else.

Sean-Paul spoke to Dying Scene about the bands history, recording vs. the live set, originality in music and he gave us three reasons just why you should give Nightmares For A Week a spin. Check out the full interview here.

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Franz Nicolay (formerly of World/Inferno Friendship Society) was  recently featured on Switchboard Sessions.

He performed “This is Not a Pipe” from his 2010 Team Science release Luck and Courage and a cover of Leatherface‘s “Not Superstitious.”

Check it out the performances here.

The X Pistols are made up of members of The Kottonmouth Kings and old school punkers D.I. Now when I was approached to do the review for this album, a rap-punk hybrid release, I was a little bit excited. Not because I’m a fan of either of the bands that make up this group but because I was hoping for something like the Tim Armstrong, Travis Barker side project The Transplants. Unfortunately, I was presented with an album that sounded like a band who you might hear as an opener for The Insane Clown Posse and that, at least in my opinion is a horrible thing. This album, titled “Shoot to Kill,” is a bit of a joke to me. The lyrics and music are filled with clichés. You get the obvious “I Hate Pigs” songs, We’ll kick your ass songs, cheesy gunshot sound effects thrown into a bunch of the tracks and for some reason they feel the need to yell out the band’s name in most all of the songs.

That being said, the album is not 100% crap, (it’s actually around 93% crap) I did slightly enjoy a small number of songs.

“Let The Haters Hate” has a good intro that leads into a half way decent punkish song.

“Lights Out” has a cool Rancid like bass line intro and is possibly the best song on the disc. It doesn’t feel quite as corny as the rest of the songs. If it wasn’t for “X pistols” yelled out several times in the song (which is really annoying) I’d call this one a good song.

“Love and Tragedy” starts out as a punk track then switches the beat up completely as the rap comes in. It’s odd but it kinda works on this one.

“Suffocation” starts out with a blues sound before turning into more of a punk track. Again this one has a Matt Freeman bass line happening in it and changes itself completely halfway through the song. The thing that hurts this one is once again, someone keeps yelling “X Pistols” and the gunshot sound effect is overly used.

Ultimately, this release suffers from a variety of ailments. Besides feeling the need to yell the band name (often) and the way over use of the gunshot sample (and the cheesy lyrics) it’s too long. It’s runs around fifty two minutes long, which usually I would say is a good length but with this release, it might have been better if it was only slightly over a half an hour. That way the band could have trimmed some of the fat (there’s a lot of it) off this album and made it more listenable. And another problem with this album is that it sounds like something that should have been put out back in the early 2000’s, back when bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit still had fans, this thing would have sold an ass load of discs back then.

I really should have known that this was not a disc for me. I never got into D.I. and , in my opinion, the only decent songs The Kottonmouth Kings ever released had Tech N9ne on them and his parts were the only reason I’d even consider listening to them. That being said, I’m sure that there is an audience for this album (you’ll find it at your nearest “Gathering of the Juggalo’s”) but this reviewer is not a member of it.

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