Noise rock outfit, Young Widows, has detailed their upcoming 3rd full-length. The album will be titled In And Out of Youth And Lightness and will see the light of day on April 14th of 2011. You can check out the cover art and tracklisting right here. Additionally, the band has released their single “Future Heart” for free download and you can nab that right here.

In And Out of Youth And Lightness will follow-up the band’s highly acclaimed album, Old Wounds.

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Roger Miret and the Disasters have posted the title track off their upcoming album “Gotta Get Up Now”

You can listen to it right here.

Gotta Get Up Now will be released January 25th on People Like You Records.

In a recent update Boston punk act Burning Streets have announced that they will be hitting the studio soon to record a new album.

“We will be hitting the studio in a few weeks to begin working on our follow up record! We’re all really excited to get the new music out there for everyone to hear so keep an eye out for updates over the next few months to see where we stand on that!”

The band’s previous release was 2009’s debut “Is It In Black And White” on Sailors Grave Records.

Pittsburgh folk-punk act Run, Forever will be heading into the studio at the end of February to record 4 new songs, 2 of which will appear on a split with Georgia’s The Wild.  No word on where the other 2 songs will go but the split should be released this Spring.

The band also plans to re-release their 2009 debut album “The Devil, and Death and Me” sometime soon on Solidarity Recordings

I think Me First and The Gimme Gimmes are one of those bands that you are either a fan of or you just don’t care for at all. There are many people out there that don’t like cover songs and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are a cover band. Sure, they are also a punk rock super group, featuring members of Nofx, Swingin’ Utters, Lagwagon and No Use For a Name but they don’t play original songs so I’m sure they are a lot of people who couldn’t care less when they release something new.

I, on the other hand, was thrilled when I found out about this release. I’ve been a fan of Me First and the Gimme Gimmes since I first heard their version of Billy Joel’s “Only the Good Die Young” on Punk-O-Rama volume 2 back in 1996. It was very different from a lot of cover songs that I’d heard up to that point. So many bands do a note for note cover sung in a voice that sounds exactly like the original, and what is the point in that? I might as well go and listen to the original. Thankfully, as anyone who listens to The Gimme Gimmes knows, that is not what they do. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes have always changed the songs enough to make them stand out without losing the feel of the original. Whether it’s adding a punk rock intro, rewriting some of the lyrics or completely changing the songs genre, the Gimme Gimmes make their covers feel new and exciting and that is why I’m still listening to this band fifteen years later.

Each release by the band features music that has some form of a common thread, sometimes it’s the artist who had originally done the song, as in the case of their record singles. Sometimes it’s a specific type of music (country, R&B, etc.) as was the case with most of their albums and this time it’s regional. On “Go Down Under”, Me First and The Gimme Gimmes tackle songs by artists who are from Australia.

The first song is “Never Tear Us Apart”, originally done by INXS. To me, this is the worse song on the EP and it really has nothing to do with The Gimme Gimmes version of it. I have just always hated INXS and even a cover of one of their songs annoys me.

Next we have “All Out Of Love” originally by Air Supply. This one is cool and uses the intro from Black Flag’s “Rise Above” at the beginning.

Track three is “Friday On My Mind” by The Easybeats. This one also starts out with an intro from a punk song (I think) but I can’t place it. It’s also well done and since it was a faster song to begin with they don’t have to change the tempo as much.

Song Four is “Have you Ever Been Mellow” as sung by Olivia Newton John. Again, I’m pretty sure that they are riffing off of another song during this one but I can’t figure out which song it is. They change some lyrics on this one also. Great Job.

The Last song is called “I’ve Done Everything For You” and was sung by Rick Springfield. This one is sped up a bit and has a cool little solo towards the end.

If you like Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, this EP will be worth picking up. If you don’t, there is nothing on this release that is going to change your mind. Even with the inclusion of a song that I hate, I still really enjoyed this album and if anyone out there figures out which other songs they borrowed riffs from, let me know in the comments, Thanks.

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Massachusetts easycore group Four Year Strong have announced that they are working on new music.  The band posted on their facebook:

“new songs are coming out great! really excited about them, def a little different than other stuff but still FYS. get stoked”  -Dan

No further information has been provided but we’ll keep you posted!

The band released their latest album“Enemy Of The World” last March on Universal Republic Records.

Fat Mike of punk rock vets NOFX recently had an interview with EasternSurf.com. Topics of interest include his new “punk” home in Vegas, the band’s last album Coaster, the shape of the music industry, the future of Fat Wreck Chords, writing songs, and of course the infamous Cokie the Clown performance at SXSW.

You can read the interview here.

NOFX is currently on tour with Cobra Skulls, Old Man Markley, and Bouncing Souls. Dates can be found here.

All right, big news for you guys. Screeching Weasel has just released the album cover and track listing for their first new album in 11 years, “First World Manifesto.” Check it out here.

“First World Manifesto” is due out March 15th on Fat Wreck Chords.

The band will then embark on a short tour immediately following the release.

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Columbus screamo act Attack Attack! has premiered the latest video for their song “Smokahontas” off their latest self titled album. You can check it out here, all you have to do is retweet it, or “like” it on Facebook.

Attack Attack! last released their self-titled album June 8 through Rise Records.

Margate has released a video for their cover of Billy Idol’s classic “Dancing With Myself” in their latest installment of their “Live From Room 57” series. Check it out here.

Each Friday for 30 weeks the band will post a new video that features a live performance by the band with “no overdubs, auto-tune or studio trickery” involved. That’s right, just live, raw and awesome punk-rock.

Margate’s last album “On The Other Side” came out in August of 2009, and you can download it–as well as the audio for all of the Room 57 Sessions–on their site for the punk rock price of “Pay what you want”. NICE!

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