Canadians Silverstein have announced plans for their upcoming winter European tour. The “Kebaberizer” tour will feature fellow labelmates There For Tomorrow. Also, since the band loves to keep us in suspense, a special supporting guest will soon be announced. No tour dates have been posted, but we’ll keep you updated.

Silverstein’s Transitions EP was released December 7th. A full-length record will be forthcoming on Hopeless Records.

New York’s punk rock act After The Fall is going to be traveling a bit in the months to come to support their latest release Eradication. But don’t fret! If you live in New York and want to see these guys play a local show before they head off to Canada, you will have your chance…actually starting today! More dates posted here. After The Fall will be playing with Bad Astronaut, Such Gold, and a handful of others.

Eradication, After The Fall’s 3rd full-length album, was released last October on Mightier Than Sword Records. You can stream the album here.

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Yes, we are all excited for this next release from Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys, due out in March. Going Out In Style will be featuring guest vocals from familiar names. Bruce Springsteen is said to be trading off with Ken Casey on one of the songs, titled “Peg O’ My Heart”. And Fat Mike of NOFX is said to be guesting on another song, but we’re not sure which song just yet.

Going Out In Style will be released March 1st on Dropkick Murphys’ own Born & Bred Records. This will be their first album since 2007’s The Meanest Of Times.

New Jersey’s pop punk group Man Overboard is coming out with a new release next month. It’s going to be a 7″ called The Absolute Worst (album art to the left). The only two songs on this release will be a title track and a re-recording of “I Saw Behemoth And It Ruled”. If the latter sounds familiar, it’s because it was on last year’s Noise From Upstairs. The release will be released in three colors, and one of these colors is limited to only 200 AND only available via pre-order.

The Absolute Worst will be released February 22nd on Rise Records. Their latest release was last year’s Real Talk, released on Run For Cover Records.

Our favorite ska band the Aquabats have posted a video of them playing their song “Pink Pants!” in Atlanta, GA a few days ago. Remember how, on the album, Strong Bad joined them for guest vocals? Well, he has now joined them on stage. Yes. Check it out here.

The Aquabats released Hi-Five Soup! on Fearless Records on January 18th.

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It looks like Paper + Plastick Records is holding a contest/drawing. And it’s very simple. All you have to do is follow them on Twitter @paperplastick. Okay, done with that? See the tweet that says:

“Want to win a test pressing of MAKE DO AND MEND’s “End Measured Mile?” RT this! Winner will be picked on Monday.”

Do that. You might win.

Make And Do Mend‘s debut album End Measured Mile was released October 26, 2010.

Swedish punk rock group Venerea released their album Lean Back In Anger a few months ago. If this sparks your interest and you want to sample these guys (which I strongly suggest), head on over to their MySpace to stream the whole album. Free of charge, of course. It’s like a glorified preview. The tracks are in reverse order, however (from the time of this post), so start from the bottom of music player and work your way up.

Lean Back In Anger was released October 17, 2010 on Concrete Jungle Records.

Belgian punks State of Mine are streaming another new song on their MySpace page. It’s called “Eye Candy” and it will appear on the band’s upcoming album, “Accelerate,” due out January 29th on Kickass Records.

State Of Mine formerly released a split with The Octopussys in 2009.

There have been rumors swirling about the interwebs for a while now regarding a secret side project of Gaslight Anthem front-man, Brian Fallon’s. Previously, this secret project was referred to as “Night Music” but today Fallon has officially declared that the project is for real and that it will go by the moniker of The Horrible Crowes.

The Horrible Crowes consists of Brian Fallon and Ian Perkins and will NOT be an acoustic endeavor, but will feature a full band.  Fallon states:

“There’s organs, pianos, even (gasp) strings!!! There’s drums, everything. So don’t expect a folk record. Here’s a good description, if Tom Waits, the National, the Afghan Whigs, Bon Iver, and Nick Cave made a band with Percy Sledge that’d be called The Horrible Crowes.”

The Horrible Crowes are currently writing for and planning to record an actual record, and might even bless US, UK, European and Canadian fans with a few shows.

As for what this means for The Gaslight Anthem, Fallon assures fans that his former band remains his “baby” and will continue to be his main focus:

“Now how’s this going to work with Gaslight, well it’s easy, see, every time I write a creepy Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Mark Laneghan type song, I get an idea for a ripper which goes straight to Gaslight. So we’re writing for both now, but Gaslight isn’t planning on recording until the fall, for a 2012 release.”

California punks NOFX will be on the road in a few weeks with fellow Fat Wreck label-mates Cobra Skulls and Old Man Markley and fellow band-that-has-been-around-for-a-long-time Bouncing Souls. The four bands will be giving the southern part of the USA the business as part of the aptly-named “With Drawl” tour. Get all the details here.

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