Ronnie Radke, the former vocalist for Escape the Fate, was recently released from prison. He served nearly two and a half years for violating probation he got as a result of his role in a 2008 fight. While behind bars, Radke formed a new band, now known as Falling in Reverse.

For the first time since his release, he opened up to Alternative Press about prison, getting sober, how his fame grew while he was incarcerated, new music and his tempestuous relationship with his old band. Read the full interview here.

It could have been disastrous when Descendents singer Milo Aukerman lost his voice during the No Sleep Til Brisbane festival. Fortunately, he had a little help from his friends.

Fat Mike of NOFX and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio, Al Barr of Dropkick Murphys and members of Frenzal Rhomb jumped onstage and took over the vocals for the Descendents’ set.

Check out a video with clips of the performance below. [Read more…]

Drummer Andrew Wetzel of Ohio’s Attack Attack! sat down with Indiestar to talk about new management, vocal lessons and what the versitility of becoming a four-piece band means for their future. See the interview video here.

The band just wrapped up the “This is a Family” tour with Of Mice & Men, Pierce The Veil, and In Fear And Faith. They’re heading across the pond at the end of January. Their European tour dates are on their MySpace page.

Alabama pop-punkers Carridale are streaming a new song, “One Girl’s Trash is Another Girl’s Treasure” off their upcoming EP, “Relapse in the River City.” Check out the new song on the band’s MySpace page. The album comes out February 8, 2011 and is available for preorder here.

The band previously released other tracks from their upcoming EP. “Count on Me,” “Relapse in the River City” and “A Lesson in Semantics” are also available on MySpace.

Canadian punks The Flatliners have cancelled their upcoming UK tour dates due to “unforeseen circumstances.” Frontman Chris Cresswell writes,

“Due to circumstances out of our control at this point, we unfortunately will have to postpone our UK tour for this upcoming February with The Arteries and OK Pilot. It is with heavy hearts and sincere regret that we bring you this sad news, as we’ve all been looking forward to it for some time, we love your country and the bands mentioned above. We’d like to thank Ian Armstrong at Hidden Talent for all the work he’s put in to this tour, and The Arteries and OK Pilot as well for just being awesome. Our apologies certainly go out to them as well. We’ll get another tour sorted out over there as soon as possible so we can all sing along together.”

That’s a total bummer! We’ll keep you updated on any rescheduled dates. The Flatliners latest album “Cavalcade” was released in April 2010 on Fat Wreck Chords.

Long-time punk act Pulley have announced that they will begin recording for the new album in January. The album will be produced by Matt Hyde (Sum 41 and Strung Out) who also recorded the band’s 2004 release “Matters.”

Pulley’s last release, “Time-Insensitive Material,” came late last year out on a limited vinyl pressing of 500 on Whens Lunch Records.  The album was originally released on CD last March on X-Members.

Canadian political punk rockers Propagandhi. Co-hosted by Chris and Todd, I’m sure the band will explore all facets of what what they believe and why they believe it, and also what’s going on with them (ie: random stuff that most musicians would just blog about!) The intro to the podcast can be read below,

“Hello and welcome to the Propagandhi podcast, the podcast of the world famous hard rock band Propagandhi. Every month we intend to take you on a fact-based journey through the cosmos and help you understand, not only what we know, but how we know what we know.”

Interesting. In any case, check it out here.

Propagandhi’s latest album “Supporting Caste” was released last March on Smallman Records.

Buffalo, New York pop-punk outfit Lemuria have announced the addition of two more dates to their January headlining tour. Click here to see the full dates, plus the two February additions.

The band’s upcoming album, “Pebble,” due out January 11th. “Pebble” will be Lemuria’s debut for Bridge Nine Records. [Read more…]

Wow, so it turns out that the statement issued by Paramore a couple of days ago is not the “real truth,” according to former band members, guitarist Josh and drummer Zac, who have revealed that all is not well in the Paramore camp.

To put it in short, for all you “tl;dr” people, the 2 guys were upset about how things started off with the band and the proceeding treatment they received from Hayley’s father and her manager.  They felt the “band” was becoming more the “Hayley Show” than anything else, and they weren’t happy with the direction the band was [musically/lyrically] going. If you want to check out the full statement, you can check it out on Josh’s blog here.

The band plans to tour South America in early 2011 as planned, however their replacements haven’t been announced.

Aussie folk-punk act The Go Set have uploaded three new songs titled “Point Me Into The Sun,” “December,” and “The New Age” to their MySpace page. The songs are off of their “Fallen Fortunes” EP.

The band is ready to embark on a tour of the land down under in the new year. If you’re a fan and you live in Aussieland, check their Dying Scene shows page to find out where you can catch them. Their latest album, “Rising,” was released in April 2008 on Karvin Records.