San Bernardino’s progressive punk act What Hands Are For have announced their signing to Anchor Eighty Four Records.  The band has plans to release a new EP titled “…Please Believe Me” with the label in February, 2011 via a limited first pressing of 500 vinyl LPs over three different color ways.

Says the label:

We are extremely excited to be working with such amazing and like minded musicians. As we began to exchange emails and conversation, both the band and label hit it off and knew that this pairing would be a great fit.  With the upcoming release of their follow-up EP, ‘…Please Believe Me‘, What Hands Are For plan to widen their listening audience and close the gap on artist to listener relationships.

These dudes definitely have a unique sound.  Check out their MySpace to give them a sampling.

Bay Area hardcore band Until Your Heart Stops signed to Creator-Destructor Records. The band will release its full-length album “Errors” on January 25th, 2011 on vinyl and digitally. They previously released an EP through Heart in Hand Records.

A track from “Errors” will be posted online in the coming weeks. We’ll let you know as soon as it’s streaming. Pre-orders for the record will start January 1 through the Creator-Destructor website.

New Jersey act Senses Fail announced some February dates in the U.K. The band just wrapped a co-headlining tour with Bayside in support of their new album “The Fire,” which was released in October.

The will also be playing The Bamboozle festival in New Jersey in April. “The Fire” is still streaming on their MySpace page.

See the full list of dates here.

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Vans Warped Tour has announced the first batch of bands that will play the tour in 2011.

Dance Gavin Dance, Every Avenue, Go Radio, We Came As Romans and The Word Alive are all officially on the line up. We’ll keep you updated as more bands are added.

Here’s another dose of Christmas for ya. Big D And The Kids Table recently recorded a cover of Run DMC’s “Christmas in Hollis” and you can listen it it here.

The song is now titled “Christmas In Allston” and appears on djBC’s Santastic Vol. 5 free digital holiday mash up album. The band is currently working on a new album which will be a follow-up to 2009’s Rude Remix Revolution.

Canadian punk rockers The Snips have posted the music video for the song “Tired Tires.” Click here to watch.

The song can be found on the “Blackouts” EP, which was released October 31st of last year. Read our review of the EP here.

Folk-punk staples Defiance, Ohio have announced plans for a 7-date tour of Aussie-land in January. Click here to find out what dates the band will be down under.

The band’s latest album “Midwestern Minutes” was released July 6th on No Idea Records. This is the bands first release since 2007’s “The Fear, The Fear, The Fear.” [Read more…]

Canadian hardcore punk act Comeback Kid have announced 3 consecutive headlining tours, all with different support acts. The first phase of the tour will feature H2O and Attack, the second will feature Madball and Cruel Hand, and lastly, the third will feature Sick Of It All. Click here to find out the full dates.

The band released their last album Symptoms And Cures August 31st, 2010 on Victory Records. (US), Distort Records (Canada).

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Richmond punk act Smoke Or Fire have posted a free download of “Monsters Among us,” which appears on their latest album “The Speakeasy.” Right click and snag it here.

“The Speakeasy” was released November 9th via Fat Wreck Chords.

Philly pop-punkers Valencia have posted the song “Dancing With A Ghost” to Fuse as a free download. Click here to grab your free song!

The song is off the album of the same name. It was released October 12th through I Surrender Records.