For all you East Coast festival fans: next years Bamboozle Festival will take place April 29, 30 and May 1 at the new Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey. A preliminary lineup of the main-stage bands has been announced. A Day To Remember, Boys Like Girls, New Found Glory with Marky Ramone, Circa Survive, Waka Flocka Flame, Streetlight Manifesto, and the RX Bandits are set to perform.

We’ll keep you updated as more bands are added, as well as Bamboozle Roadshow information.

Christian metal/hardcore act I The Breather have posted the music video for their song “Forgiven.”  Click here to watch.

The song is off their Sumerian Records debut “These Are My Sins,” which was released yesterday. This is the band’s first ever music video.

Hot off the heels of the release of their latest full-length, The Gaslight Anthem will begin work on the new album in the new year.

Band frontman Brian Fallon writes in a recent blog post, “Dire Straits… best band no body talks about. When we start writing our new record, which should be around the 1st of the year or so, I’m thinking of really taking Dire Straits and the blues much more seriously.”

Should be a good one! We’ll keep you updated on details as soon as they’re available. “American Slang” came out this past June on SideOneDummy Records.

The second installment of this year’s Paper + Plastick Records “Bathroom Tapes” series features Frank Turner rocking his song “To Take You Home.”  It came out pretty cool.  Check it out here.

The song appears on Turner’s album “Love, Ire & Song.”

Last week’s “Bathroom Tape” featured Greenland Is Melting and you can watch that one here.

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A Skylit Drive have unveiled the release date and tracklisting for their upcoming full-length album, “Identity On Fire,” which will be released February 15, 2011 on Fearless Records.

The band had this to say about the album:

“We’re extremely excited about the album. We took everything we did on Wires and Adelphia and were like, ‘What did we do wrong, what did we do right, and what have we never done, but wanted to do?’. This record has everything to do with setting fire to the things that you don’t want and don’t need, and are only slowing you down. It’s about creating your own identity, and being who you want to be.” – Jag

A Skylit Drive will be on tour with Underoath, Thursday, & Animals As Leaders in January/February.

Check out the track listing here.

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Against Me! have announced U.S. tour dates with support from Cheap Girls and Fences. Go here for dates and locations.

Against Me released their latest album “White Crosses” last June on Sire Records. Recently the band announced that they were leaving the label.

In the vein of “Bollocks To Christmas”, Black Hole Records has released Volume 2 in their Punk and Oi! Christmas series, “Cashing In On Christmas”.

The compilation is available on the Interpunk and SmartPunk webstores as well as the digital iTunes store.

The complete track listing can be seen here.

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Frank Turner may not be a household name here in America, but he sure as hell should be. I first found out about Frank Turner a little over a year ago. My iTunes account kept recommending that I listen to him and after ignoring it many times I finally gave in and followed the link. The first album I checked out was “The First Three Years”, simply because of the Black Flag reference in the title and artwork. While scrolling through the songs I saw something that blew my mind, the title “Pay to Cum”, Holy Shit! (I thought) someone covered my favorite Bad Brains song. I hit the play button and prepared to be let down but I was far from disappointed. I couldn’t believe that some English guy that I’d never heard of was doing the song justice and he was doing it with just an acoustic guitar. That was my first taste of what Mr. Turner was offering, but not my last. Since then I have tracked down and purchased every Frank Turner song that I can find and have been consistently thrilled.

His music is built around an acoustic guitar but that doesn’t mean he is purely a folk performer. Many of the songs fit into that category but on others Frank brings in elements of rock, punk, alternative and even a little pop. The songs he chooses to cover, which have included tracks by Bruce Springsteen, The Postal Service, Black Flag and the earlier mentioned Bad Brains (among others) serve as a pretty good road map of what to expect musically from a Frank Turner release. Lyrically, he has covered several depressing topics ranging from the death of a friend (Long Live The Queen) to suicide (Richard Divine) to wasting time on a dead end relationship (Casanova Lament) but to put Frank Turner in the “sad music” category would greatly undersell what he is really all about. Sure, there are sad songs on his discs but there are also upbeat, rockin ones about being yourself, not giving up, enjoying life ,his love of music and like most punk rockers, a few angry political tracks as well.

That brings us to his new release, the “Rock & Roll” EP. This is a good jumping on point for first time Frank Turner listeners. Even though it is only five songs long you get a good idea of what Mr. Turner is all about.

The first song, “I Still Believe” (the only song from this set that will also be on his upcoming full length release) is an upbeat ode to the power of rock & roll with a sing or shout along section towards the end of the track.

After that we get “Pass It Along” a song about being a performer. It starts out slow but builds as it progresses.

Song three “Rock & Roll Romance” is a short slow number about a girl who can’t find Mr. Right. A slightly different (possibly live) version of this song was released on the Take Action! Volume 9 CD earlier this year.

The forth song is called “To Absent Friends”; it’s the fastest, most punk song on the disc and, as the title suggests is about an absent friend.

The record ends with “The Next Round” another slow number about drinking too much.

This is another typical Frank Turner release, meaning that it is great from beginning to end. It definitely makes me look forward to the upcoming (spring 2011) full length disc but this is not an album that I would recommend to everyone. If you are strictly into pop punk, screamo or metal this may not be for you. But for those of you that listen to this EP and find that you enjoy it, I would suggest that you also pick up his album “Poetry Of The Deed”, it has a similar feel to it. Some of you might also want to hunt down “A Song To Ruin” by the band “Million Dead”, It’s a punk band that Frank Turner sung for before he went solo.

Washed Up Emo has posted several previously unseen live videos of Swedish hardcore act Refused. The footage was recorded on October 3rd, 1998 at the Guilford College lounge in Greensboro, NC, only two shows before they disbanded.  Check out the videos here.

Refused released their last album Shape Of Punk To Come in 1998. Two former members of the band went on to form the band AC4.

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2010 has been a great year for the melodic hardcore genre and the Italians seem to be leading the pack with a close-knit scene. It ain’t just about music but about the sense of belonging to something special, a family of sorts.

Thanx 4 All The Shoes (T4ATS), a no-bullshit, politically and socially driven band from beautiful Fabbrico-Novellara have a new album out and man, does it shred! “Celebrating Falsity” definitely surprised many in the punk and hardcore scene. From their 2008 DIY EP “Reaction Starts From Consciousness” to what you are now hearing in 2010, it’s a testament to the years of playing live with fellow Italians and yet still gaining the knowledge to do their “own thing”. T4ATS can be classified under different sub-genres such as punk, melodic hardcore, hardcore, and thrash punk/metal. The latter is a key factor that the band incorporates and experiments with a LOT in their tunes. They mix it just as well as another band that called it quits way too early, Until The Fall. Like them, you could feel the passion/energy in their instruments. But in general, if you are a fan of Propagandhi, Strike Anywhere, Belvedere, or newer shredders like Waiting 4 Better Days and IVS…then you’ll dig T4ATS.

“Celebrating Falsity” was recorded with none other than Alex (Jet Market drummer) at Hell Smell Recordings, in Italy. This guy is definitely making a name for himself lately in the European melodic hardcore/skate punk scene. As I said before, shreddin’ is what you’ll appreciate the most from this Italian band and you can really hear the guitars and the riffs like you were right there. It’ll make you get shivers down your back and on top of your head. From the get go of the album, the guys focus on the trash punk/metal side, letting go of the vocals for this one. Their song “Home Is Where Bombs Rain” will stick in your head for weeks, and is a great example of the band’s political views.  Also, “Death As Business” starts off with technically driven drums and throughout it Lorenzo put his A-game on the kit. This is a track that I’d love to hear live!

Let’s all hope that T4ATS do not lose this edge in their writing style, and same goes for their brothers-in-arms. This is a more than solid first full-length release so if they eventually top it or not, it’s a success for them. And please take note, if the shred-factor does not get the blood in your body pumping, well chances are that you are already passed out.