Have you ever wondered what would happen if two hardcore bands took a trip down to Wet’n’Wild and then decided to write a split 7’inch about it? Well, neither did I but interestingly enough here’s the answer. You can now listen to the Phantoms/I Exist split over at the Common Bond MySpace. The release features one song from each artist titled after rides at Wet’n’Wild, “The Blackhole” and “Mammoth Falls” respectively.

The split is slated to hit stores January 14th, 2011 through Common Bond Records.

After putting out a bunch of unreleased music videos from the archives all summer long, Rancid will be doing a new video feature called “Rancid: Live From The Living Room” where they’ll be releasing live videos each Monday. The videos will be a mix of acoustic and electric versions of rare and fan favorite rancid songs.

This week, the band performed “She’s Automatic” of their 1995 release “…And Out Come The Wolves” Check it out here.

Check out last week’s performance of “Tenderloin“, and  “Wrongful Suspicion.”

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Blink 182 have announced additional tour dates to their summer UK plans. You can check the full dates here.

the band will be releasing their 1993 debut album, “Buddha,” on vinyl on December 14th, 2010 through Kung Fu Records and Interscope. [Read more…]

Here’s some more Bad Religion news for all you fans in Deutschland. The band has announced that they’ll be heading to your wonderful country once again next summer for 3 festivals. The band will be play those  3 dates on consecutive nights in late July. Check the dates here.

As of right now, Bad Religion is currently taking a break from touring, but they have been confirmed for this year’s KROQ Acoustic Christmas, which takes place on December 11th, and 91X Wrex the Halls Festival in San Diego, which takes place the following day.

“The Dissent Of Man” was released a couple of months ago on  Epitaph.

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Crankstrap Productions have posted to their Facebook page two videos off The Lawrence Arms’ upcoming DVD. The DVD is set to feature the band’s 10th anniversary show in Chicago. Click the links to watch “Turnstyles” and “Nebraska.”

The band’s latest album “Oh! Calcutta!” was released on Fat Wreck Chords in 2006.

Here’s a little announcement from Toby of Red Scare Records regarding their latest signing.  Normally I would chop this up and rewrite it but it made me chuckle so it remains un-edited…

With all these Red Scare bands attaining full blown stardom and achieving the height of success, it occurred to us that we need some fresh young talent to exploit. It’s like in that movie Mean Girls where they see the new dumpy girl and the cool kids are all, “Omigod, total PROJECT!” This is very much like that, except that instead of nubile nymphs, it’s a buncha grown men with drinking problems.

So what the fuck are we talkin’ about? Well, there’s this band from Fort Collins, Colorado called Elway and Red Scare is gonna release their debut record in 2011. Brendan is wild about ‘em, so we figure why not? In fact, they’re coming to Chicago in January to record with Matt Allison at Atlas Studios. All the guys were previously in a band you may have heard of called 10-4 Eleanor, but they took that incarnation of the band out back and gave it the Old Yeller treatment. They wanted a fresh start, and now they’re called Elway (an equine reference?).

They’re a pretty hard-touring, hard-rockin’ outfit and they already have some upcoming shows booked. So stay tuned for more on Elway, and if you wanna peep these beauties or check out some of their old songs, you can visit ‘em here.

Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel updated fans on what’s been going on with the band and why they’ve had to cancel shows these past few months. Tom also mentions that they’ve left Sire/Warner Records after 5 years. The band will also have a new drummer in Jay Weinberg, replacing George Rebelo. Tom writes,

“An apology is long over due, to everyone who bought tickets to come out and see us at any of the tour dates we had to cancel this past October and November, we’re sorry. Canceling tour dates is the last thing that we ever want to do, especially when the dates have us going to some of our favorite places in the world, but this past October a culmination of circumstances were engulfing us and we had to take some time off from touring to go home and sort things out.

On a related note, after almost a five year relationship we are leaving Sire/Warner. We have nothing but gratitude towards all the people we worked with at the label and feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to make the records we made while with the label.

We’ll be getting back out on the road starting with a handful of radio station festival shows early this December. Our friend Jay Weinberg will be sitting behind the drum kit for us, which we’re very excited about. In January we’re going to be heading out with Fences and Cheap Girls for a couple weeks before joining the Dropkick Murphy’s in their month long celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. Specifics about all the shows should be up on the website shortly if they aren’t already. At some point this new year we also hope to reschedule the Australia, Europe and the U.K. canceled tour dates.

Again, our sincerest apologies to all our fans for the cancellations.”

Against Me! released their latest album, White Crosses, last June on Sire Records.

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Fueled By Ramen‘s lady-fronted pop-punk act Paramore have announced the dates for an early 2011 South American headlining tour. Click here to check out the dates.

Paramore’s most recent full-length album Brand New Eyes, was released last year on Fueled By Ramen Records. [Read more…]

Emo-rockers Jimmy Eat World have announced a handful of tour dates for Australia and New Zealand in April of 2011. Although support acts for the 6-date tour have not been announced, you can check out the dates here.

The band’s latest album “Invented” was released September 28th on Interscope Records.

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Progressive Hardcore act No Bragging Rights have posted a teaser/preview for their upcoming “Illuminator.” Click here to watch/listen.

After 3000 “likes” on their Facebook page, the band will debut the first single off of the album which will be released on 1/11/11 on Blk Heart Group.

No Bragging Rights released their last album, “The Consequence Of Dreams,” in March, 2009. [Read more…]