Vancouver punk act Living With Lions have announced some U.S. tour dates. Starting October 22nd the band will be hitting the road with Make Do And Mend, Defeater and All Teeth.

Check out their MySpace page for dates and locations.   Their latest release was 2009’s “Make Your Mark” on Adeline Records.

LA punk legends Bad Religion sat down at Spinner Studios to discuss what it’s like to be in a band for 30 years, their first release, playing live and more. While there they also performed “Suffer”, “American Jesus” “Infected”, “Sorrow”  “The Devil in Stitches” and “Wrong Way Kids”.  Check out the interview and performances here.

Bad Religion is currently on tour with Off With Their Heads and The Bouncing Souls supporting their latest album “The Dissent of Man.” Check out the full tour dates here.

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It wouldn’t be fair to say that Dear Landlord’s “Dream Homes” went unnoticed in 2009, but it certainly didn’t make as big a splash in the pop-punk scene as it probably deserved to. With great hooks, singalongs, and a tremendous sense of fun, this album should have been at the top of every pop-punk fan’s list last December.

Right from the get-go, “I Live in Hell” tells you what the tone of this record is going to be like. Smirking sarcasm emanates from every line like “I live in hell with the drunken Christians/They’re away from their parents for the first time/They can’t take it.”

Zack Gontard of Off With Their Heads fame and Brett Hunter from the Copyrights trade vocals, which gives the album a nice blend of the gruff Minneapolis sound with the slicker Illinois appeal. Short and sweet tunes like “Goodbye to Oakland” and “Doormat” pack a lot into a little time, while super-melodic songs like “Landlocked” really put the “pop” in “pop-punk.”

The only complaints that a pop-punker could have about this album is that the highlight track “High Fives” already appeared on Dear Landlord’s superb split with Off With Their Heads, albeit recorded at different times.

Go pick this album up if you’re into pop-punk at all, especially if into bands like Off With Their Heads, Dillinger Four, and the Copyrights. Chances are it won’t disappoint.

Stay Ahead Of The Weather has recently signed to No Sleep Records and announced that they will be releasing their debut EP “We Better Get Goin’ If We’re Gonna” on December 7th.

Until then, you can stream the new song “Get Old Or Die Tryin” from the release right here.

Pop-punks Yellowcard are currently in the studio recording their new album and they have recently posted episode 4 of their “Yellowcard Sessions”.  It features some new music (I think) and you can check it out here.

The band’s last album with Paper Walls, which was released in 2007 through Hopeless Records.

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Hot off the heels of their new full-length, The Gaslight Anthem have just announced the release of a new 7” on Friday November 26, 2010 exclusively at your local independent record store. The A side features a cover of The Rolling Stone’s “Tumbling Dice,” while the B-side features an original track “She Loves You,” recorded during the American Slang recording sessions.

This release will be available as long as there is demand for it with no plans to limit the pressing and should be readily available at all independent retail outlets that participate in Record Store Day. To find a store near you, go to the Official Record Store Day website!

Metal supergroup The Damned Things have released the second single off their upcoming, debut album “Ironiclast”. The tune is titled “Friday Night (Going Down In Flames)” and it can be heard/downloaded on their facebook page.

The band, consisting of members from Fall Out Boy, Every Time I Die, and Anthrax, will be releasing “Ironiclast” on December 14th, and have a few tour dates planned for late October which can be viewed here.

Cover art for the album is right <= yonder.  Here’s what the band had to say bout the artwork:

This art is meant to represent a example of an “ironiclast”. The $1 bill is one of the most iconoclastic images we, as a band, could think of. Every time we kept musing on other widely recognized bits of imagery, we always came back to this bank note for some reason. It felt relevant, regardless of the meaning one decides to attach.

It can that represent everything from the American dream and total independence, to capitalism and a loss in sight of what’s really important in this world. It could be representative of not just the current American economy, but also of the world economy and it’s piss poor state of being. This could also conjure up the old “money is the root of all evil” adage. Maybe you just hate George Washington and you feel like this is really sticking it to him…FINALLY! Or maybe you love George Washington and have been dying to give him a cool makeover. This is all left up to you.

Many meanings can be attached to this imagery. It’s all in how you choose to interpret it.

Florida’s post-hardcore band A Day To Remember are streaming a brand new song off their upcoming album “What Separates Me From You.”  It’s called “2nd Sucks” and you can stream it on the Victory Records facebook page right here (you have to “like” it to play).

“What Separates Me From You” is set to drop November 16th on Victory Records. The band’s latest album, “Homesick,” was released October 28th, 2009.

The Flatliners have premiered a music video for their song Monumental and you can check it out here.

The song appears on the band’s most recent album, Cavalcade, released in April on Fat Wreck Chords.

OK, so this one managed to fly under the radar but emo/pop-punkers Since Forever released a brand new EP titled “Love” yesterday.  If you’d like to get a taste of it you can stream 3 songs from the release (“Coast And You”, “Get Low”, and “Kissing And Stuff”) on the band’s MySpace page.

You can stream clips from the remaining songs and purchase the EP here.