The band that pretty much never takes a day off is heading out on a two month tour across the US and parts of Canada, with only five days off total. Berkeley-based horn-infused punk rock ‘n’ rollers The Atom Age has already begun this crazy tour in Northern California, and will be heading down south before venturing across the south and Midwest.

Be sure to head here to check out all of their tour dates. With blaring sexy saxophones, catchy riffs, and gritty vocals, The Atom Age is a band to surely not miss live.

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Back in August we reported that Oklahoma punks, Red City Radio, had announced they had just signed to Paper + Plastick Records, and had begun working on their debut full-length album, The Dangers of Standing Still, which is set to be released next year.

Well today, a up-until-now secret digital EP has been released which will feature three tracks. Two of the songs are b-sides that will not make it onto the full-length, and one song that will be featured on the new album. Head here for more information on the EP and how you can go about getting the songs.

New York hardcore act Madball have posted, “Invigorate,” a song from their brand new album “Empire,” which hit stores today. You can listen to it here. While you’re checking that out you’ll also be able to read Freddy Madball’s “Heavy but not Hardcore” list which is a list of his favorite non hardcore bands. It’s an interesting read make sure you check it out.

The band recently kicked out their drummer and are touring UK / Europe with Sick Of It All.  Check out their Dying Scene shows page for tour dates and locations.

Germany’s Small Town Riot has posted another new song on their MySpace. It’s titled “Bad Taste In Our Big Mouth” and it will appear on their upcoming November release Suicidal Lifestyle. Fans of straight up street punk should check it out.

Small Town Riot’s latest release was a compilation called F*** Those Who Go Untried, released on Warbird Entertainment.

Detroit, Michigan’s hardcore act Hellmouth have just been signed to Paper + Plastick Records, and have announced that they are planning on releasing their next full-length album, entitled “Gravestone Skyline” in the near future.  No official release date has been mentioned yet but in the meantime you can stream “Desperate & Violent,” a new song from the album, right here. Vocalist Jay Navarro had this to say about the new album,

Desperate & Violent’ is about how my generation of punks gave a shit and most of us tried to change the world for the better,”Veganism, Food Not Bombs, riding bikes instead of driving cars … all this s— just to watch this corporatacracy destroy the world and not give two s—s about anything but money. I give up. It’s either class war or tear out my own eyes so you don’t have to watch the world anymore.

The band’s previous release was a split 7″ with Explode and Make Up which was released last July.

Melodic punk fans, listen up.  San Diego’s Hide The Details are currently working on their debut EP entitled “Waves” and you can stream 3 tracks from the release (“Waves,” “Lions” and “A Better Road”) on their MySpace page.

The EP is due out in early November with a covers EP also already in the works.

Richmond punk act Smoke Or Fire have announced October / November U.S tour dates in support of their upcoming album “The Speakeasy.”  Visit the band’s MySpace Profile for dates and locations.

“The Speakeasy” is due out on November 9th via Fat Wreck Chords.

Last April Canadian hardcore act Cancer Bats released their 3rd studio album “Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones”. Now the band has announced plans to re-issue the album with a bonus-disc titled “Live In London”. The second disc is the full set from this year’s sold-out show in London and will also include two brand new exclusive tracks that were recorded during the “Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones” sessions.

The re-issue will be available everywhere on October 25.

Philadelphia based pop punk act The Wonder Years have just released their music video for the song “Melrose Diner“.  You can check it out here.

The Wonder Years recently re-released their instant classic The Upsides on Hopeless Records that contains four bonus songs that were not included in the original release.

Another song has surfaced from the “Germs Of Perfection” Bad Religion tribute album.  This time it’s alt rock band Switchfoot performing a super mellow version of “Sorrow” off Bad Religion’s 2002 album “The Process Of Belief.”  Give it a listen right here.

“Germs Of Perfection” is an exclusive Bad Religion tribute album featuring 15-or-so contributing artists.  On 19 October, the entire album will be available as a free download through both MySpace Music and SPIN.com.  Until then, MySpace will be streaming one new track from the album each day.

So far, additional contributions can be streamed by Polar Bear Club (Better Off Dead), Tegan And Sara (Suffer), Frank Turner (My Poor Friend Me), Cobra Skulls (Give You Nothing feat. Fat Mike),  New Politics (Generator), Riverboat Gamblers (Heaven Is Falling), Ted Leo And The Pharmacists (Against The Grain), William Elliott Whitmore (Don’t Pray On Me), Weakerthans (Sanity),  Cheap Girls (Kerosene) and Guttermouth (Pity).