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All you trendy pussy bands take note- this is real hardcore.

Back in 1983, a 1000 copies of the Thou Shalt Not Kill EP on 7 inch vinyl hit the streets. Bootleg copies followed. Fast forward to the 2000s and an original copy of the EP would set you back hundreds of dollars on eBay. But now, thanks to Bridge 9 Records, the iconic EP is available once more, on vinyl and CD.
You’d be an idiot not to buy it.

This re-release is for fans of Antidote. There’s really not much point describing each track, as they’ll be nothing new to the ears of anyone that’s interested.

With the entire album being only 9 minutes long, there’s no time for messing around. Straight up one track into another. No stupidly long solos or instrumentals, just anthem after anthem of anger and hate.

There’s nothing to comment on technically (except maybe the really effing awesome riff 32 secs in on ‘Got Me On The Line’) because it’s just straight up hardcore punk. It’s not meant to be pretty or fancy, it’s just meant to be danced to aggressively.

It’s so raw and unpolished. What a shame no bands have this sound nowadays, in this age of digital perfection.

And BAM like a whack in the face, its over before you know what’s hit you.

So what are you waiting for? Go get your little piece of hardcore history.

Florida’s Sleeping With Sirens has released another music video. This one is the title track to their debut release With Ears To See And Eyes To Hear. You can see it right here.

With Ears To See And Eyes To Hear came out in March on Rise Records.

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Crime In Stereo broke up–yeah, yeah we’ve heard the news. But why did they? We at Dying Scene promised to tell you guys if any additional information regarding the breakup surfaced. Well, here ya go. They wrote their final statement, and you can read it here.

Looks like they’ve got a couple more shows to perform before they pull the plug. These shows haven’t been announced yet, but we will let you know when the word gets out.

Crime In Stereo released their final album I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone earlier this year on Bridge Nine Records.

So the countdown to The Dissent Of Man begins. Officially, I guess.

Bad Religion is posting the full lyrics to each song off the new album daily to get us pumped for the new album. And guess what? It’s starting today!

The Day The Earth Stalled is the first one. You can check out the lyrics here. Unfortunately, there is no music stream to go along with it. However, you can still listen to The Resist Stance on that page.

The Dissent Of Man will be released on September 28th on Epitaph Records.

Wisconsin’s Screeching Weasel is working on a new album, their first release since 2005. Drummer Adam Cargin tweeted about working on demos. Since you probably don’t want to click the link, I’ll just transcribe it here:

“Had a great time working w/ @mikeaar on the Weasel demos. He is a total pro+one of the nicest guys I’ve worked with. Can’t wait for round 2.”

Now, this “mikeaar” is Mike Kennerty of All American Rejects. What?? Obviously, Weasel’s got a reason to have him recording with them. In fact, Ben Weasel said how he makes the tunes “better without fucking them up”. Well, that’s good. Weasel and Kennerty have collaborated in the past, on Weasel’s 2007 solo album These Ones Are Better.

Screeching Weasel will most likely be releasing their new album on Asian Man Records.

According the the folks at the Bad Religion Page, there is a tribute album in the works. Now, this is not the same tribute album we covered last month. This is something entirely new, consisting of 17 tracks, 10 of which are from “famous, signed bands” (which have not been announced yet). This means the other 7 will be from unsigned bands. Marcus Öhrn, the man behind this, has an interesting proposal. Check it out in this post.

This tribute album will be fittingly titled The Bad Religion Syndrome. There is no set release date yet.

Ontario based electro, post-hardcore band Abandon All Ships will be releasing their debut full-length, “Geeving,” October 5th on Rise Records.  Until then you can stream 2 new songs from the album (“Bro My God” and “Megawacko”) on their MySpace page.

The band released a self titled EP last year.

Columbus, Ohio, folky rockers, Two Cow Garage, are releasing their 5th album, “Sweet Saint Me,” in late October on Suburban Home Records.  The album will be a follow up to 2008’s “Speaking In Cursive” and fans can expect the release of the album’s first single, “Lydia,” on Friday (September 10th).

The album cover art is <= there and the track listing can be found here.

“Sweet Saint Me” was recorded at Hi/Lo Studios in Eden, New York. The album was produced by Matt Smith and Two Cow Garage. The album was mixed and mastered by Stephen Egerton at Armstrong Recording in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Album art was designed by Geoff Allen (Funisok).

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South Jersey pop-punk act Count To Four are giving away their 4 song debut EP, “Know Where You Come From,” right here.

In addition, the band is also streaming an acoustic version of one of the tracks from the EP (“No, It’s A Patter”) on their MySpace page.

Feels like it’s been a long time in the making but Why I Hate is finally releasing their forthcoming album “Hieroglyphic Transmissions” October 5th on Fail Safe Records.  To get you pumped up Death By False Hopes is giving away a free download of a track from the album called “The Symbol That Is Sewn, It’s Not Who I’m Known To Be,” which you can get here (for some reason the player doesn’t work for us but the download does).

To slightly confuse everybody there are actually 2 versions of the song.  One is the Why I Hate, punk version, and the other is the Why I Hope, folky-rock version.  Why I Hope is the exact same 5 dudes as in Why I Hate.  They just went into two different studios and recorded the same record twice, but with different approaches.  “Hieroglyphic Transmissions” will contain 4 bonus Why I Hope versions and the limited LP version will be a double vinyl with 8 Why I Hope versions.