NY hardcore punk legends The Casualties have have announced additional tour dates with Gwar and they can be checked out here. The expanded dates see the guys start right up again immediately after Fun Fun Fun Fest, beginning November 8th in Kansas and ending December 6th in Minnesota. For all you Europunks you might want to keep checking back here for some really good news…Stay tuned!

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The side project of New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert is called What’s Eating Gilbert and they’ve just announced their first release, a 7″ called Thinking ‘Bout Her which will be available on September 21 through Epitaph Records. The cover art is to the left with the yellow record, and the track listing is available here.

The 7″ will have a first pressing of 1000 (300 yellow, 700 red) and is available for pre-order here. Check out the project’s website at http://www.whatseatinggilbert.com and some of the songs are up there for streaming, so check it out!

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If you’re into screamo or post-hardcore, this is probably a tour you’ll want to check out – A Skylit Drive is headlining the Average Guys With Exceptional Hair Tour with support from Motionless In White, For All Those Sleeping, Woe Is Me, and Scarlett O’Hara. The tour kicks off on November 4 in CA and runs across the southern USA, up the East Coast, and into New England before doubling back across the MidWest and wrapping up in CA on November 28. Get all the details on tour dates/stops right here.

Ska dudes Reel Big Fish have posted a video of them performing She Has A Girlfriend Now on this summer’s Warped Tour – check it out here. I’m about 100% sure it’s from the Columbia, MD, date of the Tour, because I was there and photographed all of them wearing exactly the same clothes. Either way, the song appears on the band’s A Best Of Us For The Rest Of Us – more details on that are here!

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Last night on a new episode of the popular TV show “Pawn Stars“, Jeremy McKinnon, singer of A Day To Remember, made an appearance to attempt to sell his old Martin acoustic guitar. Apparently this was filmed back in May from a tweet posted.

You can check out a clip featuring his appearance right here.

The bands latest release Homesick was released last year via Victory Records.

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Earlier today we announced that Buffalo easycore band Rust Belt Lights had a new digital EP out with Paper+Plastick Records on iTunes and Amazon. What hadn’t been announced yet was that the band has officially joined the P+P family and will be releasing a 12-song album on the label this fall. Myth Confirmed! P+P made the announcement later today, so look forward to it.

In the meantime, check out the 3-song self-titled EP here on Amazon and stream the new song fortyfive on the band’s MySpace page.

Arizona based, The Maine are offering a free download of their latest recordings entitled “Daytrotter Session“.  This session contains different versions of familiar songs with a stripped down rock approach to the record.  You can either stream it or download it here.

The Maine released their last album, Black And White, July 13th on Warner Brothers Records.

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Portland’s Cruel Hand name their influences as Cro-Mags, Madball and early Metallica. Boy, is that obvious after listening to new album, “Lock And Key”. The album is their 3rd full length, second on Bridge 9 Records, and since the 2007 release of their debut album, they’ve been turning heads in the hardcore punk and metal scenes with their heavy, old-school style hardcore.

It all starts with the title track, heavy heavy hardcore, with a touch of metal in there too. Think early Agnostic Front. A good sign of what’s to come. The track that shares the band’s name is possibly one of the best examples of old school style hardcore to be released for a long time. There’s some awesome metal riffage on ‘Day Or Darkness’. ‘Labyrinth’ and ‘One Cold Face’ are very metal infused, the former more so than the latter, but you still know it’s hardcore. In fact, the latter sounds much like Victim In Pain era AF. ‘Dismissed’ could give any venue the best circle pit it had ever seen. The riff on ‘Two Fold’ may be your typical metalcore beat, but it still helps to create one hell of a track. The last track, ‘The Bottom’, is another very fast one. Again, would get a monster of a circle pit going. Great way to end an album.

The track lengths are pretty long, showing it is new school, not that that’s a bad thing though. They seem to have the mix between old and new school down to a tee. Mixing it up by alternating between traditional HC and metalcore creates a great, diverse release. Which should be expected from yet another solid hardcore band of the moment, showing Bridge Nine has the best taste when it comes to signing bands in this genre.

The tour is a long ways off, but NOFX have announced a tour of the southern and south-eastern USA for January and February of 2011. They’ll team up with The Bouncing Souls, fellow Fat-Wreck‘ers Cobra Skulls, and Old Man Markley for the tour – get all the dates and details here.

NOFX’s last full-length was 2009’s Coaster, but they put out a collection of their EP’s last month. The Bouncing Souls dropped Ghosts On The Boardwalk earlier this year. Cobra Skulls gave American Rubicon to us earlier this year through Red Scare and were last seen recording an EP for Fat Wreck due out this fall.

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Philly pop-punkers Valencia have given us another track from their upcoming album, Dancing With A Ghost” – the title track is online right here. The song is fittingly presented with some clips from the 1990 film Ghost, which starred Patrick Swayze and was pretty good – not to be confused with Ghost Dad, which had Bill Cosby and was awful.

The album will be released on October 12 through I Surrender Records, and the cover art looks like <– that; you can pre-order your copy here. The band’s last release was 2004’s This Could Be A Possibility.

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