UK Melodic hardcore / Skate punk act From Plan To Progress have revealed more details about their upcoming album Ink Stains & Incidents.  The new album will be released on July 14th on Fond Of Life Records. You can check the album art and tracklisting here.

You can also stream 3 new songs off their upcoming album Ink Stains & Incidents on their MySpace page.

The new album will be a follow up to the band’s 2008 album Evolution in the Wrong Direction released on Lime Records.

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Reggae-punks Authority Zero have posted several high quality live videos. Watch them here.  You can check out the guys play Get it Right, Everyday, Find Your Way and much more.  The videos are fantastic! I’m glued to my seat.

To get the full experience of an Authority Zero show visit their Dying Scene shows page to see when they play in your city. They are currently touring the U.S. in support of their latest album Stories of Survival.

Southern California pop-punk group Fight Fair are streaming their latest album California Kicks in it’s entirety right here. The album was released released today through Triple Crown Records.

Fight Faire is currently playing shows in the U.S. and Canada. Visit their Dying Scene Shows page for dates and locations.

Minnesota punk band Mall’d to Death have posted a rare track called Migraine Belt on Facebook. It’s an unreleased track from the UnderStandablyBroken USB comp. Go check it out.

Their debut LP Can’t Make a Living came out June 15th on Geykido Comet Records.

Gypsy punks Gogol Bordello announced today that they will be boycotting Arizona in response to the state passing the controversial Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (aka SB 1070).  The bill is known as being the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in decades.  The issue probably hits close to home for the band because believe it or not, they’re not actually from around here.

You can read the Gogol Bordello’s official statement about the boycott here, and then you can read the comments from the their Arizona resident fans who don’t seem to thrilled about the band’s course of action, which is maybe the most interesting about this story.

Motion City Soundtrack have announced a charity project called “Give A Little Help”. Basically, the band is asking fans to submit a video explaining a charitable act that they have done or would like to do for someone else and then they’ll give away $3,500 dollars to three winners of their choosing. To find out more information about the project go here (make sure you pause the music player on the left before watching the video).

Motion City Soundtrack are currently  touring the U.S. in support of their latest album My Dinosaur Life. Visit their Dying Scene Shows page for dates and locations.

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This is my second time listening to Wyld Stallyns, a Samuel Caldwell’s Revenge/In Bad Taste split. Clocking in at less than 17 minutes with only four tracks, Stallyns definitely leaves you wanting more. The explosive opening track “The Agents Of Intolerance” took me back to Mute Print-era A Wilhelm Scream, the intellect and instrumentals reminding me of “Anchor End”. I am honestly hooked on this song, mainly due to the catchy rhyme scheme in the verses. The vocabulary I am reading here is like Bad Religion minus the thick thesaurus.

Moving right along to “Teabagging America”, we slow down to catch our breaths. But 25 seconds in, and you are immediately thrust back into overdrive. I personally praise the guitars in this track. Their tones reflect the tone of the song. There is wailing on the strings as the lyrical content tells us about hypocrisy. This is the longest track on the split, at about five and a half minutes, but it does not seem long. The song hooks you from the get-go and will not allow you to escape until you are finally reeled in at the very end.

The split switches to In Bad Taste, giving us 40 seconds of softly distorted instrumentals and vocals before shifting gears and throwing us the full band. Gang vocals litter the song “Generations”, making you want to just jump up and pump your raised fists. “Generations” is a straight-up rocker, complete with technical guitar duets in the song’s interlude.

Then we get to the final song, “Apathy V Empathy”. You are immediately treated to a bouncing bass line that sounds very intriguing. Then the drums kick in and expect you to open up a circle pit and mosh your life away. Fast vocals and fast instrumentation make this a fun song, if you are into the whole skatepunk scene. About halfway into the song, there is a five second break that will bring you back to your senses, and then you are treated to a simple–yet catchy–guitar solo that takes you right back to the chorus. You get back into the song and…

It’s over. Like that. Not even a warning. So it’s time to put this split on repeat and just have fun again.

For a split, this was really well produced. The music itself gave me the feel of West Coast punk rock and East Coast technical hardcore. Not a bad mix. This split is definitely worth giving a listen to, and I want to hear more from both bands SOON.

Ever wonder where some bands come up with their band names?  Well, we do, and we’re sick of sitting around scratching our heads about it.  We’re hitting the streets (aka. “Internet”) to find the origins behind some of the more bizarre, intriguing or just plain random band names in the scene.  Every Wednesday we’ll be pulling the curtain back on a different band and this week it’s New Jersey’s melodic punk mainstays Bigwig.

If you’ve listened to the band’s 1997 Fearless Records release, Un-Merry Melodies, you may remember that there is a sound clip mentioning a character called “Bigwig” preceding the track Best Of Me.  It turns out that the clip is from the 1978 movie, Watership Down, which was based on the novel written by Richard Adams. The book is somewhat of a social commentary that touches on several themes such as leadership, government, nature, trickery and humanity and in it the character Bigwig is a strong, intelligent and fearless rabbit leader. The cartoon was a childhood favorite of the band’s singer Tom Petta. It introduced him to politics at a young age and left so much of an impression that he decided to name his band after the character.

Give the song, Best Of Me, a listen to hear the aforementioned clip from Watership Down.

Check out last week’s Band Name Origin story: Lagwagon

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Orlando pop-punk/emo band There For Tomorrow have premiered the music video for their song Deathbed.  You can watch it here. The song appears on their latest album A Litter Faster which was released last year on Hopeless Records.

The band is currently touring the U.S. Visit their Dying Scene shows page for dates and locations.

New York hardcore band Casting Curses announced today that they will be releasing/streaming a new EP soon.  Until then you can stream a new song called American Ignorance right here.

The release will be a follow up to the 2009 EP  Heartificial.

Casting Curses features former members of the hardcore band Attitude and Outbreak.