Michigan’s Fireworks have just announced their fall headlining tour with fellow Michiganders The Swellers, MA’s Transit, NJ’s Man Overboard and a few special appearances by pop-punk heavyweights New Found Glory. The tour starts in mid-August and runs across North America through October 1. –  get all the details right here.

The tour takes its name from Fireworks’ last album, All I Have Left To Offer Is My Own Confusion, which came out last spring on Triple Crown Records, and it was produced by NFG guitarist Chad Gilbert – coincidence? I think not! Fireworks also just wrapped up the Enemy Of Europe Tour with Four Year Strong and The Wonder Years.

The Swellers are currently on Warped Tour and their last release was 2009’s Ups And Downsizing (Fueled By Ramen). Transit is on the tail end of a tour with A Loss For Words and is due to put out a new record around the time of this tour on Run For Cover Records. Man Overboard is in the middle of a tour run with Balance and Composure and then Tigers Jaw – they’re slated to drop their debut full-length Real Talk on July 20, also through Run For Cover.

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New Jersey ska group Streelight Manifesto have posted a live video of Sick And Sad from their recent tour stop at the Starland Ballroom – check it out here. The song is from the album Keasby Nights, which means it was originally recorded by Streetlight guitarist Tomas Kalnoky’s former band, Catch 22, on their album also titled Keasby Nights.

Streetlight is currently on tour with The Wonder Years and Crime In Stereo – get all the details at Dying Scene shows and maybe you’ll show up in their next tour video!

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UK punks Lower Than Atlantis have premiered the music video for their song Far Q. You can check out the video here.

Unfortunately the marketing machine wants you to retweet it or post it on your Facebook before you view it. It’s worth it though I promise.

The song appears on Far Q, which hit stores late last march on A Wolf At Your Door Records.

Australian punks Lungs have just posted another new song from their upcoming album, The Two Chief World Systems, which is set to be released on July 5th on Poison City Records in Australia and No Idea Records in the US.  To check out the new track Sweating The Implications Of Time Travel, click here.

Lungs last release was their 2008 EP, Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, Short released on Poison City.

Legendary Canadian rockers SNFU are working on a new release and have added a 2nd guitarist, Sean Colig. The band writes,

Sean is well known around the Vancouver music scene as not only a guitarist/bassist with great chops and stage presence but also as a producer in his own right. Sean will jump into the SNFU fold in both a live capacity and in the studio working on new material as the group pushes towards an EP release this year.

The EP will be their latest release since 2004’s In The Meantime And In Between Time on Synthetic Entertainment.

This isn’t totally new but I would bet a lot of you haven’t heard this song so I’m posting it anyway.  In April Paper + Plastick Records put out a 7″ from The Saint Alvia Cartel titled Jonxer.  It featured 2 songs (“Jonxer” and “Get Up And Go”) and today the band is streaming “Jonxer” on their MySpace page.

The band released their self-titled debut in 2007.

California punk band Only Human have posted some rough demos on their MySpace Profile for a couple of new songs titled Gotta Go, Entitlementia, Family, Friends Forever, 8-Ball, Diamond Ring, and Eye of the Storm. Check them out and have a listen.

The band’s last release was 2008’s  Critical Mass on Felony Records.

Jim Lindberg’s (formerly of Pennywise) new band The Black Pacific are offering a free download of 2 songs as a band “sampler”.  The songs include The System, which was streaming last week when we broke the story, and a new one added today called When It’s Over.  You can stream and download both tracks here.

Not much is know yet about The Black Pacific other than its fronted by former Pennywise lead singer Jim Lindberg and they appear to be signed to SideOneDummy Records.

This is pretty cool! In anticipation of the start of The Cool Tour 2010, you can get your copy of the festival’s download pack that is full of really cool things, including a sampler of some of the bands participating. Click to grab yours and here to see what’s included in it/full tracklisting for the sampler.

The tour kicks off July 12 and will run until August 1 and will will feature As I Lay Dying, Underoath, Between The Buried And Me, Blessthefall, Cancer Bats, War Of Ages, as well as The Acacia Strain and Architects. Get all the location details here.

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Florida punks The Working Dead will be releasing their 4-song EP Sleep as a free download on July 13th. Click here for the tracklisting.

The EP is being put out by Death To False Hope Records. They also announced that they plan to release Sleep in other formats but for now, make sure you grab your copy on the 13th! You can check 3 of the 4  songs on their MySpace Page.

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