Bakersfield, CA, folk-punkers Black Sails Western Shores have added four new mastered tracks from their upcoming album Half Way Home to their MySpace.  Fans of Hot Water Music/Chuck Ragan should definitely go check out This Modern Life, Die We Must, Sinners & Saints, and Hangover Radio.  Definitely worth a listen!

The band’s debut album, Half Way Home, will be released independently next Friday, 19 March.  The dudes have a bunch of shows coming up, too, so check out the dates posted on their MySpace.

In a recent Epitaph blog, solo artist Frank Turner has posted a music video for his song, Isabel. The song appears on his latest album, Poetry of The Deed, which was released last September on Xtra Mile Recordings / Epitaph Records. Check out the video here.

Frank Turner is currently on tour supporting Flogging Molly. Check out dates and locations on Frank’s Dying Scene Shows page.

Hardcore act In Fear And Faith announced today that they will begin recording for their upcoming album.  The band says that they have just under a month to record the whole CD and hope to get the drums for four songs tracked just today.  Check out some of the new material with guitarist Ramin here.

Slated for a 15 June 2010 release, the new disc will be the sophomore release after 2009’s Your World On Fire out on Rise Records.  After recording, go see In Fear And Faith on tour starting mid-April.

Check out a live performance (first time played for an audience) of The Resignators’ new horn-heavy track (How You Could) RAGE!.  Watch the video here.

Check out The Resignators’ latest release, Offbeat Time, out on Stomp Records and go see them live while you’re at it!

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Christ, this looks like it was a fun show.  The Dropkick Murphys have granted us a view of a live performance of their ever-popular tune I’m Shipping Up To Boston, backed by members of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.  The venue looks like a House Of Blues.  That coupled with the sea of green hats, etc., that compose a majority of the crowd leads me to believe that this is from their upcoming live DVD from last St. Patty’s Day’s performance(s) in Boston.  Watch the video here.

I’ve gotta say that I’m pretty damn jealous of those of you going to this year’s St. Patty’s shows, although I’ll be cruising around Long Beach on a double-decker full of Guinness watching Orange County’s own Celto-punk band, The American Wake (MySpace/Facebook), play.  It’ll be a good time, no doubt, but Dropkick… yesssss! [Read more…]

Woo!  OG hardcore punkers Sick Of It All have uploaded a new track from their forthcoming April release, Based On A True Story.  Death Or Jail can be streamed now from Sick Of It All’s MySpace.  Says drummer Armand Majidi of Death Or Jail:

“There are thousands of things in life that can’t be explained, and one of them is what makes people choose the paths they take.  We grew up with some people that had good families and decent options, but threw it all away because of drugs and crime.  It’s easy to imagine this happening if the person had a terrible childhood, but if they had love in their lives, you wonder what made them turn away from it.  Maybe it’s narrow vision, maybe it’s dead-end providence; but either way, they leave behind family and friends that are dumbstruck by how things unfold.” (read other track explanations here)

Out in just over a month’s time (20 April 2010), Based On A True Story will feature 14 tracks (tracklist).  BOATS will be Sick Of It All’s first recording since 2006’s Abacus release Death To Tyrants.

Old Shoe Records has announced that Bostonian sextet Far From Finished are getting down to business, working hard on a new release.  Entitled Forgettable, Old Shoe estimates a mid-June release date, just in time for you to learn their songs for when they play on the Warped Tour!

Forgettable will be a follow-up to 2007’s Living In The Fallout released on Think Fast.

Recently-signed-to-When’s Lunch Records Vancouver punkers, The Split-Ups, will soon be releasing a fresh EP for us.  Very soon.  This spring soon.  April soon.  The four-song EP promises to bring its listeners “action, suspense, fear, joy, sadness” and another “top-secret” emotion that When’s Lunch is unable to disclose.

The eponymous EP will be available on vinyl and through digital download (iTunes USA/Canada/Japan and Amazon MP3) only, again, this April.

If you like ska/punk then you’ll like this post.  The UK’s New Riot are releasing their new album Riot. Sleep. Repeat today and if you want to sample the album, the band has just added a new track titled Welcome To Our World to their MySpace page.

Sorta Less Than Jake-ish – definitely worth a listen.

For those of you that like to read this here site to discover new bands, here’s a pretty cool one for ya.  Can’t Bear This Party is a post-punk/pop-punk, happy-hardcore band from Nice, France.  Their sound is hard to describe but as they that “a song is worth a thousand words” (maybe I just say that) so give them a listen on their MySpace page.  On it, you’ll find a few songs from their upcoming album Ain’t No Princess due out on Three Tail Records (Japan) in May.