British Oi! stalwarts The Business are releasing Doing The Business, the band’s first release for Sailor’s Grave Records, on May 11th.  Doing The Business is a new four-song studio EP with six additional live tracks, five of which are from the legendary Marquee recordings from 1982.  The cover art (yonder <=) was illustrated by renown artist Craig Holloway (Agnostic Front, Ramallah, Cold as Life, etc) and the tracklisting can be found here.

You can stream the tracks “Mean Girl” and “1,2,3” from the release on the band’s MySpace page.

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Hartford hardcore group Wrench In The Works have just posted a new song to their MySpace page.  The song is titled A Desert Voice and it will appear on the band’s new album Increase/Decrease, which is slated for release March 16th on  Facedown Records.

The band’s last album, Lost Art of Heaping Coal, was released in 2008 on Facedown Records.

Busy-as-ever record label Bridge Nine announced today that they will be releasing a discography of 80s hardcore-punk band Underdog.  The discography (entitled Matchless) is slated to hit the shelves on 18 May 2010 and will include Underdog’s sole full-length, The Vanishing Point, as well as their Demos collection.

Underdog will be hitting the road this summer in support of this discography release, so keep an eye on Dying Scene’s Shows page for the dates.

Polito-punkers Rise Against have shared with us an alternate version of their video for Re-Education (Through Labor) off of their 2008 release Appeal To Reason (Interscope).  This version is basically the same as the original, but has several eye-opening facts about the government and environment interspersed throughout.  Good tune and some interesting data to ponder here, folks…

Check out the different edit of Re-Education (Through Labor) here.

SoCal punkers Chaser have granted the public access to stream their new album, The Big Picture, in its entirety for free.  It won’t even cost you a Tweet or a status update!  All you have to do is click here and enjoy the tuneage.  If you dig the album, head over to iTunes (US) or Interpunk to pick it up.

The Big Picture just came out this week on Drop Anchor! Entertainment.

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Story Of The Year (SOTY) recently brought out a new album (2 days ago). The new album maintains the high standards set by the preceding three albums. The melodies used are quite complex and well-performed.

Most of the lyrics carry a meaning, but sometimes you have to listen really carefully to understand it. Of course you don’t have to understand the meaning to like the music.

To compare the album with the preceding albums, it is somewhere between ‘The Black Swan’ and ‘Page Avenue’. It is a little rougher than ‘Page Avenue’, but the sound is different from ‘The Black Swan’.

Recommended Tracks: ‘To The Burial’ , ‘I’m Alive’ & ‘Eye For An Eye’

Final verdict:

Lyrics: 5/5
Great Lyrics, great singing
Music: 5/5
Great rythm and melody!
Replay Value: 4.5/5
Can be repetetive after several hours

Final score: approximately a 4.8, so a 5 star rating

Rosaline were pleased to announce their signing to brand new label Good Fight Music for the release of their upcoming album The Vitality Theory with a release this summer. You can read the full announcement from the band here.

Good Fight is founded by veterans Paul Conroy and Carl Severson former owners of Ferret Records and have also created Good Fight Entertainment, a new management company with a music and sports division.

German psychobilly punk act Mad Sin will be releasing their newest album titled Burn And Rise on People Like You Records in April.

From the label’s announcement:

The typical Mad Sin mix of psychobilly, rockabilly, 50’s Rock’n’Roll, Country, Punk and Surf sounds fresher than ever before. Featured Artists include Sucker (Oxymoron, Bad Co.), Jack Letten (Smoke Blow), Hank (The Boss Hoss) and Marlen (Bonzai Kitten). It’s gonna be a legendary record, which gives the band once more the chance to show that they think outside the box and can do a lot more than “just” rockabilly. A fest for your ears, which will not only speak to the rooted fans.

I can’t imagine there are going to be to many more of these but here’s the latest video update from Sum 41 while recording their new album:  Nothing to amazing here except there’s about 30 seconds of a dubbed Sum 41 song playing that I don’t recognize so it could be a first “look” at one of the new songs.  Somebody call me out if I’m wrong – I know you will.  Check out the video here.

Sum 41 is currently recording their follow album up to 2007’s Underclass Hero.

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After only ten seconds, Alexisonfire’s performance at the Olympics was quickly cancelled. Raging fans rushed the barricades causing them to collapse (picture here) injuring as many as 20 people and sending 9 to hospital.

Lead Singer George Pettit was quoted saying: “It was a pretty nightmarish experience. I’m not gonna lie.”. More from the interview with George here.

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