Fairfax, VA, pop-punkers Sing Me Insomnia have uploaded a fresh pair of tracks for your enjoyment.  Mixed Signals and Catching Angels can be listened to on the band’s MySpace.

Sing Me Insomnia are currently unsigned, so the EP can be found on iTunes on 16 February.

The Wonder Years are giving fans the opportunity to score a sweet bag  from their friends at R.E.Load Bags.  All you have to do is head to your local record shoppe, buy the album, and send your receipt by 12 February to:

No Sleep Records
RE: Upsides Receipt Contest
5142 Warner Ave #107
Huntington Beach, CA 92649

You can also scan your receipt and e-mail it to info@nosleeprecs.com.  Only one lucky winner will be chosen for the bag, which also includes a Friends press as well as a test press of the Leavenhouse 11:30 b-side 7″.  Five runners-up will receive a Wonder years poster.

The contest comes in celebration of The Wonder Years” release of The Upsides which was released today on No Sleep Records.  To spread the word of their new release, the band is now on tour and the dates can be found on our Shows page.  Get on it!

As if Motion City Soundtrack hasn’t had enough coverage lately, tune in to action sports network FuelTV tonight (Tuesday, 26 January) to see the guys perform the tracks Her Words Destroyed My Planet and Disappear.  Both songs are off of the band’s latest release, My Dinosaur Life, released last week on Columbia Records.  The show airs tonight at 9pm ET (6pm PT) and re-airs at 12am ET (9pm PT), 2:30am ET (11:30 PT), and 5:30am ET (2:30 PT).

Motion City Soundtrack is touring right now, so if you’re lookin’ for some dates, we got ’em!

Below are a couple albums that hit stores today. Listen to a few of their tracks – if you like what you hear support the bands and go buy an album.

Alesana: The Emptiness (Fearless)

Listen to the entire album on the band’s MySpace.
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Wonder Years: The Upsides (No Sleep)

Listen to 3 album tracks on the band’s MySpace.
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Tim Barry: Stonewall & 28th (Suburban Home)

Listen to the entire album here.
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Greeley Estates: No Rain, No Rainbow (Tragic Hero)

Listen to three album tracks on the band’s MySpace.
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Cute Lepers: Cute Accessories (1234 Go!)

Listen to the 2 album tracks on the band’s MySpace.
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Summer Set: Love Like This (Razor And Tie)

Listen to album 3 album tracks on the band’s MySpace.
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Evergreen Terrace have done a punky version of Foo Fighters’ famous song Everlong, which you can check out on the Evergreen Terrace MySpace page.  I’ve heard the original song way too many times on the radio to enjoy it anymore but I sorta dig this new rendition of it even though I wish they turned up the “punk” a bit more on it.

Evergreen Terrace’s last album, Almost Home was released this past September on Metal Blade Records.

East Coast hardcore staples My Turn To Win are streaming their entire upcoming EP No Challenge right here.  The EP will be officially released digitally via Thorp Records on February 9th.

Boston thrash-punk band Ashers have signed to Thorp Records.  Ashers is fronted by Mark Civitarese of The Unseen and while their is no mention of a new release quite yet you can check out a brand new demo song titled End Of The Rope right here.

From the press release:

Ashers became a band as a result of the chemistry discovered between Mark and Billy Brown of CRASH AND BURN (Thorp Recs) and DEADLY SINS, two bands that became synonymous with the creativity of the Boston scene. Mark and Bill constantly found themselves contributing to each other’s projects and finally decided to begin a proper full time band together. Ashers scorches listeners with a vortex of blistering hardcore, dirty rock, anthemic punk, and barroom metal that creates a new flavor altogether for fans of aggressive music. Now joining with Thorp Records, the band has just begun their onward march towards introducing the world to a new sense of aggression.

Avail vocalist, Tim Barry, is releasing his latest solo effort 28th & Stonewall today on Suburban Home Records and you can stream the entire thing right here.

Tim has a handful of upcoming shows in the coming weeks.  Check out the dates and locations here.

Details around the much anticipated Swingin’ Utters tribute album have finally been released by the folks at punknews.

The release is titled Untitled 21: A Juvenile Tribute to Swingin’ Utters and it will be released via Red Scare Records on February 16th.  Over 30 bands (we’re talking good, recognizable punk bands) have contributed to the release (tracklist here) and the artwork is <= yonder.

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In a recent press release Blink 182 co-vocalist and Angels & Airwaves frontman Tom DeLonge discusses the reasons why he decided to forgo the help of a major label for the release of Angels & Airwaves upcoming album Love, instead opting to give away the album for free.  You can read the whole announcement here, but to summarize:  Tom has shelled out over $500 G’s of his own money to fund the project, which he plans to release for free in hopes of significantly broadening the band’s reach.

“If only 5 percent of that 20 million came back and interacted with the Modlife platform that powers our Web site, the revenue would far exceed anything we’d make from a major label, in any way, shape or form,” DeLonge says. “I believe that music would be like a business card that you pass out, and if people like it, they come back and buy a number of things from your band.”

Love is slated for release on February 14th.

Editors Note: It is a scientific fact that covering punk news while simultaneously watching The Jersey Shore re-runs will equal one horribly written post and 45 minutes of extreme unproductiveness.