Riot Fest has released their full schedule of set times for all bands on all stages. The three days of bands upon bands upon bands in Chicago with a carnival and freak show is headlined by Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, and freaking Jawbreaker, who have reunited after a 21 year hiatus.

A handful of bands will be playing full album sets, including Wu Tang Clan, The Lawrence Arms, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Dinosaur Jr., Bayside, and everyone’s favorite crotchety old man that can’t take a punch, Danzig.

Tickets Check out the full schedule below and see if you can get through it without your brain melting from being over-inundated with rad. [Read more…]

Bridge Nine is reproducing and restoring the classic fanzine that chronicled the rise of punk and hardcore in the eighties. The 288 page book will include re-interviews with Ian MacKaye, Keith Morris, members of Agnostic Front, Bad Brains, and Cro-Mags.

A 19 track compilation will be included with the book and will include Strife, letlive., Fu Manchu, and Riverboat Gamblers contributing their interpretations of songs from the book’s era.

Other features in the book will include (deep breath), Minor Threat, Misfits, Necros, Circle Jerks, Suicidal Tendencies, Husker Du, Jerry’s Kids, Black Flag, D.O.A., G.B.H, Void, Negative Approach, 7 Seconds, D.Y.S., Scream, Metallica, Corrosion of Conformity, Minutemen, The Exploited, Anthrax, Subhumans, Dead Kennedys, SSD, Henry Rollins, Descendents, Bad Brains, Youth of Today, Motorhead, Dag Nasty, Snapshot, Samhain, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, Bad Religion, Fugazi, and more.

The book will be released some time this fall.

The High and Low Festival has announced a comedy line-up curated by The Hard Times. The line-up includes Kurt Braunholer, Mike Lawrence, Cameron Esposito, Guy Branum and more.

The festival is September 9th at the NOS Events Center in San Bernadino, CA. Music acts include Brand New, Death Cab For Cutie, Tegan and Sara, PUP, Best Coast, and more. Check out the fest’s event page on Facebook!

The Apology Tour, fronted by Nick Diener of The Swellers, have announced their debut LP, “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things,” to be released via Save Your Generation Records on September 15th. The band describes themselves as “Sludgy/Synthy.” I agree.

Their newest single, “Not That Far,” is streaming over at AP, so check it out while SoundCloud still exists. But wait, there’s more! If you act now, you can go to bandcamp and get two previously released tracks, yes, TWO previously released tracks for pay what you want! It’s insane! They’re practically giving these things away!

You can also stream those songs below. [Read more…]

Alt-rock/pop punks Move You Still have released their debut EP, “Revisit.” The Massachusetts and Rhode Island band includes former members of Northernmost and Maker.

You can stream the EP below, and if you want to keep it, you can throw $5 in the general direction of bandcamp. [Read more…]

New York pop-punk act The Scutches have released a new split, with UK surf-pop-punkers The Atoms featuring 10 new tracks from each band and you can stream that bi-otch below. It’s a great album to act as the soundtrack to your East Coast beach bound road trips.

Cleverly titled “I Hate Splits”,  this sucker was self-released by the bands themselves.

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German Ska-Punks, The Prosecution, are giving away some music along with some free tracks from bands such as P.O.BOX, NH3, THE TiPS, BREW36 and other releases available from Long Beach Records Europe.

You can find it here.

This is ahead of the August 11th release date for the upcoming album “The Unfollowing” via Long Beach Europe, but why say no to free music?

The retinue of bands signed to Pure Noise Records has grown larger, as Ottawa pop punk act, Bearings has joined the label.

Bearings will put out an EP September 8th, entitled “Nothing Here is Permanent.” You can find the track list along with a video for “North Hansen” below!

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Massachusetts pop punk stars Four Year Strong,  have released a new song for the first time on two years! See what they had to say, and give “Nice To Know” a listen below.

The song will be on their upcoming project “Some Of You Will Like This, Some Won’t” which is coming out via Pure Noise, September 8th. The track list and upcoming tour dates can be found below as well.

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If you’re into good, modern day emo, chances are you’re going to be freaking out over this next tour. Sorority Noise, Citizen and Great Grandpa are teaming up for a lengthy US run and we absolutely love it.

Head down below for full tour dates. [Read more…]