Not one..not two…but EIGHT songs for free. I guess I Am Ghost is feeling pretty generous about giving their music out. Now of course, free doesn’t mean completely free…you have to sign up your email in their widget….but then the music is all yours.

Their latest album, “Those We Leave Behind” was released in 2008 on Epitaph.

Bury Your Dead is heading out on tour with Throwdown, For Today, ABACABB, and The World We Knew. To make this tour a little different, they are letting you guys pick the set list. Head to their blog for the details…but before you do that check out the Dying Scene Shows page to see if you can make it to a show.

Their last album, “It’s Nothing Personal” was released in May ’09 on Victory.

Yup that’s right….Ten Four Records is releasing a Split 9″ with Chuck Ragan and Anderson Family Bluegrass on The Revival Tour 2009. The Split includes two unreleased tracks by Anderson Family Bluegrass as well as three unreleased songs by Chuck Ragan including “Revival Road” written by Chuck Ragan and performed by Ben Nichols, Tim Barry, Frank Turner, Chuck Ragan, Digger Barnes, Jon Gaunt and Todd Beene ..which has never been released on any record. The entire thing sounds pretty badass…but if that didn’t entice you enough, check out the track listing on the Full Story page. We will let you know when the release date has been announced. [Read more…]

To be honest, I have been completely oblivious to these Comadre Mixtapes until about 20 minutes ago, but better late than never, right?  Apparently, San Francisco’s punk act Comadre has put out 3 volumes of “mixtapes” already; the third, “Still Not Proud”, having been released today.  All are free and available for download here.  Comadre comments on the contributors:

We each picked out 3 or 4 songs each to throw on this tape… bands we’ve spent good times with, bands we knew that had new records coming out soon, bands we’ve recorded, bands we’ve done artwork for, bands we’ve put out records for, and bands that we just simply dig, hard.

Notable bands contributing unreleased tracks to Volume 3: Dead To Me, Hour Of The Wolf and Shook Ones.

You can listen to Wednesday Night Heroes‘ cover of “Foreign Policy” originally performed by Winnipeg’s Stretch Marks on WNH’s MySpace page.  The cover is Wednesday Night Heroes’ contribution to the BYO “Let Them Know” compilation, which includes over 30 covers of BYO releases by other fellow punk bands.

“Let Them Know” was released September 22nd.

“Record Profits” is the third release from political “digital punk” pioneers Intro5pect. For those unfamiliar with the band’s sound, think modern day electronica mixed with the speed and angst of late 90’s political punk rock.

Like the band’s previous release, “Record Profits” sacrifices quantity for quality and is comprised of only 7 tracks. Musically, fans can expect no major variance from the band’s signature techno infused speed punk with alternating male/female vocals.

The first track “Work To Live” is immediately recognizable as an Intro5pect classic with a speedy sing-along chorus and some awesome techno breakdowns. “Fuck Your Flag” is an aggressive political song, which you may have guessed from the title, with a dualing male/female vocals chorus. For me, the song is good, not great. “Sound Is The Enemy” is a cool song with some cool whoa-oh-ohing backups which I thought were pretty cool. The next song, “Collateral” is a great political punk anthem complete with fist pumping chorus and sound clips of political speeches about wars dubbed over instrumentals breakdowns. Probably my favorite track on the release. “The System” is a short song with a lot of chanting/yelling “Fuck The System! Fuck The System!” which I guess stays true to the bands ethos but to be honest is a skip-button track for me. “Turnaround” is a good, straight up punk rock song, which brings us to the final song “Plastic World”. This song is a Naked Aggression cover sung by Sara, Intro5pects female vocalist, and I definitely like this version best.

All in all, this is a really solid album, and a must have for Intro5pect fans and/or fans of hard-driving political punk in general.

Strike Anywhere is a politically minded, melodic-hardcore, punk band from Richmond, Virginia, and “Iron Front” is their 4th full-length studio release (first release on Bridge Nine Records).  Most of you should be familiar with this band’s style of alternating singing/yelling vocals, call and response chanting, group sung/shouted choruses, and whoa-oh-ohing.  Throw all that on top of 90’s Fat Wreck style instrumentals and social/political themes, and you’ve got yourself a can’t-fail formula that Strike Anywhere has been perfecting over the years.  In “Iron Front”, the band has proven once again that they’re becoming masters of the melodic-hardcore, punk genre.

The album packs 12 revolution inspiring punk anthems into less than 30 minutes, kicking off the intensity beautifully on the intro track “Invisible Colony”.  This song has some great call-response singing/yelling that is guaranteed to get your fist in the air less than 30 seconds after pressing play.  I’ve always felt that if there was a soundtrack to a modern day revolution Strike Anywhere would provide the playlist.  The album’s next track, “I’m Your Opposite Number”, is one of those Strike Anywhere songs that makes you want to run into the streets and tear down “the establishment” in a united cause with your fellow man.   Not exactly sure what that cause would be but, holy shit, it would be important!

Things get a bit more melodic on the third track, “South Central Beach Party”, which has a pretty cool breakdown towards the middle that may or may not give you goosebumps.  “We’re knocking like heartbeats… on the skyscraper door…  The windows breaking with music…  Can you feel it through the floor?…”.  Awesome.

The next three songs stick closely to the Strike Anywhere signature-style group sung choruses, fist pumping yells and who-oh-ohing.  “The Crossing” is a smidge slower and more melodic but the next song, “Spectacular” takes off like a rocket with maybe the fasted Strike Anywhere vocals I’ve ever heard – and I LIKE IT!  I would love to hear more Strike Anywhere songs at this speed.

With the exception of “Omega Footprint” the back half of the release is a bit slower and more melodic, providing some great sing-along choruses and a lot of good who-oh-ohing.   The album concludes nicely with “Western Scale”, its slowest, but perhaps most heartfelt track.

When all is said and done, “Iron Front” is a great record and one that will not disappoint staunch Strike Anywhere fanatics or any fans of straight up melodic-hardcore punk rock.

Miss May I have been putting together a video for the track “Forgive And Forget” off their latest album “Apologies Are For The Weak.”  The video’s not quite out yet but you can check out the “Making Of The Video” on the Full Story page.

“Apologies Are For The Weak” was released June 23rd on Rise Records.

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The official schedule has been posted for The Fest 8.

The Fest is 3-days of punk-rock chaos that will take over Gainesville, FL on October 30th.  There are 12 venues and a crap-load of bands so if you’re planning on going (or your just curious) check out the schedule here.

FYI, for those of you attending, schedules will also be passed out at The Fest.

With Blink 182 back together and a reunion tour already in full swing many fans are wondering what will become of Tom DeLonge’s Angels & Airwaves, especially since the release of it’s next album/feature film “Love” is rapidly approaching.

In this interview with The Chronicle Tom talks about the future of Blink 182, Angels & Airwaves and his many other projects.

“(Angels and Airwaves) is my life; blink is being written into it,” DeLonge said. “(Angels and Airwaves) will pick up full speed after the blink tour. I mean, there is still a whole future to be written with blink, we just don’t know exactly what it is and how it works yet.

Check out the full interview here.