The initial lineup for Fest 16 has been announced! Bands playing the 2017 edition of the massive Gainesville punk festival include Against Me! (playing Reinventing Axl Rose in its entirety), 88 Fingers Louie, Smoking Popes, The Lillingtons, Mustard Plug, and many others.

Many of the bands playing this year’s Pre-Fest Ybor City have also been announced.

The currently lineups for Fest 16 (October 27-29) and Pre-Fest 5 (October 25-26) can be viewed below. For more info, visit the festival’s official website.

We’ll keep you posted as more bands are announced and schedules are revealed. [Read more…]

Spanish skate punks Bates Motel have premiered a new single from their upcoming album High Expectations Higher Deceptions. The track’s called “Built to last” and it features guest vocals by Chris McGrath of Much The Same.

Give “Built to Last” a listen below, and head over here to pre-order the album.

High Expectations Higher Deceptions is set to release on June 1st. It will be the band’s first full-length, following their 2015 debut EP Surrender Is Not An Option. [Read more…]

Toronto punks The Flatliners have released a music video for “Hang My Head”, taken from their new album Inviting Light. You can check it out below.

Inviting Light came out on April 7th and is The Flatliners’ first album on Rise Records. It follows their 2013 LP Dead Language, which was released through Fat Wreck Chords. [Read more…]

Florida’s Flag On Fire are streaming their new album Practically the Best You’ve Ever Been. If you’re a fan of 90’s melodic punk staples like No Use For A Name and Ten Foot Pole, this is right up your alley.

Give the record a listen below, and visit Felony Records on Bandcamp to buy it digitally or on CD.

Practically the Best You’ve Ever Been is Flag On Fire’s first full-length album. It follows their 2015 EP Slack to the Future. [Read more…]

San Jose punks Point of View will be releasing a new EP titled Vultures on May 12th through Creator-Destructor Records. You can listen to the first single “Wolves” below.

Vultures will be the band’s first release since 2013’s Burner. Go here to pre-order the 12″ EP. [Read more…]

You may recall that in late 2015, Victory Records tried to sue the pants off Streetlight Manifesto frontman Tomas Kalnoky. The label accused the band of breaching their decade-plus-old contract, under which they were required to release four studio albums, and sought over $1,000,000 in damages.

Well, according to a recent post on the band’s Facebook page, the suit has been settled. The two parties released the following joint statement:

“Victory Records and Streetlight Manifesto have amicably settled the litigation filed by Victory in the U.S. District Court in Illinois. After a long and successful run, the parties agreed that it was in their mutual best interests to end the 15 year relationship. As part of the settlement, Victory agreed to sell Streetlight Manifesto all of their master recordings for an undisclosed sum resolving claims that were asserted in the lawsuit. No further comment will be made by either party.”

In a “post-emancipation” update posted today, Streetlight rejoiced at the fact that they are now “100%, top to bottom independent, artist owned, and artist run”. The band also noted they will be hard at work in the coming months.

We’ll keep you posted as details on Streetlight Manifesto’s “new journey of independence” come to light. They will soon be touring the US for Somewhere in the Between‘s 10th anniversary.

New Jersey punks The Scandals have made their new EP Lucky Seven available to stream. You can give the 5-song release a listen below.

Lucky Seven is set to release on April 28th through Panic State and Say-10 Records. The EP was produced by The Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon. [Read more…]

Toronto alt-punks Pseudo have announced a lengthy tour of the US for the upcoming summer season. The tour, which will begin on April 27th in Grand Rapids, MI, will take the band all across the country through to July. This will be the band’s first tour outside of Canada.

You can view a full list of current dates and locations below.

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Irish indie-punk band The Winter Passing recently premiered a brand new music video for their single, “Significance.” The track is one off of their newest EP, Double Exposure, which is officially out everywhere today.

You can check the clip out below.

Double Exposure will be released through 6131 Records and Big Scary Monsters today, April 21st, 2017, and will serve as a follow-up to the band’s 2015 album, A Different Space of Mind. 

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Toronto punks Reminder are streaming a brand new 7″ split EP with Toronto based acoustic singer-songwriter Wordplay. The 7″ is titled, Signs of Intoxication, and it will officially be released on April 27th in time for both artist’s appearances at this year’s Pouzza Fest.

You can stream the split below.

Reminder last released a single called Do You Still Feel Endearing? and Wordplay’s most recent release includes a single called Taxi Song. 

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