Milwaukee, WI's Direct Hit! have announced dates with Jetty Boys and Dee CRACKS. Direct Hit! are currently finishing up the upcoming Red Scare debut, "Brainless God," set to be released this summer. Punknews recently published an interview with Nick Woods (vocals) of the band, it can be read here.
Today we are excited to bring you the premiere of a new video from acoustic crust-punk rabble rousers Blackbird Raum . The extra disturbing video is for the track "Disfigured Isolation" and appears on their latest full-length, False Weavers, recently released on Silver Sprocket . The album was recorded at all-analog Tiny Telephone Studios and features artwork by legendary Dungeons And Dragons artist Russ Nicholson. The 12-inch vinyl includes a bonus treat from Nicholson, an 18x24 map of the "Known Lands in the Age of False Weavers" with references to DIY [...]
Dikembe and Signals Midwest have announced an east coast tour together. Dikembe recently released an untitled demo from their upcoming album and will be at The Fest 12 this year. Signals Midwest last released Latitudes and Longitudes in 2011 and more recently a split with Worship This! which you can listen to in its entirety on Signals Midwest's Punknews.org profile .
Pittsburg, PA's Run, Forever are hitting the road with Pity Sex beginning May 14th. The band released the full-length, Settling, last November by Tiny Engines .
Hardcore-act Libyans have announced a release date for their new album. The record is titled Expired Language , and is set to be released on August 20, 2013 via Solid State Records . The band previously released A Common Place in 2010.
Candy Hearts , Real Friends , and Stickup Kid will be hitting the road together this summer for a month-long tour.
Pitchfork is streaming the new album from Dillinger Escape Plan , titled One of Us is the Killer . The record hits shelves today , and is the band's follow up to 2010's Option Paralysis. You can listen to the album here .
So what if we're a little late in posting the story? This is the Punknews Podcast! We leave professionalism for the professionals. On this episode John Gentile, Armando Olivas and Greg Simpson discuss As I Lay Dying and contract killing, Jeff Hanneman , Rivers Cuomo , Mixtapes ' new song, Rx Bandits ' new tour, Andrew Seward leaving Against Me! , and Black Flag 's new song. We also feature music from Iggy and the Stooges , including contributions from Henry Rollins, James Williamson, Deniz Tek, and [...]
Citizen have premiered a new song entitled "The Summer" via MTV Buzzworthy . The song comes from their upcoming record Youth and is due out June 11, 2013 via Run For Cover Records . Pre-orders can be found here . Citizen last released Young States in 2011. You can listen to "The Summer" here .
Lenny Lashley's Gang of One -- the latest act from the Darkbuster frontman-- have announced that they will be releasing their debut full-length, Illuminator , on June 25, 2013. The record will be jointly released by Pirate's Press Records and Panic State Records. The album features members of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and The Bouncing Souls .
Whirr have released a new song entitled "Swoon". The track comes from their forthcoming EP, Around , which is due out July 9, 2013 via Graveface Records . You can click Read More to listen to the new song and to check out the details for Around .
The Front Bottoms have debuted the second single from their upcoming album, The Talon of the Hawk ; set to be released May 21, 2013 via Bar None Records . The name of the song is "Skeleton" and the band has released a video, as well as a free download. You can view the video below and download the song here .
Canadian hardcore act Comeback Kid recently played a secret show in Tel-Aviv, Israel after the festival they were set to perform at was cancelled . The show was set up by the local punk band Kids Insane . You can see a video of the entire set below
Greg Bennick of Trial will be embarking on a solo spoken word tour and Young Turks and FocusedxMinds will be joining him for sets of their own. You can check out our conversation we had with Bennick last year here and click Read More for the dates.
Living With Lions have announced the details for their upcoming 7-inch, Some of My Friends Appear Dead to Me . The 3-track EP is due out July 9, 2013 via Pure Noise Records . Living With Lions will be heading out on tour with New Found Glory and Cartel next week. You can click Read More to see the track listing and artwork for Some of My Friends Appear Dead to Me .
American Steel took the stage for an appearance at Durham, NC's Death to False Hope Fest 3 over the weekend. Video of the band performing "Dead and Gone" from 2007's Destroy Their Future. Additionally, there's more footage from the weekend, including performances by PJ Bond , Banquets , Red Collar , The Sky We Scrape , Austin Lucas , and more. You can check those out here .
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