My Epic will be touring with So Long Forgotten this month and next.

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Cardiff, Wales’ Future of the Left recently released their second record, Travels With Myself and Another. The band’s vocalist Andy “Falco” Falkous recently talked to Matthew Bentel about the bands vision and goals.

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Today, we’ve got a cool contest for all of you vinyl nerds out there. Farewell Party Records is giving the wax treatment to Hospice, the sophomore full-length from Rochester, NY’s Achilles which was originally released on CD via Hex Records in 2007. Hospice was lauded by our very own Brian Shultz, who remarked in his review that “Hospice is assuredly a step up from the also excellent The Dark Horse, which combined some of the best aspects from heavy but ambitious acts like Botch and Breather Resist. Achilles seem to forge their own territory here, diversifying their sound and concentrating less on atmospherics and more on a heavy base, mixed up tempos and interchanging riffs.” The band features members of Soul Control and Polar Bear Club.

Two lucky winners will receive a test pressing of Hospice, used only for the record release show and limited to 60 copies. Good luck! Those of you who don’t win may want to pre-order the record from Farewell Party or Vinyl Collective.
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Sound Study Recordings recently put out the vinyl for Off With Their Heads‘ new live record, Live At the Atlantic, Volume 2. We’ve got a test press and white vinyl copy to give away.

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Buddy Nielsen of Senses Fail has joined Jeremy Comitas and Paul Klein of The Banner to form a new hardcore/punk project called Bayonet. The New Jersey-based band has posted two tracks for streaming.

The band’s future plans include tours with Defeater and/or Outbreak. In the mean time, you can check out some music on their myspace page.
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The The King Khan and BBQ Show will release a new full length this fall on In The Red Records titled Invisible Girl. The garage rock duo of Mark Sultan and King Khan (of King Khan and the Shrines) will have their new 12 song album available on November 3rd. Paper Bag Records will handle the release in Canada. You can check out the cover art in the Punknews release calendar.

This isn’t the only upcoming release from the Sultan and Khan, as both artists are members of the The Almighty Defenders with the Black Lips. That band has their self-titled debut due for September 22nd on Vice.
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Circa Survive has signed to Atlantic Records. The band posted an update explaining the change from longtime home, Equal Vision Records:

After almost a year of writing, we have begun working on our third record in Toronto, ON. David Bottrill, who has made amazing albums with bands like Tool, King Crimson, Silverchair and Moneen, is producing.

After completing our contract with Equal Vision we embarked on a long search to find our next home. We met with lots of labels and decided that Atlantic Records is the best place for us to continue our growth as a band and to help us release our music around the world. Because this is a big step we feel the need to reassure you that we are and always will be the same band no matter what label we are on.

The band released On Letting Go in 2007.
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Our stream today comes from Long Island, NY-based This Is Hell. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new 7-inch, Warbirds.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Underground Operations has signed Kingdoms and Dean Lickyer.

Kingdoms are a five-piece from Kitchener, Ontario. On the strength of a free digital EP the band played shows with Protest the Hero, Silverstein, Farewell to Freeway and others. The band’s debut release for the label Daughters of Atlas will be available on September 29th. A tour of Quebec and the Maritimes with Silversten is planned for the fall.

Dean Lickyer is a rock’n’roll band from Stoney Creek, Ontario . They were part of the MuchMusic reality show DisBand and were awarded “Best Band of CMW 09” by Kiss frontman Gene Simmons (they later opened for a Kiss performance in Sarnia). The group is now recording with Justin Koop (Grade, St. Alvia, Silverstein). A self titled release will be available on October 6th, followed by a Canadian tour with Flogging Molly and Inward Eye.
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Mick Jones of the The Clash is in the midst of a five week art project in London dubbed the The Rock n Roll Public Library. The exhibit will run every week through the 25th of August from Wednesday to Sunday at the Ladbroke Grove Underground in the British capital. The event is described as follows:

The Rock n Roll Public Library is Mick Jones’s (The Clash, B.A.D, Carbon Silicon) direct artistic challenge to the likes of the corporate 02 British Music Experience. Rather than let his creative legacy atrophy Jones is ‘transforming’ his own archive of near 10.000 artefacts into one unique ‘guerrilla-library.’ Set under the Westway motorway in 3000 sq.ft of former office space, Jones’s five-week civic endeavour will also encourage visitors to enrol, interact with the archive-exhibition (Jones began collecting well before he formed The Clash in 1976 to eventual international success, as such it forms an invaluable guide to the influences that informed Jones as a pop-artist). Also uniquely by request users will be able to scan (courtesy Genus, U.K distributor of the Book2net Kiosk) certain objects and via memory stick carry them away. Please note visitors to the world’s first, resolutely alternative, Rock n Roll Public Library shouldn’t expect peace and quiet.

Jones and Tony James of Generation X have played and recorded in recent years as Carbon/Silicon.
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Angels and Airwaves have launched a trailer for their upcoming album and film, Love. The trailer features a song sample, “Riot,” and footage from the film. Both releases are expected in late 2009. Angels and Airwaves released their last album, I-Empire, in 2007.

Vocalist/songwriter Tom Delonge is currently on the road with his other band, Blink 182.
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