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From Monday 02 July 2012

The Word Alive – Life Cycles

The current wave of US metalcore is borderline unstoppable at the moment. Born of everything from thrash, grind, post hardcore and nu metal to straight up emo, the technical ability of this generation of guitarists has become eyebrow raising, and though there’s most definitely a level of studio trickery

A Loss For Words add Kingston matinee show to UK tour

A Loss For Words have added a Kingston matinee show to their UK tour with Save Your Breath, Decade and LYU. It’ll take place on the 27th October at the Fighting Cocks, tickets are £10 and doors will be at 1pm. For more information, head to the Banquet Records

Tall Ships announce debut album, ‘Everything Touching’

Tall Ships have announced that their debut album, ‘Everything Touching’, will be released on 8th October 2012 through Big Scary Monsters Records. They enlisted the help of some friends to make the announcement, and you can watch the video from the band using the embedded YouTube player.

Menzingers add European dates for September/October 2012

As well as the UK dates that we exclusively revealed last night, The Menzingers and The Front Bottoms have announced a string of European dates. This brings the full list to what you can see below. Above Them play all UK dates. SEPTEMBER 19 BIRMINGHAM Hare & Hounds 20 MANCHESTER Moho Live 21

ME post free download for “Insert Voice Here”

To mark ME’s forthcoming live dates with Arcane Roots and Canterbury, the band are offering up a free download from their recent mini album. ‘Insert Voice Here’ is now available to stream and download from Soundcloud. ME’s mini-album ‘Another Story High’ is currently available via Lizard King Records and

Introducing: Straight Jacket Legends

FFO Yellowcard, MXPX, Zebrahead FACEBOOKhttp://www.facebook.com/straightjacketlegend TWITTER http://www.twitter.com/straightjacketlegends Straight Jacket Legends are a band that employ the sort of Pop Punk you would hear in the early ‘noughties’ and you know what, that’s brilliant. How many bands can you say that you know of right now that sound like

STREAM FOR THE WEEK: Press To Meco’s self-titled EP

This week’s stream comes courtesy of the rather good Press To Meco, as we give you an early listen to their self-titled EP ahead of its release next week. You can listen to the EP in the sidebar of the homepage, or by using the embedded SoundCLoud player in this

The Skints post ‘Rise Up’ music video online

The Skints have posted an official music video for their song ‘Rise Up’. It’s taken from their recent album ‘Part And Parcel’, and features Parly B. You can check it out using the YouTube player in this article. http://www.facebook.com/theskints

The Afterparty announced as main support on Jody Has A Hitlist UK tour

The Afterparty have been announced as main support on the forthcoming Jody Has A Hitlist UK tour with Our Innocence Lost. You can check out the dates below: SEPTEMBER 21 MANCHESTER Moho Live 22 GLASGOW Stairway 23 LIVERPOOL O2 Academy 2 24 NEWCASTLE Space Bar 25 NORWICH B2 26 LONDON27 SOUTHAMPTON Joiners 28 BIRMINGHAM Ballroom 29 KINGSTON Peel 30

Pacer – Making Plans

If you frequent punk shows in the UK, you’ll probably be familiar with Pacer. Mark Pavey and Dave House are known faces across the UK from their days in The Steal (and Dave’s solo work), so ‘Making Plans’ is an album that many have been looking forward to hearing