Paper + Plastick are offering everyone a free, 23 song compilation of songs from Mixtapes, following their announcement that they will split after Fest. The band have made a statement about the comp:
“”…..I was at Eric’s house the other day, who is the guy that recorded and engineered all of the Mixtapes records. We were going through stuff and joking around and realized we had quite a few songs no one had ever heard,including myself more than once or twice. A few of them I thought “why on earth didn’t we put this on a record?”. Then I remembered that Weezer also didn’t put Susanne on a record and we all make mistakes. At that point I decided we should put out a free download of all of our unreleased material, rare material, splits and just things in general that might not be so easy to get anymore. After clearing it with the suits and tracking down all of the songs, in part thanks to some listeners I did it. So here it is, sequenced with artwork and ending with something very special. We are really proud of the songs and there’s no reason they shouldn’t be available if you like our band so please download it, share it, post it etc etc. The last song on this record is something near and dear to me. One day while recording “Even on the worst nights” everyone went to breakfast. I stayed behind, clicked record in the studio and put myself in the mindset of a high school non conformist goth kid. What came out was 15 minutes of completely freestyled angst that I could never repeat or pull off again, so please while listening feel my pain. But really, we are excited to release this all on one record and thanks to Vinnie for putting it out and being the best, we love you!

<3 Mixtapes ....." You can acquire yourself a copy from P+P now.

Ryan Rockwell – frontman of Ohio’s pop-punk crew Mixtapes – has returned with a solo effort under the moniker Youth Culture.

Coupling the reveal with a full album stream over at Bandcamp, Rockwell talks of the project as a darker side to his day job, particularly given the stresses of touring for the last four years. Stream the album below, it’s available for Pay What You Like download from his Bandcamp.

It’s taken from the band’s brand new No Sleep Records album, and you can check it out using the player in this article. Get the album from here.

“If you can go to anywhere in the country and draw 10 people, you’ll have 400 at Fest singing every song.”

We asked Mariel from Candy Hearts and Ryan from Mixtapes what makes Fest awesome and they told us about McDonald’s, Street Punks, Victoria’s Secret, politics and how great it is to see so many friends in one place. Ryan tries to do an English Accent. Mariel doesn’t say a word that means many different things. It’s just all damn awesome.

Keep an eye out for guest appearances from Koji and O-Rock.

“If you can go to anywhere in the country and draw 10 people, you’ll have 400 at Fest singing every song.”

We asked Mariel from Candy Hearts and Ryan from Mixtapes what makes Fest awesome and they told us about McDonald’s, Street Punks, Victoria’s Secret, politics and how great it is to see so many friends in one place. Ryan tries to do an English Accent. Mariel doesn’t say a word that means many different things. It’s just all damn awesome.

Keep an eye out for guest appearances from Koji and O-Rock.

We’ll post more details this afternoon, but the Brighton show (Wednesday) and Kingston are 100% still going ahead.

Tomorrow’s Punktastic Presents… show now looks like this;

STARTERS
MIXTAPES (Maura Acoustic)
GNARWOLVES
HOME ADVANTAGE

FACEBOOK EVENT: http://www.facebook.com/events/444829412202091/

Support comes from Starters, Gnarwolves and Home Advantage, and you can see all the details of the show on the poster and links in this article!

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/444829412202091/

Last.FM: http://www.last.fm/event/3308018+Punktastic+Presents…