Houston, TX’s burliest high-five dispensers O Pioneers! have announced the recent release of their album “Neon Creeps” on cassette format care of Mightier Than Sword Records. The limited-edition lime green cassettes are available now from Mightier Than Sword and the band themselves.

“Neon Creeps” was officially released on February 10, 2009 on CD by Asian Man Records and shortly thereafter on LP care of Kiss of Death Records. The record garnered much acclaim and respect from former fans and naysayers alike, receiving comparisons to Hot Water Music, Fugazi, and early-era Replacements. Evil Needles Website said of the band, “If the post-hardcore scene was to have an epileptic seizure, O Pioneers! would be the foam at it’s mouth.”

If you missed the boat the first time around, you can still stream the record over at their Punknews.org band profile.

O Pioneers! will be heading north in June for a short run through Canada with long-time tour buddies Bridge & Tunnel. They’ll also be joined by natives Yesterday’s Ring, Junior Battles, and Orphan Choir on select dates.

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To celebrate the upcoming release of “Taker Easy,” the debut album from Gainesville’s newest outlaw country band The Takers, Suburban Home Records is giving away a free mp3 from the album right now. Click on over to their site to download the title track, “Taker Easy.”

The record will be officially released on CD/LP on July 21st.

Joey Cape (singer of So-Cal skate punk legends Lagwagon) will be touring the US to support his solo album “Bridge.” He will be joined by long-time friend and tour buddy Jon Snodgrass (of Drag the River fame) who recently released his solo album “Visitor’s Band.” Both albums were released care of Suburban Home Records.

Click “more” below for a list of all the dates throughout the Southeastern US.

You can listen to a steam of both albums on the artists Punknews.org artist pages. To listen to Joey Cape’s “Bridge” go here, and to listen to Jon Snodgrass’ Visitors Band go here.

The two were recently interviewed together by Vinyl Vlog and Spin Earth.
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DEAR LANDLORD have leaked three songs from their upcoming debut album, Dream Homes, for No Idea Records. You can find “I Live In Hell,” “High Fives,” and “Lake Ontario” streaming on the band’s myspace page.

Dream Homes will be released on June 30th on LP/CD. To celebrate No Idea Records is giving away a bonus 7” featuring exclusive unreleased material with hand screened covers. This 7” will only be available to people who pre-order the LP before June 15th.

The band is also heading out on the road this summer to support the new album. On the first run they will head to Insubordination Fest with their better looking kissin’ cousins, The Copyrights. On the second summer fun run they will be joined by black sheep of the Midwest inbreed beast of rock, Off With Their Heads.
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Gainesville, Florida’s newest addition to the country/punk crossover train, The Takers, have just leaked three tracks from their upcoming debut for Suburban Home Records.

You can stream “Curse of a Drunk,” “Drift,” and “Friends in Bottles” on the band’s MySpace page.

Their debut album is entitled “Taker Easy” and will be released on LP/CD/Digital Download on July 21st.

The band describes their sound as “influenced by 70’s outlaw country and honky-tonk classics made standard at the time by legends like Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Hank Williams Jr.”

Members have been playing in various Gainesville bands for years, with two members currently pulling double duty in No Idea Record’s Whiskey & Co.

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NO FRIENDS have leaked a few tracks from their soon-to-be-released debut self-titled album on No Idea Records. The record has a tentative street date for sometime in late July.

Until then, you can hear the mastered versions of “Have You Ever Heard of Aspirations?,” “Never Ending Fight,” “You’ve Got No Friends,” “Set in Your Ways,” and “Black Hearse” on their MySpace page.

The band features Tony Foresta (singer of Municipal Waste) on vocal duties and 3/4ths of the recently defunct New Mexican Disaster Squad. Their sound has been described as “80’s style hardcore in the vein of Dag Nasty, Descendents, and Gorilla Biscuits.”

NO FRIENDS have only one show currently scheduled. They are set to play August 21st at Alley Katz in Richmond, VA as part of Best Friends Day 8. Other bands scheduled to play include Strike Anywhere, Torche, None More Black, Young Widows, Assholeparade, Off With Their Heads, Hellnation, Blotto, Lemuria, Pink Razors, Monikers, The Measure [SA], Brainworms, Cannabis Corpse, Shellshag, No BS Brass Band, Virgins, Ultra Dolphins, Gatorface, Ringers, Wasted Time, Friendly Fire, Snacktruck, Magrudergrind, Constrictor, Psyched to Die, and many more to be announced shortly.

With the roar of an engine and a billowing cloud of smoke, Denver’s stoner/sludge freaks Git Some will be blowing town and making for the West Coast next week for a string of dates. This trip will be their first of the year, following in the wake of their two-month European adventure in September and October of last year.

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Congratulations are in order to our brothers from the Great White North, Yesterday’s Ring, whose new album dropped this past Tuesday care of Suburban Home Records.

To celebrate the release, our tightest of friends at PunkRadioCast and their new store ShopRadioCast are running a contest to win some Yesterday’s Ring schwag, including a personal hand-written love letter from Hugo Mudie, singer of Yesterday’s Ring. Go check it out right here!

Tampa, FL’s coffee-punk trolls New Bruises have emerged from hibernation and are preparing for the first steps in what they hope to be a very active year. Next week they’ll hit the fair shores of Europe for a three-week adventure throughout Germany, France, Netherlands, and the UK.

You can click “more” below for dates and venues.

To coincide with the European tour, they’ll be releasing a split 7” with Offshore Radio (Sunderland, UK, featuring members of The Dauntless Elite and The Mercury League). They split comes care of Germany’s Yo-Yo Records and features the artistic stylings of Richard Minino, better known as Horsebites Design.

New Bruises are also proud to announce the addition of Chris Murray on bass, formerly of The Gray AM.
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Minneapolis, MN’s gravel-throated road warriors Off With Their Heads have announced the release of their “Live At The Atlantic” 7”, due out June 2nd care of Sound Study Recordings. The songs were tracked live at long-standing Gainesville haunt The Atlantic on December 12th, 2008 by a crack team of Sound Study Engineers. You can check out the first track from the record, “I Am You,” over on Sound Study’s myspace page.

Sound Study owners Matt, Tom, and Joe commented by saying; “We are so stoked to have Off With Their Heads be a part of the ‘Live at the Atlantic’ 7″ series. We are big OWTH fans and were super excited when they agreed to be a part of this. The recording came out great and they played a killer show. Having Horsebites do the artwork was just icing on the cake. It looks amazing. We can’t wait for people to see and hear this release.”

Track listing:
1. I Am You
2. Go On Git Now

This pressing is limited to 1,000 hand-numbered copies on colored vinyl. The color breakdown includes 150 on yellow (Vinyl Collective exclusive), 200 on white, and 650 on green. The record features art by Horsebites Design.

This is the second installment of Sound Study Recording’s “Live At The Atlantic” series, the first of which features Young Livers and Army of Ponch. The series will continue shortly with a 12” compilation featuring bands performing at The Fest 7.