Chicago’s The Arrivals will be releasing the follow up to their critically acclaimed previous album, “Marvels of Industry”, on October 5th via their new home Recess Records. The 13 track album, entitled “Volatile Molotov” was described by Recess owner, Todd Congelliere, as “the band’s grand opus” and “listens like a classic novel”.

To celebrate, Recess has leaked the track “Frontline” for your enjoyment. Head over to the Recess Records site to listen and view the album artwork.

The Arrivals will also be doing a run of shows with their friends, Off With Their Heads ending with a performance at Best Friends Day 9. You can click “more” below for the dates and the complete track-list for the record!

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Gainesville’s Grabass Charlestons will be hitting the road in August to support the release of a split LP with Toys That Kill for No Idea Records. They will be doing a leg with friends The Future Virgins and The Dopamines as well as a tour ender at Best Friend’s Day in Richmond, VA. You can click on “more” below for a full list of dates!

The LP will be available August 21st via No Idea Records, but the band will have them on the road for sale for their tour. You can check out the track “Dale” from the release on the band’s Myspace page. You can click on “more” below for the complete track listing!

Grabass Charlestons have previously released two 7”s on Barracuda Sound, two LPs (Ask “Mark Twain” and “The Greatest Story Every Hula’d”), a split LP with Billy Reese Peters and a split 7” with The Ergs!; all on No Idea Records.

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Cincinnati’s pop-punk trio The Dopamines confirmed the dates for their upcoming tour later this month. The U.S. tour, with a side-step into Canada, ends in August when the band plays at Best Friend’s Day in Richmond, VA. You can click “more” below for the complete list of shows!

The band is supporting their latest release “Expect the Worst” on Paper + Plastick. Punknews.org is still streaming it on the Dopamines’ profile page. You can head to P+P’s online store to purchase the album.

Over in Cincinnati’s, the band recently finished filming their music video for the track “Public Domain” with Mario Framingheddu. Continuing with the “Expect the Worst” theme, the finished work will premiere on Friday, August 13th on BlankTV.com.

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The Blacklist Royals will once again be hitting the road to support their debut album, “Semper Liberi”, for Paper + Plastick.

This next round of shows starts out with the band sharing dates with Nothington.

If you have not heard the rocking infectiousness of “Semper Liberi” you can still stream the album in it’s entirety on the band’s Punknews.org profile.

BlankTV.com launched a premier of the video for the band’s single “American Hearts.” You can check out the video here.

You can click “more” below for the dates, along with those for the subsequent legs of the tour!
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Gainesville’s Spanish Gamble will be doing another run of dates down the East Coast with new found tour buddies Nothington. The band is still currently on tour supporting their debut album, “It’s All Coming Down” recently released by Paper + Plastick.

Having been on the road since mid May, the band decided to document their adventures with some tour videos. You can check out two installments of debauchery here and here.

Spanish Gamble recently made a music video for their song “There Is No God Tonight” from “It’s All Coming Down”. You can head over to BlankTV.com to watch the video.

You can click “more” below for the remaining national tour dates as well as their dates with Nothington!
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Cincinnati’s power pop-punk trio THE DOPAMINES have leaked their new sophomore album, “Expect The Worst”. Punknews.org will be hosting a stream of the album for the masses on the band’s profile page.

“Expect The Worst” comes out today on LP and digital download via Paper + Plastick. Head over to the label’s online store to purchase.

The album was recorded this past November with Roger Lima (Less Than Jake/Rehasher) and Matt Yonker (Teen Idols/The Queers) at Roger’s Moat House Studios and mixed by Stephen Egerton (Descendents/ALL). .

The Dopamines just played this past weekend at Insubordination Fest in Baltimore. A good buddy Marc Gärtner was there to capture the entire set for us.
You can check it out in three parts.

Part (1), Part (2), Part (3).

The band is currently booking a month-long tour of the U.S. in July and August. They has announced a few of the dates. Expect more confirmed dates to be announced soon. This weekend the band is headed to Minneapolis for Dillinger Four’s 7th annual D4’th of July party.

You can click “more” below for the dates! Expect more confirmations to be made!
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Reaxmusic.com has launched an exclusive stream for the song “ A Lot To Do” off of the upcoming album from Bloomington, IN’s Defiance, Ohio. You can click here to hear a stream of the new song.

The album, entitled “Midwestern Minutes”, will be released on LP/CD via No Idea Records on July 6th 2010. The label recently posted a stream of the track “Hairpool” from “Midwestern Minutes”. Head on over to the band’s No Idea Records profile page to hear the track.

Earlier this month Indierockreviews.com launched a stream of the song “Flood Waters” from “Midwestern Minutes”. You can click here to check it out.

“Midwestern Minutes” was recorded this past March & April by Mike Bridavsky at Russian Recording Studio in the band’s hometown of Bloomington, Indiana. Bridavsky also produced the band’s critically acclaimed previous album “The Fear, The Fear, The Fear”, released by No Idea in late 2007.

The band will be embarking on an extensive US tour starting June 11th. Click “more” below for a all the confirmed tour dates!

Defiance, Ohio have released three previous albums: “Share What Ya Got”, “The Great Depression”, and “The Fear, The Fear, The Fear”. All can be ordered through No Idea Records.

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The Riot Before recently shot a music video for their song “Backstage Rooms” from their new studio album “Rebellion”, released in April on Paper + Plastick. The video, directed by Lucas Krost was shot in their hometown of Richmond, VA this past May and should see the light of day later this summer.

Bassist Corry Manning had this to comment on the details of the video:

“We shot the video all day at Brett’s house. We started at about noon and went until 4 in the morning We were using smoke machines in the house and the ADT went off and about 4 fire trucks showed up. We had to explain to the firemen “its cool, we are shooting a video”.. It was one of the longest, most stressful days of my life. The worst part is, that we still have one more shot to get, but I did get to play dice, so that was cool but I lost a lot of money…not so cool. The concept of the video is the concept of the song. Once you do something enough times it starts to become routine and isn’t as cool anymore. So, the video starts out as the biggest and best raging party you have been to and ends up as the lamest worst party ever… bummer.”

You can check out some behind the scenes footage of the video being filmed here.

The band has also released a donation based download of a B-side from “Rebellion” entitled “Blank Slate.” All money raised from the download will go to support the organization These Numbers Have Faces. You can go to the charity’s website to download the song and hear a personal message from Brett Adams of The Riot Before about his involvement and support for These Numbers Have Faces.

If you haven’t heard “Rebellion”, it’s currently being streamed on the band’s Punknews.org profile.

“Rebellion” was tracked at The Magpie Cage in Washington, DC with legendary producer J. Robbins (Jawbox, Jawbreaker, Against Me!).

The Riot Before will also be hitting the road to support their new album. The month-long tour will find the band sharing the stage with label mates Blacklist Royals and a run of dates with Nothington and Heartsounds. You can click “more” for the dates!

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Cincinnati’s power pop-punk trio The Dopamines have leaked yet another new song from their new sophomore album, “Expect The Worst”. Thepunksite.com is currently hosting a stream for the song “Dick Simmons”. Head over here to check it out.

“Expect The Worst” will be released on June 29th on LP and digital download via Paper + Plastick. The label is offering an early preorder package deal that includes the LP, CD, Koosie and Digital Download for $12. Head over to the label’s online store to check it out.

The album was recorded this past November with Roger Lima (Less Than Jake/Rehasher) and Matt Yonker (Teen Idols/The Queers) at Roger’s Moat House Studios and mixed by Stephen Egerton (Descendents/ALL).

The band previously leaked three other tracks from “Expect The Worst”. You can check out a stream of “Public Domain” over at paperandplastick.com and “You’d Make A Good Horsecop” on the band’s MySpace page and “It Couldn’t Really Be Any Other”, over at Dyingscene.com.

The band is currently booking a month-long tour of the U.S. in July and August. Expect confirmed dates to be announced soon. Until then, they are playing a few shows including Insubordination Fest and Dillinger Four’s 7th annual D4’th of July party. You can click “more” below for the list!
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Gainesville’s Spanish Gamble have posted a video update from their adventures on the road with Nothington. You can check out the debauchery on the Paper + Plastick site.

National Underground recently posted a video interview with Spanish Gamble, which you can check out by clicking here.

The band continues on their full US tour in support of their debut album for Paper + Plastick, entitled “It’s All Coming Down.” Check out the month of dates still to come by clicking on “more” below!

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