Richmond/Orlando based hardcore band NO FRIENDS will be heading out on their first European run this April! They will be finishing the tour with a performance at GROZEROCK festival in Belgium alongside Descendents, NOFX, Dropkick Murphys, Madball, Dead to Me & many more!

Click on “more” below for a list of confirmed dates with more to be announced soon!

Earlier this year, Kiss of Death Records released a new one-sided 12″, “Traditional Failures”. You can download the EP for FREE here.

The band also released a music video for the song “Traditional Failures”. You can view the video here.

NO FRIENDS previously released their S/T album on No Idea Records. You can still find the album streaming on the band’s punknews.org profile.

NO FRIENDS features Tony Foresta (singer of Municipal Waste) on vocal duties and 3/4ths of defunct New Mexican Disaster Squad, who now play in Dead to Me, None More Black, Gatorface, and VRGNS.

Their sound has been described as “80’s style hardcore in the vein of Dag Nasty, Descendents, and Gorilla Biscuits.

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Berkeley, California’s Samiam recently returned from an extensive tour of Europe to support the release of their double LP/ CD collection entitled “Orphan Works” on No Idea Records.

While there they played the Westend Indoor, WDR.DE filmed some super-high-quality video of their performance. The station plans on airing the entire performance later this month but until then you can check out some of it online here and an interview with the band here.

If you have not heard the 18 track “Orphan Works” collection, you can head over to AMP Magazine to stream the release in its entirety.

The 18 tracks consists of studio outtakes, in-studio radio shows and live recordings from the “Clumsy” and “You Are Freaking Me Out” period of the band’s career.

The Riot Before is currently touring Europe in support of their most recent album, “Rebellion”. Skim the international dates below by clicking on “more”!

“Rebellion” was tracked at The Magpie Cage in Washington, DC with mega-legendary producer J. Robbins (Jawbox, Jawbreaker, Against Me!) and released in April on Paper + Plastick.

If you still haven’t heard “Rebellion”, it has been streaming on the band’s Punknews.org profile.

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 guitarist/vocalist Brett Adams about his involvement and support for them!

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The Holy Mountain have detailed their most recent release for No Idea Records. “Here Is No Exit” will be a picture 12” featuring four new songs recorded at Atomic Audio back in February of 2010. These will be the first new recordings from the band in over three years! Side B is a collection of seven songs from the splits the band previously released with Black Tusk, Cobra Noir, Deathcycle and Cave Canem.

The 12” release date will be later this winter, but the band will have copies with them on the road for their European tour as well as the Europe 2010 Collection tape released by Financial Ruin. The 14 song cassette will be available only on this tour and will be limited to 200 copies. The tape release includes 11 songs from the Here is No Exit 12″ and three demo/unreleased songs. The cassette collects everything recorded from 2006 to 2010.

Click “more” below for a list of confirmed European dates!

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Berkeley, California’s Samiam will be releasing a double LP/ CD collection entitled “Orphan Works” on No Idea Records on September 7th. With the release date quickly approaching, the band and label decided to give the fans a sneak peak of the 18 track collection – head over to AMP Magazine to stream the release in its entirety.

These 18 tracks consists of studio outtakes, in-studio radio shows and live recordings from the “Clumsy” and “You Are Freaking Me Out” period of the band’s career.

To support the release, the band will be doing a short run of dates in the Northeast before touring Europe with a Death in the Family and The Casting Out. Read below for all dates that are confirmed so far.

On this tour the band will be breaking in their new drummer, Charlie Walker, of Chamberlain/Split Lip.

Samiam formed in late 1988 after the break of up of Gilman’s Isocracy, and since then, they have released seven albums on several labels including “Hopeless”, “Burning Heart”, “Atlantic”, “New Red Archive” and “Ignition/Tommy Boy”.

The band performed at last year’s FEST 8 in Gainesville, FL, & you can check out footage of the band playing with Hot Water Music’s Chris Wollard here. For your viewing pleasure, we also have footage of their Sao Paulo show here and of their Buenos Aires show here, taken last December.

Click on “more” for the tour dates & track listing!
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Philadelphia’s Dirty Tactics have announced that they will be heading into the studio for a week starting on July 28th to record a follow up EP to their recent debut album, “It Is What It Is”, released by Say-10 Records.

At the helm will be Peter Steinkopf from the Bouncing Souls.

The band had this to say about recording and the new material:

“We had a few weeks off after we got back from Europe to face reality a little bit. The tour gave us a chance to work out the kinks on some new songs, so we are playing a couple local shows to solidify them before going into the studio with Pete Steinkopf from the Bouncing Souls to record a new EP. All of us grew up on the Souls (there might even be a couple Souls tattoos in this band… shh…), and we’ve been talking to Pete for a while about our ideas. We can’t wait to work with him. Expect some studio posts for sure.

“As far as the songs go, they each have a bit of a different vibe (Chris sings a couple; Dan sings another; we all sing on some) so we are stoked about that. We hope to get 6 songs out of it. There’ll be more information about its release in the near future, but we will definitely be playing them at our shows coming up.”

While on their massive European Tour the band posted the first in a series of video tour blogs from their adventure. You can head over to their MySpace page to check it out.

The band also wrote this entry to talk about their Euro-trip:

“We arrived in London on the first day of this seven week tour drunk as skunks thanks to the complimentary drinks from our Virgin Airlines flight. It wasn’t too soon after that when we were informed that Dan’s bass hadn’t arrived at the airport. Luckily, they had found it the next day. We had ten days in the UK ahead of us, then another six weeks of shows throughout the mainland and Eastern Europe. The fact didn’t sink into our brains for a while because we were hung-over and jetlagged.

“Early on, we met up with Bangers who would be our support for the tour, and embarked on what would become an endless trek of shows in cities big and small. Heading into the dark abyss had us all intrigued; it was an adventure. As we warmed up some new songs and got into shape after the first few shows in the UK, we were finally in our element.

“We were happy to return to Europe on our own tour, eager to play our way ‘til the end. We made it around the UK with a bunch of awesome shows—even one of them with our old buddies Cobra Skulls—plenty of good times all around. We crossed into the mainland and started to play a good mix of clubs, warehouse squats, youth centers, and even on a boat in Bremen. As we approached the middle hump of the tour, we finally caught our stride; as time trudged on, there was not a day off in Europe until after about 3 weeks – shows every night, across borders and across cultural boundaries. Stay tuned for a second installment with some more videos.”

The band will be headed out in October for a short run opening up for Dead Kennedy’s.

Dirty Tactics w/ Dead Kennedy’s
10/12-Portlando, ME @ Asylum
10/13- Boston, MA @ Paradise
10/15- New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
10/16- Washington, DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel
10/17- Philadelphia, PA @ Theater of the Living Arts

If you have not heard Dirty Tactics’ “It Is What It Is” yet, you can check out the stream of the new album, on the band’s profile page on Punknews.org

The band also released a split 7” with UK’s Bangers on All In Vinyl and another 7” on Flix Records to support their European tour.

Philadelphia’s Dirty Tactics have just launched a sneak stream of their debut album for Say-10 Records. You can check out the stream of their new album, “It Is What It Is,” on the band’s Punknews.org profile page. The album starts on track 6. The first 5 tracks are from the band’s previous EP, “Gangster Stamina.”

“It Is What It Is” will be officially released on May 25th.

To celebrate their upcoming European tour, Dirty Tactics is also releasing a split 7” with UK’s Bangers on All In Vinyl and another 7” on Flix Records. Both 7”s will be out to help support the band’s 30+ day European tour that starts later this month.

Before that, the band is playing a few shows on their way down to Rad Fest in Wilmington, NC. You can click “more” below for all the dates!
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Philadelphia’s Dirty Tactics have just launched a sneak stream of a new song entitled “Baltimore.” You can check out the stream and explanation behind the lyrics over at Dyingscene.com. The song comes from their debut album “It Is What It Is,” slated for release on May 25th via Say-10 Records.

The band previously leaked “The Process” over at indierockreviews.com and “When You Wake Up” over at The Punk Site. Both songs also come from “It Is What It Is.”

To celebrate their upcoming European tour, Dirty Tactics is releasing split 7” with UK’s Bangers on All In Vinyl and another 7” on Flix Records. Both 7”s will be out to help support the band’s 30+ day European tour that starts next month.

Before that, the band is playing a few shows on their way down to Rad Fest in Wilmington, NC.

You can click “more” below for all the dates!
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Philadelphia’s Dirty Tactics have just launched a sneak stream of a new song entitled “When You Wake Up” over at The Punk Site. The song comes from their debut album It Is What It Is, slated for release on May 25th via Say-10 Records.

The band previously leaked “The Process” over at indierockreviews.com, also from their upcoming album.

To celebrate their upcoming European tour, Dirty Tactics is releasing split 7” with UK’s Bangers on All In Vinyl and another 7” on Flix Records. Both 7”s will be out to help support the band’s 30+ day European tour that starts next month.

Before that, the band is playing a few shows on their way down to Rad Fest in Wilmington, NC. You can click “more” below for all the dates!
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DEAR LANDLORD is heading overseas for their first European tour. The band will be supporting their debut album, “Dream Homes,” released last year on LP/CD courtesy of No Idea Records. The first round of dates is listed beneath the “more” button below, with more confirmations expected in the coming weeks.

Summer in October (Jeremy Silveira) has also just posted video of five songs from the March 5th Dear Landlord show at The Atlantic in Gainesville, FL. You can head over to his site to check out the rowdiness.

If you still haven’t heard the mind-bogglingly infectious Dream Homes, you can still stream the entire album on the bands PUNKNEWS.ORG band profile.

Dear Landlord consists of Zack (Guitar/Vocals) and Brad (Drums), formerly of Minneapolis pop-punk legends Rivethead. Zack also plays in House Boat and Off With Their Heads, while Brad also plays in The Gateway District and The San Diego Chargers. Brett (Bass/Vocals) and Adam (Guitar/Vocals) also pull double-duty in power-pop superheroes The Copyrights.

Dear Landlord previously released a split 7” with Chinese Telephones on Recess/It’s Alive Records and a split 7” with Off With Their Heads on No Idea, both in 2007.

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