Gainesville’s Coffee Project has leaked a stream of a song from their upcoming Paper + Plastick album Moved On. You can head to hear the song, “Big Trouble In Little Gainesville” at Dyingscene.com.

Coffee Project is the brainchild of good friends Buddy Shaub (Less Than Jake) and Jake Crown (Rehasher). Moved On was self-produced in Shaub’s home studio with guest appearances from Kim Helm (Whiskey & Co.), Jon Gaunt (Chuck Ragan’s fiddle man), and Michael Claytor (Umoja Orchestra).

The band previously leaked a couple other tracks from the album. You can find a stream of “Bubble In My Head” over at Late Night Wallflower, “I Will Run,” at IndieRockReviews.com, “This Is Me Getting Over You In Two Chords Or Less” over at ReaxMusic.com and “Easy Does It” on the band’s MySpace page.

Coffee Project is currently on tour to support the release of Moved On with labelmates Blacklist Royals and Greenland Is Melting.

Recently a video of a Gainesville house show performance surfaced online. You can go here to catch Jake Crown of Coffee Project (solo) performing four songs from their new album including a New Order cover to a packed house. Check out the video footage courtesy of Jeremy Silveria here.

The band also recently posted their first in a series of tour videos from the road on their MySpace page.

Moved On is the follow-up to their previously released 10″ EP Easy Does It and their digital-only EP Pickle, both released by Paper + Plastick.

You can check out footage of Coffee Project performing “A.M. P.M.” at THE FEST 8 via Alternative Press.

You can click “more” below for tour dates!
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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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Gainesville’s Spanish Gamble have announced a tour in support of their debut album for Paper + Plastick, entitled “It’s All Coming Down.” After rendezvousing with longtime buds Nothington at Wilmington, NC’s Rad Fest, they’ll tour together down the East Coast, across the Southwest and on into California. The first batch of dates is behind the “more” button below, with more confirmations to come in the following weeks.

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

Punknews.org recently joined forces with Paper + Plastick for a limited time downloadable giveaway of “It’s All Coming Down.” Head over to Punknews.org or just click on the link below to download the full album.
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Any day now, Kiss of Death Records will be releasing a new one-sided 12″ EP from No Friends, entitled “Traditional Failures.” 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.”

In anticipation of their upcoming tour (dates below), Kiss of Death is giving away the entire EP for free download. You can dowload the album here.

“Traditional Failures” Tracklisting:

1. A Look Ahead
2. Letter of Apology
3. Permanent Black Eye
4. Armed to the Teeth
5. Control Freaks
6. Traditional Failures

NO FRIENDS TOUR DATES
4/02/10 Raleigh, NC @ The Pourhouse w/ Deep Sleep, Double Negative, Pollution
4/03/10 Harrisonburg, VA @ Macrock w/ Deep Sleep, Double Negative, Wasted Time, Valkaryie
4/04/10 Washington DC @ TBA
4/05/10 York, PA @ The Skid Row Garage w/ Deep Sleep, Common Enemy, and Olde Tiger
4/06/10 New Brunswick, NJ @ Bosnia w/ Deep Sleep, Nightbirds
4/07/10 Boston, MA @ Church of Boston w/ Deep Sleep, Ramming Speed, Hellbent Hookers, Livver
4/08/10 Brooklyn, NY @ Bruar Falls w/ Deep Sleep, The Bombettes, Nightbirds
4/09/10 Philadelphia, PA @ The Terrordome w/ Deep Sleep, Affirmative Action Jackson, John Wilkes Youth
4/10/10 Richmond, VA @ The Bikelot w/ Deep Sleep, Cloak/Dagger, Dry Spell, Freeman

NO FRIENDS previously released their S/T album July 28th on No Idea Records.
You can find the album streaming on the band’s Punknews.org profile page.

Michigan’s Small Brown Bike have released the details for “Composite Vol. 2,” the second installment in their 7” series of new material for No Idea Records.

Scheduled for release on March 9th, “Composite Vol. 2″ will feature two new songs tracked this past January in the band’s home recording studio and mixed/mastered by Dave Feeny at Tempermill. The 7” will be limited to 1,100 physical copies, which will include a digital download. Side A will host “Some Optimistic,” with the flip side being home for “Never Walk This Alone.”

The band commented that the two new songs “feel a little slower and colder than Composite Vol. 1’s material. That’s what a winter in Michigan will do to a band.”

SBB recently released “Composite Vol. 1,” a 7” on No Idea Records. The 7” featured two new songs recorded in 2009; “When We Run” and “Hourglass.” The 7” was limited to 1,100 copies. No Idea has 30 left for sale on their mail-order website. The band has about 50 copies they will be selling at their upcoming shows in March. Once they’re gone, you’ll still be able to purchase the songs via iTUNES. You can currently stream “Composite Vol. 1″ here.

The band will be playing shows in Gainesville and Orlando while in Florida performing at the second annual Harvest of Hope Fest (HOH FEST) March 12th-14th in St. Augustine, FL. In May, the band will set out for a string of shows in the Northeast, which they haven’t visited since 2003. All dates and support acts can be seen by clicking “more” below.
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Chicago’s garage-pop masterminds CoCoComa will be kicking off the new decade with a three-week trek throughout mainland Europe, beginning with a riotous New Year’s Eve show in Berlin followed by a caravan through Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, and The Netherlands. Along the way, friends Sonic Chicken 4, Mondo Ray, and Chimiks will join them.

Just in time for their European dates, Germany’s Red Lounge Records will be releasing a collection LP containing a slew of CoCoComa’s 7” singles, live bits, and unreleased tracks. The collection album is titled “Spectrum of Sounds” and will be available at the band’s merch table and shortly thereafter via the internet and various distributors.

CoCoComa “Pick Slides Across Europe” Tour 2010
12/30 – Munster, GERMANY @ Gleis 22 w/ Mondo Ray
12/31 – Berlin, GERMANY @ Cortina Bob w/ Mondo Ray
1/1 – Dresden, GERMANY @ Groove Station
1/2 – Stuttgart, GERMANY @ Club Zwoelfzehn
1/3 – Treviso, ITALY @ Outside/Inside Studio (limited space, RSVP: info@outsideinsidestudio.com)
1/6 – Perpignan, FRANCE @ El Mediator
1/7 – Zaragoza, SPAIN @ Kezka
1/8 – Valladolid, SPAIN @ Wallaby
1/9 – Madrid, SPAIN @ Wurlitzer Ballroom w/ Le Jonathan Reilly
1/10 – San Sebastian, SPAIN @ Mogmabo
1/12 – Bordeaux, FRANCE @ St. Ex
1/13 – Orleans, FRANCE @ Paxton’s Head w/ Chimiks
1/14 – Paris, FRANCE @ Le Gambetta 2/ Chimiks
1/15 – Rouen, FRANCE @ Emporium Gallorium
1/16 – Kortrijk, BELGIUM @ The Pit’s
1/17 – Groningen, NETHERLANDS @ TBA

CoCoComa released their second LP Things Are Not All Right earlier this year on Memphis’s infamous Goner Records, home to other garage rock titans like Jay Reatard, Ty Segall, Box Elders, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, and many others. The record has already garnered considerable praise from critics, some of who have said:

“Forget blitzkriegs, CoCoComa’s Things Are Not All Right is the real all-out assault. […] This is garage rock on an entirely new and bountiful level. Blink and you might miss the drunken genius of Cococoma, but take them in and you’ll probably be left blinking in surprise for days anyway.” – Skope Magazine

“A word of free advice: Any bands out there considering making a record that lands anywhere along the fairly lengthy (yet somehow narrow) gamut of garage/punk/power pop/rock, do it this way. On their sophomore full-length for Goner Records, Chicago quartet CoCoComa offer what is essentially a blueprint for how to create a loud, melodic, built-to-last punk record. […] Things Are Not All Right bursts with simple, well-crafted tunes that walk a fine edge between sweet and sour; garage and glam; gritty and glossy. They’re delivered with an urgency and directness that practically dares other bands to come up with something so impossibly simple and dead on.” – Dusted

“With bursting pop mayhem, this reminds me of the Lookout roster of years gone by, like the Pattern, albeit with a tad bit of Cheap Trick as well, like huge hooks, marshaled drums, and tight tunefulness. […] This stuff is hectic, unpretentious, lacking that winking irony, and actually full-throttle fun — just an organic heap of all things righteous and rollicking.” – Left of the Dial

Worn In Red have unveiled the album artwork and track listing for their forthcoming album “In The Offing.” The album art was designed by guitarist Brendan Murphy. Expect the album to see the light of day November 17th, 2009, courtesy of No Idea Records.

Worn In Red – “In The Offing”:
1) Vital Joys
2) Piled Like Bricks
3) When People Have Something to Say
4) Resigned Not Resigning
5) As Best We Can
6) And You Knew
7) Mise En Abyme
Fort Reno

The band has also leaked four tracks from the album. You can stream “Fort Reno” ,“Piled Like Bricks”, “Mise En Abyme” and “When People Have Something To Say,” also on their MySpace page.

“In The Offing” will be their first release for No Idea, on the heels of last year’s split 7” with Benard, a split release between Atlanta’s Alaska Records and No Brakes Records.

Worn In Red hail from Richmond, VA and have garnered comparisons to Planes Mistaken for Stars, Four Hundred Years, Frodus, Glass and Ashes, and Sleepytime Trio.

The band is planning a tour on their way down to THE FEST 8, dates for which can be seen by clicking “more” below.

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Buffalo’s Failures’ Union have leaked another new song from their new album, entitled “In What Way,” to be released this fall on Paper + Plastick.

You can now stream “ Cubist Camo“ on the band’s MySpace page.

The band previously leaked two other new songs from the album. You can also listen to “The Fall Man” and “Comb” right here.

The band describes themselves as a mid-90’s influenced indie rock band, and has gained comparisons to The Lemonheads, Gin Blossoms, Buffalo Tom, Guided By Voices, The Pixies, and Counting Crows.

Failures’ Union features members of Lemuria, The Exit Strategy, and The Grail. They recently released a split 7″ with Cheap Girls on Art of the Underground. Their previous album, “Sinker” was released on One Percent Press. Other releases include an 8-song EP on Art of the Underground entitled “You Know Who” and a 2-song 7″ in the Art of the Underground Singles Series.

You can also check out some live footage of them from this past March here.

Failures’ Union will be touring this fall with good buddies and label mates Cheap Girls, with stops at THE FEST 8 in Gainesville, FL and FUN FUN FUN FEST in Austin, TX. You can click “more” below for the dates!

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Gainesville, Florida’s Grabass Charlestons will be leaving for a West Coast tour with Michigan’s Cheap Girls. The tour is based around a performance at North Park Awesome Fast in San Diego and FYF FEST in Los Angeles.

Grabass Charlestons will also be playing two shows on the tour as an acoustic three-piece where drummer Will Thomas will come out from behind the kit to pick up the guitar. The three-piece has done this acoustic boogaloo several times around Gainesville at anniversaries, birthday parties, and benefit shows.

One such show was caught on video that you can see here. The audio of that set was also captured and will be released by the band on CD along with their live set from the FEST 5 at Common Grounds in 2006. The 18-song CD compiling both shows will be available only on these West Coast tour dates!

Grabass Charlestons will also be performing for the eighth year in a row at THE FEST 8 in Gainesville, FL over Halloween weekend. The band plans on releasing their split 12” with Toys That Kill at that show, courtesy of No Idea Records.

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Orlando’s power punk all-stars Gatorface have just posted a new song called “The Cleaner” on their MySpace page. “The Cleaner” will be featured on the band’s debut album for No Idea Records, entitled “Wasted Monuments.” No release date or artwork has been announced yet.

Gatorface features ex-New Mexican Disaster Squad members Richard Minino (Horsebites) and Alex Goldfarb (Alex Goldfarb). Both are also pulling double duty in the No Idea super-group No Friends. The band has been described as having a wide range of influences, drawing on the simplicity of The Ramones, the darkness of The Adolescents and the quirky, technical hooks of Descendents.

Gatorface will be performing this weekend at Best Friends Day in Richmond, VA as well as at The Fest 8 this Halloween weekend in Gainesville, FL.

They released a 10” entitled “Sick and Stupid” on Paper + Plastick Records earlier this year.