Punknews.org is leaking a stream of the entire new studio album from HIGH DIVE. The new three-piece Queer punk band from Ryan Woods of Defiance, Ohio.

You can stream the self-titled debut that was released on LP/CD via No Idea Records last month here.

Last month, No Idea Records gave away a free MP3 download from the album.

You can download the song “Tennessee” for free here.
You can order the album from No Idea, or purchase from iTunes here.

The 10 track album was recorded at Russian Recording in Bloomington, IN with Mike Bridavsky. “This is where Defiance, Ohio and lots of other Bloomington based bands record”, says Mr. Woods. “We are good friends with Mike, he is very good at what he does. We felt very comfortable with him. It was important to us to make this record very simply. We had played the songs a lot so we wanted to just be really ready. In the end it was all recorded in one session and mixed the next day. We are really happy with how it all worked out”.

Ryan commented on the inspiration for starting yet another musical outlet outside of Defiance, Ohio:

“For years, Theo Hilton (Defiance, Ohio + Nana Grizol) and I had found it
difficult to talk about the issues of being queer in our songs. It was something that was really important to us. Toby Foster seemed to have a real strength for expressing his feelings on those topics with his music. We had known Nick Romy for years and as soon as we played the few songs we had already written, it seemed to click into place. We all found a greater voice for speaking about our experiences being queer, while being influenced and excited by the energy of some of our good friends’ three piece pop-punk bands like Songs for Moms, The Max Levine Ensemble, Delay and Vacation.”

HIGH DIVE – S/T TRACK LISTING:
1. A Reason
2. Sincerity
3. Hi, How Are You?
4. I Forget To
5. I Think We’re Alone Now
6. Tennessee
7. Clean
8. I and You and We
9. Restless
10. Thank You

Earlier today, National Underground posted an interview with Tony Pence, singer of Baltimore’s hardcore staples Deep Sleep! You can read the interview here.

The site also released the track “Always Run” from the band’s upcoming album “Turn Me Off” due out on Grave Mistake early next year! You can go here to stream and download the new song.

The previously leaked the title-track from “Turn Me Off” on their MySpace page.

“Turn Me Off” will be available on LP/CD on 1/25/2011. The record was mixed/mastered by Stephen Egerton (All/ Descendents), and follows up “Three Things at Once”, a 21 song collection CD of the three 7” EPs the label previously released.

No Idea Records is giving away the first song from the debut album by their most recent addition to their family, SHORES! They are a two piece project composed of Brian Przybylski on guitar, vocals, bass & John Massel (of North Lincoln fame) on drums and have been compared to Bedhead, Codeine, Low, and June of 44.

The song, “Meanwhile”, will be on the 8 song LP entitled “Coup de Grace” expected to be released on November 9^th.  You can click here for the download. 

“Coup de Grace” was recorded late 2008 by Matt Younker, Christian Kremo, and Josh Stacey at The White Lodge in Wayland, MI; mixed 2009 by the same Christian Kremo and mastered in 2010 by Derron Nuhfer at Sarlacc Mastering. Click on “more” to check out the track listing below!

If you’re making the trip down south for FEST 9 this weekend, SHORES is going to be playing two awesome shows!

SHORES TOUR DATES:
Oct 28^th- Gainesville, FL @ 1982 – 4^th Annual PREFEST show
Oct 31^st – Gainesville, FL @ 1982- THE FEST 9
Nov 27^th – East Grand Rapids, MI @ Mulligan’s’

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Chicago’s The Arrivals will be releasing the follow up to their critically acclaimed previous album, “Marvels of Industry”, on October 5th via 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 the band has teamed up with the mighty Punknews.org to give the people an early stream of the album prior to release date.

You can head over to the band’s Punknews band profile to listen to the album in its entirety.

Over summer, the Arrivals finished a run of shows with their friends, Off With Their Heads, ending with a performance at Best Friends Day 9.

The band is next scheduled to perform at THE FEST 9 in Gainesville, FL over Halloween weekend.

Chicago’s The Arrivals will be releasing the follow up to their critically acclaimed previous album, “Marvels of Industry”, on October 5th via 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”.

The band has leaked a track from the album. You can listen to a stream of the song. “Two Years” on the band’s MySpace page.

Recess Records previously leaked the track “Frontline” for your pleasure. Head over to the Recess Records site to have a listen.

The Arrivals recently finished a run of shows with their friends, Off With Their Heads, ending with a performance at Best Friends Day 9.

They now have a few shows scheduled to support the album including a performance at THE FEST 9 in Gainesville, FL over Halloween weekend.

Click on “more” for the track listing and tour 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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Gainesville’s Grabass Charlestons joined forces with long time west coast comrades Toys That Kill to release of a split LP of all new material for No Idea Records!

Thanks to the fine folks at AMP Magazine you can now stream the LP only release in its entirety here.

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

Grabass Charlestons recently returned from a two week tour where they closed out run with a performance at this year’s Best Friends Day in Richmond, VA.

The band will be taking a break until their performance at the FEST 9.

Click on “more” for the track listing!

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Orlando’s VRGNS has leaked their upcoming sophomore album entitled “Manimals” for Kiss of Death Records, to be released on LP/CD August 31st!

Head over to the band’s Punknews.org band profile to hear “Manimals” in its entirety.

Kiss of Death Records also just released a limited edition teaser 7” for “No Longer Entertainment” with a B-side cover of Born Against’s “Nine Years Later”, featuring Ryan Patterson of COLISEUM fame on vocals. The pressing will only be 300 copies so grab them while you still can!

VRGNS are scheduled to appear at THE FEST 9 in Gainesville, FL over Halloween weekend.

Click on “more” to get some more information about “Manimals”!
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Gainesville’s Young Livers are embarking on a tour today up the East Coast to do a run of Canada with Against Me! and The Flatliners. On their way, they will be playing dates with friends Mouthbreather, Bridge & Tunnel and Iron Chic.

The band will be supporting their current album, “Of Misery and Toil”, released this past spring on No Idea Records.

Click here to listen to, “Of Misery and Toil”, in its entirety.

Alternative Press recently launched a premiere of the video for the title track of the new album. You can head over to AP to check out the video for “Of Misery and Toil.” The video consists of still photos shot by their good friend Brian Keheller on the Young Livers/OK Pilot pre-FEST tour last October.

Young Livers recorded the album last year at Satellite Recordings in Ventura, CA with Armand John Anthony, also responsible for the auditory violence committed on 2008’s Glass And Ashes “S/T” album. Drums were re-tracked in December ’09 with Ryan Williams in Gainesville, FL. Williams then re-mixed the record and passed it along to New Alliance Mastering for a finished product.

“Of Misery and Toil” follows the band’s critically acclaimed debut album, “The New Drop Era”, released in 2007 by No Idea Records and Kiss of Death Records. You can still stream The New Drop Era in its entirety on the band’s Punknews.org profile pages.

Click on “more” to see the tour dates!
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Sunderland, UK’s Leatherface will be touring Australia and Japan to support their most recent studio album, “The Stormy Petrel”, which saw a North American release earlier this year via No Idea Records. You can click “more” below for a list of tour dates.

The Stormy Petrel is the band’s ninth full-length album and was released by various labels worldwide. The North American LP/CD version was released March 23rd via No Idea Records. Their version featured entirely different cover art and overall layout than the European, Japanese, and Australian versions.

You can currently steam the entire album on Punknews.org band’s profile page.

BYO Records released the band’s last album, “Dog Disco”, in 2004.

Leatherface formed in August 1988, and their music has often been described as a bastardized cross between Hüsker Dü and Motörhead. Though never attaining much more than a cult following outside their native country, the band has been cited as an influence by higher-profile bands such as Hot Water Music, Dillinger Four, and Tiltwheel.

Jack Rabid, music critic and publisher of the music magazine Big Takeover, once listed Leatherface’s 1991 release “Mush” as one of the fifty greatest punk albums of all time.

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