Knocking down the Pile - July 31st

Once again, every band on the planet has sent us in their webpage links and MP3s... and once again, I've devoted a few hours of my life to sifting through the 30 or 40 news submissions and putting an article together. I hope you bastards are happy :)

So click READ MORE to see links / MP3s and news snips from the following bands: Tastes Like Chicken, Hateful Monday, The Plus Nominations, End This Week With Knives, Maximum RNR, Atomic Garden, Christmas*3, New School Hero, The Sugarland Run, 2nd Attempt, The Goodwill, The Berlin Project, Punchline, The Schematics, End On End, Greyfield, Spring Victory, Southcott, The Butcher Boys, Jacknife Powererbombs, At the mOment, Social Standards and The Fighting Shatners.

SWITZERLAND

Tastes Like Chicken is a self
described ska / hardcore from Switzerland, check them out.

Also from Switzerland, Hateful Monday
is a melodic hardcore band.
Rounding out our Swiss submissions, The Plus Nominations
are a melodic indie rock band from that country. 
CANADA
End This Week With Knives
is a fast rising band from Vancouver, British Columbia. Check out their song Conscious
Vs. Craving.
Maximum RNR from Toronto,
Ontario have just released their debut single on MP3. The power rock quartet is
supporting with a three week North American tour starting September 13th. Get
dates here.
FRANCE
Atomic Garden from France
have some new MP3s up. Their label Dumb Inc
also has a new compilation of French band mp3s.bands.

PORTUGAL
Christmas*3 has a new website
online, check their site for more info.

AUSTRALIA

Austraila's New School Hero are
releasing their self-titled EP soon. They have a new MP3 up here.

AMERICA

The Sugarland Run from Provo, Utah is going on a two week west coast tour in late august.
They need some help in California and Washington however. If you could help them out with a
venue or even just a house to play they would greatly appreciate it. Contact Alex. 
Orange County New York's 2nd Attempt will be heading into the studio in a month to begin recording for their first full length. If you want to get a taste of this band's music you should check out their next show on August 13 in Chester NY with Epitaph's newly signed
The Getaway.  
Goshen, New York's hardcore / punk band Self-Denial
have posted some new MP3s
and tour dates, check them out. 

Long Island's The Goodwill are
currently in the studio recording their upcoming full length "That Was A
Moment for Negative Progression.
Check out some MP3s here.
Florida's From First To Last (formerly First Too Last) have a new site and lineup.
They have a new song up too, check it out.
Two Pittsburgh pop punk bands, The Berlin Project and
Punchline, are touring this August. The tour will begin after Berlin Project finishes their Warped stint. TBP has not done a full-fledged tour in a long time and they have new songs to play from their upcoming album.
Dates can be found on their websites.
New Paltz, NY ska band, The
Schematics, are nearly done with their second full length, "Gas Station Sushi" and are currently playing a few dates around the Hudson Valley and New Jersey.
Check out four new songs here. 
Florida's Late for Life are touring
everywhere and have some new MP3s up. Their website is under construction right
now. Check the site for tour 
Los Angeles based hardcore band End On End
has a new album coming out on Substandard Records
titled "Why Evolve When We Can Go Sideways?" The release date is August 6th and
will be supported by lots of touring. 
Jacksonville Florida's Greyfield is touring the USA
from now till the end of September to support their CD "Soundtrack to the
Summer," due out August 3rd! They also have a contest up at AntiPopVideos.com.
If you can help with any shows, e-mail Greyfield.
Melodic punk band Spring Victory, featuring ex members of Steprocket, Delta 88, Jonsey's Drop
and Impulse 9, have some new MP3s up. Check them out here.

Southcott, another band from Orange County, NY, has some new MP3s up here.
Check it out and tell this guy (who
isn't with the band, just curious… I guess) what you think.  

(again) we've got a link from another Orange County NY band. Check out The Butcher
Boys, they should have some MP3s up soon.

Cleveland's Jacknife Powererbombs
have uploaded every single sing they've recorded in the past few months tot heir
website. Check them out. 
At the mOment, featuring former members of the hardcore rock band Belltown has posted a brand new mp3
on their website. You can read an interview with the band in the new Soundblur.

New York's Social Standards has some mp3's up here.
The band is currently playing a Warped Date and a show in Poughkeepsie on August
8th. 

The Fighting Shatner's new EP "We Got A Winner" was just released a few days ago. Check out
some of the band's MP3s here.