LA's the Danny Sling have followed the new trend of releasing for free online. You can grab their new EP Raw Safety at their Reverb Nation page.

Belgium's Die Out! have uploaded a new demo song destined for a 7" split with Our Time Down Here from Southampton (UK). You can hear "Whatever It Takes" at their MySpace page. They are currently on tour in Belgium, France and Germany, and will focus on composing new songs later this year.

Brooklyn's Firewater has posted a stream of their new album the Golden Hour on their MySpace page. The band features members of Gogol Bordello and Balkan Beat Box had been in hiatus while frontman Tod A (Cop Shoot Cop) spent three years in exile as a response to the 2004 elections, traveling to and collecting material from musicians in the Middle East and South Asia. The album will be officially released as soon as the band's collapsed independent label Jetset Records is replaced with another.