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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.