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Protagonist, Talk Slower, Queen City Station

Protagonist have posted two new songs from their upcoming full length the Chronicle. This full length will be the follow up to 2006's Reasoning With Time on Stake Out Records. You can check out the songs on the band's MySpace page.

Talk Slower, which features former members of Some Kind of Sleeping Giant, have posted an instrumental track from their upcoming EP No Dads, No Masters. You can check out "Ass Moments 4" on their MySpace page.

Queen City Station, which features former members of It Dies Today have posted two new tracks at their MySpace page.

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The Story Changes, 4ft Fingers, Crude Drugs

Dayton, OH's the Story Changes has put up a new track on their MySpace page titled "Caught up in Chemicals". The song is from their new full length album the Way of the Dinosaur on Future Destination Records. They're also changing bassists and backing vocalists. Check out their MySpace page for more details and album samples.

UK punk act 4ft Fingers has posted a new song on their Myspace page. The song "Where Have All The Legends Gone?" will be on their upcoming full–length New Beginnings Of Old Stories which is looking at an April 2008 release. The record will be self–released by the band.

Bitter Press is offering the official digital release of Crude Drugs' The Orange Soda Tape, previously only available on cassette tape in the Netherlands. For those that "want to party like it's 1982 with some straight up proper hardcore" this is a good place to start. Grab it here

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Us Against The Archers, Celeste, L'antietam, L.A. Kings

Massachusetts' Us Against The Archers have posted three new tracks. Check them out at their MySpace page.

Celeste has posted their debut LP Nihiliste(s) for free download. You can grab the followup to their Pessimiste(s) EP here and preorder the physical copy as well.

New Hampshire's L'antietam will be going on hiatus for 6 months while their drummer goes to live in Arizona.

L.A. Kings, who hail from Chicago not Los Angeles, have posted some new tracks. You can check them out at their MySpace page. The band features former members of Arma Angelus and Racetraitor and are working on tour plans with 2*Sweet and Chris DeadXStop.

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Hit and Run, We Are the Union, A Man Down Brighton

Portland, Oregon's Hit & Run have posted five out of the six songs of their latest EP online for free. The songs are available on their MySpace page or on their website.

Michigan pop–punkers (with horns!) We Are The Union have posted their debut full length Who We Are for download. You can grab the full album at the band's MySpace Purevolume page.

Punktastic Recordings have adopted "the Radiohead model" for their upcoming CD release from A Man Down Brighton. You can preview tracks at their MySpace page and see the details for the deal here.

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Anxious Arms, Alex and the Imaginary Friends, Antlers

Long Island's Anxious Arms have posted three new tracks. You can hear the tracks at their MySpace page. The band is playing scattered shows on the East Coast before heading out with Disarming Arctica in January.

Alex And The Imaginary Friends has posted 3 new songs from their upcoming split with Watertowers. You can hear the songs on his MySpace page. The split will include 5 songs from Alex and 6 songs from Watertowers and is due out November 20th on Raise Your Fist Records.

Antlers, who split time between Richmond and DC, will be releasing their debut LP at the beginning of December. The instrumental band features current and former members of Mass Movement of the Moth, Gregor Samsa, Resonance, and Planar. The album features eight tracks, three of which feature vocals by guest musicians including Erin Toby. You can hear previews of the tracks here, at Rorschach Records.

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Cheap Girls, Call It Fire, Red Tape Parade

Lansing, MI's Cheap Girls have recently posted a new song, "Kind Of On Purpose", in addition to their 3–song demo (recorded by Rick Johnson of Mustard Plug) on their MySpace page. Cheap Girls consists of ex–Van Ermans and Shoelace members and will begin touring in January.

Call It Fire have posted two songs from their forthcoming full length on their MySpace page. So far the album has no title, no release date and no associated label.

Red Tape Parade, which features members of Static 84, La Par Force, John Deere and more, has released their 8 song demo at their webpage. You can grab it here.

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Old News, The Widow Jenkins, URBN DK

Old News from Reno Nevada, has put new songs. Old News features former members of This Computer Kills, the Spotlight Syndicate, Disconnect, and War Against. You can hear and download four demo tracks at their MySpace page.

The Widow Jenkins, which features former members of Emery and Underminded have posted a new live video for their song "The Skeleton of Dorian Grey". The band is currently writing and demoing for a new full length. Check out the video here.

URBN DK's Denial has just been reissued. The album was originally recorded by Steve Albini in 1993. You can grab the album from Fractional Farthing or iTunes.

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The Singularity, Water Towers, the Leap Year

The Singularity have posted four songs from their upcoming 2008 release. The album is the followup to 2007's split with the Excuse and you can hear the songs their MySpace page Water Towers, who bill themselves a "Kid Dynamite influenced folk project", have posted a demo track from their upcoming split with Alex and the Imaginary Friends. The split will be released this November via Raise Your Fist Records. You can hear the track at their MySpace page.

The Leap Year's new album With a Little Push a Pattern Appears is now streaming until October 20th at Last.FM. The album is due out November 5th.

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The Danny Sling, Die Out!, Firewater

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.

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The Short Fused, Mahatma, Young Hearts

Eastern Canada's the Short Fused has posted a song on their MySpace page. It's from their new 14–song full–length, which may or may not be out depending on who you ask.

Korean "thrash metal titans" Mahatma has posted "Painkiller" over at the Dope Entertainment MySpace page. It's taken from their new sophomore full–length, Perseverance. The veteran act's publicist warns that you "do some stretching before you play this because you might get hurt yourself [sic] for uncontrollable head banging [sic] that this album will surely give you." Some more songs can be heard at the band's own MySpace or purevolume pages, but we're unsure of where online waiver forms can be found.

Brooklyn pop–punks Young Hearts (Dear Tonight, ex–Saturday Supercade) has posted a new song from an upcoming four–song EP. You can check out "Backs to It" on their MySpace page. Two other songs from Release This Demo can also be found streaming there as well. The band is currently writing for their first full–length, whose title may or may not be less demanding.

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The Carrier, Circle of Vultures, Protagonist

The Carrier has posted a new track from their upcoming debut, One Year Later. The album is due out on October 30th via Rock Vegas Records. You can hear "Wasted" at their MySpace page.

Circle of Vultures has posted two new tracks from their free EP Turn of the Century. The EP is full of demos from their upcoming LP The Devil Doesn't Sleep. You can check out the tracks on their MySpace page.

South Florida's Protaganist are currently recording their newest album. The album is the followup to 2003's Hope and Rage, which was released via Blackout! Records. They're recording in their hometown of Boca Raton and will send the record to Downingtown, PA to be mastered by Arik Victor (Crime in Stereo, Kill Your Idols). Between full–lengths the melodic hardcore outfit released their Reasoning With Time EP on Stakeout Records.

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Resonance, The Leap Year, A Plea for Purging

Virginia's Resonance has posted an unmastered version of "Pilot Flame," taken from their forthcoming split 7" with Permanent, which will be released by Collapse Records. You can check it out on their MySpace page.

Perth, Western Australia's the Leap Year have completed their debut album, With a Little Push a Pattern Appears, which will be released on November 5th via Hobbledehoy Records. The band has posted two songs from it on their MySpace page.

A Plea for Purging has posted "A Hymn of Praise" on their MySpace page, The track is taken from A Critique of Mind and Thought, due October 2nd via Facedown.

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A Kiss Could Be Deadly, The Widow Jenkins, Travis Riot

A Kiss Could Be Deadly, who recently won an "unsigned band contest" with Alternative Press, have signed to Metropolis Records. They are currently in 3 months into the recording of their new album, due out in March of 2008. You can check out some tracks at their MySpace page.

The Widow Jenkins, which features former members of Emery and Underminded, have posted two new songs off of their recently released self titled EP at their MySpace page. The band will begin recording their new full length album beginning in October with a label yet to be determined.

Travis Riot, a 3–piece band from Amherst, Nova Scotia, recently released their debut 9–song EP. Some songs from the album can be heard on their MySpace page.

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Mad About You, Enjoy the Ride Records, Hands of the Few, Cabrón!

Orono, Ontario–based singer/songwriter Mad About You has posted two songs from his new nine–song full–length, SoHo. You can check out "Have You Seen Laura Dern Lately?" and "Love Theme from Twin Peaks" at his MySpace page. He also recently posted a 2007 demo track there as well.

A new label has risen out of Long Island called Enjoy the Ride Records. The label is currently accepting both "solicited and unsolicited demos of all genres."

Texas hardcore act Hands of the Few have posted several new songs on their MySpace page. The band has also announced a few shows, including a spot at Fallcore in Houston on October 20th, which will also feature bands like Bitter End, Iron Age, Die Young, Will to Live and the JonBenét.

San Diego, CA's Cabrón! is promising to release a seven–song digital EP, Mexican Shoe Thief, for free on October 8th. The band has posted four songs from it on their MySpace page as well. The songs were recorded live to 2" tape at Audio Design Studio in San Diego, CA and engineered by Dan Maier (Head Wound City, the Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower, Some Girls). The EP will also be released with "500 silk screened wood block 12" covers that [they'll] sell at shows for about 7 bucks…[with] a blank disc with a site you can download the tunes from in it along with an insert for lyrics."

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Call It Fire, Lipona, National Frost

Long Island's Call It Fire (ex–members of the Backup Plan and Another Day, current member of Take My Chances) has posted a new, untitled demo, the finished version of which will appear on their yet–to–be recorded full–length. The band will have Latterman's Phil Douglas (Small Arms Dealer, Agent, Thieves and Assassins) handle the recording. You can check out the song on the band's MySpace page.

Tallahassee, Florida's Lipona has posted the entirety of their Urbi Et Orbi EP for free download. You can find it here.

National Frost have posted a few songs from their recently released full–length, Lost Gospels. The album was released on new Canadian label Young Soul Records and features appearances by fellow Saskatchewan artists including members of Ghosts of Modern Man, Geronimo/Despistado, and Rah Rah/Sylvie. You can check out the songs at the band's MySpace page.

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