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McCafferty have released Forest Life. Download and stream it below! Forest Life by McCafferty

Check out Touché Amoré 's new song "Just Exist" below.

An Animal Style  Records Tour  with Half Hearted Hero , Raindance , and Wolves At Bay  has been a a nnounced.  Dates : Aug 22 - Staten Island , NY - Killmeyers Aug 23 - Syracuse , NY - Badlands Aug 24 - Brooklyn , NY - Suburbia Aug 25 - Boonton , NJ - The Canvas Clash Aug 26 - Taunton , MA - All About Records

Stream Nikoo 's new single "The Coast" below, featuring Dazzled Kid .

Tragic Hearts  release their self-titled EP for free on their Bandcamp today. Check out the first single from the EP, "Charity" below.. Charity by Tragic Hearts

Hindsights, The Winter Passing and Driveway  have announced a UK tour. Check out the dates below.    August 22 Fibbers (Basement), Dublin* 26 Mozarts, Swansea 27 Green Park Tavern, Bath 28 Heart Attack & Vine, Newcastle 29 Broudcast, Glasgow 30 Downstairs, Aberdeen September 01 Make A Noise Festival, Chatham 02 The Marquee, Norwich 03 Urban Bar, London 04 The Star Inn, Guildford *The Winter Passing & Driveway only

Listen and download The Oarsman 's new single, "First Flight", below.

Tim Kasher  has announced his sophomore solo album, Adult Talk.  It will be released October 8, through Saddle Creek Records.

The Postal Service have released a documentary. Watch it below. 

Kid Dynamite have announced that they are breaking up after their final European tour.

Today is All We Know Is Falling's eight anniversary. Hayley Williams has released a statement regarding that fact. Check it out below! Our 1st album is 8 yrs old today!! So crazy. Touring on our debut album held some of the greatest experiences I’ll ever know. Seeing the country for the 1st time from the back of our 12-passenger van, getting kicked out of venues after our sets cause we weren’t old enough to really hang there, playing our first sold out show at Beat Kitchen in Chicago! So many memories. Picture to the left is from our 1st SXSW show. (Jerm and I were trying so hard to be tough, even though he’s wearing a headband and I’m wearing a Harry Potter shirt.) And the one on the bottom right is from our very 1st show ever after we got signed to @fueledby … We opened for Fall Out Boy, The Academy Is… , Gym Class Heroes and Silverstein. (Yeah, some newbies don’t know but I played guitar at acoustic shows back then). Anyway, thank you so much to everyone who’s come along wit

The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die  have just announced a string of fall Canadian dates with The Front Bottoms. The run starts October 15 in Montreal and ends in Rochester , NY on October 19 (see dates and ticket links below). Next month TWIABP will play a couple of east coast shows with Pity Sex and Modern Baseball. A one-off date with Japanese math rock legends Toe, is also confirmed for September 29 in Hamden , CT.  August 24 - Garden City NY @ The Wood Shop w/ Pity Sex, Dads, Modern Baseball August 25 - Asbury Park , NJ @ Asbury Lanes w/ Pity Sex, & Modern Baseball September 29 - Hamden CT @ The Space w/ Toe October 15- Montreal , OC Petit Olympia w/ The Front Bottoms ( http://www.lecurie.ca/shows.php ) October 16- Ottawa, ON Babylon w/ The Front Bottoms ( http://www.ticketweb.ca/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail;jsessionid=6iwUpkbhGS9hTIaoqB6rMQ**.node8?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3733094&jsessionid=6iwUpkbhGS9hTIaoqB6rMQ**.no

Ohio  indie rockers  The Sidekicks  have announced a late summer tour with Philadelphia ’s Hop Along, which kicks off August 24 in Chicago IL . The band will also lend support on a string of The Gaslight Anthem’s fall tour dates, starting September 6 th . Tour Dates: Jul 26          Grog Shop  w/ Ted Leo and The Pharmacists  Cleveland , OH Aug 18          Weapons of Mass Creation Fest     Cleveland, OH Aug 24         Beat Kitchen  w/ Hop Along  Chicago , IL Aug 25         Mac's Bar  w/ Hop Along  Lansing , MI Aug 26         ANAF Hall  w/ Hop Along , Wayfarer Guelph , Canada               Aug 27         The Mansion House  w/ Hop Along , Wayfarer St. Catharines , Canada Aug 28         Hard Luck Bar  w/ Hop Along , Wayfarer Toronto , Canada Aug 29         II Motore  w/ Hop Along , Wayfarer Montreal , Canada Aug 30         University of New Hampshire ( Memorial Union Building )  w/ Hop Along  Durham , NH Aug 31         The Space  w/ Hop Along  Hamden ,

Westchester , NY ambient indie rockers  Moving  Mountains  have posted the first (“Swingset”) in a series of live videos here .

Villagers have announced November tour dates. Check them out below!

A full stream of  Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants’  new album  All Hat and No Cattle  premiered today on  American Songwriter. Check it out here .  

The Divers have released a new single called "The Way You Are". It has a surf-rock 90s vibe, a little like Weezer. Check it out below.

Check out Poverty Hollow' s video for "Concrete" below! You can also download the video for free if you click into it! Also, the band's new self-titled EP is 'name your price'. Check it out below! Poverty Hollow by Poverty Hollow

Westchester , NY ambient indie rockers  Moving  Mountains  will release their 3 rd  full-length on September 10 via Triple Crown Records. The self-titled effort is the full length follow up to their Triple Crown debut  Waves.

Welsh pop punks  Save Your Breath , will release their new album,  ‘There Used to Be a Place For Us’  in the US on 8th October. Produced by up-and-coming Welsh producer, Gethin Pearson, and mixed by Stuart Richardson, the record represents the first international release by Los Angeles-based label, Animal Style Records.  Check out a new lyric video for “Lessons”, the lead track off the upcoming LP below.

North Carolina  based  akissforjersey  has signed with  InVogue Records. 

Check out Class Picture's new single, "Waking Up" below. VIBE by Class Picture

Touché Amoré  will release  Is Survived By  on September 24th. 1. Just Exist 2. To Write Content 3. Praise / Love 4. Anyone / Anything 5. DNA 6. Harbor 7. Kerosene 8. Blue Angel 9. Social Caterpillar 10. Non Fiction 11. Steps 12. Is Survived By

7 Seconds has released their first new song in over 8 years.  Listen to it below. 

Label Profile Name: Too Far Gone Records Location: New Jersey/  Massachusetts   Founded: 2013 Contact Them:  Facebook ,  Bandcamp ,  Tumblr __________________________________________________________________ How did the label come about and what's the story so far? The label came about as a result of me wanting to become more involved with the music scene and deciding that, since I don't personally have musical talent, that a record label would be an endeavor that I would both enjoy and would hopefully contribute to the scene. I actually wrote a paper about the DIY music community for a class in my fall semester in which I interviewed two of my older friends that ran labels and asked them questions about how they started and such. Come mid spring semester I decided to just give it a go, thought up a name, set up an email, and things just took off from there. I was planning to only have a couple tape releases over this summer but I'm way past that alrea

Check out A Grave With No Name 's video for "Aurora" below.

Few bands on the scene have made me fall in love quite as quick as Our Sunday Affairs did, so I was delighted to get an interview with a band whom I considered to be rising stars of our world. When the interview revealed to me that these guys were calling it a day, I was gutted. However, read below and check out their upcoming record, Cave, and prepare yourself to say goodbye in the best way possible. Hi there, Our Sunday Affairs! Hey Kelly and everyone at Alternative Tone! We're super stoked for this opportunity, much love! No worries! Who is Our Sunday Affairs and what's your story so far? Ever since Transitions the band has been Jake Schwab as our vocalist and the dude who really shows the most raw energy during our live performance.. Ryan Malmos as our drummer, who started playing drums shortly before he joined, and had no band experience what-so-ever. He ended up being an amazing drummer, and really showed a lot of heart through the good and bad times

Label Profile Name: Don't Live Like Me Records Location: Boston/ Medway, MA Founded: 2012 Current Roster:  Deathdealer, SLOTHS, Troop Of Echoes, Gillian Carter, Undark & The Radium Girls, Gatlin, Canadian Wedding, Native Wildlife, Monoliths, Dionaea, can lady, These Branches, BATS, Sunlight Alumni Contact Them:  Facebook ,  ___________________________________________________________ How did the label come about and what's the story so far? So after spending a year on interskramz / driftwood records I decided it was best to run a manage a label myself. Dandy (driftwood records) had moved away to Oregon and it made sense to start fresh. I also had enough contacts to start it up. I asked my friends Tanner and Gina to help me run the label and we have been active since xmas day of last year. Since then we are approaching 20 releases so far with the majority being vinyl.                What are your plans for the label in 2013? We have many projects in store

Finch have announced tour dates. Check them here .

Hi there! Hello! Who is Johnny Edwards and what's the story so far? Johnny Edwards is a 4-piece emo band (currently 3 because we're missing a bassist) in Golden, CO. We like to play shows with cool bands. We currently have put out a demo and 2 splits via No Direction Records(my bud Evan's label) and Too Far Gone Records(my other bud Billy's label) with plans to put out more this summer. We also like to party. How did you come together? When I was in 9th grade I met Nick Caddigan, our drummer. I played bass at the time. We both wanted to start a band and it was a mutual thing (but he always says it was him who started it and I let him now because he bought me pizza or something). At the time we wanted to play the worst music, like, I laugh about it now because we thought we were so cool for liking breakdowns and whatnot. And I dunno you couldn't really blame us when the CO music scene was heavy metalcore and we were young and stupid. But after like 420 y