It's go time.

Cancer Bats, Anti-Flag, Aiden, The Menzingers, and another guest TBA will be playing the Magic Stick in Detroit, Michigan on January 12. "The Economy Sucks, Let's Party!".

Sick Of It All have a bit of an autobio up on their myspace. Give it a read, if you like.

Set Your Goals will be playing two dates in Michigan come January, on the 25th in Grand Rapids and the 29th in Pontiac. Become excited.

The Go Time! will be playing in Cobourg, Ontario on January 20th, and also have an ep in the works for release soon. Keep an eye out!

Set Anchors will be playing a show in London, Ont. this Friday the 18th.

Illuminate The Sky and Abandon All Ships will be playing The Market Hall in Cobourg on Jan 9. Support your Canadian musical bros.

Illuminate The Sky also has four tracks up for free download, you just have to ask them nicely.

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Eated

Set Your Goals will be playing two shows in the area in January, first in Grand Rapids on the 25th and then in Pontiac at Clutch Cargos on the 28th. Info.

Strike Anywhere will be playing in Detorit at the Magic Stick on Feb 8. Get pumped.

The Bouncing Souls have a video dubbed "20th Anniversary TV Spectacular: Vol 1" up on their site. Give 'er a gander.

Protest The Hero has a 2 disk LP/Live release entitled Gallop Meets The Earth available. They will also be appearing with Abandon All Ships and Rose City's own Assassinate The Following on Dec 16th. See last weeks post for details.

He Is Legend has signed to tragic hero records.
Every Time I Die will be touring overseas for the next few months, but they do have an interview posted by LAMBGOAT. Here she be.

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200!*@#

Underoath is playing a show in Grand Rapids at the Orbit Room with good friends August Burns Red and Emery. Going to be a party.

Though no longer together, Life In Your Way still has some pretty sexy merch available including Waking Giants, their final album and a darn good one at that. Here it be.

Oceans first full length, The Great Divide, is available for FREE DOWNLOAD right here. Top Notch.

Local boys Assassinate The Following recently released a full length entitled Massacre Of The North and will be playing tomorrow, Dec 3rd, at the Chubby Pickle with The Karma Cure. Info. They'll be touring with Protest The Hero and Abandon All Ships following that. Good on ya, gents.

Farewell To Freeway have a video up for their song "Portrait".

Searchingforchin's Jim Meloche did an interview with The Windsor Scene just before their break up. Pretty lengthy, but if you've ever wondered what happened to one of Windsor's most beloved heavy acts, here's the answers.

.Moneen. and Sights & Sounds will both be playing The Chubby Pickle NEXT WEDNESDAY, December 9th. 10$ in advance, 12$ at the door. All ages. Doors @ 6:00. Be There.

Sights & Sounds also have a few videos up, including an Acoustic version of "Borderlines", as well as a couple recording videos. Watch and learn?

Propagandhi are gracing the cover of exclaim magazine's 200th edition.

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Videbros

The Bled have a new album in the works as of August, so we should see something from the boys soon enough. Here's the post.

Saosin have the "Changing" official video, along with a "making of" up on their site. Enjoy.

Misery Signals has posted a video for "A Certain Death" from Controller.

Rise Against has decided to sell their 2009 release Appeal To Reason for 5$ for the next few days through Amazon. Good deal, if you ask me.

Scene Point Blank wrote a review for Set It Straight's Live Your Heart And Never Follow a while back. One of the most influential Straight Edge bands and albums of the last 10 years, in my opinion, and definitely worth a read. Here it is.

Apparently Dead And Divine have been up to a whole bunch. Shows, videos, Wizards...read it yourself.

Farewell To Freeway's drummer, Rich, has parted ways with his compadres. Posted a fairwell for y'all. They also recently recorded a Metric cover, "Gimme Sympathy". Listen up.

Polar Bear Club put up a live video of "Light Of Local Eyes" earlier this month.

Greg and Shanti from Bouncing Souls are playing some acoustic shows on the west coast with Kevin Seconds (of 7 Seconds). Pretty exciting.

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10 Years Strong!

Get ready. Hold on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen, for this news will change your 2010 forever...

Evergreen Terrace is coming up on their 10 Year anniversary, and so they are getting to gether with some friends, Bane for example, to play a couple shows on the 15th and 16th of January, in South Carolina, and in Jacksonville Florida. They will also be playing with STRETCH ARM STRONG, who are dusting it off for one last go in 2010. This is monumental, since Stretch Arm Strong, a true positive hardcore institution, have been MIA since 2007. This is said to be their LAST SHOW. Though it is in the deep south, it is worth the journey. Make it out and support.

Continuance has signed with RISE Records (congrats, gents) and have announced that their much anticipated full legth will grace our ears in Spring of '10. Voila.

Oceans' The Great Divide has been nominated in the Hamilton Spectator for Best Emo/Screamo Album of 2009, along with other Canadian acts such as Alexisonfire (Old Crows/Young Cardinals), Dead And Divine (The Machines We Are), and Straight Reads The Line (The Author). Top notch, boys.

Crime In Stereo's new full length, entitled I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone, is going to be out on Bridge 9 on February 23, 2010. In their latest post, CIS describes it as "light-years better than anything we've ever written before". Recorded with the help of Mike Sapone (Brand New - The Devil And God, Crime In Stereo - Is Dead). High hopes for this one.

Signs Of Hope will be playing Hamilton on the 26th and 28th of November before going on to tour the East Coast and then moving down to the States for a while. Catch 'em while you can.

Haste The Day is going to be in Grand Rapids, at the Orbit Room, on November 21 with All That Remains, The Devil Wears Prada, and Story Of The Year.

Brothers is going to be playing in Grand Rapids, November 21st, at Mulligans with Victor Fix The Sun, and Cain Marko

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Rancid have released a Vinyl edition of their latest album Let The Dominoes Fall that comes with a free digital download of the album. Picked this up at Dr. Disk, so if you're interested, you know where they're at.

Against Me! is playing in London with Billy Talent March 27, 2010. They also have a pretty interesting acoustic video up on their site called "Random Hearts", and another called "Adventures With Jordan and Andrew". Check 'em.

Dropkick Murphys have a special edition of their most recent release, The Meanest Of Times, available online.

Farewell To Freeway is playing a show in Mt Clemens, MI, at the Hayloft with I am Abomination and A Hero A Fake. December 13th.

Boys Night Out thanks everyone for going to their Original Five reunion show in October and have posted some "random youtube videos" for your enjoyment(?). They also have pictures up from that show if your into that kind of jazz. Photos.

The Almost has a new album entitled Monster Monster out now and have some tracks posted up on their myspace. Give it a shot.

Stick To Your Guns has announced that they will be recording come January, so get pumped. They will also be playing Detroit and Toronto on the 30th of November and December 1st, respectively. This is a part of the California Love Tour which features Winds Of Plague, and Sleeping Giant.

This Is Hell will be playing Cleveland with Above This Fire, Heads Held High, and Toon Squad on December 10th. Info.

The Warriors have a video for Destroying Cenodoxus up on thier website.

Cartel has a brand new album out, hot off the presses, called Cycles. It's really top notch, tons of fun. Also, they have a video posted for the first track off of that album "Let's Go" so check. it. out.

Four Year Strong is playing a "Holiday Show" in Worcester, Massachusetts on December 27th with Bane, Therefore I Am, Smartbomb, and Beyond City Lights. There's also word of a special "Photo Opportunity" with the guys if you pre-order the tickets. They're makin a pretty big deal about it, so who knows? Here's more info.

Besides the afore mentioned show on December 9th with Sights & Sounds at the Chubby Pickle, .Moneen. have a full-on biography on their website for your reading enjoyment. Thar she be.

Alexisonfire is currently overseas in Europe playing a tour worthy of our jealousy with Anti-Flag, Four Year Strong, and Ghost Of A Thousand. Way to go Europe. But they will be back in Ontario playing a show for us on March 27, at the John Labat Centre in London. For now, check out their new video (and a "making of") for "Born and Raised". Here.
Buried Inside have posted a live video from a Quebec City show back in '07.

Suicide Machines are playing a reunion/benefit show with local Detroit punk bands such as G-Had, The Cause, No Man and A-Gang tomorrow, November 5th. All ages from 6:00pm at the Trumbleplex. 21 and up at the Old Miami, 3930 Cass Ave at 8:30. This is a benefit show for social justice in the Detroit region. Info.

Legion Of Doom did a mix for Hopesfall dubbed "Icarus Underwater".

The Dropkick Murphys will be playing The Sound Academy in Toronto on November 19th with The Flatliners and The Mahones.

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