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Valentine

RCA, as in a major label? That was kind of weird to see on an Anti-Flag CD, but whatever. Read the full review >>>

Joel Edelman

Occasionally goofy lyrics are the big surprise on Wherever You Go. Read the full review >>>

Joel Edelman

With haunting vocals and bite-size tracks, Nire do an excellent job with crafting efficient songs that you really ought to love, if you know what's good for you. Read the full review >>>

Joel Edelman

Listening to this album crashed my broswer, but why should you care? Julia Lau does an excellent Paula Cole impression on In the Wildflowers and Weeds, but what does it all mean?

Well, there's plenty of low- and midtempo tunes on the album, and some of them run together a bit, but her voice is so even-keeled that it's not a problem. Read the full review >>>

Joel Edelman

It's amazing how things have changed since 2003. Read the full review >>>

Punknews.org is thrilled to announce a new partnership with popular multinational sandwich franchise Subway and the launch of our "Break Up? Eat Fresh!" campaign.

Regular Punknews readers will have frequently seen comments like "sandwich time!" or "I'm going to get a sandwich!" as a means of trivializing the break-up of an unliked band. The meme, inadvertently started by an editor in September of 2002, has become so popular that it reached the boardroom of the Milford, Connecticut-based sandwich kings. In a statement company president Fred De Luca commented "most advertising requires you to entice potential customers into your establishment, but here's a case where the customer's hungry, they're passionate, they have no regard for punctuation, and they're screaming out for a meal. You can't buy opportunities like this."

The pilot project linking the music news moguls and the restaurants kicks off today, April 1st. Whenever a band breaks up, print out the Punknews article announcing the split and bring it to any of the company's over 27,200 locations for a free 6 inch sub with the purchase of a large drink (some conditions apply - only valid on the date the article was posted - not valid in Quebec). Furthermore, Punknews.org will feature spokesman Jared Fogle in an upcoming series of articles detailing how a sandwich with 6 grams of fat (or less!) plus a night out slamming in the mosh pit is a great way to get in shape.

Rock ’N’ Roll Soldiers have announced an April tour. The band self-released their debut full length, So Many Musicians To Kill last year after having difficulties and then parting ways with their major label, Atlantic Records.

Originally signed to Gearhead, the band released a compilation of their two Gearhead EPs titled The Two EPs before running into difficulties with the full length.

Saddle Creek Records have posted a full album stream for Bright Eyes' forthcoming release Cassadaga. The new album, which is the follow-up to the rarities/ b-sides compilation Noise Floor, will be released April 10.

You can stream the album .

Facedown Records have signed Nashville, TN’s A Plea For Purging. The band recently self-released an EP Quick Is The Word, Steady Is The Action and will be recording this summer for their Facedown debut, which will tentatively be released in the fall.

In somewhat related news, Facedown has launched a new website .

Ben Kweller has a posted a new video for the song "Penny on the Train Track". The video stars Ben's grandmother, Marylin "Bubbie" Kweller performing a jazzercise routine, seemingly with Ben behind the lens. The song comes from last year's self-titled release.

So I am finally accomplishing the lifelong goal of having my own TV show, which thanks to the Internet is entirely too easy. I am expecting to move all my comedic stylings to my new site, so I don't think I will be here as often as I was. Don't…

Check out this headline from Yahoo!'s home page:

"Oil Rises Above $74 a Barrel"

Considering it's been above $74 for most of the past week, this is a very misleading headline. When it was $78 per barrel, that would have been the time for this type of headline.

Speaking of which, because of…

Tomorrow is, too. Any auction or fixed-price listing that starts before midnight Pacific tomorrow night will be just 20 cents to list. What a freakin' deal. If it weren't so damn hot, I'd do something about it.