Topshelf Records is teasing a new 4-way split from Tigers Jaw, Code Orange Kids, Self Defense Family and The World is A Beautiful Place and I'm No Longer Afraid To Die.

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Palma Violets will release their debut album 180 on February 25th via Rough Trade.

Track Listing
01) Best Of Friends
02) Step Up For The Cool Cats
03) All The Garden Birds
04) Rattlesnake Highway
05) Chicken Dippers
06) Last Of The Summer Wine
07) Tom The Drum
08) Johnny Bagga' Donuts
09) I Found Love
10) Three Stars
11) 14

Former Absolute 100 artist Brooke Waggoner has announced her new album Originator which will be released on March 5th. Track listing is below and details can be found in the replies.

Track listing
01) Shiftshape
02) Rumble
03) From The Nest
04) Ink Slinger
05) Squint
06) Perish
07) Welspryng
08) Waterlogged
09) Canticle
10) Mixin' With The Birdies
11) To Love

Hot Water Music will release Live in Chicago on 3xLP and 2xCD/DVD on January 15th via No Idea Records. Pre-order it here.

After The Fall will release its fourth studio record, Unkind, on March 19th, 2013, via Paper + Plastick Records. You can stream a new song "Decade" along with the album art and track listing in the replies.

Meg Framption and Nick Price (formerly of Meg and Dia) have started a new band called The Khaki Scouts. Check out their video announcement in the replies.

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Face To Face have finished recording its new album Three Chords and a Half Truth, which is due out sometime in 2013

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Sleeping At Last officially unveiled its newest project, Atlas, which can be read about here.

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Absolute 100 favourites Louellen are currently in the studio writing and recording new material. We will have an in-studio report and interview with the band and possibly a premiere of new music soon, so keep your eyes peeled!

Post Season (ex-Handguns, Nothing to Prove) will release their debut EP, Restless Nights, on December 18th via their own IDGRE (I Don’t Give A Recordings). A 7" will later be available from Broken Rim Records. The band's upcoming tour dates with The Tired & True can be found in the replies.

You can now pre-order Venna's (Marky from The Felix Culpa and his wife) new album, Third Generation Hymnal. You can also see the band's new music video for "Married" on Alt Press.

Two Hours Traffic will release Foolish Blood on February 19th through Bumstead. You can listen to "Last Star" in the replies.

Track Listing
1) Magic

2) Audrey

3) Amour Than Amis
4) Last Star

5) Meaning Of Love

6) I Don't Want 2 Want U

7) Adventureland

8) Faster 4 U

9) Ready For A Look

10) Strangers On The Street
11) O My Love

In a recent interview, Koji noted that his upcoming Run For Cover debut is currently being mixed and was produced by Will Yip.

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According to Rolling Stone, Phoenix will be releasing its follow-up to 2009's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix sometime in April 2013.

Texas Is The Reason will be releasing comprehensive discography titled Do You Know Who You Are?: The Complete Collection which features two new songs on February 12th via Revelation Records. Stream new track "When Rock 'n' Roll Was Just A Baby" over at Rolling Stone now.

Touché Amoré and Pianos Become The Teeth will release a split via Topshelf Records and Deathwish, Inc. It will be available digitally on Janaury 8th and physically on January 22nd.

You can now pre-order Defeater's Live at BBC Radio 1 7 inch.

Shout Out Louds will release their new album Optica on Febrauary 26th. Hit the replies to watch the video for new track "Blue Ice."

Track Listing:
01) Sugar
02) Illusions
03) Blue Ice
04) 14th of July
05) Burn
06) Walking In Your Footsteps
07) Glasgow
08) Where You Come In
09) Hermila
10) Chasing the Sinking Sun
11) Circles
12) Destroy

Bad Rabbits will release a limited edition 7" for "We Can Roll" via Mind Over Matter Records. Pre-order it here, and read details on the release in the replies.

Still Rings True is releasing an acoustic 7" that will released later in December through Anchor Eighty-Four Records. Pre-orders will be available soon. You can stream a track called "No Compromise" here.

The Maccabees have started to write their new album and will be producing it themselves early next year in time for the end of 2013.

From The Interview

I think we're gonna do it ourselves, The way we made the last record, learning to do it ourselves, no-one knows better how to make our own record than we do. It's gonna have quite a lot of space in it. With the records we're listening to at the moment, there's so much faith in the songs that they're allowed to really breathe and exist on their own grooves.

Dee Dee (Dum Dum Girls) and her husband Brandon Welchez (Crocodiles) have announced that their new band will be called Haunted Hearts and that they will release their debut single "Something That Feels Bad Is Something That Feels Good"/"House Of Lords" on February 5th via Zoo Music.

The Cribs will release their singles and b-sides collection titled Payola in February. The band have also stated that their career after this release is uncertain at the moment and they may take an extended break. Hit the replies to read the press release and check out the full tracklisting for this great release.

From NME.com

Are we splitting up? I wouldn't say that right now. It's just like, five records, ten years – it makes you contemplate what your position is and what the future holds. It's the end of the first era. We haven't made a solid decision on what our future is right now. We're all still writing [songs] but it could be for anything

This Town Needs Guns will release 13.0.0.0.0 on January 22nd via Sargent House. You can hear two new tracks here and here.

Track Listing
01) Cat Fantastic
02) Havoc In The Forum
03) Left Aligned
04) In The Branches of Yggdrasil
05) I'll Take The Minute Snake
06) 2 Birds, 1 Stone and an Empty Stomach
07) Nice Riff, Clichard
08) Triptych
09) Pygmy Polygamy
10) A Different Kind of Tall (small)
11) +3 Awesomeness Repels Water
12) 13.0.0.0.0

The Word Alive revealed in an interview that they will be releasing a new EP in 2013 with a full-length album to follow in 2014.

Trees Above Mandalay's new EP is titled Growing Pains and will be released on January 8th, 2013. The EP was recorded and produced by Kevin Antreassian and the band, and was mixed and mastered by Kris Crummett. Track listing is below and album art is in the replies.

Track listing
1. Everything I Wish I Didn't Know
2. I'm Leading, You're Biting
3. We Felt Like Astronauts
4. We'll Sleep Just Fine
5. Non Compos Mentis
6. As Easy As Breathing

Diamond Youth will release a new EP titled Orange on January 22nd through Topshelf Records. Full press release, including album art and track listing, can be found in the replies.

PropertyOfZack has a new "Behind The Booth" feature today with Tym's (ex-Daytrader) new band Some Stranger. The feature contains a video, some photos, and info on the new project.

The new Shai Hulud album will be called Reach Beyond the Sun and will be released February 2013. Artwork can be found in the replies.

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Ke$ha will release a five song EP featuring acoustic versions of some of her new music. You can listen to the stripped down version of "Die Young" in the replies and you can pre-order it in her store.

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