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Luca Brasi have added an all ages show to their upcoming Tasmanian run with Endless Heights.

The Used and Taking Back Sunday team-up for a double bill this August. The duo will take in four shows on the co-headline Australian run. Both bands tour on the back of impressive studio albums respectively. “The reformed original Taking Back Sunday line-up is truly off and running and it's comforting to know that they are still capable of the quality we have come to know and love.” – ‘Happiness Is’ review. While we described The Used’s ‘Imaginery Enemy’ as “one-hundred-and-twenty percent a rock album from start to finish.”

Trade Wind have locked in a June release date for their debut EP.

Cynic duo Paul Masvidal and Sean Reinert have publicly come out, with the musicians discussing homosexuality in an interesting and insightful LA Times article.

Adventures, originally one of No Sleep Records bands have just signed with Run For Cover Records. 

US Christian metalcore act I, The Breather,  have recently announced the title and release date for their new full-length album as 'Life Reaper'.

When it comes to the Australian hardcore scene, it can be a mixed lolly bag. On the one hand you have the dry, stale and expired. Like the candy itself, you know instantly the reception will leave a bad response. On the other side, you have the desirable and anticipated.   While, “great” bands are few and far between, only coming along every so often, it’s the aspiration shown by certain local upstart groups that drive the scene forward. They're the ones booked out almost every weekend to play shows, with the aim to grow and improve.   Hands of Hope fit this description like a glove. With their debut, self-titled EP, the Melbourne melodic-hardcore quintet has been gaining a fair amount of attention within their domestic surrounds.   We catch up with the group pre-show in Melbourne to gain an insight into current band life. What emerges is an open and strong collective, which belies their young professional and personal age.   "The response [to the EP] so far has been ridiculously go...

Local support acts have been announced for the upcoming June Carcass tour.

After postponing their 2013 tour, Forever Came Calling will perform in Australia on a nine show run this August.