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Wavelets sign with Tiny Engines Records
Tiny Engines (Tigers Jaw, CSTVT, Look Mexico, Restorations) is stoked to welcome Gainesville, FL's Wavelets to its growing family of bands. The label will release the quintet's debut full-length, Athaletics, on 12" vinyl and digital formats in late Fall. Pre-orders will come at the end of September. To celebrate the great news, the band and label have teamed up with the folks at Absolutepunk.net to debut "We're Really Jazzed About The Gig." Swing by the site and listen to the exclusive stream of this brand new song here. Additionally, Wavelets was recently included on the Topshelf Records 2011 Label Sampler. This compilation features some of the very best of the underground emo / punk scenes, including Pianos Become The Teeth, Touché Amoré, Moving Mountains, Balance And Composure, La Dispute, Grown Ups, Bars Of Gold and much much more ... not to mention most of the Tiny Engines Roster as well. To download "My Dad The Manatee" from Wavelets, plus 67 other amazing songs, go here. R...
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Fucked Up added to Foo Fighters tour
The Frontier Touring Company are rapt to confirm Foo Fighters' nationwide stadium tour this summer with special guests Tenacious D will now feature additional support - in the form of hardcore punk ensemble Fucked Up. The Canadian band have been tearing up stages all around the globe for nearly a decade and their live shows are known to explode with pure, unadulterated mayhem, as affirmed by media who have witnessed their incomparable live experience: "It's easy to see why Fucked Up's singer, Damian "Pink Eyes" Abraham, has become as close to a superstar as a punk can without joining Green Day." - GUARDIAN.CO.UK "While their singer creates the spectacle, the five other players in Fucked Up are onstage showing off the band's impressive tightness...Fucked Up have evolved from a hardcore punk band in every aspect except ethos; the band's set is a high-mark of intensity and energy that the tiny crowd appreciate greatly." - RAVE MAGAZINE With their third studio album David Comes To L...
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Dead Icons sign with Bullet Tooth Records
Bullet Tooth is excited to announce the worldwide signing of Dead Icons. Dead Icons is a hardcore band from Lexington, Kentucky and has been a band for about two and a half years. They weren't from a prominent city in the hardcore scene, didn't have a friend in a popular hardcore band, or have any members of any past notable bands. So instead of giving up, they set out to achieve their goals by sheer hard work and continuing to push through when times got tough and most bands would back out. The band started from members of several local bands who shared the same dream of being able to tour, and at the end of 2008 they decided to pursue their dream and released a six song demo. Shortly after this, and after a few of the members either graduated high school or dropped everything they were doing, the band completed a self booked full U.S. tour. A few months after the demo came out, Dead Icons put out five songs on a split CD with a band called Unrestrained (VT). After the release of t...