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The Casket Lottery sign to No Sleep Records
 The Casket Lottery are the newest addition to the No Sleep Records family. No Sleep Records are proud to announce they will be releasing the band's yet to be titled fifth full length album mid-2012. "Whereas Kansas City's favorite sons are defined by their traditional harmonious and abrasive bombardment of punk and hardcore tenacity, they have now created tracks which are entirely more fleshed out than previous releases. No longer afraid of being limited as a trio, the sails have been cast into the water's trenches in order to further explore the boundaries of Casket Lottery’s own songs. Recorded at Black Lodge Recordings with Ed Rose in Eudora, KS during the Fall and Winter of 2011/2012, the band's latest will be a darker album than anything they've recorded in the past. Said direction was hinted at with "Survival is for Cowards" and "The Smoke and Mirrors EP" yet the "weight of the day" theme has been revisited to set the tone of goth punk songs that are as angry and triumphan...
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Refused to reunite
After a very long time, it seems that Refused are no longer fucking dead. The highly influential 90s post-hardcore band have ended a 14-year absence and will reform for the 2012 instalment of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival in California. Read a statement from the band below:"We had a band once, in Umeå. We would pile in a van, like every other punkband, and thunder off in pursuit of friends and glory in some basement in front of 20 people, 50 people, in towns 4-5 hours away. Sometimes there would be more than a hundred people and we would later in the week refer to that as a "big show". We were ambitious, but we didn't think of it as a career. We never made any fiscal sense whatsoever during 7 years of touring. Like most punkbands, it never occured to us to even try. We had a scene, we had some politics and we had just a hint of artistic ambition. True to our swedish roots we got very serious very fast. And then suddenly we got good. It's a delicate path to tread for precocious...