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Milwaukee rockers Midnight Reruns make power pop with an edge recalling bands like The Replacements, Weezer, Superdrag, and other bands with a knack for crunchy melodicism…

The 20th anniversary celebrations for Nirvana‘s In Utero continue this week with, Milkin’ It, a tribute album from a number of Toronto bands co-curated, The Wooden Sky, and the Hand Drawn Dracula label…

Upstate, NY hardcore band Drug Church is the new-ish project of Self Defense Family/End Of a Year frontman Patrick Kindlon, who released their debut full length, Paul Walker, earlier this summer via No Sleep…

Woe at Acheron, May 2013 (more by Fred Pessaro) Names like Big Freedia, Cold Cave, Thou, Hop Along, Pity Sex, Dads, Inter Arma, Sundials, Woe and more will participate in Fall Line Fest, a two day festival in Richmond, VA on 9/6 and 9/7…

As discussed, Gainesville’s The Fest is returning this year from October 31 to November 3, and they’ve just expanded their lineup to include more artists…

Melodic shoegazers Pity Sex are set to bring their previously discussed tour with The World Is…, Daylight, and Dads to Death by Audio on July 20 (moved from Suburbia), and they’ve already announced that they’ll return to NYC a month later…

Tampa garage rockers Dads share members with Merchandise (Carson Cox and David Vassalotti) and are also regulars on the same underground scene that Merchandise came from before they began extensively touring decent-sized venues across North America…

Ann Arbor, MI four-piece Pity Sex may have ties to the emo scene (they’re about to tour with The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die and they’re on Run for Cover Records), but their new album, Feast of Love, which is due out on June 25, is straight up shoegaze/dream pop in the realm of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and it may very well win over fans of that scene…

You Ain’t No Picasso gets credit for introducing me to this great new album stream by Page France. * “so…where is helsinki?” calls the album flawless * Allalom says their last album “Sounds like: Death Cab For Cutie, Modest Mouse, Caedman’s Call” Listen @ PureVolume * Visit their official site * YANP also has an MP3 * Page France is also on Myspace * Order the album at Fall Records * Read YANP’s Interview