Sinai Vessel

Plus: Snow Patrol, The Atlas Moth, Anemone, Lucinda Williams/Steve Earle/Dwight Yoakam, Kimya Dawson, Dwarves, The Queers/The Dickies, John Hopkins, Iceage and more just-announced tours.

Snowed In's organizers are also encouraging ticket-buyers to donate to RAINN, and they will match donations.

Pinegrove are on tour now and they'll soon headline the Snowed In V festival in Cleveland. We're giving away tickets.

Tons of great punk and punk-related bands are playing Gainesville's The Fest at the end of the month. We picked 16 that, for one reason or another, feel really exciting to us right now.

Riot Fest isn't the only punk festival announcing its lineup this week. Gainesville's The Fest returns for its 16th year with Against Me! (playing Reinventing Axl Rose), Hot Water Music, Hum, Rainer Maria, The Lillingtons, Snapcase, Smoking Popes, Teenage Bottlerocket, Iron Reagan, 88 Fing…

This week's Notable Releases include returns from two of this generation's best rock bands, Japandroids and Cloud Nothings, plus promising rock newcomers Sinai Vessel.

Sinai Vessel's tour includes Asbury Park with TWIABP singer David F Bello, Brooklyn with Ovlov, and more.

"Looseleaf" is a really nice dose of emo-ish indie rock that fans of Transatlanticism-era Death Cab For Cutie should check out.

The Fest also added Lemuria, Mean Jeans, Somos, Vacation, Iron Chic, Slingshot Dakota, PUP, RVIVR, Timeshares, Frameworks, Lifted Bells, Antarctigo Vespucci, Ian Graham, Katie Ellen, Roger Harvey, Museum Mouth, Hiccup, Amanda X, Die Choking, Sonic Avenues, Mac Sabbath, Creepoid, Sports and mannnnnny…

It includes Planes Mistaken For Stars, Propagandhi, Small Brown Bike, Samiam, Dead To Me, Strike Anywhere, Knapsack, Tim Barry, Braid, Latterman (who are reunited again), The Menzingers, AJJ, War On Women, Underground Railroad to Candyland, Toys That Kill, United Nations, Iron Reagan, Jeff Rosenstoc…