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These Arms Are Snakes announce break-up

Alternative Press - Tim Karan on 1/12/10 @ 12:35 PM - altpress.com

Seattle post-hardcore outfit These Arms Are Snakes have revealed that they are breaking up. A statement from the band reads:

"It's with a heavy heart we tell you that These Arms Are Snakes is no more. It's been a great run and we'd like to send out a very hearty 'Thank You' to everyone that we've worked with or anyone that we've toured with; anyone that lent us a floor, towed our van and/or trailer, lent a van, given us a listen, downloaded our records prior to their coming out, bought our shit, or asked us where our band name came from; everyone who cooked us food, made habanero-infused tequila, had a safety meeting with us, let Steve gyrate all over you, had to live with any of us, made us pay shitloads of money to get off your punk label, got us into LOST, found Steve drunkenly wandering the streets of Tokyo alone, played Madlibs in the van (plural nouns), lost money promoting one of our shows, took Chris to the hospital, put up with our drunken sorry asses, got into a fight with us, etc. etc. This band could not have been possible without all of you. We sincerely thank you."

The band's last full-length was 2008's Tail Swallower And Dove, released by Suicide Squeeze.

Stream All Time Low's MTV Unplugged

Alternative Press - Nichole Fazekas on 1/12/10 @ 10:20 AM - altpress.com

All Time Low's EP from their session on MTV's Unplugged is now streaming online. You can listen to the EP in its entirety here and check out video from the event here.

Get your cell phone covered with an All Time Low skin now available!

Eyeball Records adds The Forecast to their roster

Alternative Press - Ben Sailer on 1/11/10 @ 9:24 PM - altpress.com

Eyeball Records has acquired Midwestern emo outfit The Forecast.

An excerpt from the band's MySpace blog reads:

it's been a long time coming but we are so happy, proud, and excited to announce formally that we HAVE signed with the one & only EYEBALL RECORDS. we are very excited and grateful to be apart of the Eyeball family and look forward to a beautiful relationship with them.

The band previously released one full-length, a split and an EP on Thinker Thought before putting out two more albums with Victory Records, 2005's Late Night Conversations and 2006's In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen.

They will be putting out their self-titled label debut for Eyeball on Feb. 16; pre-orders are up now here.

Torche unveil new video from upcoming split with Boris

Alternative Press - Ben Sailer on 1/11/10 @ 9:06 PM - altpress.com

The thunderous Southern rockers in Torche have a new video out for "King Beef" on the Web.

The song is taken off the band's upcoming split with Tokyo, Japan's Boris, due out next month courtesy of Hydra Head.

The video is, as always, streaming below.

Source: Decibel

Torche - King Beef from Scion A/V on Vimeo.

Fireworks release new video for "Detroit"

Alternative Press - Ben Sailer on 1/11/10 @ 8:56 PM - altpress.com

Triple Crown pop-punkers Fireworks have released a new video for "Detroit," which appears their 2009 full-length debut, All I Have To Offer Is My Own Confusion.

The video is streaming below.

NOFX plan spring tour with Teenage Bottlerocket, Tony Sly

Alternative Press - Scott Heisel on 1/11/10 @ 6:40 PM - altpress.com

Punk lifers NOFX have booked themselves a two-week tour for this April and May, running through the Pacific Northwest, Western Canada and the Midwest before wrapping up in the Mountain Time Zone. Opening all shows will be Fat Wreck Chords labelmates Teenage Bottlerocket and No Use For A Name frontman Tony Sly. Dates:

04/21/10 Eugene, OR McDonald Theater
04/22/10 Spokane, WA Knitting Factory
04/23/10 Billings, MT Shrine Auditorium
04/25/10 Saskatoon, SK Canada Odeon Center
04/26/10 Winnipeg, MB Burton Cummings Theater
04/27/10 Fargo, ND The Venue
04/29/10 Milwaukee, WI The Riverside Theater
04/30/10 Covington, KY Madison Theater
05/01/10 Sauget, IL Pops Nightclub
05/02/10 Kansas City, MO The Beaumont
05/04/10 Fort Collins, CO The Aggie
05/05/10 Albuquerque , NM The Sunshine Theater
05/06/10 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre