Tooth and Nail’s ‘official’ magazine, “Fuel” is a promoting a new 26 song free MP3 sampler with new and unreleased songs by the likes of IVORYLINE, MYCHILD MYBRIDE, THE ALMOST, AUGUST BURNS RED, HASTE THE DAY, THE CLASSIC CRIME, SECRET & WHISPER, EMERY, WRITE THIS DOWN, SENT BY RAVENS, and a bunch more. You can grab it from this Facebook page.

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Of Gold, the debut full-length from BARS OF GOLD, is now available for pre-order. The 12″ LP marks the 50th release for Friction Records and will see an official street date of August 24th from the venerable Michigan label.

Featuring former BEAR VS SHARK frontman Marc Paffi, as well as original BvS drummer Brandon Moss and members of instrumental noise outfit WILDCATTING, Bars Of Gold’s overall sound doesn’t fall far from its punk roots. Still, the outfit explores wonderfully uncharted territories, embracing elements of soul, garage rock and Americana.

Currently the band is streaming three brand new songs from the album on its MySpace page.

Of Gold is limited to a pressing of 500 on translucent orange and translucent green vinyl. It features artwork by Paffi and each copy will come with an mp3 download code for all the songs.

- Smooth yet rollicking, with just a hint of a folky controlled chaos. Am I describing a beverage or a band?

From the inbox:

Friday, July 30th (at roughly 2PM EST) marks the launch of pre-order’s for HANDS TIED’s Through The Wreckage EP. Originally formed in 1996 after the disbanding of MOUTHPIECE, HANDS TIED delivered classic, in-your-face straight edge hardcore that echoed the spirit and delivery of pioneers such as DYS, UNIFORM CHOICE, and YOUTH OF TODAY. With a 1996 seven inch EP released on Equal Vision Records, the band played up and down the East Coast and toured Europe before abruptly ending their run—just as the band was getting into high gear. Over a decade later, HANDS TIED has returned with a “right-where-they-left-off” two song EP of anthemic blasts that will have you stage diving and moshing in no time—proving that the flame still burns. With a discography LP in the works and a summer of shows on the east coast, it’s clear that this band is back on the map.

Details for the pre-order (to be handled by Revhq.com) are here. All pre-orders come with an immediate song download.

- I love the classic youth crew hardcore cover art. Tempted to order the EP, but I’m holding out for the discography LP.

UK hardcore punk band OPEN DISREGARD have just released their debut EP Black & Blue via Jumbo Records. The growly, guitar-driven punk rock attack brings to mind bands like BULLET TREATMENT and THE BRONX. You can check out several songs from the EP on the bands’ MySpace page.

Century Media metal/noise/prog-mongerers INTRONAUT have a brand new song streaming on the music site Invisible Orange. The tune is title “Elegy” and is from their upcoming full-length Valley of Smoke. Note that the version is a final cut but is unmastered (still sounds great though).

From the inbox:

Hello everyone! We here at Sound and Fury wanted to clear the air about what happened on Sunday night and why the fest was shut down after 2 days of amazing bands and fun.

Based on what we saw ourselves and were told by others, here’s what, as best we can tell, happened: During BACKTRACKs set, one person was dared/challenged to take his motorcycle into the venue and ride around. We were immediately alerted, and for everyone’s safety, security escorted the person out while he was still on the cycle. Once outside the security guards wanted the person to get off his cycle in order to speak with him. Seeing this some onlookers encouraged the person on the cycle to run as he might get in trouble if he stayed. As he attempted to flee, security reached for him, some of the bystanders considered the act to be a hostile one and a mob began to surround security. Joey and Ray immediately called the police. The primary concern was for the safety of the attendees and because of the “mob mentality” that was being witnessed (thrown trash cans/bottles/punches), before the situation got any worse we decided to shut down the show.

At the end of the day, no one was hurt or arrested and property damage was minimal (one broken window). The staff, venue, security and police were all absolutely incredible to Sound and Fury as a whole. Their actions helped to stop any potential fight that could have broken out, which would have caused unwanted repercussions for all parties involved with the festival (promoters, bands, venue, attendees).

We want to apologize to all the kids and bands who made special efforts and traveled so far to be there for the weekend. We were very sorry to see that the weekend ended as it did. It crushed us to see months of work and anticipation get flushed down the drain in less than 20 seconds. Realize that it is just two people putting on this fest and we are held directly liable for anything that happens.

Rumors and hearsay will exist, but based on all the information we have gathered, this is pretty much the extent of what happened. We choose instead to focus on the positives of the weekend, most importantly that the first two days went by with minimal incidents, proving that as a scene, we can put something like this together.

Sound and Fury is an amazing opportunity for us as a community of hardcore kids to get together and have fun at a perfect location. Fighting, assumptions, or petty disagreements will only ruin our chance to recreate this event. It deeply hurt us that someone thought this would be alright to do.

We are hoping to reach a compromise with the Earl Warren Fairgrounds so we will have the opportunity to host Sound and Fury 2011 at such an excellent venue. You will see us again next year.

- Joey Cahill and Ray Harkins

It’s less than two months before the release of TORCHE’s new full-length, Songs For Singles. Whooo! The band has a number of live shows announced from now until October, with plenty of quality bands joining them along the way.

• 7/28 Nashville, TN @ Exit/In w/ Beings
• 7/29 Louisville, KY @ Skull Alley w/ Beings and High on Fire
• 7/30 Indianapolis, IN @ Vollrath Tavern w/ Beings
• 7/31 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean w/ Baroness
• 8/01 Chicago, IL @ Wicker Park Festival w/ Baroness and Yakuza
• 8/03 St. Louis, MO @ Fubar w/ Beings
• 8/05 Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree w/ Beings
• 8/06 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg w/ Boris and Russian Circles
• 8/07 Tampa, FL @ Orpheum w/ Beings
• 8/09 Tallahassee, FL @ Big Daddy’s w/ Beings
• 8/11 Miami, FL @ Churchill’s w/ Beings
• 10/29 Gainesville, FL @ Common Grounds (THE FEST 9)

Michigan’s NATURAL DISASTERS are like a sugar-addled, hyperactive version of early RISE AGAINST. If Unraveling was played at 1.5 speed and channeled through an extra bit of snot and snark, this six song, 16 minute EP would be the result, and that’s plenty cool with me. The NATURAL DISASTERS have buckets of dual guitar bluster [...]