Animal Style Records will be releasing a five song 7″ in early May from prolific pop-punkers MIXTAPES. The vinyl will be limited to only 500 copies and will also be available from digital retailers. You can check out the new song “Hope Is For People” on their Bandcamp page.

From the inbox:

Just released! Facedown Fest 2011 free sampler download, including tracks from bands playing this year’s Fest. You can download your free sampler at Amazon: http://tiny.cc/jifro

Songs from For Today, War of Ages, Hope for the Dying, A Plea for Purging, In the Midst of Lions, and many more! Seventeen songs in total.

Facedown Fest is coming to The Glasshouse in Pomona, CA April 8-9.

• BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE – Celestial Completion
• EMERY – We Do What We Want
• PEARL JAM – Vs. (Expanded Edition)
• PEARL JAM – Vitalogy (Expanded Edition)
• RADIOHEAD – The King of Limbs
• UNWRITTEN LAW – Swan
• FUNERAL PARTY – The Golden Age Of
• THE SOUNDS – Something To Die For

Trip Machine Laboratories is taking orders for MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD’s 2000 six song demo, now made available for the first time on vinyl. All copies come with a digital download, which includes a bonus SLAYER cover, a track titled “Typical My Heart”, and a set of live MINOR THREAT covers from CBGBs(!). You can check it out here.

- I had the cassette of this when it came out, I remember picking it up at Nation in DC (which for those keeping score, is now the spot of luxury apartments two blocks away from where the Washington Nationals play). A long cry from when we had to pay off the bums to not break into our car. Great sounding recording for a demo, can’t wait to hear what it sounds like on vinyl!

Via Fat Wreck:

Fat Wreck Chords is thrilled to announce another collaboration with RISE AGAINST! On April 16th, happily known as Record Store Day; we’ll release a limited edition three song picture disc titled Join the Ranks. The onetime pressing will be limited to 1000 copies, and features three songs never before available on Rise Against vinyl. Check your favorite indie record store to get your hands on a copy! Rise Against had this to say about the release below:

“Fat Wreck put us on the map, and ‘Join The Ranks’ was the very first song we ever officially released on a proper label. ‘Gethsemane’was recorded in an old oil factory in Chicago, the same factory where we would go on to film our first video. Along with ‘Generation Lost’, this seven inch is long overdue and we’re happy to team up with our old friends at Fat to do it.

- “Gethsemane” was on the “OIL” titled compilation put out by Thick Records in 2003… it’s an absolutely killer compilation that is well worth the time to track down if you don’t already own it.

After an early CDEP and two ear-catching 7″s, Massachusetts’  LATE NITE WARS have assembled a full-length of mostly new material for Panic Records (two of the three songs on the 7″ It’s Okay or Even Worse reappear, and the song “Dragon The Anchor” is from their debut S/T EP). Although rapid-fire pop-punk is the band’s focal [...]

There’s a whole press release to go along with this signing, but screw that, just watch this video. OATHBREAKER’s debut full-length, Maelstrom, will be out this spring. FFO: FROM ASHES RISE, TRAP THEM, gnarly music…