Long-running Mesa, AZ-based melodic punk/rock/reggae band Authority Zero has just announced plans to release a new EP 'The Back Nine' on April 30 (pre-order).

Jim Ward has announced the forthcoming release of his new album, Daggers, on June 11 via Dine Alone Records. Jim Ward has played in a slew of monumental bands, from the iconic post-hardcore band At The Drive-In to Sparta, as well his alt-country project, Sleepercar. “I’ve always used music as an outlet for anxiety and frustration,” notes Ward, and in fact, it’s this healing power of music, Ward offers, that led him to Daggers. “When my world has upheaval, it becomes about doing the work in front of me.”

Fusing 70s NY rhythms, 80s LA energy, and 90s post-punk hooks, Maryland's The Downstrokes play four-on-the-floor punk rock. On their debut album, New York Girl, they explored their influences from the Kinks and the Patti Smith Group to the Adolescents and the Pixies. On their follow up E.P from Snubbed Records, they dared listeners to Fall in Love with Punk Rock Again. And now with their new LP from Coffin Curse Records, they warn the listener that The Downstrokes brand of Buzzcocks meets Bad Religion punk rock is Unsafe At Any Speed.

Nashville’s Free Throw are excited to announce their new album Piecing It Together, out June 25th on Triple Crown Records. The new album was recorded with producer Will Yip (Bartees Strange, The Menzingers, Tigers Jaw) and today they share the music video for lead single “Cloud Sick”. The video serves as a love letter to their home-town Nashville, highlighting some of their favorite local dive bars and rock venues off the well worn Country/Americana path the city is generally known for.

Chicago-based band Action/Adventure are excited to  announce that they have signed to Pure Noise Records. Additionally, the band have shared that their new EP, "Pulling Focus", will be released on April 30th.

Genre-blurring supergroup Trade Wind have announced their upcoming third full-length, The Day We Got What We Deserved. Due out May 21st from Other People Records, the album marks another drastic musical shift for the always daring band: this time diving headfirst into a compelling amalgam of intricate trip hop rhythms, lush atmospherics, and warm melodies that defies easy classification.

Useless ID have shared 'Same Old Revolution,' one of two songs that will be available on their upcoming "best of" album, Most Useless Songs, out on May 7th.

The Israeli punks have been together since 1994, releasing eight full-lengths and a slew of EPs, singles, and compilations. Most Useless Songs is described by vocalist and bass player, Yotam Ben-Horin, as “songs that work best live, songs that have stood the test of time, songs that carry an interesting story, and songs that have been regulars in our sets throughout the years.” .

Former and current members of Less Than Jake, the Interrupters, Reel Big Fish and more team up for a comic book/LP project about streetwise superheroes.

Is it a supergroup? Or is that the sound of 2-Tone ska being piped into the halls of the Justice League Of America? Actually, it’s both. Former Less Than Jake drummer Vinnie Fiorello and Westbound Train frontman Obi Fernandez have created the Inevitables, a multimedia project encompassing both comics and some fine ska music.