• Release a previously unreleased song, “We’re Rooted Here And You Can’t Pull Us Up” as part of Disconnect Disconnect Records’ Compilation titled, “Removals” (check it out here)
• Release a cover version of “Anchor Grill” by the Descendents as part of Either/Or Records’ Tribute Compilation titled, “Either/Or Sucks: A Tribute to Descendents” (check it out here)
• Release a split 7” on Better Days Records with After The Fall (keep an eye out for it here)
• Release “Climbing Up A Mountain, Just For The View” on 10” Vinyl. (more on that soon)
• Continue writing for a Full-Length Record
• Continue writing for a new Acoustic EP
• Record and release both records to international critical acclaim and fanfare
• Do as many Weekend Tours and short tours as we can from now until Fall 2012 - the first is the weekend of February 17-19.
• Tour Europe for the first time.

So much more to accomplish, can’t wait.

We’re doing a Weekend Tour in a few weeks with Half Hearted Hero and the Marine Electric! Check out the dates and help us fill the few left TBA!

February 17, 2012 - TBA - Western, MA 
February 18, 2012 - Suburbia - Brooklyn, NY w/ Kite Party
February 19, 2012 - Sounds Asylum - Middletown, NY w/ Nightmares For A Week
February 20, 2012 - Bogie’s - Albany, NY w/ The Queers, The Ataris**

**Only Caleb is on this date. 

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PropertyOfZack is teaming up with Caleb Lionheart and Better Days Records to exclusively stream a new song from the band called “Dutch Guts.” The track will be released on a split with After The Fall that is due out this spring. The 7” will be limited to 300 vinyl copies and pre-orders and additional details will be announced shortly. Stream the track below by clicking “Read More”!

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Remember the song “We’re Rooted Here and You Can’t Pull Us Up” we posted a few weeks ago? Well, our new friends across the pond over at Disconnect Disconnect Records are releasing it as one of several unreleased tracks from bands all over the world (U.S., U.K., Canada, France, Australia, and Sweden). Our buddies The Stereo State, After The Fall, and PJ Bond have contributed tracks and we’re so stoked to be among such good company. Here’s the complete track-listing:

1) Uncommonmenfrommars - Jim Got In A Fight With Brian Molko

2) Hit The Switch - Retroactive

3) IVS - Storm Warning

4) Our Time Down Here - Under Dim Light

5) Counterpunch - Blue Skies

6) The Fear - Great News For Typists

7) Booze Cruise - I Said Light Cream Cheese, Not Light On The Cream Cheese

8) 3 Cards Short - Ashitaka

9) Harker - Loyal Than Most

10) The Stereo State - Altamont

11) Rebuke - Libertine

12) Samuel Caldwells Revenge - The REAL Lost Boys Of Sudan

13) After The Fall - Forgive And Forget

14) Darko - The Smarter I Think I Am The Dumber I Get

15) Caleb Lionheart - We’re Rooted Here and You Can’t Pull Us Up

16) She Likes Todd - Explode

17) Friends With The Enemy - Waking Up

18) Versus The World - In Fear Of Finale

19) Overtime Heroes - Open Hands

20) The Braces - What Happened

21) PJ Bond - Solitude

It should be available early next year and John over at Disconnect Disconnect is planning a record release show (fuck I wish we could play it). Keep an eye out for it, and check out all these great international bands. Here’s the Album art: 

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I mass texted everyone in my band so that I could more accurately answer this question. It’ll be a nice sigh of relief after two rather weighty responses. 

Mike - has been listening to a lot of Timeshares and After The Fall lately. Timeshares just put out a new record called “Bearable” on Kiss of Death which is really great, driving, sing-a-long infused, mid-tempo punk rock. ATF just put up a new song, the ending of which is so fucking intense; but I’m sure Mike means select cuts from “Eradication” and “Fort Orange”

Craig - Said he’s been listening to a lot of A Wilhelm Scream, No Trigger, Funeral For A Friend, Life In Your Way, and of course Pantera. We just played with AWS and NT, and honestly, both really fucking set the bar high for us and immediately got us all thinking about new songs. LIYW just put out a new record that’s available for Free on Come&Live! Records. And I mean, “Of course I like music… I like Pantera.”

Tony - I’ve been listening to Jose Gonzalez “Veneer,” The Gaslight Anthem “Sink or Swim,” Immortal Technique’s new record “The Martyr” is fucking next level shit, Punch’s Full Length and RVIVR have been in heavy rotation, and always After The Fall “Fort Orange.”

John - Didn’t return my text, but if I was a betting man I’d say Dillinger Four and some shitty mosh metal with sung choruses that he’ll assure you is “fucking heeeeeavy dude”  

More powerful? Perhaps, in that the powers-that-be would have less ammunition with which to delegitimize the Occupy movement. The thing is, you can’t always discount the “less educated” members of a movement as they have just as much potential for greatness as anyone else. Fannie Lou Hamer dropped out of school in 6th grade, a segregated Mississippi school no less that only met for a few months at a time and at certain times of the year to accommodate the cyclical demands for labor in southern cotton cultivation. But despite this lack of formal education, she remained instrumental in the drive to register rural African Americans to vote in the early 1960s, in the leadership of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, in organizing for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and ultimately in the Civil Rights Movement. But I don’t think that’s what you’re asking.

Of course I think people should learn more about a group or movement before they join up. I’ve only attended General Assemblies in Albany, and sure at those meetings, topics didn’t get covered as quickly and coherently as I would have liked. People were asking questions like, “We want to support you but we can’t find any information on you. Do you have a website?” to name one example. To which Occupy Organizers would reply that they’ve been running a website, twitter, Facebook, etc. for months. Things like that certainly take away from moving the protest forward, but I think that’s part of the beauty of the Occupy Meetings I have attended. Any person that wants a say can have a say. Those that make seemingly less-than-informed statements may do so but not for lack of Occupy trying to educate. Veteran protesters are constantly fielding questions, giving interviews, showing and explaining signs and slogans, handing out literature, etc. There also seems to be an internal system for addressing differing opinions and an underlying (perhaps idealistic) effort to achieve consensus. I guess my answer is that you should strike up a conversation with these people. Their curiosity, outrage, or ambition got them in the same room as you talking about and planning an organized protest of many of the same inequities that you see plaguing our Country. What would it hurt to calmly discuss your qualms with them and/or the rest of Occupy? They hold open forums just so these kind of grievances can be heard.

As for re-instituting the barter system, well, get ready for a nerd rant: Rural, frontier stores in the mid-West and South were known to have signs out front advertising their acceptance of “Cash or Country Produce” in exchange for goods and services at least into the early Jacksonian Era of the 1830s, some plantations stores accepted eggs, milk, corn, and other goods like a bank would a paycheck even after the Civil War. Granted, both examples are from well over a hundred years ago and things like modern capitalism, industrialization, population’s spread across the continent and globe, and global economics among other confounding developments have emerged since then. If we were to even assume it was practical to revert back to the barter system, it took generations and a constitutional amendment just for the U.S. to allow women to vote; imagine what it would take to eliminate American currency, raze tax codes at every level of government, and then reconcile this new system with property and asset values, prior debt accumulation, blah blah blah. TL;DR

All day long I am required to read about topics that Middle and Upper Class American Whites have tried to ignore since our country was birthed. The creation and institutionalization of successive labor and social control apparatuses aimed at establishing White Supremacy in the U.S. and abroad; the horrifying abuses, often violent, sometimes sexual in nature, and gross inequalities that were and are encouraged by such systems; and opportunity after abandoned opportunity presented for governments, municipal, state, or federal, American or otherwise, to address or stifle such systems only for officials to avert their gaze or even join in the corruption. I don’t claim to know every abuse, but those I am familiar with are difficult to reconcile with a lifestyle that can allow a young man to pursue higher education while sometimes travelling thousands of miles playing music to strangers in bars, basements, and shacks.

That being said, for every one person, place, or thing that scares or saddens me another inspires, provokes, or brings me solace. There seems to be an embryonic (or even more evolved than that) worldwide movement pushing for Democracy, Egalitarianism, and basic Civil Liberties whether they call themselves the Arab Spring, the Green Revolution, or Occupy Earth. Many of my friends, mostly in the Northeastern U.S., become bitter and spiteful when they hear contemporaries denounce or make fun of such protests asking questions of their peers like, “How can someone my age say something like that?” What you need to realize is that there are 7 billion people breathing, eating, sleeping, fucking, and dying on this planet right now; several hundred million of them in the U.S. alone. You can’t present a vision of open-mindedness and equality with one hand, and use the other to stifle the criticism of a person who thinks differently than you.

How do I feel about the world today? I feel that political, social, and economic problems are rife. There is someone making thousands of dollars every second on one edge of the Earth while another is purchased as a sex-slave on the other edge. Someone is instantly communicating with a friend thousands of miles away using smart-phone technology while someone else is hunting or gathering in a manner little different than people had thousands of years ago. While one person slumps lethargic after an enormous meal, another goes to bed for the 5th night in a row without food. When 7 billion people are given the means to communicate or interact with each other, it implies that they will also have to deal with one another which will inevitably lead to confrontation. As far as I am concerned, the best we can do is make that interaction less hostile, stifle any attempts to gain off the abject misery of someone else, and maybe even learn from one another.