Wanna go to the Punknews.org Tour for free?

The Punknews.org Tour featuring Somerset, the Dog & Everything, Straight Outta Junior High, and Before I Go is quickly approaching, and we want to get some of you in these shows for free! If there's a show listed below that you'd like to attend, shoot an email off to CONTEST CLOSED with the date/city/venue in the subject of the email and your name and address in the body of the email. If you're the first to claim a show, I'll put your name after the requested date. If there's no name listed for the one you want to go to, that means it's open, so enter quickly! Every winner gets themselves plus one guest in for free!

7/29 - Davenport, IA - Quad City Live - Dennis Kapolnek
7/30 - Des Moines, IA - Hairy Mary's - Ben Pappenheimer
7/31 - Omaha, NE - Ranch Bowl - Alex Wilhelm
8/3 - Cleveland, OH - Pirate's Cove - Tommy Moos
8/4 - Columbus, OH - Flannagans - Andrew Miller
8/5 - Detroit, MI - The Shelter - Greg Hodges
8/6 - La Crosse, WI - The Warehouse - Kyle Fosburgh
8/7 - Minneapolis, MN - The Quest - Jacob Koehler
8/8 - Milwaukee, WI - Mad Planet - Ellen Janisch
8/11 - Toledo, OH - Headliners - Georgia Michael
8/12 - Covington, KY - Radio Down - Dan Braun
8/13 - Indianapolis, IN - The House [Somerset/Straight Outta Junior High only] - Jesse Smith
8/13 - Indianapolis, IN - The Alley Cat [Dog & Everything/Before I Go only] - Grace Holden
8/14 - Chicago, IL - The Metro - Margaret Kadoi

Also, we recently added a "Help Out!" page here where you can print out fliers to help promote as well as cut-and-paste some simple code into your MySpace, Livejournal, webpage, or whatever to put up our banner ad. Anything you do will be greatly appreciated by all of us here! Let us know via links/pictures if you add the banner/pass out fliers - we'll try to do something special for you in return.

And one last reminder - if you can buy actual physical tickets for the show you want to attend [over just paying money at the door], I strongly advise you do and then hold onto the stub, as we'll be doing something very special for those who bought tickets. Currently Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Detroit have advance tickets on sale; just click the "buy" links on the tour page to get them!

Letter Kills

Letter Kills new record The Bridge arrives on Island Records on July 27th. To celebrate we're giving away Letter Kills stuff and a 100 dollars of gear from Loserkids.com. Click below for all the details and instructions on how to enter. You can also check out an e-card for The Bridge now.

Rocket From The Crypt / Little Steven's Underground Garage winners

We've drawn the winners for our Rocket From The Crypt / Little Steven's Underground Garage contest. The winners are:

Nicholas R. of Hackettstown, NJ
Joanna B. of Mahopac NY

The winners each get a pair of passes to Rocket From The Crypt & the Battle Of The Bands at Irving Plaza in NYC on July 23rd as well as 10 free iced lattes from Dunkin' Donuts.

Rocket From The Crypt will be playing a headlining set as special guests on the final showdown for Little Steven's nation-wide Battle of the Bands search. This is their only U.S. date, and their second show in more than a year. Tickets for the show are $12 adv / $15 door, and are available through Ticketmaster.

Briefs Contest Winners

Our Briefs contest has ended! The grand prize winner of a Briefs skate deck from Factory 13 Skateboards, $150 dollars worth of clothing from Dogpile Clothing, a pair of shoes from Vision Streetwear, Black Label's Label Live DVD and a signed Briefs Poster is:

Tim G. of Mt. Vernon, OH

Five runner prizes of a Briefs discography (Hit After Hit

, Off The Charts and the new album Sex Objects) go to:

Devin G. of Tumwater, WA
Christopher B. of Phoenix, AZ
Patrick L. of Little Silver, NJ
Jason Z. of Latham, NY
Mike B. of Goodyear, AZ

A big thanks goes out to BYO Records and all the sponsors for setting this contest up. You can check out our review of Sex Objects online now.

Remember we're running a Rocket From The Crypt ticket giveaway for the NYC Battle of the Bands show hosted by Little Steven's Underground Garage. It wraps up this weekend so enter now!

Underoath Skateboard and Swag Giveaway

SolidState wants to give you a whole bunch of Underoath stuff to coincide with the release of They're Only Chasing Safety. Since we're just so generous here, we decided to help them out.

Rocket From The Crypt / Little Steven's Underground Garage

Little Steven's Underground Garage is proud to bring you Rocket From The Crypt at Irving Plaza in New York City on Friday July 23, 2004.

They will be playing a headlining set as special guests on the final showdown for Little Steven's nation-wide Battle of the Bands search. This is their ONLY U.S. date, and marks only their second show in more than a year. Tickets for the show are $12 adv / $15 door, and are available through Ticketmaster.

We're giving away two pairs of tickets to the show. Not only that, but the winners will also recieve 10 free iced lattes courtesy of event sponsor Dunkin Donuts. If the thought of free caffeine and rockin' out to the Crypt appeals to you, click below to find out how to enter.

The Briefs

On June 29th BYO Records will release Sex Objects, the new record from Seattle's The Briefs. To celebrate we're throwing a huge draw with prizes from Factory 13 Skateboards, Dogpile Clothing, Vision Streetwear and Black Label. You can view an e-card for the upcoming record here.

Sugarcult and The Killers contest winners

Just doing some early Summer cleaning over here. The winners of The Killers contest were Rich Cocksedge [CD] and Karl Kangieser [7"]. The winner of the massive Sugarcult/Atticus Clothing contest was none other than Chris Appleton. Congratulations to all winners.

Bummed you didn't win some free stuff? Check out our gigantoriffic Midtown contest by clicking here. You can even win a brand new stereo!

Win the new Midtown record and a stereo to play it on!

Midtown has a new album coming out on June 29th entitled Forget What You Know, and the lovely people at Fanscape have partnered up with us to give away some major prizes. 1 lucky winner will win a Mini Hi-Fi Component System MHC-GX450, as well a copy of Forget What You Know to play on the thing. You'll even get an autographed Midtown poster and a T-shirt. 5 runner ups will each win a copy of Forget What You Know. To enter, click here and fill out the form. This contest ends on July 17th, so make sure to enter before then!

The Killers

The Killers are the new hipster band of the week, which means most of you hate their Hot Hot Heat-sexing-up-with-The Strokes sound without having ever even listened to them; but that doesn't mean that they're not good. To prove it, we're gonna give away some of their music, because hey, that's what we do. Send an email to CONTEST CLOSED with your name and mailing address, and you could win either the "Somebody Told Me" b/w "The Ballad Of Michael Valentine" 7" [on pink vinyl, no less] or the "Somebody Told Me" / "The Ballad of Michael Valentine"/"Under The Gun" CD single. Please put your CD/vinyl preference in the subject of the email. One entry per person, please - that means Jeremy Grimes of Cullowhee, NC needs to stop entering before I punch him in the throat. I'll draw two winners - one for each format - next week at random.

If you haven't heard the Killers yet, what are you waiting for? Here's an e-card for your perusal, and you can stream their "Somebody Told Me" video here [Windows Media] or here [Real Video]. The Killers' debut album Hot Fuss comes out on June 15th via Island Records.