If you didn’t catch this on their PureVolume page yesterday, Daphne Loves Derby has some tour updates.

They will be doing some shows with Spill Canvas before their own headlining tour, featuring This Providence, The Higher, and The Reign of Kindo (ex This Day and Age). The tour will be in late October into November, and dates should be announced shortly. (Spill Canvas dates are posted already.)

Oh, want some free music?

Take a look at Wolftron on PureVolume for a special FREE EP from Kenny (with 9 songs, all free for downloading.)

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Daphne Loves Derby has issued a big update:

As a way of saying thank you for playing our songs over 10 Million times between Purevolume and Myspace, we are putting up a special Alternate version of Stranger, You And I for download. It will be available as a free download at www.purevolume.com/daphnelovesderby for a limited time. We hope you enjoy it and look for the video for this song to be out soon!

So head over to their PureVolume page to get it before it’s gone!

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Today is the first day of Sherwood’s tour with The Academy Is.

All the dates, through November, are listed on Sherwood’s myspace page.

And while we’re talking about Sherwood, take a look at AltPress.com where you can stream Sherwood’s “The Best In Me (Electro Mix)” right now.

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Being on Warped Tour, traveling the country, seeing great bands, meeting new people every day… sounds great, right?

But if you’re not in a huge band, there’s a lot more behind the scenes stuff that you never see. Let’s take “traveling the country” as an example. Did you notice how the past couple weeks have involved driving from Washington DC to Chicago, then to New Jersey, then back to Ohio, then to New York, then back to Indiana, and finally to Boston today?

Look at those routes on a map and think how long it would take to do all that. Then think about the time it takes to tear down a tent at night and set it up again in the morning. Is it really possible to do all that between 9 PM and 11 AM when you have a 12 hour drive in there too?

I guess it is possible, but it’s certainly not easy. Especially if you throw in two flat tires on your touring van (in one day!)

That’s what happened to the Topshelf Records crew last night on their way to Boston for their big home-town stop. I managed to meet Seth at 1 AM to get him his car so he could get up to Boston, while the rest of the Topshelf gang tried to get a new tire. It was a mess, so if you see anyone from Topshelf today in Boston, be sure to wish them well! (and buy some CDs too )

While I’m at it, I’d like to send a big shout out to the guys from Texas who gave Seth a lift across half of Pennsylvania! That’s what the Warped ‘family’ is all about!

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Self Against City will be in the area as part of the Human Circus Tour (which also includes Valencia and Permanent Me) this coming Friday.

We plan to have a little chat, so if you have any questions for the guys of Self Against City, post them in the comments and we’ll do our best to get some answers for you!

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Today we have good news for any fellow central-Pennsylvanians. Dubois-based Ahimsa Sunrise is set to be featured on Fuse TV next week!

See a sneak peak on July 8th at 10 PM Eastern Time, and then see the real deal on July 11th at 10 PM. They made it onto Fuse thanks to their amazing performance in the Bodog Battle of the Bands.

Check them out if you’re into hardcore/experimental stuff. And if you like them, be sure to add them on Myspace, because their old account got screwed up and they need more friends!

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I was browsing the PureVolume homepage today to see the newest batch of Pure Picks, and I was totally surprised by this one group from Japan called Ellegarden.

It wasn’t just because they were amazing, but because they sounded eerily similar to Blink 182. Really similar.

And I was pumped because I’m a Blink fan and with these guys around it’s like I can still buy Blink albums!

Right now they have three good songs on their PureVolume page and you can download each one, so check em out.

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After a long off-season, InsidePunk is back!

Last night’s kickoff event was a show at the Mercyhouse in Amherst, MA. The venue is really cool and so are the people in charge of the shows.

But the best part was meeting up with a band called Us Against The Archers, made up of former members of The Skeptics and Sixfinger. We’ll have an interview with them, plus some live footage, posted shortly.

On top of that, UATA’s bassist happens to run a record label called Topshelf Records. I also had a chance to interview him about starting and running a label and working in the music industry, so stay tuned for that as well.

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Have you ever enjoyed a free internet radio station, such as Pandora.com? That’s one of my favorite sites, and it should be one of yours - but it might not be around any longer!

That’s because the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) approved a new fee structure that could raise rates between 300 percent and 1200 percent for internet radio stations. A jump like that will basically bankrupt any internet radio stations.

The worst part is, the only winners here are the big record labels. The bands would be lucky to see anything from this revenue jump. Or worse… they’ll lose a lot of potential fans who won’t have the opportunity to hear them online.

If you want to help save internet radio, you can easily help by signing a petition at savenetradio.org and forwarding this link to all your friends.

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These are some of the coolest dudes out there, so it’s obvious that any interview they do is going to be good. As was this one over at AP.net.

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