The If Society website now has videos from both Hero Dishonest and Echo is Your Love: http://www.ifsociety.com/media.php

Download two mp3s from Hero Dishonest's upcoming album "Let Your Poison Scream":

01. Case #2: Hobo Hobby
02. Dead Theories

Finnish label If Society has announced that they'll be releasing the new Hero Dishonest LP "Let Your Poison Scream" at the end of June. 20 minutes of no bullshit, no posing hardcore including a cover of "Pääni" by classic Finnish punks KTMK. Also in the works from the label is the new album "Szklarska Poreba" from Fun. The sound is described as "classic 80's american indie á la Flipper, Big Black, Minutemen, Fugazi, Butthole Surfers, Saccharine Trust" and it should be ready by the end of July. Download older track "The Rocket Song": http://www.knobox.no-ip.info/~riku/fun/media/the_rocket_song.mp3
And that's not all - the label also has plans for a 7" from The Protestants, a split 7" with Hero Dishonest and Mukeka Di Rato from Brazil and the follow-up to "8 Hours" from Echo is Your Love.

Between Us has announced that they'll be heading out on the road in March with fellow Burning Heart bands Randy and Voice of a Generation on the 'In Close Up We Trust' tour. Full dates for the band (all in Sweden unless otherwise noted):

01/30 - Tilflykt, Kongsberg (NOR) w/Damage Control, The Change, Award and Turn Cold
01/31 - Magasin 15, Trollhättan The Change releaseparty w/Damage Control and The Change
02/13 - Slakthuset, Nyköping w/Award and Labour
02/14 - Calhall "Heartbreaks and Fights", Falun w/The Change, Path of No Return, Award and Parade
02/19 - Ungdomens Hus, Uppsala w/Bruce Banner and Hero Dishonest
02/20 - Kungen, Sandviken w/Hero Dishonest
02/21 - Stallet, Umeå w/Rabid Grannies and Auktion
02/22 - Club 25, Vaasa (FIN)
02/23 - Lutakko, Jyväskylä (FIN) w/Security Threat and Abduktio
02/24 - Tvo, Turku (FIN) w/On a Solid Rock, While I'm Alive and Unity Murder
02/25 - tba (FIN)
02/28 - LKPG HC Fest, Linköping
03/05 - Kartago, Sölvesborg w/Voice of a Generation

In Close Up We Trust w/Randy and Voice of a Generation:
03/06 - Festival 035, Halmstad
03/11 - Debaser, Stockholm
03/12 - Sticky Fingers, Göteborg
03/13 - The Rock, Linköping
03/17 - Ungdomens Hus, Uppsala
03/18 - Club 35, Strängnäs
03/19 - Klubb Kaliber, Mariestad
03/20 - Garage, Oslo (NOR)
03/24 - Tavastia, Helsinki (FIN)
04/01 - Inkonst, Malmö
04/02 - Perrong 23, Hässleholm
04/03 - Stengade 30, Copenhagen (DK)

Finland's If Society records has announced that they'll be doing a 7" for Abnormi in January. "8 song assault of vintage Finnish hardcore mayhem of the rawest and most primitive kind" is how they describe it. The label is also coordinating a split 7" with Hero Dishonest and Mukeka Di Rato of Brazil. That's more raging hardcore, if the name didn't already tip you off. HD will also be doing a full length and touring Scandinavia in February. Labelmates Echo is Your Love and Fun will be recording new records in the spring, too. And lastly, Viola will release their debut CD of "northern melancholy and stargazing" music in April. "11 tracks that play your heart-strings and provide a soundtrack to discovering the beauty in your life."

Combat Rock Industries will release the vinyl version of Nine's lastest album "Killing Angels" on December 5.

Other CRI-related news:

Endstand will be touring Japan in January. Dates:

01/15 - East, Kyoto
01/16 - ZD, Niihama
01/17 - Jitterbug, Tokushima
01/18 - Megahertz, Kitakyushu
01/19 - day off
01/20 - Battlebox, Kumamoto
01/21 - Kieth Flack, Fukuoka
01/22 - Pepperland, Okayama
01/23 - Huck Finn, Nagoya
01/24 - Red Cloth, Tokyo
01/25 - Faith, Mitsukaido

Check out pics from their recently completed European tour here: http://www.fireinsidemusic.com/touri/

Manifesto Jukebox will be recording a split 7" with Japan's Minority Blues Band for Snuffy Smile Records and will tour over there in mid-April.

Finnish hardcore band Hero Dishonest has a new bassplayer named Leisure Suit Larry who apparently only knows two ways of playing: loud and wrong. They'll be coming over to the US in August and will also be doing a split with Brazil's Mukeka Di Rato for release sometime next year.