Jason Isbell is giving away the first song we've heard from his upcoming record for free on Twitter. The song is called "Traveling Alone." Southeastern is out June 11th via Thirty Tigers.

Blackbear (Mat Musto) has announced that his debut album will be titled The Afterglow, which is set to be released later on this year.

Twitter has today launched its music app for the whole wide world to use. Twitter #Music can be accessed at music.twitter.com and there's a separate app for iPhone as well. It's based around discovering new music, of course, and seeing what music is popular on Twitter in real time. You can listen to music in Spotify or Rdio with the user interface, and buy music on iTunes as well. Play around with the new service and let us know your thoughts in the replies.

Frank Turner is working on a Tony Sly cover for an upcoming Tony Sly tribute album.

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Both Fireworks and Transit members have tweeted pretty damning statements about the Empire venue in Springfield, VA. From what we've been able to piece together, it looks like the promoter used hateful speech -- and then shit hit the fan. We've reached out to try and find out exactly what happened.

Update: A statement about everything that happened, from Floyd James, can be found here.

Travis from We The Kings said the band was working on a song for the Iron Man 3 soundtrack.

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Looks like Into It. Over It. are recording soon ... could the hash-tag "Intersections" refer to the upcoming album title?

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Brandon Rike confirmed that a new Dead Poetic album is still going to happen at some point.

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Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino just posted a cover of Roy Orbison's "Crying," featuring a guest appearance from Snacks the Cat.

A new FenixTX song called "Spooky Action at a Distance" is being released on MLB: The Show for Playstation. The song comes from their forthcoming release.

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Tweet to reveal a new Bring Me the Horizon track titled "Anti-Visit." Until enough tweets are posted, you can listen to a teaser here.

Chirpify (the service that lets you sell stuff through Twitter) has launched #ChirpifyLovesMusic campaign to offer indie-musicians their service for free - for life. Check out the full press release in the replies and get more information, here.

Skrillex is interested in doing a Screamo EP and Anthony Green has said that a collaboration may happen sometime down the road.

Lady Gaga seems to be suggesting that she and Tony Bennett will be working on an album together.

Mixtapes have demoed six new songs.

For Today's Mike Reynolds sent out a series of tweets claiming there is no such thing as a gay Christian. You keep on preaching all about that love and respect, Mike.

Update: Futhermore, Stick To Your Guns drummer George Schmitz has stated that the band will never tour with For Today ever again. You might recall Stick To Your Guns supporting For Today on the band's "Fight The Silence" headliner in 2012. - JD

Update #2: For Today has made a brief statement via their Facebook page.

Twitter (and AP.net) user ivogoossens is attempting to build a book of "punk rock wisdom" quotes and would like your help putting it together. Basically, he'd like your favorite song lyrics/quotes that contain "wisdom" from any band that is kind of related to this scene. From AFI to Fall Out Boy, to Misfits, Ramones, Social Distortion, All Time Low, Yellowcard. So, if you've got one - tweet at him!

It appears that Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd seems to have confirmed that he will be releasing a new album in 2013.

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Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear made an unexpected trip to the hospital for an emergency surgery. He seems to be doing fine now, however.

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Nikki from Silversun Pickups gave birth to twin girls.

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In a recent direct message exchange on twitter between Craig Owens (Chiodos) and rapper Waka Flocka Flame, it appears that Owens could be providing a hook for Flocka's upcoming album.

Showbread are hinting at something to commemorate the ten year anniversary of Life, Kisses, and Other Wasted Efforts.

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Artists looking to get their music on Rdio should check out One RPM's promotion where they'll help you do just that for a simple twitter follow.

Daytrader's new single will be "Rita" -- pretty sure this will be on a new 7" coming out for their upcoming tour.

Drew is hanging out at Warner Bros. today and posting about secret shit. Follow the AP.net twitter (and Drew) to find out what's going on.

Recently got shown a cool service that lets you see what bands (or other people) have "fake or inflated" twitter follower counts. Interesting.

Transit to release new music in the Spring.

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Woe, Is Me is not breaking up. Let's count the fucks given.

It appears that producer Lex Luger (2011 BMI Producer of the Year) may be working with T.Mills in the near future.

Yours Truly is giving away the band's new track "I'm Leaving Now" for free in exchange for a tweet. You can also listen to it in the replies.

Frank Turner had some harsh words for Nicki Minaj and her crew.

Texas Is The Reason have made an official twitter. Time to start speculating.

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Blur has confirmed that they will debut their new double a-side single "The Puritan"/"Under The Westway" live from a London rooftop on Twitter on July 2nd. The songs will then be available for download and a limited edition 7" will be released on August 6th. Head to the replies to watch Alex James (Bass) reveal more details in an official video.

It looks like Blur are set to premiere new material on July 2nd at 7:15pm (GMT). Their official Twitter page posted this a few hours ago as well as a a picture, which can be seen in the replies, of some lyrics which are taken from a song Damon Albarn recently played live titled "The Puritan".

Looks like Paper + Plastick is being cryptic again. Is it just me, or do you see 37 everywhere?

Tom Hanks recently tweeted about Driver Friendly's Tom Hanks-inspired music video for "Messidona." Check it out, and congrats to the band on what some people are calling the greatest honor in the history of everything. The video is in the replies, in case you haven't seen it yet.

Jonny Craig will be writing a new album and releasing a mixtape after Dance Gavin Dance's current tour.