The Used have launched the pre-sale for their upcoming release “Vulnerable” today here: www.hopelessrecords.com/theused. Fans will have a variety of choices between a deluxe LP to a Vinyl and all with expanded artwork.

Package 1: $25

Deluxe LP with 5 bonus tracks on 180 gram Translucent Red colored vinyl w/ expanded artwork.  Includes digital download card

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Package 2: $25

Deluxe CD with 5 bonus tracks w/ expanded booklet

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24” X 36” Large Poster

Package 3: $40

Deluxe CD with 5 bonus tracks w/ expanded booklet

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24” X 36” Large Poster

Pre-Order Shirt #1

Package 4: $40

Deluxe CD with 5 bonus tracks w/ expanded booklet

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24” X 36” Large Poster

Pre-Order Shirt #2

Package 5: $65

Deluxe CD with 5 bonus tracks w/ expanded booklet

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24” X 36” Large Poster

Pre-Order Shirt #1

48 piece cardboard puzzle

Package 6: $65

Deluxe CD with 5 bonus tracks w/ expanded booklet

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24” X 36” Large Poster

Pre-Order Shirt #2

48 piece cardboard puzzle

Their first single “I Come Alive” premiered on KROQ to much praise. The lyric video can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_xzqN0JY6s. The band will be performing at Soundwave Festival in Australia next month. For dates and more information on The Used, check out: www.TheUsed.net

Purchase The First Single “I Come Alive” Here: http://bit.ly/ySshlD

January 25- With Valentine’s Day rapidly approaching, Hopeless Records is excited to announce the second installment of the “Love Is Hopeless” Valentines Compilation! This year the compilation features songs from your favorite Hopeless Records artists including: The Used, Yellowcard, The Wonder Years, Enter Shikari, The Dangerous Summer, Silverstein and many more.

The compilation is only available on the official Hopeless Records Facebook page. Download it here: www.facebook.com/hopelessrecords

With love, here are 13 tracks to make your Valentine’s Day one to remember.

1.     “Sing For Me” – Yellowcard from  When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes

2.     “Exits and Entrances” – We Are The In Crowd from Best Intentions

3.     “Hoodie Weather” – The Wonder Years from Suburbia I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing

4.     “Sssnakepit” – Enter Shikari from A Flash Flood Of Colour

5.     “I Come Alive” – The Used from Vulnerable

6.     “Forget Your Heart” – Silverstein from Rescue

7.     “Siren” – The Dangerous Summer from War Paint

8.     “Face To Face” – Divided By Friday from Prove It EP

9.     “The Joyride” – There For Tomorrow from The Verge

10.    “Dead” – Samiam from Trips

11.    “Let My Love” – Damion Suomi & The Minor Prophets from Go, And Sell All Of Your Things

12.    “Useless” – Anarbor from The Words You Don’t Swallow

13.    “Some Things” – For The Foxes

The wait is finally over! Enter Shikari has released their highly anticipated album “A Flash Flood Of Colour”!

The album has received amazing reviews including 4.5/ from Alternative Press and 4/5 from Kerrang!

“…throughout Enter Shikari have their digits on the pulse and their pupils on the clock of out troubled age and only adds to the impressive number of ways in which this album qualifies as a mulit-layered and multi-faceted success.” – Kerrang! 4/5

Grab “A Flash Flood Of Colour” on iTunes!

Watch “Arguing With Thermometers”!

Pre-sale for the Glamour Kills Tour Featuring The Wonder Years, Polar Bear Club, Transit, The Story So Far, A Loss For Words and Into It Over It will begin at 3 pm local time on January 17th at www.theglamourkillstour.com.

Fans will have the option to purchase a regular show ticket or a special bundle package which includes a ticket plus a limited tour 12”

The 12” is limited to 1,000 copies and is comprised of each band covering a song from another artist on the tour.

The track listing will include :

The Wonder Years covering Into It Over It’s “Anchor”

Polar Bear Club covering Transit’s “Skipping Stone”

Transit covering Polar Bear Club’s “Resent and Resistance”

The Story So Far covering A Loss For Word’s “Wrightsville Beach”

A Loss For Words covering The Story So Far’s “Quicksand”

Into It Over It covering The Wonder Year’s “Don’t Let Me Cave In”

3/9 Chameleon Club – Lancaster, PA

3/10 The Gramercy Theatre -New York, NY

3/12 Middle East Downstairs – Cambridge, MA

3/13 Ritual – Ottawa, ON

3/14 Annex Wreckroom – Toronto, ON

3/15 Magic Stick – Detroit, MI

3/16 Peabody’s Down Under – Cleveland, OH

3/17 The Bottom Lounge – Chicago, IL

3/18 Triple Rock Social Club – Minneapolis, MN

3/20 The Marquis Theatre – Denver, CO

3/21 Club Sound – Salt Lake City, UT

3/23 The Venue – Boise, ID

3/24 El Corazon – Seattle, WA

3/25 Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, OR

3/27 Slim’s – San Francisco, CA

3/28 The Troubadour – West Hollywood, CA

3/29 The Glass House – Pomona, CA

3/30 Soma Sidestage – San Diego, CA

4/1 Nile Theatre – Mesa, AZ

4/3 Trees – Dallas TX

4/4 White Rabbit – San Antonio, TX

4/5 Antones – Austin, TX

4/6 The Studio @ Warehouse Live – Houston, TX

4/7 Downtown Music – Little Rock, AR

4/8 Rockettown – Nashville, TN

4/10 The Orpheum – Tampa, FL

4/11 Rocketown – Pompano Beach, FL

4/12 The Social – Orlando, FL

4/13 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA

4/14 New Brookland Tavern -Columbia, SC

4/15 The Soapbox Laundrolounge -Wilmington, NC

4/16 The Canal Club – Richmond, VA

4/17 The Ottobar – Baltimore, MD

4/18 Madison Theatre – Covington, KY

4/20 Theatre of Living Arts -Philadelphia, PA

The wait for new music from The Used is over. Head to KROQ.com now to hear the first single “I Come Alive” off the upcoming album Vulnerable out March 27^th via their own label Anger Music Group partnered with Hopeless Records. The debut single will be available for purchase January 17^th on itunes.

With over 3 Million albums sold worldwide, the band continues to create music that they stand behind 100%. “”I Come Alive” was the first song completed once we began writing this album. It sets up the record really well and I like how diverse and theatrical it is”, says front man Bert McCracken.

The band chose to go back in the studio with Jon Feldman who had accompanied them on 2007’s Lies for the Liars, 2004’s In Love And Death, 2003’s Maybe Memories and their first self-titled album from 2002.  Bassist Jeph Howard said working with Feldman on this album “was very positive. We really went out and expanded on this album. I’m excited for it to be more then a typical Used record.”

Full track listing and cover art will be released later this month.

The band will be performing at Soundwave Festival in Australia next month. For dates and more information on The Used, check out: www.TheUsed.net

Check Out “I Come Alive” Here: http://bit.ly/xus3Ii

“The Used are proud to announce the birth of Anger Music Group. Anger Music Group is an all

inclusive art production company. We have teamed up with Hopeless Records for the release of

our new record Vulnerable. We can’t wait for you to hear it! Love, The Used”

The final touches are being made to the album which will be released in the Spring of 2012. Vulnerable will be the bands 5^th studio album.

Already chosen as one of Alternative Press Magazine’s Most Anticipated of 2012, front man Bert McCracken explains,

“Vulnerable is about taking one step back and two steps forward. The sound of the record is as evolved as it possibly could be, it maintains the same emotional integrity as the first record [2002’s The Used], yet it sounds like the future (and the future sounds bright). Vulnerable is about taking a chance to let the real you shine. This record is for the outcasts, the misfits, the misunderstood, and the ones who have always dared to be themselves. I can’t wait for you to hear it.”

A brand new song from Vulnerable will be released in January!

For more details and to read an exclusive interview with Bert head over to the Alternative Press website: http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/used_bert_mccracken_interview_hopeless

Forming in 2001 and hailing from Orem, Utah, The Used have released four studio albums: The Used, In Love And Death, Lies for the Liars and Artwork. Their self-titled debut, In Love And Death and Lies for the Liars have all been certified Gold by the RIAA. The band has performed on the Vans Warped Tour, Taste Of Chaos, Ozzfest and Projekt Revolution and have toured with bands such as Atreyu, Chiodos, Box Car Racer, Three Days Grace, Glassjaw, Green Day and Andrew WK.

When Hopeless recording artists SILVERSTEIN announced the release of SHORT SONGS, the 22-track follow-up to their critically-acclaimed album RESCUE, they were still in the process of choosing which original songs they would include and which classic punk songs they would cover. With each song clocking in at 90 seconds or less, the appropriately-titled Short Songs is divided into two halves: 11 originals and 11 covers from such seminal bands as Dead Kennedys, Orchid, Gorilla Biscuits, The Promise Ring, NOFX, Green Day and more. “Just with every album we produce, we’re always thinking of the ’sides’ of a record,” explains drummer Paul Kohler. “In this example, Side A will be the originals, and Side B will be the covers. Each can be listened to as a contained unit, or you can easily play through just as on CD or in your iTunes.”

As an added “thank you” to their fans, one fan who purchases Short Songs through the pre-order that begins today will be chosen at random to receive a special care package directly from the band. The link for the pre-order is: http://hopelessrecords.com/silverstein/

Produced by Jordan Valeriote who produced Silverstein’s previous releases Rescue and the Transitions EP, the band challenged themselves by thinking of music in a different way. Instead of constructing songs in the standard “three minute plus” format, they cut each song’s time in half and told a story in a compact fashion. “We had some difficulties learning exactly how these songs were played and adapting them to our own abilities (ex. our Orchid cover “Destination: Blood”). Part of this made it a better challenge and definitely opened us up to a lot more playing styles.” The title track “Short Songs” (originally performed by The Dead Kennedys) features guest vocals from Tim McIlrath (Rise Against), Chris #2 (Anti-Flag), Scott Wade (ex-Comeback Kid), Chris Hannah (Propagandhi), Paul Rousseau (Burst & Bloom), Jimmy Stadt (Polar Bear Club), Daniel Tremblay (I Am Committing A Sin), Mike Hranica (The Devil Wears Prada), and Nick Diener (The Swellers). Liam Cormier (Cancer Bats) guests on The Swarm’s “xOn Our Kneesx”.
Riding on a crest of overwhelmingly positive press, Silverstein has had quite a groundbreaking year, kicking off with Rescue’s debut at #37on Billboard’s Top 200 Album Chart. The album has been lauded by the media including Alternative Press who called the album, “yet another consistently great Silverstein record,” and calling them “a band who continue to excel at their given genre, rarely deviating from its parameters but always finding new and creative ways to keep it fresh from album to album.” The Daily News chimed in, “Rescue offers what we’ve come to expect from Silverstein – a heaping helping of pop/punk punctuated by healthy doses of screamo.” UK-based Sputnik Music calls Rescue “a solid album by a group that is now becoming a very consistent band,” while Decoy Music hails it “perfect for fans of the post-hardcore genre.” The band also co-headlined this summer’s The Take Action Tour with friends Bayside, raising nearly $50,000 for this year’s beneficiary Sex, Etc.

Silverstein is Shane Told (Vocals / Guitar), Neil Boshart (Guitar), Josh Bradford (Guitar), Billy Hamilton (Bass), and Paul Koehler (Drums). Their fifth album RESCUE was released by Hopeless Records on April 26, 2011. Silverstein will be extensively touring North America and Europe in 2012.

SHORT SONGS TRACK LISTING

1 Sick As Your Secrets
2 Sin & Redemption
3 SOS
4 Brookfield
5 La Marseillaise
6 World On Fire
7 Sleep Around
8 My Miserable Life
9 Truth & Temptation
10 One Last Dance
11 See Ya Bill
12 Short Songs (Originally by Dead Kennedys) featuring Tim McIlrath, Chris #2, Scott Wade, Chris Hannah, Paul Rousseau, Jimmy Stadt, Daniel Tremblay, Mike Hranica, and Nick Diener
13 236 E. Broadway (Originally by Gob)
14 Good Intentions (Originally by Gorilla Biscuits)
15 Destination: Blood! (Originally by Orchid)
16 Coffee Mug (Originally by Descendents)
17 xOn Our Kneesx (Originally by The Swarm) featuring Liam Cormier
18 Scenes From Parisian Life (Originally by The Promise Ring)
19 It’s My Job To Keep Punk Rock Elite (Originally by NOFX)
20 Quit Your Job (Originally by Chixdiggit)
21 The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink (Originally by Green Day)
22 You Gotta Stay Positive (Originally by Good Clean Fun)

Buy it here:http://bit.ly/PunkGoesPop4

Fans can stream the song over at the Purevolume website: http://www.purevolume.com/news/Silverstein-Cover-Kanye-West-Runaway

The Wonder Years have premiered their brand new video for “Came Out Swinging” off of their album “Suburbia, I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing”.

You can check the video out over at Kerrang! http://hopel.es/ruIt9m

The boys will be hitting the road soon in the UK with Yellowcard & Saves The Day!

Tour Dates:

November 28 – Garage- Glasgow, United Kingdom

November 29- Institute- Birmingham, United Kingdom- SOLD OUT

November 30- Academy 2- Manchester, United Kingdom

December 01- Forum- Amsterdam, Netherlands