Boston, MA’s punk-ska band Have Nots have just released this official music video for their song “Poisoned Antidote” from their debut album Serf City USA, which was digitally reissued by Paper + Plastick.  They are currently on tour and will be stopping in Nashville, TN to record some new material with producer Matt Drastic.

You can check out the video on YouTube HERE.

This may be a little bit of old news, but Boston, MA ska-punk band Have Nots have recently signed to Paper + Plastick Records!  On top of that, Paper + Plastick have the band’s entire full-length Serf City USA up for free digital download.

You can download the album HERE

Our friends at Amazon.com have posted preview clips from Great Leaps Forward, the brand new album from Michigan punk-ska band We Are The Union on Paper + Plastick Records.  The album drops on Tuesday, March 30th.

You can stream the clips HERE.

Our friends over Punknews.org have posted a brand new track from Ann Arbor, MI’s own We Are The Union.  The punk/ska band will be releasing their upcoming full-length album Great Leaps Forward on Paper + Plastick Records at the end of March, which includes the song “Where’d You Go, Psycho Boy?”

You can stream the song HERE.

In honor of their upcoming album release on Paper + Plastick, here is a video of We Are The Union performing their song “I Am Like John Cusack” at The Central in Nottingham, UK.  Let’s hope they decide to tour to MN this year!

Our friends over at AbsolutePunk have posted a brand new song from Michigan punk-ska band We Are The Union.  The song “One Million Motors” will be on their upcoming album on Paper + Plastick Great Leaps Forward which drops on March 30th.

You can stream the song HERE.

Our friends over at ThePunkSite.com had the chance to interview Vinnie Fiorello, the head of Paper + Plastick Records and drummer for Less Than Jake.  He discussed some of his plans for the “paper” side of Paper + Plastick:

I’ve been looking for it and I think that what you’ll see start to happen is over the next few months I have a lot of records that will be coming and then after that, I’ll be concentrating on a lot of print. I’ve been shifting through a lot of young comic book artists, I’ve been shifting through a lot of photo journalists who do photo books. So to be honest with you, I’ve just been kind of looking at other authors to do books from them. I think that probably around Christmas time you’ll see the paper side of the label pick up.

At least two of those books will be written by Vinnie himself.

I have a book, an autobiographical book called Perfect Teeth that I’m about a hundred pages into. And then I have a tour story book called Fifty States that I’m almost completed with. Fifty States will probably be printed in a very Cometbus way, if you know that zine, it’ll be printed sort of like that. Everything will be hand written, everything will be very organic. It’ll be printed black and white. It’ll be tour stories. A nod to old punk rock: everything cut and pasted, everything halftone. It’s gonna be cool. You’ll see that probably around middle of the summer. And Perfect Teeth, I don’t know, it’s a work in progress. Hopefully it’ll see the light of day sometime next year.

It’s [Fifty States] basically every lyric I’ve ever written for Less Than Jake with stories about those lyrics; with pictures and just generally a very extravagant sort of look at the writing process of the lyrics and where they came from. Stories about the lyrics and about being on tour, it’s the companion piece to a bunch of Less Than Jake records.

In Less Than Jake news, Vinnie describes the band’s plans now that they have regained control of their own recordings:

August we’ll be doing a six DVD set of us playing all of our six records live. Then Christmas time will be the re-release of Hello Rockview and the re-release of Losing Streak. And then probably the late spring of 2011 will be Borders and Boundaries and then the late summer/early fall we’ll probably bring Anthem and In With The Out Crowd.

You can read the entire interview HERE.

Michigan punk-ska band We Are The Union have announced a brand new full length album, entitled Great Leaps Forward, on Paper + Plastick Records.  The album drops on March 30th, but preorders can be made HERE.  They have a great deal for you to get the album on vinyl, CD and digital download all for the low price of $12!

To our readers over in Michigan, the band are having an all-ages CD Release Party on April 3rd at Metal Frat in Ann Arbor.

Michigan ska-punkers We Are The Union sure have been busy since they played last July’s MNSka showcase at Station 4 in St. Paul, MN!   They have just released their new EP The Gun Show Must Go On via Paper + Plastick Records, an indie label created by Less Than Jake’s Vinnie Fiorello.  It is available digitally only at www.paperandplastick.com for $2.

We Are The Union recorded the 3 song EP with Matt Allison (Alkaline Trio, Less Than Jake) at his Atlas studio in Chicago and was mixed by Bill Stevenson (Black Flag, NOFX, Rise Against).  The band plans to head back into the studio this June to finish recording their full-length debut on Paper + Plastick due this fall.  The band will finish its current 6 week tour June 1, head to the studio for a couple weeks, then playing the Milwaukee, Chicago, and Detroit Warped Tour dates.

Let’s hope they make it back to Minnesota for their fall tour!

Last week’s episode of Vinyl Vlog featured a bearded Vinnie Fiorello (Less Than Jake, founder of Paper + Plastick records).  He sat down with the VV guys and filled them in on the upcoming release schedule for Paper + Plastick as well as information on Less Than Jake vinyl pressing.