Fat Wreck Chords are proud to announce Oakland, CA’s American Steel to their label. Carrying on the grand tradition of the early East Bay sound, American Steel were adored locally and served as a pillar of the 924 Gilman Street scene from 1995-2002. They released three proper full length records and it’s safe to say that you could file American Steel’s 2nd album, Rogue’s March, right next to Rancid’s Rancid, Crimpshrine’s Duct Tape Soup and Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy. They are currently recording a brand new record at Sharkbite Studios.  On June 16th they will be playing at San Francisco’s Bottom of the Hill with Dead To Me.

Strung Out have just finished recording, mixing and mastering their brand new record Blackhawks Over Los Angeles which comes out on June 12th.  Fat Wreck Chords have posted the cover art which was done by singer Jason Cruz. The band just played Groezrock Festival in Belgium over the weekend and checked in with an update.

See album artwork: here
Studio video updates:  1, 2, 3