http://www.amazon.com/Self-Entitled/dp/B008S9XQBU/ref=sr_1_24?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1344024541&sr=1-24

Legendary melodic punk rockers Strike Anywhere are set to release a live acoustic collection CD/LP/Digital formats, titled In Defiance of Empty Times, on August 14th. Two sets were recorded last year, in Rochester last July and Richmond last September, and merged together for this very special release. "Side Rochester" features six songs captured from Strike Anywhere's acoustic performance alongside labelmates Polar Bear Club, while "Side Richmond" was recorded during a benefit show for the IWW on the eve of the Occupy Movement in RVA.

Strike Anywhere vocalist Thomas Barnett commented, " Side A ( Rochester ) is almost like a Peel session to me, an old BBC Radio one recording, or a very heartfelt but musical journey into the melodies and textures inside the songs. There is urgency and melancholy and a clarity of purpose bubbling up out of those acoustic performances that can sometimes get lost or sidelined in the headlong rush of a hardcore show. We'd been doing one-off acoustic shows for years, to benefit causes we support, and just to play our music in a different, and maybe less commodified context. But last Summer, we found ourselves really working out new arrangements and discovering new details in the songs as we prepared for these two events." He continued, "Side B, recorded on the eve of the Occupy Movement, shows a rowdy, loud yet intimate snapshot of our hometown at its passionate best. The quiet surprise that's in our voice is on record, as the songs translated beyond our expectation and simple hopes of transcending genre and seeing what happens without the noise and sweat of a punk show. We find out of course, that the noise and sweat follow, even without amps and pedals! The back end of the record builds into a party atmosphere that shows the songs inhabiting the room beyond us, transforming, then coming back louder and bigger. This is the riot folk for rioting folks."

http://www.bridge9.com/read/2498/pre-order-strike-anywheres-live-acoustic-album-in-defiance-of-empty-times-from-the-b9-store

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8724207&style=mp3
I liked it)

The 12 tracks expectedly span several genres including punk, ska, hip hop, metal, and folk, all wrapped in a hardcore shell. Intertwined male and female vocals harmonize and shriek over some of the crunchiest guitars ever recorded, culminating in massive crescendos of explosive sound.

fatwreck.com

On October 25, 2011, Dead To Me will release their third full length, Moscow Penny Ante, on Fat Wreck Chords. Tyson "Chicken" Annicharico said this:
Our new record Moscow Penny Ante marks a new page in the story of Dead To Me, and I honestly couldn't be more proud of it. It's a privilege to get to make a new full length record with the new members of our band, and their addition to the song writing process has helped for sure. After spreading our wings a little bit on the last album, African Elephants, we ended up writing a much more cohesive, focused batch of songs this time around. I will always love experimenting musically with Dead To Me, and I am very proud that we remain a band that can't be summed up or pigeon holed with a few " they sound like…" references. However this new record marks a bit of a return sonically to the songs I was writing when I first started the band years ago.
The title "Moscow Penny Ante" is a double meaning of sorts. Malcolm X used to refer to small time hustlers and criminals that were scraping out an existence in the Harlem of his early adulthood as "Penny Ante" crooks. Not really big time enough to be taken seriously by the big time gangsters and organized crime members of the era. We felt this term had a proper analogy to our place in the music "industry". We scrape by and do what we can, but we think we run a pretty good hustle as it were. Hell, it got me all the way from the tiny dirt road I grew up on to Moscow. Who would have thought?

punknews.org