Chris Browne of Polar Bear Club’s hardcore band Achilles will be playing their first shows in 8 months starting tonight in Rochester, NY. Along for the ride will be Tides and Like Wolves. The band released the full length Hospice last year on Hex Records.

Tour Dates
Thursday, January 10th - Rochester, NY @ 278 North St. Doors 9pm | $5*
Friday, January 11th - Syracuse, NY @ Westcott C.C. Doors 6:30pm | $7*
Saturday, January 12th - Brooklyn, NY @ Lost and Found. Doors 8pm | FREE*#
Sunday, January 13th - Pawtucket, RI @ Easy Access. Doors 8pm | $5*

* with Tides and Like Wolves
# with Dear Tonight

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Polar Bear Club fans rejoice! The album is now up for pre-order at Red Leader Records, though the official street date is March 11, 2008, the word on the street is that if you order now, you may have it before Christmas! The band has also posted another track to wet your appetite called “Another Night In The Rock,” check out that over on their MySpace. Recently, Costa from LNWF sat down and chatted with Chris from PBC, check out the interview here.

PBC’s tour will start on December 26th in Buffalo, you can check out the rest of the dates after the jump.
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Rochester NY’s own Polar Bear Club are definitely not the naked, old dudes swimming at Coney Island in December, so don’t worry about being driven blind with horror if you ever see them. Just be prepared for the melodic-hardcore goodness to melt your face off. Simple as that. Also don’t be surprised if you start hearing more and more people talking about them in the upcoming months, after the release of their new album, entitled Sometimes Things Just Disappear, for Red Leader Records. PBC’s guitarist Chris Browne was cool enough to put up with me for a bit one evening for an interview.

How exactly did the band come together?
We started in spring of 2005. Jimmy [Lead singer] and I were in an old band together called Tamiroff. That band was sorta ending and I wanted to do a band that was sort of in the same style but more energetic. I actually talked to a couple of old friends of ours who started a band with me, Kevin and Bob. We got together and started practicing. Jimmy didn’t join until later that summer when we’d already recorded our demo. Over the last two years, we’ve replaced member by member until we got the lineup we’ve got now and it’s been that way for a little while now.

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Spin.com has realized the awesomeness that is Polar Bear Club and did a nice write up on them here. Best part is that the post includes a free mp3 of “Our Ballads” which has only been available for streaming on MySpace page. The track comes from their new record Sometimes Things Just Disappear, which is slated for a December release through Red Leader.

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Red Leader took over the Bowery Poetry Club this past Saturday, putting on one of the best showcases of the week with sets by Fire When Ready, The New Dress, Scream Hello, Dear Tonight, Nakatomi Plaza and the mighty Polar Bear Club.

We got there just in time for The New Dress. As I looked around the room, I saw nothing but smiles in the crowd. There’s no secret about this but we love this band. We think everyone should love this band. It was cool to see them at this show surrounded by all their friends. I was also pleasantly surprised by Scream Hello. It kinda reminded me of a more aggressive Piebald. The dudes seemed really stoked to be there and we’re bouncing around stage like a couple of monkeys (the punk variety atleast).  Dear Tonight were super tight as well and did a freaking fantastic job filling up their short set with some aggressive but thoughtful hardcore. Hey, if Vice is catching up on these guys now, I think it’ll be a matter of time before the rest of the crowds do.

As Polar Bear Club began to play fans bum rushed the front of the stage singing and finger pointing to all the words.  The band’s live show has some fucking awesome power to it.  The band tore through favorites from The Redder The Better EP, one track off their demo, and 2 new ones off their forthcoming release Sometimes Things Just Disappear which is going to be released in the near future.

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