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We’ve got an awesome contest for you courtesy of our friends at Paper + Plastick Records, The Riot Before and Cheap Girls. One grand prize winner will win the following:

1) A Paper and Plastick skate deck

2) Copies of The Riot Before’s Rebellion and Cheap Girls’ My Roaring 20s on LP.

But that’s not all folks! We’ve got an exclusive premiere of a new song from The Riot Before in our MP3 player to your right. The song is called “The Middle Distance.” Rebellion comes out April 27th via Paper + Plastick.

Both bands are playing at Rad Fest in Wilmington, NC on 5/14-5/15.

Photo by Bill Shouldis

For this installment of Tales From The Fest, The Riot Before‘s guitar/vocalist Brett talks about breaking his Fest cherry last year and how the festivities have a deeper meaning than just getting silly drunk for three days. The Riot Before released their fantastic album Fists Buried In Pockets recently via Say-10 Records and you should check it out. Onward!

Last year was my first time at The Fest and I didn’t really know what to expect beyond the stories of inebriated fun I had recounted to me by those who’d been before. And while inebriated fun was completely, unsurprisingly, and happily represented over the weekend I attended, I was caught off guard by another aspect of The Fest that I had never expected. The Fest is not just a weekend of the best type of liver punishment, it’s also a family reunion.

Read more after the jump.

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