DS Show Gallery: The Dream Machine Tour! Featuring Jigsaw Youth and Des Rocs in Chicago (Bottom Lounge, 4/26/24)
Chicago got a double-dose of New York bands Jigsaw Youth and Des Rocs who teamed up for a spring North American tour after the release of Des Rocs’ Dream Machine in August 2023 with Sumerian Records. Jigsaw Youth are no strangers to Dying Scene (check out the photos from when they played with Destroy Boys […]
DS Review: Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties – “In Lieu of Flowers”
The Wonder Years frontman Dan Campbell, has been hard at work; in 2014, he created a well-thought-out alter ego known as Aaron West, best defined as “a character study conducted through music” – basically a fictitious telling about his alter ego’s life. The first album, We Don’t Have Each Other, told the story about Aaron […]
DS Exclusive: Listen to The Bacarrudas’ debut album “Pool Party” before it comes out this Friday on Mom’s Basement Records
Summer is rapidly approaching and that can only mean one thing: Pool Party! That also happens to be the title of the debut album from Philadelphia’s Bacarrudas, a brand new band fronted by Dirt Bike Annie‘s Adam Rabuck. The album delivers 13 power pop / surf / garage rock / just straight up fun songs […]
DS Show Review and Gallery: Swami and the Bed of Nails + Meat Wave – Chicago (04.12.2024)
John Reis, best known as the guitarist for Rocket From The Crypt, brought his brand new band Swami and the Bed of Nails to Chicago’s Subterranean. In support was Meat Wave, the Chicago group riding a massive wave of acclaim. It was a night of double delight. Swami and the Bed of Nails, is making […]
Dying Scene Photo Gallery: Meth, See You Next Tuesday, Deaf Club, Usurp Synapse, and DJ Speedsick, Thalia Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago’s own Meth headlined a wild night of noisy hardcore punk metal madness “in the round,” where they set up on the floor of Thalia Hall and were surrounded by the crowd for the night. Meth delivered an incredible set and the crowd went wild. Opening bands See You Next Tuesday, Deaf Club, Usurp Synapse, and DJ Speedsick […]