Wyoming native pop punks Teenage Bottlerocket have just released a brand spanking new video for their cover of The Punchlines “Why the Big Pause.”
The track will be on their anticipated album “Stealing the Covers” which will hit the streets on July 14th via Fat Wreck Chords.
Check it out below.
London based pop punkers Ghouls have announced some tour dates this fall that will see them playing all over the UK before making their way to Florida for a few shows and wrapping up at The Fest.
You can check out all the dates and locations below.
Ghouls last released Run in May, 2017 via 1471 Records.
English indie-punk act Holy Pinto are streaming a new song called “Very Adult.”
You can give it a listen here.
“Very Adult” comes from the bands’ upcoming EP, King, which is set to be released on June 30th via Soft Speak Records. It will serve as a follow up to their latest album Congratulations.
Florida punks Caffiends and London, Ontario based pop-punk act Snacks? are streaming their upcoming split EP that is set to be released this Friday on Get Party Records.
You can give it a listen here.
Caffiends last released a split with Peabodys, while Snacks? last released Greatest Splits.
Kansas City pop punks Get Busy Living have released a new video, for “Burn and Repeat”, the band’s new single. The song is the first release since signing to Manic Kat Records – and is available for purchase now.
You can watch the video below. The band will be recording a new EP in the fall.
To coincide with their announcement that they will join the SideOneDummy family, Canadian punk rockers Pkew Pkew Pkew have released a video for “Before We Go Out Drinking”.
The first release from the band on their new label will be a reissue of their 2016 self-titled album. The newer version will feature one additional track that didn’t make the Royal Mountain Records release. For those eager to get their hands on the album, they’ll have to stay patient and keep checking back here until the official date gets posted.
In the meantime, check out “Before We Go Out Drinking” below.
The Ataris have released a new compilation album through their bandcamp page. It’s called Silver Turns to Rust, and it features four tracks from the band’s upcoming LP The Graveyard of the Atlantic, songs from their latest EP, and demos of two new tracks.
You can give the 12-song compilation a listen below.
The Graveyard of the Atlantic will be The Ataris’ first studio album since 2007’s Welcome the Night. The record’s release date is still unknown, but as always we’ll keep you posted.
Sleep In have made their new EP available to stream a few days ahead of its June 23rd release. You can check it out over at PunkNews.
The EP is the band’s debut release on Black Numbers. They’ll be touring through July with Fossil Youth. You can find the dates below.
Birmingham, Alabama’s premiere pop punk act, American Pastime has a new album on the horizon and they were generous enough to debut one of the first singles, exclusively here at DS for our loyal readers! True southern gentlemen, those guys! The track (in video form) comes from the upcoming album A Sinking Feeling out on June 30th via Wilhelm Records (you can preorder here). If you’re a Magic City local, head over to the band’s Facebook page for more details on their record release show at the end of the month and then go support your local scene! As for the rest of us, we’ll just have to incessantly stream the single, “Sonny Boy”, below and wait patiently by our mailboxes!
Pop-punks from the Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan Good Grief have announced they will be releasing a new EP titled HOME. You can find the tracklist below.
Home will be Good Grief’s second EP, following their debut EP No Perfect, which was released on December 18, 2016. The 3 track EP is set to drop on August 11, and will feature the track “Pavements” from their 3-way split with KICKASSRAY and See You Smile.
Minneapolis, MN based pop-punks A Better Hand have premiered a music video for the track “So Long Goodbye.” You can watch it below.
“So Long Goodbye” is taken from the band’s recently released EP The Longest Drive, which was released on March 12. You can find the stream for the EP below the video.
UK pop-punk act Trash Boat have premiered a music video for their track “Tring Quarry.” You can watch it below.
“Tring Quarry” is taken from their latest album, Nothing I Write You Can Change What You’ve Been Through, which was released on June 17th via Hopeless Records.
Boston punks Oh The Humanity! are on the verge of releasing a 5-track EP called Tired Ears, and you can stream it in full below.
Tired Ears will be released on June 30th via Ocelot Records. Oh the Humanity! will be heading out on tour this fall, including a performance at FEST. They also have plans to release a split EP with their Ocelot labelmates, The Hideout, so keep an eye out for that this fall.
If you like what you hear, you can pick up Tired Ears as a digital download or as a limited edition 10″ here.
Quit your job, shred your bills, and toss out all that Perrier in your fridge. The Dopamines are back with a brand new full length album to remind you that maybe life isn’t all that great but at least alcohol exists. After a five year wait between albums, Tales of Interest carries a lot of weight on its shoulders, but in true Dopamines fashion the band doesn’t really seem to care for the expectations that others have set for them.
Tales of Interest is a darker album. While The Dopamines’ lyrical themes have always struck a chord with the jaded and jobless, the glossy production and brevity of the music added an air of humor to them before. Here, the guitars are heavier than they’ve ever been before, and though it’s not uncommon to hear tones like this coming from a midwestern punk band, it’s new for The Dopamines and it lends a more sinister feeling to lines like “I’ve got so much more drinking to do, mistakes that I’ll consequently blame on you” (“The King of Swilling Powers I, II, III”) and “Sometimes I just want to pull out a gun and shower you all in my brains” (“Business Papers,” a re-recording of the band’s contribution to The Thing That Ate Larry Livermore).
That’s not to say that Tales of Interest is a completely new version of The Dopamines. The album’s second half contains a handful of songs with the classic Dopamines structure (“Pavlovian Fixtures,” “Open Letter,” “Expect the Worst”). They’re just played by a band with more experience and confidence in their abilities, and willing to experiment. “Kalte Ente” is an instrumental tune, “The King of Swilling Powers (Part I, II, III)” is three and a half minutes long, and “083133” contains a harsh breakdown, all things that the Dopamines haven’t done before. The band even recorded the album as a four piece (although they’ve toured and played shows with a second guitarist in the past, they officially added Rad Girlfriend Records founder / Raging Nathans guitarist Josh Goldman to the lineup a few years ago)- another first for the band.
Change isn’t something we might not have wanted from The Dopamines, but it’s certainly something that they needed. Another Expect the Worst or Vices this is not, and Tales of Interest is all the better for it.
4 / 5 stars
RIYL: The Copyrights, Dillinger Four, Rivethead
Ladies and gentlemen, pop-punk veterans The Lillingtons have signed to Fat Wreck Chords.
The band recently released the Project 313 EP through Red Scare, and will be releasing a new full length trough Fat Wreck later this year. You can catch them (with me) at The Fest in October.
These guys are legendary, and their signing to Fat Wreck is well deserved and very cool news. If you can’t wait for more Lillingtons, check out a stream of Project 313 below.
Checking my email is one of my least favorite parts of my daily routine. Half of my inbox is spam and the other half is spam about boner pills. Sifting through the Dying Scene inbox, on the other hand, is awesome. Sure, we get a lot of junk sent our way, but there always seems to be a diamond in the rough. Cook Bag is one of those diamonds. They sent us a link to their new single "June 4th", and a few seconds into my first listen I knew this melodic punk band from Boston was something special. There's something so familiar about their sound, but I can't put my finger on it. I highly recommend checking out the track on bandcamp (it's free to download as well).
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