The Distillers have set up a Twitter profile and have released a short video that seems to hint at new music. Gird your loins and check out the tweet.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, FUCK YES! FUCKING FUCK YES! FUCK! IT’S ABOUT FUCKING TIME!

FUCK!

Woo!

San Antonio’s Sonic Ammunition just released their latest EP, “Hellucination.” What better way to ring in the new year with some hard, fast, punk rock? You know it’s legit because the cover art has a skeleton with spiked hair and a werewolf in flannel.

Check out the EP in the stream below, and throw five bucks at Sonic Ammunition at bandcamp if you want to keep it. [Read more…]

Dutch pop punk stalwarts Cooper are releasing a new EP on February 14th on Kicking Records, and they’ve premiered a video off the upcoming eight-track EP.

“1st EP” was mixed by Bill Stevenson of Descendents and, you guessed it, the band’s first EP (though they have 6 LPs behind them). Check out the video for “Back on Track” below. You can also pre-order the EP from Kicking Records. [Read more…]

The folks in Lawrence, Kansas have 37 reasons for you to check out their scene. They’ve put up their third compilation for free at bandcamp, featuring 37 tracks from 18 bands. You can stream the whole thing below or download it straight from bandcamp for free. Be sure to check out The Rackatees, Something and the Whatever, and Vigil and Thieves. [Read more…]

2017 provided me many great opportunities to document the punk rock scene. Most especially, the punk rock scene in my adopted city of Chicago. For my compilation of my favorite images of 2017, I am including a mix of my faves from both veterans bands well known nationally and even internationally; and upstart groups grinding out their place in the punk rock world. I also am including images both published here, heretofore not featured in any online or hard copy publications. These were exciting and compelling shows. If you see any of these bands (hover over pictures in the gallery to catch the names) coming through your city, town; or general area I suggest checking them out! Check out the full gallery below!

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Hot, thrashy skate punk for you out of Finland. Teresa Banks has put up half their upcoming EP on bandcamp. The record is due out on January 18th via Melodic Punk Style. You can pre-order it for five bucks, and be sure to check out the stream below! [Read more…]

Welcome to 2018, comrades! In case you were wondering, Bob’s resolution for this new year is to tighten up his editing time frames so that we’re not playing Christmas themed songs in January and Anarchopunk is pretty much perfect, so he has nothing to improve upon, thus no resolutions were established. We’re really hoping that your new year’s resolution was to listen to more punk news podcasts! If so, you’re really gonna dig this one! In this installment, we’re featuring a menagerie of international punk bands.  We’ve got French punks, British punks, South African punks, Canadian punks and we even sprinkled in some American punks with an interview from the Los Angeles based grouch punk act, Spanish Love Songs. All of this and more in Episode Four of the new and improved Dying Scene Radio, below!

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Hey all you punks, here are my top ten albums from this past year. I’m new on the block here at Dying Scene and I’m sure this list is going to make you flustered, and wonder where [insert band name here] is on my list. Regardless, here is some great music that helped me through some tough transitions out of college, the loss of a close friend, and into my new life: you can find it below.

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Ska super-heavyweights Streetlight Manifesto have announced plans to play a 20th anniversary show celebrating the legendary “Keasbey Nights” album. The band will celebrate by playing the single most played album in my collection from top to bottom.

Check out a personal favorite below.

In case your unaware “Keasbey Nights” was originally recorded by New Jersey ska legends Catch 22, “way back in 98, yo”. A few years later Tomas Kolnocky left the band to focus on higher education and upon his completion of said task, brought the world the awesomeness that is Streetlight Manifesto.

Streetlight Manifesto infamously re-recorded the masterpiece and somehow made it better? At the behest of Victory Records (ahem who they later sued and won). After many years of trying to avoid the elephant in the room the band has announced they will play this gem in it’s complete amazingness on May 5, at the Pine Belt Arena in Toms River, NJ. Act fast this bad boy will sell out quickly!  [Read more…]

New York City punks Comrades are streaming their latest release “Matter of Fact”. Featuring songs titles like “Stick and Poke” and “Coffee or Meth” it’s no wonder I fell in love with this after one listen. Mixing folk with old school punk rock this album has a little for everyone.

Give it a listen below.

This is the first new release from Comrades since the 2013 release of “We Got This!”. If your a fan of the Dreadnoughts you’ll get a kick out of these guys. [Read more…]