Cleveland, OH’s The Fucking Cops are streaming a new song from their upcoming “Fuck You Up With Some Truth” 12″ EP. The EP will come with a full sized booklet that includes illustrations for each song on the record. You can check out the song, titled “Gloria,” and two pages from the booklet by clicking here.

“Fuck You Up With Some Truth” is set for a May 3rd release on Kind Of Like Records.

Boston’s Have Nots have released yet another song as the release date for their new album, “Proud,” draws closer. You can check out the song “Farewell Show” by clicking here.

“Proud” is expected on May 3rd via Paper + Plastic, and is the band’s second full length release.

When Flogging Molly rocked Coachella last weekend, they took a few minutes to talk to California radio station 98.7. Check out the interview here.

The Irish punks have several tour dates ahead of them, including the Groezrock Festival in Belgium and a lot of shows in Europe and the US. They released a limited edition 7-inch on Record Store Day and have a new album, Speed of Darkness, coming out May 24.

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Rochester punks Polar Bear Club are about to head out on the Take Action Tour with Silverstein, Bayside and The Swellers, plus they’ve been working on a new album. Head over here to read about their recording process.

The new album, titled “Clash Battle Guilt Pride,” is due out some time in the late summer or early fall on Bridge Nine Records. We’ll let you know when there’s more info available on that. PBC’s last album was “Chasing Hamburg,” which came out in 2009.

The always awesome NYHC band Agnostic Front have debuted a new video, this time for the Spanish-language song “A Mi Manera” off their most recent album, My Life My Way. AF frontman Roger Miret dedicated the song to the Latin hardcore community. Mira el video aquí.

My Life My Way was released in March on Nuclear Blast.

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Welcome to a brand new feature here at Dying Scene – our very first contest. The giveaway comes from Toronto four-piece Crookedhook. The band will be opening for some of Fat Wreck‘s finest when they’ll play with NOFX, Teenage Bottlerocket and Old Man Markley at the June 25 Toronto stop on their Great White NO(FX)rth Tour. You can check out a few of their songs over at their website.

So for our inaugural foray into the world of giveaways, we’ve got some Crookedhook swag for you. We’re offering up a prize pack that includes a t-shirt, copies of the band’s albums Breathe Pollution and All We Got and some stickers and buttons. Click here to see some pictures of the merch.

So, the rules: First off, you have to be located in the US or Canada. Then, head on over to Facebook and like this post (you can like it on either the Dying Scene profile or the DyingScene.com fan page – clicking “like” on both will still only enter you once). You have to also like both DyingScene.com and Crookedhook (and yes, we will check). That’s it! You’ve got one week to enter — we’ll choose the winner randomly from the people that like the post at noon EST on April 27.

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Longtime So Cal ska-core band Voodoo Glow Skulls are heading out for a tour of the southwest in May. They’ll be hitting towns in Arizona, California, Texas, Utah, Nevada, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado. Check out the dates here.

The band released several new songs individually last year. Their last full-length album was 2007’s California Street Music.

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Belgian melodic punk band The Octopussys, are streaming “Distant Memories” on their MySpace page.  The song will appear on the band’s upcoming Funtime Records debut, “Face The World.”

“Face The World” was recorded and mixed by Dirk Miers in Belgium’s “Dé Studio” recording studio and is going to be mastered at The Blasting Room.  It is slated for a May 14, 2011 release date.

LA pop punks Margate have released their latest cover video, this time for the song “Blitzkrieg Bop” by The Ramones. Check out that video here. You can listen to all of their previous 18 covers on their website.

The band is offerring their presale for their EP “Rock ‘n Roll Reserve” for two more weeks. You can check that out here.

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Anyone outside of the punk rock music loop tends to thins the same things about the genre- repetitive, loud, snotty and obnoxious teenagers singing songs about boredom and anarchy. While that stereotype may have existed for a reason, bands like Ninja Gun prove that you can still get your point across without screaming and bashing people’s heads in with the same three chords.

With their new EP, “Roman Nose,” Ninja Gun sound less like the stereotypical punk rock band and more like a mature group with something intelligent to say. Each track is like a new treat to unwrap; each tends to start off slow then build to greater and greater rock heights. It has a lot in common with both the 90’s alt-rock movement and the 70’s rock movement, with a bit of punk rock sensibility thrown in.

The album begins with the track “That’s Not What I Heard,” which starts off sounding more like a disconcerting lullaby than a track from a rock band. The tempo then picks up after the first verse, leading in to a track that defies punk rock conventions and sounds awesome for it.

“Hot Rain,” the second track on the EP, has a slightly alt-country feel to it, but when the song is in full swing, it sounds like it could have walked out of the 1995 alternative rock era without hesitation. In full swing, the song could have walked off of Silverchair’s “Neon Ballroom,” while the beginning of the track draws some parallels with bands like Everclear.

“Lepers In Love” stands as a glorious representation of the bands that influenced Ninja Gun. It starts off sounding like a song that could have been performed by The Beatles, and then leads in to a much more Weezer-esque chorus. While it sounds bizarre to be combining elements of both The Beatles and Weezer in the same album – in the same track, no less – Ninja Gun manage to pull it off without sounding like a tribute band to either.

“Roman Nose” stands out as the quietest track on the EP. It also is an appropriate album closer, as it gives an air of finality and peace before the close of the album.  It combines much of the instrumental characteristics of classic rock, with a quieter feel that conjures images of Thrice’s “Alchemy Index” era and Bright Eyes. You can also sense a little bit of “The Bends” era Radiohead hidden in the guitars, and likely dozens of other rock bands could have points in common with the track.

While Ninja Gun draw references to multiple bands with careers that span over four different decades, their sound is unique to the band. Face it: there are very few bands out there who could combine the musical elements of so many bands and still not only be listenable, but thoroughly enjoyable. Ninja Gun draw inspiration from many sources, but give their music a unique twist that sets them apart from every other band in the current music scene. One could only imagine how many more bands could be referenced had this been a full-length and not a four-song EP.