Orlando punk act Go Rydell have announced that they will be releasing a split with hardcore vets Grey Area.

You can stream a new song entitled “Battery Park” from Go Rydell off the upcoming split here.

The split will be released sometime soon on Black Numbers. No word on an official release date, but we’ll keep you posted. You can pre-order your copy here.

Oh, Canada…

According to their facebook page, New Jersey pop-punkers Man Overboard have been denied entry into Canada this weekend. As a result, they are bypassing their previously scheduled shows in Toronto and Montreal. Tour partners The Wonder Years gained entry to the Great White North and will proceed on as scheduled.

While they don’t reveal the reason for their denial at the border, we can only assume it is for less-than-nefarious reasons. A scroll through the comment section on their page hints that it is not for reasons related to, ahem herbal pharmaceutical remedies.

Man Overboard hit the road with Senses Fail next week.

Every Friday the punk rock geniuses here at Dying Scene unleash some punk rock trivia. Today’s “fun factoid” is about Teppei Teranishi who plays guitar in the Irvine punk-gone-indie rock act Thrice.

Teppei apparently isn’t busy enough playing guitar for Thrice so he’s found himself a side project like so many other artists.  His other band is called Black Unicorn and, no, it doesn’t sound like Thrice.  It’s folky-indie rock.  Sorta…  Just listen for yourself here.

Pennsylvania’s White Wives (featuring members of Anti-Flag, American Armada, Dandelion Snow, and The Code) have posted a stream of their debut EP entitled “Situationists,” which was released February 15, 2011 on Lock and Key Collective.

You can stream it here.

A few months ago, while reading some pre-release press on this album, I saw “Going Out In Style” referred to as the Dropkick Murphys “fun” album and I must say that I was a little worried by the comment. I’ve been a huge fan of the Dropkicks since I first heard them back in 2000 on a “Give ’em The Boot” compilation, but I can’t honestly say that I’ve loved everything that they have released. There are songs here and there that I just don’t like. So when I heard that this would be their “fun” album I imagined a whole album filled with tracks like “Sunshine Highway” and it scared me.

Thankfully, “Going Out In Style” is nothing like that. Sure it’s mostly fast and upbeat but with all the songs about death and loss, I wouldn’t call it “fun.” If I had to call it something, I would call it their most “Celtic” album yet. Normally on a Dropkicks release you get Irish influenced songs mixed in with street punk, rock and folk numbers but on this disc the Irish is turned up to eleven. Every song on “Going Out Of Style” has a Celtic feel and features bag pipes, tin whistle, mandolin, banjo or some combination of the four. It makes sense, since “Going Out In Style” is a concept record about the life of Cornelius “Connie” Larkin, a fictional Irishman. You can read more about him at dropkickmurphys.com/connie.

Another Thing I read in the early press was that this disc would have a couple of guests stars on it.

Most of these high profile guests show up on the title track “Going Out In Style.” It features Chris Cheney of The Living End, Fat Mike of NOFX, and the lead vocal debut of Lenny Clarke who plays Uncle Teddy on “Rescue Me.” Each of them sing a line or two of the song and are, most likely, singing on the chorus. The song itself is a great sing along (slightly similar to “Flannigan’s Ball”) that will most likely become a standard during Dropkick Murphys legendary live shows.

The other big named guest is The Boss, Bruce Springsteen. He shares vocal duties with Ken Casey on “Peg O’ My Heart,” a tradition tune that has been given the Dropkick treatment. These two, along with “Memorial Day,” a mid tempo gang vocal number about holding on to your dreams and “Broken Hymns,” a slower song about war that  features a lot of banjo picking, are my favorites on this disc, but by no means are they the only good ones. This album is great from start to finish, there is not a single song on here that I don’t like.

Any fan of the Dropkick Murphys or Celtic punk in general should enjoy this release. If I had to compare this to the other Dropkick albums, I’d say it’s closest to “The Meanest Of Times” but with the Irish instruments more up front in the mix.

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Newburgh, NY pop-punk act With The Punches have posted a new song “No Blood, No Foul” off their upcoming album “It’s Not the End of the World.”

You can listen to it here.

“It’s Not the End of the World” is set to drop on March 8th and will be a follow-up to 2009’s “Keep it Going” EP.

In a recent interview Todd Serious of Vancouver’s punk heroes The Rebel Spell talked about the band’s new album “Beautiful Future,” their new music video, sexism in the punk scene and more.

You can check it out here.

“It’s a Beautiful Future” was released on February 15th via Rebel Time Records and you can stream it here. The band also announced several Canadian tour dates and you can check them out here.

Guitarist Jay Maas of the hardcore act Defeater recently sat down to answer fan questions about the band’s new album “Empty Days and Sleepless Nights,” musical influences and more. Check it out here.

“Empty Days and Sleepless Nights” is due out March 8th on Bridge Nine Records.

Margate has released a new video for their latest installment of their “Live From Room 57″ series. But this time, it’s their original creation entitled “Rising” from their 2006 album Songs in the Key of Awesome. Check it out right here.

Each Friday for 30 weeks the band will post a new video that features a live performance by the band with “no overdubs, auto-tune or studio trickery” involved.

Margate’s last album “On The Other Side” came out in August of 2009, and you can download it–as well as the audio for all of the Room 57 Sessions–on their site for the punk rock price of “Pay what you want”. NICE!

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Well this is a random pairing. Gogol Bordello will be doing a short tour in May as an opener for recently reunited rockers System of a Down. You can check out the dates right here.

Gogol Bordello’s latest album “Trans-Continental Hustle”, was released April, 2010 on SideOneDummy Records.

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