Blink 182 and Transplants drummer Travis Barker recently opened up more about the plane crash he survived in 2008 with his friend, the late DJ AM.

“Honestly, I never thought the album would be finished,” Barker said in Rolling Stone. “For a while after my accident, I was just recovering. No one really thought I would be able to play drums after all the surgeries and everything. That was always on my mind. Once I was in the studio, it was like, ‘I can walk now, I can play the drums still. I have to finish this.'”

After the crash, Barker went through 16 surgeries, nearly lost a foot, and couldn’t use his left hand. He was also on 20 different medications. DJ AM, who Barker called his support system, died of an overdose in New York in 2009, while Blink 182 was on tour.

Read the full story here.

Barker’s solo album, Give the Drummer Some, comes out March 15. He’ll be keeping busy this year, as new releases are also due from both Blink 182 and Transplants.

Green Day have released a live video of their old hit “Welcome to Paradise” from the upcoming Awesome as Fuck live album and DVD. Check it out here.

Awesome as Fuck is due out March 15. The band’s last release, 21st Century Breakdown, came out in 2009.

Cover songs are like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get.  We here at Dying Scene love hearing punk bands do their own take on other band’s songs.  Sometimes they pull off amazing interpretations of old classics, sometimes they’re not much more than humble tributes to a fellow artist, and other times they’re just downright laughable renditions of otherwise great songs.  Good or bad.  Intriguing or mundane.  We’ll let you be the judge.

Today we bring you VersaEmerge doing an acoustic cover of Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” Click here to hear it and compare to the original.

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Samiam posted a brief update to MySpace this week saying they’ll be recording this year:

We’ve booked studio time in the bay area and brooklyn for April/May…Samiam is making a record!

That’s the extent of the news, though, we don’t have any more details. But, of course, once we know something we’ll pass the knowledge along.

The band’s most recent release, Orphan Works came out last year on No Idea Records. It’s a compilation of rarities, outtakes, radio shows, and some live songs from the Clumsy and You Are Freaking Me Out era. The group’s last studio album was 2006′s Whatever’s Got You Down, which was released on Hopeless Records.

Samiam will be playing Krazy Fest in Louisville and The Fest in Florida later this year.

New Yorkers The Jukebox Romantics have unveiled the track list for their upcoming album, A Lion and a Guy. The record is set to be released on May 3rd via Altercation Records.

Check out the track list here.

The band last released a self-titled album in late 2009, and this is their second full-length for Altercation Records.

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Dropkick Murphys are on the side of the workers.

In order to support the unions in Wisconsin, last week the Celtic punks made a limited edition t-shirt (feast your eyes on it over to the left) that they are selling for $18.95, with the proceeds going to the Workers’ Rights Emergency Response Fund.

The band’s new song, “Take ‘Em Down,” was written last summer, and the band released it early to support the workers. You can hear it here, or listen to the whole album here. The song was written well before anything went down in Wisconsin, but suddenly it became timely again.

“That song was written in August and was written about our families’ dealings with organized labor,” singer/bassist Ken Casey said. “It’s the ’50s when the fight for collective barging was waging. All of that was ratified in the late ’50s for the first time in Wisconsin and here we are, someone’s trying to take it away. We found it to be very ironic. It’s a protest [song]. It really ties in because it was written very much in the spirit of the battle to have those rights in the first place.”

The t-shirt is for sale at the band’s merch page. A crafty fan created a video for the song using footage from the Wisconsin protests. Check it out.

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Rival Schools recently released their first album in a decade, Pedals. The New York post-hardcore group last put out material in 2001, with their debut United by Fate. They split ways in 2003, but reunited five years later. Listen to their comeback album here.

Pedals officially comes out March 8.

San Diego rockers Unwritten Law have premiered another song from their upcoming album, Swan. The track, “Swan Song,” was the first one written for the record, at a time when the band wasn’t even completely sure there would be another Unwritten Law album.

Check out the track (and a more in-depth story behind it) here.

Swan will be out March 29th on Suburban Noize Records. It will be the band’s first new full length record since 2005′s Here’s To The Mourning.

The good folks over at Concrete Jungle announced today that NY punk veterans The Turbo A.C.’s are joining the CJ family in Europe, and the band themselves informed us that they’re joining Stomp Records for North America. In addition, the band will finally release their super-long-awaited full-length studio album, “Kill Everyone” in June of this year. Stay tuned for more info on this in the very near future!

The Turbo A.C.’s last album was 2006’s “Live to Win,” released on Acetate Records.

Haven’t had your UK psychobilly fix in a while? Lucky for you that Vince Ray and the Boneshakers announced today that they will enter the studio with the legendary Pat Collier to record their new album “The Sound Effect of Sex & Horror.”

The Raucous Records act’s last album, “Zombie Radio,” was released in 2008.