New York based, all girl punk act Public Noise Concern are releasing a digital EP titled “Yesterday’s Trash” via When’s Lunch Records on December 28th.  The 7 inch won’t be released until this Spring.

You can check out the band’s music right now on their MySpace page.

Walnut Creek, California’s pop punkers This Time Next Year has finished writing their album, and is set to go into the studio next month with Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory fame. That being said, TTNY is canceling their upcoming east coast tour dates. They have released this message.

“We’re bummed to have to cancel the upcoming tour with Transit and Daytrader. They are great friends of ours and helped us out a ton with setting up this tour. They will still be doing the tour and Into It. Over It. has been added to several of the dates. They will be really great shows and we hope that you can all still make it out and support our friends.

We hope you all know that we would never cancel a show or tour unless we had a great reason for it. We’ve been writing and demoing for a while now and have been anxious to get into the studio, so when the opportunity to record with Chad presented itself, we couldn’t pass it up. We start pre-production in early January and couldn’t be more excited to record our new music. Thank you so much to everyone who has expressed interest in our band and in the tour. We promise to make it up to those who planned on coming out to the East Coast shows and are looking forward to sharing our new album with everyone in the new year.”

Yeah, I can understand them ditch their tour dates. Chad Gilbert’s productions are pretty epic. More info on this release when we get more info.

Fearless Records, (in)famous for their Punk Goes… compilations, has a lot they are promising for next year. The Aquabats, A Skylit Drive, Go Radio, Sparks The Rescue–

Well, to make things easier, you can watch this little video they threw together, complete with clips of songs off upcoming Fearless releases.

More info on these releases as we get closer to their…release.

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New Jersey’s screamo act Senses Fail has released this live video via Vagrant Records. The song the are performing is called “Life Boats” and it’s off their latest Vagrant release The Fire. Check it out right here.

Oh, be sure to go to 2:24 and see Buddy go CRAZY onstage.

The Fire came out October 25th. Check out this review if you want to know more about the album.

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Birmingham’s skate punk band Laughing In The Face Of are streaming a “NEW!” song on their MySpace. Look for it. It’s called “The Art Of Burning Bridges”. And it’s super-catchy. It will appear on their upcoming debut full-length album The Lubrication Of Social Anxiety.

Laughing In The Face Of will release their debut album in February on Lockjaw Records.

In the spirit of giving, Nashville, TN’s Blacklist Royals are offering a free download of their Christmas tune “Baby, It’s Christmas”. Get your free download here.

Blacklist’s latest release, Semper Liberi, came out in May this year on Paper + Plastick. Check out a review of the album here and our interview with frontman Nat here.

Well, another year is drawing to a close. People are gearing up for the holidays and it’s almost time for us to start creating our New Year’s resolution lists. But before we begin looking to the future, let’s employ a different kind of list to help us appreciate the past. You know what I’m talking about. Yep, a Top Ten list! Each day for the next couple weeks I’m going to publish a different Top 10 albums of 2010 list for you to praise, completely disagree with, or just outright ignore.

Today’s list comes from Joey Briggs, co-vocalist and guitarist for LA punk band The Briggs. Check out his picks for the 10 Best Albums of 2010 right here. [Read more…]

The Have Nots have been a breath of fresh air for ska-punk with their work being a great example of what made the genre great in the first place.  The four piece from Boston have spent 2011 touring their asses off, winning fans all over the place and they even won an award for the “Used To Be” music video.

Have Nots took time out with Dying Scene to talk about all things Have Nots including the genre that is ska-punk, the new album, touring and the best bands in punk rock today.  You can read all about it here.

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A split usually involves two bands showcasing a few songs so that fans of one band can be introduced to another. A three way split is pretty rare, at least to me, but I’m all for throwing in an extra band. The three bands on this split are Jet Market (Italy), Part Time Killer (Finland) and Burning Fiction (Australia.) They all contribute four songs each in exactly 35 minutes.

I’m not familiar with the band Burning Fiction but from the first track “Mindhead” they got me intrigued. The skatepunk evidence is all there. The fast beat, the melodic vocals, rhythmic bass and the driving power chords all sound as good as the pop of an ollie. The second track is slower but still good and I finally figured out who these guys sound like. It’s mostly the voice but I hear a resemblance to now expired aggressive metal/skatepunk band Layaway Plan. The next track is at the same pace as the last and again it is good but just not as good as the first. The final track from Burning Fiction is “The Grip” and it starts at the same pace as the last two but 30 seconds in picks up with some finger tapping solo’s and fires into the fast skatepunk sound I’m looking for. All around not bad but I would say they should of stuck to the same strategy as Layaway Plan and played them all fast.

The next band is one I am looking forward to hearing. I am a fan of Jet Market so I have high expectations for their four songs. “The Truck” immediately is recognizable as a Jet Market song and 15 seconds in to it I have goose bumps. Up next is “Tonight, Tonight” and it’s blazing fast and has a familiar sound to it. NO FUCKING WAY! It’s not until the palm muted picking and vocals that I figure out that the title is not just a coincidence to the Smashing Pumpkins song. Rad is all I can say. I love the original and now here is four Italians giving me a skate punk version of the hit song. They finish strong with the last two tracks making it three solid Jet Market tracks just as good as anything else they have done and one awesome cover song.

The last band is one that gave me slight puzzlement. For a few minutes I thought this was the Austrian punk band Renttokill who have a song called Primetime Killer but no, it’s Part Time Killer who I have never heard of until now. After I straighten it out the chorus of the first song is yelling at me to “Wake up.” Part Time Killer has a more straight up classic punk sound than the other two bands but they have infused it in to their own style of melodic skate punk. The four tracks are all fast and all have singable chant along vocals that make you want to rise up and fight against something like the government, rising beer prices, burnt toast or whatever you’re against.

As a whole Jet Market has the strongest tracks on the split but all the bands bring something to the table that is good in their own way. I ‘m glad that there are three different bands on this split, giving me three different styles of fast melodic punk rock to listen to. I might have never heard of Part Time Killer and Burning Fiction if it weren’t for Jet Market.

We’re a few weeks late on this one, but Los Angeles based pop-punk band Margate have launched a 30-part weekly video series on their YouTube channel called “Live from Room 57”.

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. That’s right, just live, raw and awesome punk-rock.

As a Christmas treat, the bands latest video is a punked up cover of the holiday favorite “Silent night”, which you can enjoy here.

The video series will mostly be covers of the bands favorite tunes, but fans might get lucky and hear a sneak peak of the upcoming EP that the band is currently finishing up and planning to tour for this Spring. Their 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 website for the price of “Pay what you want”. [Read more…]