The Poison City Weekender is, without a doubt, one of Australia’s best D.I.Y. festivals.  Held over three days back in September, the festival offers the best punk rock bands that the country has to offer along with respectable international acts.  Poison City Records have debuted a mini-doco filmed during the course of the 2010 Weekender.  It’s split over three parts, one for each night of the festival and you can watch all the videos, here.  It’s not only great watching but they’ve incorporated  some interesting interviews from various people involved with the festival.

There is footage of a gazillion bands including Lungs, Leatherface, The Gun Runners, A Death In The Family, Break Even, Grand Fatal, Grim Fandango, Paper Arms, The Currency, Arrows plus many more.

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Boston punks Street Dogs visited AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, DC this past Monday Dec. 13th to perform at a “youth union awareness rally.”

Within the video there are short clips of frontman Mike McColgan talking about the similarities between punk and labor unions. The band also performed a couple of songs including “Unions And The Law,” “Tobe’s Got A Drinking Problem,” as well as “There is Power In A Union” and “Up The Union” with Wayne Kramer. You can a video with the song clips here.

The band is currently killing it en route to Boston where they’ll be performing a couple of residency shows at the Paradise Rock Club. Click here for the full dates.  Their latest self-titled album, “Street Dogs,” was released on August 31st through Hellcat Records. Check out our interview with Mike here, as well as the Dying Scene Sessions with the Street Dogs here.

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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 one of the best drummers in punk rock; Strung Out’s Jordan Burns.  Check out his picks for the 10 Best Albums of 2010 right here.
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While most people are winding down for the holidays, The Decline have been a busy lot.  The punks from Perth have posted the film clip for “Pope’d In The Eye” which you can watch here.  The song is taken from their debut album, “I’m Not Gonna Lie To You”. 

They are also streaming “Like Licking a Battery” which you can have the pleasure of listening to here.  The track is taken from “We Lied” which is a collection of B-sides taken from the recording sessions with Bill Stevenson at the Blasting Room.

“I’m Not Gonna Lie To You” and “We Lied” were both self-released by the band this year.

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Ever wonder where some bands come up with their band names?  Well, we do, and we’re sick of sitting around scratching our heads about it.  We’re hitting the streets (aka. “Internet”) to find the origins behind some of the more bizarre, intriguing or just plain random band names in the scene.  Every Wednesday we’ll be pulling the curtain back on a different musician and this week it’s Rochester, NY, rockers Polar Bear Club.

The band named itself after the song “Polar Bear Club” by Silent Majority, which appears on the 1997 album “Life of a Spectator”.  In Polar Bear Club’s opinion this album was one of the most important punk albums of the last 15 years and they really appreciated Silent Majority’s “hard, melodic and emotional” sound.  It was a style they wanted embody in their own sound so they figured it was a great place to find a band name.  You can listen to the song here.

San Diego pop-punkers Hide The Details are offering up their debut EP “Waves” as a free download.  Featuring five songs written this past summer, all you have to do is go to their Band Camp page, click buy now, and enter $0 when asked to “name your price”.

Donations of more than $0.00 are accepted, of course.

Tim Barry has posted a video for the song “Bus Driver” from his latest release, “28th & Stonewall”.  There is a bunch of self-shot tour footage including footage from his tour to Australia as part of Chuck Ragan’s revival tour.  You can watch the video here.  I’m pretty damn sure you can see an awesome fist pumping effort in there from yours truly. 

Tim released “28th & Stonewall” in January this year through Suburban Home Records.

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Massachusetts pop punk act Maker has announced several U.S. tour dates.  You can find the dates and locations here.

Maker released out a split album with The Story So Far on Pure Noise Entertainment on November 23rd and have recently signed to 6131 Records for an upcoming full-length album.

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.

This week it’s New Jersey punk veterans The Bouncing Souls covering the 7Seconds song “Young til I Die”.  Check the cover and compare it to the original right here.

The cover song appears on the soundtrack for the documentary “Let Them Know: The Story Of Youth Brigade & BYO Records which was released on September 22, 2009. The original version appears on 7Seconds 1984 album “The Crew”.

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Roger Miret and the Disasters has premiered a brand new song titled “Stand Up And Fight” and you can check it out right here.  The song will appear on the band’s upcoming album, “Gotta Get Up Now”, due out on January 25, 2011 via People Like You Records.

The New York City-based based punk rock band is fronted by Roger Miret from Agnostic Front.