In the ever growing soap opera that is the band Say Anything, apparently their bassist Alex Kent has left the band for undisclosed reasons. One can only imagine what the reason would be considering the laundry list of musicians to play in Say Anything but they have wished him well in his future endeavors. A great piece to this story is that he will be replaced by Kenny Vasoli of The Starting Line fame to fill-in. It’s been stated that he’s been brought on only for their upcoming tour but this is a great collaboration that many hope will become permanent.

Say Anythings latest record was their self-titled album released November 3rd, 2009 on RCA.

You can view the tour dates here.

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Another song has surfaced from the upcoming Bad Religion tribute album, “Germs Of Perfection.” This time Cobra Skulls is covering “Give You Nothing” off Bad Religion’s 1988 album “Suffer” and you can give it a listen on their MySpace page.

“Germs Of Perfection” is an exclusive Bad Religion tribute album featuring 15 or so contributing artists.  Over the next three weeks, MySpace will be posting one song a day (barring weekends) to stream. Then, on October 19th, they will offer up the entire album as a free download on both MySpace Music’s homepage and through SPIN.com.

So far you can stream additional contributions from Polar Bear Club, Tegan And Sara, and Frank Turner.

Rise Against is giving away autographed copies of their upcoming DVD Another Station, Another Mile and you can enter to win one of them right here.

The DVD will be released on October 5, 2010 on DGC/Interscope Records and will feature performances of 14 songs recorded in locations throughout the world. These performances are interspersed with interviews with each band member of the band revealing the creative process that goes into making a Rise Against song and the history of each individual band member.

To view the DVD tracklist and a new clip from the DVD go here.

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 we bring you Thrice covering “Helter Skelter,” originally performed by everyone’s favorite English moptop sporting rock n’ rollers, The Beatles.  This cover song appears as a b-side on their latest album “Beggars” and you can listen to it here.

Last week’s random cover song can be heard here.

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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 band and this week it’s the old school NYHC band H2O.

According to the band’s bassist Adam Blake, the name was chosen by their singer Toby Morse.  At the time Toby was straight edge and he wanted a band name that evoked an image of purity in people.  Since water is pure he figured H2O was a good fit and the rest is band name history.

Check out last week’s Band Name Origin story: My Chemical Romance

Every other day a record label is formed while another folds.  Australia is home to some great independent labels and in a quest to introduce you to some of the great ones out there, DS caught up with Pete from Pee Records. While originally starting out as a zine, Pee grew to incorporate a record label which has been steadily pumping out releases from the finest punk and hardcore bands that Australia has to offer.

Find out what makes Pee Records spin right here.  Sit down because you’re in for a chuckle or two.

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You can watch Four Year Strong perform an acoustic rendition of their songs “Find My Way Back Home” right here.  How annoying is that dude talking on his cell phone?

The song appears on the band’s most recent release, “Enemy Of The World,” released in March on Universal Republic Records.

Read the Dying Scene album review here and our interview with the band here.

Hartford hardcore group Wrench In The Works have called it a day.  Here’s the official announcement from the band:

“After over a decade of playing music together Wrench In The Works has officially decided to call it quits. We would like to thank everyone at Facedown Records for believing in us, giving us an opportunity and most of all being our friends. We would also like to thank all of the amazing bands we toured/played with and became friends with through our travels as well as all of the people we met and became friends with, it was definitely awesome and we couldn’t have done it without you. We have A LOT of merchandise left over and we want to get rid of it, our band never set out to make money so we are selling all of our shirts for $5 and all proceeds go to a ministry we believe in called Project AK-47. They help free child soldiers in Southeast Asia so please help out and buy a shirt.”

Wrench In The Works’ last album, Increase/Decrease, was released March 16th, on Facedown Records.

Atreyu has announced that they will be releasing a free 5 song covers EP titled “Covers Of The Damned” on October 12th as a promotion for their upcoming “Congregation Of The Damned” tour.  The EP will feature two cover songs by Atreyu and three collaborations with the other bands on the tour including Blessthefall, Chiodos and Endless Hallway.

The songs are:
Aerosmith’s “Livin’ on the Edge” (Atreyu);

Dead Kennedys “Holiday in Cambodia” (performed with Endless Hallway);

Volbeat’s “Guitar Gangsters and Cadillac Blood” (Atreyu);

Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back in Town” (featuring Atreyu vocalist Alex Varkatzas and guitarists Travis Miguel and Dan Jacobs along with Endless Hallway members Evan and Joe Mullen, Chiodos vocalist Brandon Bolmer, Architects UK singer Sam Carter and Blessthefall vocalist Beau Bokan);

Deftones “My Own Summer” (Atreyu guitarist Travis Miguel and bassist Mark McKnight with Brandon Bolmer and Tanner Wayne of Chiodos, Sam Carter of Architects UK and Jono Evans of Endless Hallway.

Congregation of the Damned tour dates can be found here.

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Jim Lindberg of The Black Pacific performed an acoustic version of two tracks (“Put Down Your Weapons” and “The System’) off the band’s brand new self titled debut album and you can check it out here.  It’s actually pretty cool to see this side of Jim and the songs came out great unplugged.

The Black Pacific self-titled full-length was released September 14th on SideOneDummy Records.

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