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 Lars Frederiksen and The Bastards covering folk-punk legend Billy Bragg‘s To Have And To Have Not. You can check it out here. The song appears on the band’s 2001 self-titled release.

Last week’s random cover song can be heard here. [Read more…]

NY hardcore punk legends The Casualties have released the promo video for their tour with Gwar. You can check it out here.

You can check the full dates for the tour by clicking here.

The Casualties released their latest album We Are All We Have last year on SideOneDummy Records.

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Wow, here’s an interesting change of events. Sweden’s The Part Timers, who called it quits back in March, have found a new singer and a piano player, and have reformed under a new name: Speakeasy.

You can stream 4 songs by the newly formed group on their MySpace Page, all of which will appear on a vinyl EP titled Tales Of A Blind Tiger, slated for release later this year.  And yes, they’re still Punk Rock!

New York metalcore act Every Time I Die have announced the dates for “Shit Happens: The Tour.” The band will be hitting the road in support of their latest release New Junk Aesthetic, as well as their Shit Happens: The Series DVD due out Oct. 26th. Click here to check out the full dates.

New Junk Aesthetic was released last October on Epitaph Records [Read more…]

Hardcore punk pioneers Negative Approach have uploaded three “new” songs to their MySpace Page. The songs Friends of No One, I Got A Right and Genocide are off of their recently released Friends Of No One EP.

The band is also re-issuing their classic 80’s 10 song debut EP. The release will be available in stores on October 12th.

Yesterday we wrote that Bad Religion had officially kicked off the countdown to The Dissent Of Man release by posting the full lyrics to a different song off the album to get us pumped.

Are you pumped yet? You better be because today we have the lyrics for…Only Rain! Click here to check them out and here to go to the album page on the band’s website.

The Dissent Of Man will be released on September 28th on Epitaph Records. [Read more…]

Brooklyn emo/punk Daytrader, featuring current and former members of Crime In Stereo, Bridge and Tunnel, Latterman, The Monikers, and others, have posted two new tracks to their MySpace page. The songs, Chromatic Living and Paper Pusher, can be heard here.

Citing influences such as Sunny Day Real Estate, Saves the Day, and Hot Water Music, fans of these bands will definitely want to give this a listen.

Montreal hardcore outfit Here Comes the Hurricane are streaming Let’s Celebrate, the first track off of their latest EP, Charming Disaster, over on their MySpace page.

The EP came out this past July and is available exclusively through iTunes. You can still download the band’s two song demo EP right here.

Massachusetts technical metal outfit Within The Ruins have announced a batch of US tour dates, as well as a music video for Invade, the title track off their recently released album by the same name. You can check out the tour dates and the video here.

Invade, out now on Victory Records, is band’s the follow up to their 2009 debut release, Creature.

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Something fishy is going on in the Second To Last camp.  The California based aggressive pop-punk act made a facebook update on August 4th stating simply “Thanks for everything. R.I.P.” which naturally led us all to believe the band had broken up.  But then today something strange occurred.  The band is suddenly streaming a brand new song on their MySpace page called “Runaway,” which according to their player, will appear on an EP of the same name.  Does this mean they’re back together?  We’re not entirely sure, but they have also added some show dates for later this month so we’re optimistic.

The band released their debut EP “Mark Approved” on Anchor Eighty Four earlier this year.