Check this: Lagwagon‘s lead singer Joey Cape made a home video for the song Dreaming off his upcoming solo album Doesn’t Play Well With Others. Dreaming is a Blondie cover, in case you were wondering why it sounds familiar.  The song is also available for free download on Cape’s website.  Here’s what he had to say about the song:

The story of how the recording came to be is nice one. I was on a US acoustic tour with Jon Snodgrass and Chad Rex a few years ago and this guy, Shaun Colón contacted me thru My Space about his studio in Dallas, TX. He generously offered to let us come in the day of our show there, free of charge (A one time deal I’m sure) and record a track. Well, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity but, I had no idea what song to record and no time to get anything new together. Chad and I started discussing possible covers and for whatever reason we agreed on “Dreaming”, a song from a female vocal, perspective. Ha ha. Anyway, I have always liked the song and the studio turned out to be an amazing space. The guys running the system, Shaun Colón and Kevin Kotzur, turned out to be good guys and great technicians. It was an awesome experience. I highly recommend working with them. Check it.

Each month, Joey is releasing a song off the upcoming album, until all 12 are released. Once that happens, the new CD will come out. This is release #10, so two more to go until we can get our hands on this solo album.

Head on over to Joey Cape’s website to download the other songs.

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As many of you know, Indianapolis’ hard-hitters Haste The Day has been on the road supporting their latest release Attack Of The Wolf King. They have posted a video of their shenanigans, and you can check it out right here.

Be sure to check out their MySpace to sample their album Attack Of The Wolf King, released June 29th on Solid State Records. [Read more…]

An interview recently conducted at UK’s Reading Festival on 28 Aug with Bad Religion members Jay Bentley and Brian Baker was aired yesterday morning (31 Aug) on the UK’s “Punk Show with Mike Davies”.  In the interview, Davies asks the pair about their opinion of the festival, playing with England’s hip-hopper, Dizzee Rascal, touring with NOFX, and the secret to their longevity.  After the interview, two live tracks (Infected and American Jesus) performed at the festival are available for listening.  Hear it all right here.

28 Sept will see the release of Bad Religion’s millionth LP, The Dissent Of Man, a follow-up to 2008’s Epitaph release, New Maps Of Hell.  Check them out on tour as they hit the road in a few days to promote the disc.

Today, The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon launched his first FAQ blog post in which he answers/will answer questions that fans ask via his Twitter.  In the inaugural post, Brian tackles questions such as the origin of the name “Gaslight Anthem” (named after a NYC club), putting music to his lyrics, his song-writing inspiration, and several other devotee-inspired topics.  Brian promises a round two of the FAQ to follow soon.

The Gaslight Anthem kick off a brief US tour in just a few days before skipping across the pond until November (US and international dates here).  The band’s latest release, American Slang, came out this past June on SideOneDummy Records.

Richmond, VA, hardcore act, Worn In Red, stopped by the studios of “People Who Hate People Radio” for some interview action as well as a little live performance for the fans.  Click on over to the PWHP site to hear the 42-minute-long interview, peep some photographs, and watch a video of the band play As Best As We Can.

Worn In Red’s last LP, In The Offing, was release in 2009 on No Idea Records.

In a recent interview with UK’s Rock Radio, Tom DeLonge explained exactly how the San Diego, CA’s, Blink 182, upcoming release will sound.  According to the trio’s guitarist, it can be expressed by a simple equation: Angels & Airwaves + +44 + Transplants/Expen$ive Taste = new Blink.  Additionally, DeLonge said that “the record will be very modern, relevant, fast, and fun.  It’ll be a mixture of drum and bass, indie rock, and stadium rock.”  While this is pretty much the gist of it, the rest of the interview can be read here.

It was announced this past June that Blink 182 would be recording new material just as singer/bassist, Mark Hoppus, announced that he will be hosting his own show on Fuse called A Different Spin With Mark Hoppus which is set to air this month.

Amongst a couple of greatest hits discs and an interview release, Blink’s last LP, titled Blink 182, came out in 2003.

Organizers for the St. Augustine, Florida, music festival, Harvest Of Hope Fest, have announced that there will be no 2011 spectacular.  The coordinators cited simply a lack of time and resources as the reason for the abandonment.  Read the original statement here.

The Harvest Of Hope Fest is a three-day, multiple stage alternative music festival that, for the past two years, has benefited and raised awareness for the Harvest of Hope Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides financial, educational, and medical aid to migrant farmworkers all over the country. [Read more…]

After just 1 year of operation we are proud to say that DyingScene.com has surpassed all our expectations in terms of growth and popularity.  Today our prolific rise to punk rock famedom was made all the more clear by the fact that we reached 5,000 friends on Facebook!  Man, we are popular.  To commemorate the event we decided it was time to bust out our financial spreadsheets, fire up our TI-85 calculators and tally up just how lucrative this little venture of ours has gotten.

Just thinking about the piles of money we must surely be bringing in as the web’s premiere punk news resource had us rubbing our greasy palms together and drooling at the mouth in greedy anticipation.  But then we had an epiphany.  Where would we be without our readers?  The answer was, “nowhere,” or more accurately, “at home, sitting in front of our computers in our underwear, surrounded by great music but not a single person to share it with.”  We realized just then that we’re sharers, not greedy horders; so we made a decision.  A monumental decision.  Before crunching the numbers and calculating our massive profits we made a promise to ourselves and to those first readers that helped catapult us into to the upper echelons of punk rock greatness.  That promise was to give 100% of all profits made by DyingScene.com since its inception and up to this very day, to our 5,000 original Facebook friends as a little “thank you” for their support.

So, with clear consciences and noble intentions, we got back to those spreadsheets, tallied up our massive advertising revenue and began subtracting our meager expenses.  And that’s when it hit us like a ton of bricks.  It would seem that we actually don’t make any profits running Dying Scene.  In fact, insisting that our teams of accountants run the numbers again, it turns out we actually lose money running this damn site!  Who knew?!

Our accountants say that our “profits” so far are technically somewhere in the neighborhood of negative $20,000.  But fair is fair.  We made a promise to our readers and by God, we would keep that promise!  Once again we had our accountants return to their calculators, this time to divide up those profits amongst our 5,000 friends.  And now, in honor of our very first and very loyal readers, we would like to offer you first 5k FB friends your due reward.  If you are friends with us on facebook, simply email us your address and we will promptly send you a bill for $4.

Thank you,

Johnny X

Yesterday we reported that Canadian punk act Broadcast Zero posted Alien from their upcoming album Some Concerns Regarding This Revolt. Well, today the band  posted four more songs from the album titled Just Entertainment, Battle On, Something Better and The Enemy. Check them out on the band’s MySpace page.

Some Concerns Regarding This Revolt will be released September 14th on Rebel Time Records/Stumble Records. Broadcast Zero released their last full-length Yesterday, You Could Change The World in 2008 on Rebel Time Records.

Phoenix screamo outfit The Word Alive is streaming their new album Deceiver in it’s entirety right here.

The album was officially released August 31st on Fearless Records.