To all you Blink-182/Hoppus fans, I bet you’re counting down the days until September 16th, when the premiere of A Different Spin With Mark Hoppus airs on Fuse TV. Well, Hoppus has some news for us. It’s big news. It’s probably one of the most epic tweets I’ve ever seen.

“They made a website for the tv show!”

Okay, so we knew that was coming, but it’s active now! Check it out here (Flash player needed, fyi). Oh, and I’m loving the URL name. “Trust me I’m in a band”.  The site is cool, even if it is just a teaser site. There is a sneak-peek video, links to different Twitter accounts, and behind-the-scenes photos.

This should make the last few weeks leading up to the premiere go by faster.

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.

Since this is our first week doing this little feature peace we’re going to make it a double whammy.  This week’s cover is Rancid doing a live performance of Green Day’s song “Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)” which then transitions seamlessly into a cover of Social Distortion‘s “Story Of My Life”.  Pretty great quality video too.  Check it out here.

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Oh, Sleeper is co-headlining their upcoming tour in September with The Bled.  Joining them will be A Plea for Purging and Letlive.  The tour will begin in California, but will come to an end in Texas in early October.

For a list of tour dates, click here.

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Orange County natives  Stick to Your Guns have announced new tour dates for their upcoming tour titled The Faith in the Untamed.  The tour will begin on October 1st in Arizona and will end in Austria on November 19th.  Other bands joining them include As Blood Runs Black, For The Fallen Dream, Close Your Eyes, and Attila.  For a list of tour dates, click here. [Read more…]

Atlanta band Woe, Is Me are set to release its new album Number(s) on August 31st from Velocity Records and have also posted a new song, Mannequin Religion to hold you over until the album is released. To hear the new song, check out the band’s MySpace page.

The band is currently finishing up its nationwide tour in Louisiana.

Italy’s ActionMen are streaming “Popular Inquiries Into Everyday Disasters” on their MySpace page.  The song comes off the recently released Belvedere tribute album from Bells On Records.

If you didn’t know, Belvedere was a Canadian punk band that called it quits in 2005.

Ahimsa Sunrise are streaming two previously unreleased tracks on their MySpace page.  They’re titled “Are You The Killer?” and “We Walk Alone” and it’s still unclear whether these tracks will appear on a future release but we’ll keep you posted.

The band released their last EP, “Save It”, in March, 2010.

7 piece, Atlanta post-hardcore/screamo act Woe, Is Me is streaming a brand new song on their MySpace page.  It’s titled “Mannequin Religion” and it will appear on the band’s upcoming full length, “Number(s)”, slated for release August 31st on Velocity Records.

<= album cover art.

Brutal Youth (which features three of the four members come from street-punk act The Class War Kids) has released their new album “Spill Your Guts” and in true DIY fashion the band is generously giving you lucky punks the whole album for free.

If you like angst driven hardcore punk, this one’s for you. You can stream and download “Spill Your Guts” here.  Remember, if you like what you hear then don’t hesitate to hit the “donate” button and give something back to the band, you cheap bastards!

Sister Sin have announced that their September tour dates with Black Label Society have been canceled. The band writes,

“They initially got re-routed so on 3 of the 5 shows we got pulled off, leaving only two remaining. We are in LA right having just finsihed th MSG tour and are flying back to Sweden on Monday. To fly back just a couple of weeks later for 2 shows makes no sense what so ever financially.”

If you didn’t catch the band this time around, they said that they will be back in the fall for another North American tour. Stay tuned for more info.

Their latest album True Sound Of The Underground came out June 22nd on Victory Records.