KROQ is hosting a brand new Avenged Sevenfold song up on their site for 24 hours each day leading up to the release of Nightmare on the 27th. Today’s track is #2 on the album, Welcome To The Family. Click here to check it out before the new song gets put up!

The album sounds like the lovechild of a Waking The Fallen and City Of Evil marriage.  If you’re looking for M.Shadows to return to his growling, wait till you hear God Hates Us.

You can watch the music video for the title track Nightmare here and the lyric video for Buried Alive here.

Maryland foursome The Dangerous Summer took to…a bathroom…for RockSound.TV’s “The Toilet Circuit” acoustic session, where they played Never Feel Alone. You can check it out here.

The band last released Reach For The Sun in May of 2009 on Hopeless & Sub City Records.

Jim Lindberg’s (formerly of Pennywise) new band The Black Pacific have released the artwork and tracklisting for their upcoming self-titled album, due out September 14th on SideOneDummy Records. You can see the artwork <=there= and the tracklisting here.

The Black Pacific will play their first show on September 26 at KROQ’s Epicenter Twenty Ten festival in Fontana, CA. You can download a 2 song band “sampler” here. [Read more…]

Darkest Hour guitarist Mike Schleibaum has formed a DC punk side-project named Beasts Of No Nation.

The band, made up of current, and former, members of Trial By Fire and Darkest Hour will be playing their debut show in front of their hometown crowd on August 26th.

You can check out the songs Riding The Dinosaur, The Price Of Loyalty, and In The Shit, as well as the lyrics to the songs, on their MySpace Page. Do yourself a favor and check these guys out, you won’t be disappointed!

Boston punk act Transit have posted a new track to their MySpace Page titled A Living Diary. The song can be found on their upcoming album Keep This To Yourself, which can be pre-ordered on the website of their label, Run For Cover Records.

If you do pre-order the record, A Living Diary will be made available for download immediately upon check out. Click here to see the full tracklisting for the album.

Transit’s latest release Stay Home dropped April of 2009. [Read more…]

Philly’s Dirty Tactics have announced that they are entering the studio for a week on July 28th to record a follow up EP to their latest release, It Is What It Is, out now on Say-10 Records. The band will be working with Pater Steinkopf of The Bouncing Souls on this project.

The band had this to say about the EP,

“We had a few weeks off after we got back from Europe to face reality a little bit. The tour gave us a chance to work out the kinks on some new songs, so we are playing a couple local shows to solidify them before going into the studio with Pete Steinkopf from the Bouncing Souls to record a new EP. All of us grew up on the Souls (there might even be a couple Souls tattoos in this band… shh…), and we’ve been talking to Pete for a while about our ideas. We can’t wait to work with him. Expect some studio posts for sure. As far as the songs go, they each have a bit of a different vibe (Chris sings a couple; Dan sings another; we all sing on some) so we are stoked about that. We hope to get 6 songs out of it. There’ll be more information about its release in the near future, but we will definitely be playing them at our shows coming up.”

The band also announced that they will be supporting Dead Kennedy’s in October for a short run of dates. You can check the dates here.

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Joey Briggs will be releasing his 7” solo record Politics, Touring and Self-Loathing on August 20th through Northeast Records.  The cover art is right their <=.

The record will be on red vinyl, with a limited pressing of 500. You can pre-order your copy here.

Florida pop-punkers New Found Glory have released their newest video, for the song Truckstop Blues – check it out here, but you’ll have to Tweet or updated your Facebook status about it to see it. Truckstop Blues is from the band’s latest release, 2009’s Not Without A Fight, which came out on Epitaph Records.

The video features the band in all kinds of shenanigans at a truckstop, with some performance footage of the song played back at warp speed. It was directed by Matt Stawski – he’s previously worked with Fall Out Boy and Alkaline Trio, to name a few.

New Found Glory is about to take off on the Honda Civic tour in support of headliners Paramore. They’ll also be playing some shows on off days with The Wonder Years and Lemuria – get all the details at Dying Scene shows.

According to a recent blog post by Bigwig lead singer, Tom Petta, the New Jersey punk act will be releasing a Covers EP that will contain every cover song Bigwig has ever recorded.  There’s no official release date yet but you can stream the band’s cover of “Sliver” by Nirvana on their MySpace page.

Bigwig’s last release, Reclamation, came out in 2006 on Fearless Records.

Southern California’s punk rock legends Bad Religion have accomplished quite a bit since the band’s inception three decades ago. In celebration of their 30 years as a band, Spinner has posted 30 facts you may or may not know about the band, and you can check them out here. Definitely some fun facts in there and highly worth the read.

Bad Religion will be releasing The Dissent Of Man September 28th on Epitaph Records.