AFI‘s Hunter Burgan posted a tweet yesterday regarding an upcoming release for his side project, Dan & Hunter, with Dan Kelly of Only Crime. Hunter had this to say about the album,

“We are working in a new album for the fall with over 30 songs! The theme is a secret for now, but it’s not holiday related this time.”

I guess we’ll have to wait and see what these guys are planning to share with us. Dan & Hunter digitally released a 5-song holiday EP last winter.

Bad Religion just announced two House of Blues dates for their US tour in the fall in support of their upcoming full-length titled The Dissent of Man. These dates will be the follow-up to their festival appearences, including Epicenter and Riot Fest. The band expects to announce more dates soon.

Songwriter and guitarist Brett Gurewitz just recently announced via Twitter that Bad Religion is currently mastering their upcoming album, The Dissent of Man, due out September 28, 2010. The Dissent of Man will be Bad Religion’s first studio album since 2007’s New Maps of Hell, and will likely include the new song “Resist-Stance”, which originally appeared on the live album 30 Years Live. It will also mark the first time since its formation in 1979 that a Bad Religion line-up had not changed in four consecutive studio recordings.

Here’s the dates:

10/12/2010 – House of Blues Cleveland, Cleveland, OH (on sale 7/16/2010)
10/18/2010 – House of Blues Boston, Boston, MA (on sale 7/24/2010)

Cloverdale B.C.’s Seamen are giving away their Bad Robots label debut, Liquor Face, for free right here.

Seamen features ex-members of DOA , The Real McKenzies , The Exesecives and Subverse .

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Off With Their Heads is a band that just keeps getting bigger and for good reason. These road warriors have crossed North America about 12 times in the last two years while trekking across Europe and parts of Asia too. Oh yeah, did I mention they also signed to Epitaph after the success of their breakout album From the Bottom?

The Minnesota pop-punk band is back with a vengeance on their 2010 Epitaph debut In Desolation. With a bigger budget and better production, Off With Their Heads explores new ground and doesn’t try any cheap tricks to fit in with the rest of the Epitaph roster. They’re still playing fast, pissed, catchy punk rock on songs like “Their Own Medicine,” and “Zzyyxx.”

The super poppy “Trying to Breathe” is very similar lyrically to the themes on From the Bottom. In fact, many of the themes in From the Bottom are revisited on this record. Even when they’re not aggravated like on most of From the Bottom, they have parallels. “I Just Want You to Know” is a bit like “I Hope You Know,” in which singer Ryan Young shouts “I just want you to know that I think about you all the time/You’re always on my mind.” The lead single “Drive” is a catchy singalong that makes a great addition to their live set. There are some monster choruses on this record, and songs like “The Eyes of Death” and “All I Can Do” really keep things moving in between the off-kilter “Old Man.”

There’s only a few bad things about the CD, and the most obvious is the cover artwork. Granted, that’s not really as relevant as other criticism so let’s move on. “My Episodes” is a slow acoustic song that sounds like a gruff emo ballad and is the only song to bring down the rest of the album.

Even with the small blemishes, Off With Their Heads have proved that they’re ready for the big leagues on In Desolation. It doesn’t depart all that much from what the band has done, but it puts them in a much bigger spotlight; one that they definitely deserve.

Every Friday the punk rock geniuses here at Dying Scene are going to unleash a little bit of punk scene trivia all over your asses. Today’s “fun factoid” is about 2 amazing bands 2 well known bands (Fall Out Boy and Rise Against) and a little know connection between them.

Many of you know Tim McIlrath as the front man for the Chicago punk band Rise Against and you may also know Pete Wentz as the bassist for pop-punk/emo/rock band Fall Out Boy. However, you may be surprised to find out that both musicians got their start in the same Chicago hardcore scene and at one time even played together in the same metalcore band – Arma Angelus. Ironically, Wentz was on vocals in this band and McIlrath was on bass.  Tim left Arma Angelus in 1999 to start Rise Against but the band continued to put out music and tour until 2002.

Know an interesting story or bit of punk rock trivia? Share it with us here and if we publish it, we just might send you a reward.

Haste the Day has uploaded a tour blog from their Attack of the Wolf King Tour. Click here to watch the guys goof off and rock hard.

Also check out the band’s tour-titled album on their MySpace page.

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Lemuria, progressive punk band from New York, are recording their debut, yet untitled album on Bridge Nine Records. The will be recording in Balitmore for the next few weeks so look for new material soon. The album title and release date are currently unknown.

Also look for more info on the band’s split 7″ with Cheap Girls.

Sublime with Rome has given fans the chance to get to know the band a little better at their recent tour stop in Santa Barabara, CA. In the video interview, featuring founding members of Sublime, drummer Bud Gaugh and bass player Eric Wilson along with new frontman, singer/guitarist Rome, the guys spoke about their favorite Sublime tracks to play live as well as how Rome and one of the most successful ska-punk band’s of all time came together.

Watch part 1 of the interview right here (part 2 coming later).

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Stomp Records is giving away a free download of their 2010 Summer Sampler which includes tracks from bands such as The Brains, Flatfoot 56, Death By Stereo, The Koffin Kats and more (full track list here).

Go here to download it and enter the promo code: YFXKY34JTY

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Boston punk act Street Dogs are streaming a brand new song titled Rattle And Roll.  It will appear on the band’s upcoming self-titled release due out August 31st via  Hellcat Records and you can listen to it on the label’s MySpace page.

The band will be touring the U.S. with Devil’s Brigade, Flatfoot 56, Continental and  Sick Of It All. You can check the full tour dates on their Dying Scene Shows page.