The Tards are streaming some new tracks on their Facebook page. The Kansas City thrash punks posted Makin’ It Don’t Mean Ya Made It, and Give Me the Guillotine earlier today, both off the upcoming record Guillotine.

Guillotine comes out July 24th.

Manchester, England has been the birthplace of many influential bands including Joy Division, The Smiths, The Buzzcocks, and a plethora of other great musical acts. Sonic Boom Six has been working hard for the past eight years to place their name at the forefront of the Manchester music scene, and beyond, with their catchy fusion of ska/punk/dub/hip-hop/etc.

The band recently finished up their first US headlining tour with supporting act Knock-Out, and Dying Scene was able to sit down with the band at the legendary 924 Gilman Street venue in Berkeley. In the interview the band discusses their formation, and evolution over the years, as well as their musical influences and expectations for their first real US tour. Check it out here.

Due to the incredible awesomeness of the interview, we will be breaking it into two parts. Keep checking back for part 2 coming next week, where the band talks about memories from live shows and festivals, side projects, the formation of their own record label, Rebel Alliance Records, and what we can expect in the future from Sonic Boom Six.

The band released their last album City Of Thieves last year on their label, Rebel Alliance Records.

Sonic Boom Six is playing all over the UK this summer, so if you’re heading over the pond, be sure to check out their Dying Scene Shows page.

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Fearless Records announced that they will be sponsoring a U.S. tour called The Fearless Friends Tour, which includes Mayday Parade, Every Avenue, Artist vs. Poet, and Go Radio.

No official dates set yet but we’ll keep you posted.

Austin, Texas street punks Lower Class Brats have announcd the dates for their “Still Hated, Never Ignored” tour. The tour will see the band stick to the West/Southwest, starting August 4th in Colorado and ending August 21st in El Paso, Texas. Click here for the full dates.

Lower Class Brats released their last album, This Is Real, on TKO in 2008.

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Ever wonder where some bands come up with their band names? Well, we do, and we’re sick of sitting around scratching our heads about it. We’re hitting the streets (aka. “Internet”) to find the origins behind some of the more bizarre, intriguing or just plain random band names in the scene. Every Wednesday we’ll be pulling the curtain back on a different band and this week it’s pop-punk legends Alkaline Trio.

You know the band.  But you probably don’t know the reasoning behind the band name.  But hat might be in part, because there is no reasoning.  There were three founding members of the band (Matt Skiba, Rob Doran, and Glenn Porter) hence the “Trio” but the first part of the band name is completely arbitrary.  Matt Skiba decided he needed to find a cool work to stick in front of the “Trio” so he just picked up a dictionary and started flipping.  He didn’t need to get much further than halfway through the “A”s before stumbling across “Alkaline”.  He tried it out… “Alkaline… Trio”…  It sounded pretty cool and BAM! – band name born!

Check out last week’s Band Name Origin story: Alexisonfire

In a recent interview with Punk CD Sampler, Chuck Ragan, former frontman for Hot Water Music, revealed to the world that he’s planning to release a 7″ split with Brian Fallon of The Gaslight Anthem sometime in the near future. Ragan states,

Lately I’ve been writing a lot and working on writing a record with Brian Fallon from The Gaslight Anthem. We don’t have anything planned as far as when we’re gonna record it, it’s just something that we want to do. We’re just trading songs and taking it easy and letting it make itself over time.

We’ve been trading songs since last October. We’re moving on it slowly, but it’s kind of at a stand-still right now with, ya know, Gaslight’s in full swing after releasing their new record. So we’re excited about it, but we’re both moving strong and fast in our own directions. It’s something that we want to do, and will do, it’s just a matter of time and when and where. We talked about it early next year, of getting together and laying stuff down and seeing where it goes. But there’s no expectations and we’re just kinda having fun with it right now. So we’re just looking to keep it relaxed and make a great record.

Whenever the split is released, it should be a good one! Keep checking back here for more information as it becomes available.

Listen up all you European-based Avenged Sevenfold fans, here’s your chance to catch the band in your part of the world. The band just released a 2-week tour of the UK that will take place at the end of October/beginning of November. They will be co-headlining with Stone Sour. Check the full dates here.

Their upcoming album Nightmare will be A7X’s first studio album since their self-titled release in 2007, and their fifth full-length effort to date. The album is scheduled to drop July 27th via Warner Bros. Records.

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You can watch Four Year Strong perform acoustic renditions of their songs Wasting Time (Eternal Summer), Tonight We Feel Alive (On A Saturday), Find My Way Back, and One Step At A Time, off their latest album Enemy Of The World on Last.fm’s summer sessions.

Clad in colonial attire, the band talks about the inspiration behind these songs before they bust out acoustic versions of each. Click here to watch!

Four Year Strong released Enemy Of The World in March on Universal Republic Records.  Read the Dying Scene review here and our interview with the band here.

South Florida punk act Protagonist have released the third and final video update from the studio. You can check it out here.

They’ve been in the studio since the first week of June with Stephen Egerton (Descendents/ALL), who will be producing the album. The album will be released sometime in the Fall on Paper + Plastick Records.

Protagonist released their last album, The Chronicle, in April 2009 on Paper + Plastick Records.

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Florida’s VersaEmerge have released the music video for their song Fixed At Zero off of their debut album Fixed At Zero, released June 22nd on Fueled By Ramen. Click here to watch.

The band is currently playing on Warped Tour, where they’ll be for the rest of the summer. Take a look at their Dying Scene shows page to see when they’ll be in your town

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