SoCal psychobilly act The Devil’s Rose are streaming two new songs titled Pulse and Rockabilly Baby on their Myspace page. Go give them a listen.

The songs are off of their Demo titled The Devils Rose.

Canadian metal act Protest The Hero have released a pre-production video for their new album. The video features some really cool guitar & bass parts and they can be checked out here.

The band released their last studio album Fortress in 2008 on Vagrant Records.

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PropertyOfZack recently had a one-on-one with Warped Tour founder Kevin Lymon and touched upon a couple of issues that we, the punk community, have raised [and criticized] about the tour. From the lack of punk bands , to groups like BrokenCYDE & Millionaires being added, and the overall ‘diversity’ of the tour, the interview gives a good insight into Kevin’s brain. Click here to check out the full interview.

Warped tour begins June 25th in So Cal and ends August 15th in Oregon. For the full dates, check out the Warped Tour website. See you guys there!

It seems like punk bands have less and less staying power every year. The Business is certainly one band to challenge that status quo. Since their founding in 1979, they’ve been a fixture in the punk, skinhead, and oi! movement around the world. Sure, they’ve taken a few breaks, but they’re back together now and making new music. Hot on the heels of their latest release, Doing The Business (May 2010, Sailor’s Grave Records), I had a chance to catch up with the band during the their US tour to talk about American food, broken thumbs, and not bringing enough socks on tour. Check it out here.

Big thanks to Andy and Duane at Sailor’s Grave and of course the boys themselves for doing the interview and putting on a great show in DC.

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Jason McCaslin aka Cone from Sum 41 is releasing his second album with his side project Operation MD.  He will resume his Dr. Dynamite alias alongside Dr. Rocco, better known as Todd Morse from H2O. Contributors on the album include Deryck Whibley, also from Sum 41, and Ian D’Sa from Billy Talent.

The album, Birds + Bee Stings, will be released digitally on June 29th.

Seattle hardcore thrash punks The Insurgence will be heading out on a West Coast tour in late June in support of their new, self-titled album, out now on Digital Warfare Records.

The tour starts June 24th in Yuba City, CA and has stops in Fullerton where they will be playing with Evacuate(featuring Mike Virus from the bands Cheap Sex and The Virus) as well as a show in Escondido, CA where they will be playing with The Pist from Connecticut on their reunion tour. Other notable shows on the tour are Victorville, CA with The Casualties on thier one off show from the Vans Warped Tour, and Seattle, WA with punk legends GBH. Click here for the full tour dates. [Read more…]

Portland punk act No Red Flags are streaming their newest EP Hand in Mouth in it’s entirety on their MySpace page.  Go over to their page and have a listen.

No word on when the EP is set to drop but we’ll keep you updated.

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 everybody’s favorite Canadian, political punk band Propagandhi .

Punk rock and politics go hand-in-hand and no other band embodies that trait more than Propagandhi does. Vocalist Chris Hannah and drummer Jord Samolesky co-founded the record label G7 Welcoming Committee Records, a label that, according to the G7 website: “Politically radical bands and speakers could unflinchingly support and call home; where the driving force behind the label’s output was social change and radical thought; and where the structure of the organization didn’t contradict itself by mimicking the structures of unbalanced power and hierarchy in the profit-driven corporate world.” Oh hi, i’m looking at you Propagandhi!  The label’s co-operative economic structure is based upon the concept of Participatory Economics, or “Parecon”, and was initially started thanks to a $50,000 loan from Fat Mike.

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Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan, drummer of Avenged Sevenfold, who died in December 2009 was found to have died of an accidental overdose, consisting of prescription drugs and alcohol.  According to the report, Sullivan died from “acute polydrug intoxication due to combined effects of Oxycodone, Oxymorphone, Diazepam/Nordiazepam and ethanol.”

Brandon Saller, drummer of Atreyu, said that Sullivan’s drumming was as unique as he was.  “As a drummer, Jimmy was just better than most people.  He had a true talent and he went about things in such a skewed way technically that he didn’t sound like anybody else. He was one of those drummers where you could put on a record and you could tell it was Jimmy drumming the second you heard it.”

Avenged Sevenfold just released their new single Nightmare off their upcoming album Nightmare with drummer Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater.  He will also play with the band on the Rockstar Uproar Festival.

Swedish punkers Subwaste have released 3 new songs. The songs Broken Machine, Get A Move On, and Kea can be hear on their MySpace page.

The band released a 7″ split with Dead City Dregs on April 6th via Warbird Entertainment.