PunkOutlawTV caught up with Jake (The Casualties) a few days ago at Jersey City Tattoo and had a chance to interview him for their upcoming documentary. According to PunkOutlawTV, this is just a small segment from what was a pretty lengthy and revealing interview. Check out the interview here.

The Casualties latest album We Are All We Have, came out last year on Side One Dummy Records.

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TAT have posted a free download for an acoustic version of their song, Stay Up. You can download it here.

The original version of the tune appears on the band’s album, Soho Lights, released in October 2008.

Poor start to a Friday for Ruiner fans. After six years, 700+ shows, several releases, countless tours of North America, Europe, Australia and Asia, the band will be calling it a day in October 2010. Vocalist Rob Sullivan commented,

“This wasn’t an easy choice to make. All of us started playing in bands when we were in middle school and for the first time in 12-13 years, some of us won’t be having band practice on a weekly basis. But we know this is a choice we needed to make. We always ran this band at 100% and some of us now feel like we don’t have the desire to tour anymore. We aren’t the kind of band who wants to release records and rarely play the music, so we decided it is now an appropriate time to hang it up. We got to see the world a few times over and with that met a lot of incredible people. We will all be forever grateful for that, but we know this decision is the right one to make. I’m sure I could give many more reasons as to why, but the gist of it is if this band can’t be done at full speed, we feel it is better to stop.”

Ruiner released their third full-length for Bridge Nine, Hell Is Empty, in September of 2009.

The band has a European tour scheduled this July with Carpathian which will go on as scheduled, as well as a highly-coveted appearance at the sold out THIS IS HARDCORE festival in Philadelphia on August 15th.

Yesterday Canada’s reggae-punk act Dodger were streaming a new song on their MySpace page, which we punk rock super sleuths figured would be off a new album possibly titled In Us We Trust.  Today, the band confirmed it and are now offering a free download of that same track, We The Truth.  Snag it here.

Dodger’s most recent release was 2009’s Abombanation EP.

New Jersey based folk punks Aspiga have just been welcomed into the ever growing Solidarity Recordings family. The band has been hard at work on their upcoming debut full-length, Tense. The album is set to be released mid-July, but you can check out some tracks on the band’s MySpace page here, and on Solidarity Recordings MySpace page here. Adjust and then Adjust and Docks feature vocals from the guitarist/singer of a popular band from Richmond, Virginia. Can you guess who?

Aspiga will be heading out on tour to promote their new album. Check out dates and locations here.

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 the inspiration behind one of the cover art and album name of one of punk rock’s most famed albums; Rancid‘s “…And Out Come The Wolves”.

The album name “…And Out Come The Wolves” is a line taken from a poem by poet/artist/musician Jim Carroll in his autobiography “The Basketball Diaries”.  At the time Rancid was getting ready to put out the album a bidding war between major record labels inspired the band to choose the line as the album name.  The cover art for the album also comes as a tribute to another fellow artist.  This time to the band Minor Threat who used a similar image of lead singer Ian MacKaye’s brother as the cover art for their self-titled EP.

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Authority Zero have announced a string of U.S. tour dates for this summer .  Check out their MySpace page for dates and locations.

The band’s new album, Stories of Survival, will be released June 22nd on Viking Funeral Records.

Turn It Red have recently released their new EP entitled All Time Will Show and are streaming 2 of the new tracks (The Biggest Mouths Inside The Keyboard and Episode 7: Allstair Moondust) on their MySpace page.

The recording was completed in 2009 at Hell Smell Studios in Rome, Italy with Alex from the band Jet Market.

You can read a review of the EP here.

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Turn It Red from Lancashire, UK have gone from good band to great band with their first official EP, “All Time Will Show”. It’s about time that the guys get known for their fast punk rock style (ala Forus) since they can dance with the best in the business. In Canada, these energetic tunes could always be featured on any “Rock em’, Sock em’ hockey” volumes – it’s good warm-up music before you hit the slopes or put the skates on to crush some bones.

Turn It Red recorded this fine EP in Rome, Italy with none other than Italian punk rock legend, Alex from Jet Market at his own studio – Hell Smell. For a band to venture that far to record quality music means that they must truly respect the person at the helm. Now the first thing that I heard/noticed with TIR’s sound on this EP was Jack’s incredible energy and double pedal work on the kit. I have heard many, MANY releases before but I have to say that energy wise, Alex really captured Jack’s presence on the kit and this is unique in its own way for that reason. Add this to the shreddin’ Bobert on lead guitar and you have a killer combo on stage! And as a popular artist once said: “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain”. If this band’s music would hit you, you’d be in the hospital. If this does not make you want to see TIR live then you ain’t got good ear drums. Quite simple, eh?!

“The Biggest Mouths Inside The Keyboard” starts the EP up with the speed that you will become accustomed to throughout the release. Adam does really have a great melodic voice I must add. In general I am more a fan of the Aussie accents when it comes to punk rock (compared to British ones) but TIR are an exception when it comes to this feature. At the end of this tune you’ll hear a sick solo from Bob and my only complaint is that there are not enough of these in the band’s songs. Next, it’s “If This Works I’ll Eat My Pants”. This tune has many high points such as a lot of back-ups to enhance Adam’s harmonies. I really love how this band changes tempos from one second to the other as well – write that down. “Breathe Slow” is I’d say the best “guitarmony” filled track with my favorite sequence of the EP being between the 2:03 to 2:34 mark. It’s a good build-up. If I presented someone TIR for the first time I’d without a doubt tell them to check out “Episode 7: Alistair Moondust”. ‘Nuff said. Finishing off this project we have “If I Can’t See Far, It’s Because Giants Are Standing On My Shoulders” and they have indeed kept the best for last. This should also be presented when showing off TIR to people, forget what I said before. The choruses, although short, are a personal favorite of mine.

So all in all, you can’t go wrong with Turn It Red. And I can honestly say that the best is yet to come from these four young lads. Their style has been done before but in terms of English skate punk bands, we don’t have them as much these days, and these guys are actually making a name for themselves by touring abroad and venturing to Europe to record, for example. The same goes for vocals and putting an imprint on the accent. You would not say that these guys are from So Cal if you heard them. I like that.

Similar sounding bands: Forus, Belvedere, A Wilhelm Scream, Low Value.

Cincinnati’s power pop-punk act The Dopamines are releasing their new album Expect The Worst later this month on Paper + Plastick.  Today we’re stoked to bring you an exclusive sneak peak at the track It Couldn’t Really Be Any Other off the coming release.  Give er a listen right here.

The band is hitting the road this month.  Check out dates and locations on their MySpace page.

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