Vancouver hardcore outfit Grave Maker have posted a new track, Hell Followed, off of their upcoming Victory Records debut Ghosts Among Men. The album is due out on June 22nd. The band’s last release was 2009’s Home Is Where The Heartache Is.

Grave Maker are currently out on the road in the States, so be sure to check their Dying Scene shows page to see when and where they’ll be rolling through.

St. Cloud, Minnesota screamo act For All Those Sleeping have announced their signing to Fearless Records. They will be releasing their debut album Cross Your Fingers on the label later this summer. You can check out two new tracks from the album on their MySpace page and can even download I’m Not Dead Yet simply by retweeting a message here.

The band will be out on the road for most of the summer, first with A Skylit Drive later this month, and then with Drop Dead, Gorgeous, From First To Last and others as part of the Pyknic pArtery Tour. You can check out dates for the tour here.

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Streelight Manifesto have recently announced summer dates for The Ship For Fools tour, which will be hitting spots all over the country.. They will be bringing along The Supervillains, The Wonder Years, Crime In Stereo, and Dan Potthast (of MU330). The tour starts June 23rd in Baltimore, Maryland and runs all the way through till August 1st, ending in New York, New York.

Streetlight Manifesto most recently disowned their label Victory Records, insisting you buy their cover album 99 Songs of the Revolution (released in March) from their online store.

Check out the Dying Scene Shows Page for a complete list of dates.

Vancouver outfit, Living With Lions, have posted a video documenting the recording of their second full-length.  You can watch it here.  The five gents are working on the follow up to the 2008 album, Make Your Mark, which was released through Adeline Records.

Stay tuned to find out whether Living With Lions really are ‘fucked’.

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The recently released track listing for Green Day‘s edition of Rock Band left out tracks from the legendary Lookout albums Klerpunk! and 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. A few fans expressed resentment at the absences, so drummer Tre’ Cool went on record with Gameinformer to explain.

“We wanted to get stuff from 39/Smooth and Kerplunk! on there, too, but the tapes are really old. I don’t know if you know about analog tapes, but to transfer them you need to play them. They are kind of stuck together right now. You have to “bake” them, and then you have one chance to run it over the machine to transfer it to make stems. Once it hits the head, it comes off the other side shredded. We’re making sure we have the right dudes to do it. We’re actually booking it; there’s one place in Burbank that still does it. We’re going to bite the bullet and shred our old tapes and put it to digital.”

You can check out the full interview here. Green Day: Rock Band hits stores on June 8th.

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 mainstays MxPx.

Mike Herrera, Yuri Ruley, and Andy Husted formed the band when they were i5 year old classmates at Central Kitsap High School.  Originally they named themselves Magnified Plaid as a tribute to the original guitarist’s fascination with plaid shirts but unfortunately (or, fortunately) the band’s title didn’t fit on any of the band’s posters.  To remedy the problem they used the abbreviation “M.P.” but in Yuri Ruley’s handwriting, periods appeared as “X”‘s, and since he made up the show posters for the band, the four-letter moniker “MxPx” stuck.

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

If you didn’t know, Sundowner is an acoustic side project of Chris McCaughan of The Lawrence Arms.  The band plays sort of an acoustic, folky, punk if you will, and they have just announced that they will be releasing a new album August 10th on Asian Man Records.  More details will be coming soon and we’ll keep you posted.

Their debut album, Four One Five Two, was released on Red Scare Records on March 13, 2007.

The latest punk band to come out of Gainesville, Florida is a group called Senders and it looks like they’ll be releasing a 7-inch on Kiss Of Death Records this summer.  The release is titled Recovery and it’s due out June 29th.  You can listen to the track Cuffed on the band’s MySpace to get a taste of their self-described “stoner-emo” style.

Here’s the announcement from Kiss Of Death:

I thought Gainesville, Florida had already reached its quota of awesome bands, and here comes SENDERS to once again remind us that our scene’s are cesspools full of unoriginal trash. Pioneers of the “stoner-emo” genre, this fearsome foursome brings heavy riffs with a heaping helping of melody ala Hum.Oh yeah, and did I mention they’re going on tour?! Their trip begins at this weeks first ever RAD FEST and you can see if they’ll be in your neck of the woods below. Check these guys out!

Vancouver punk act, Living With Lions are heading into the studio next week to record their new album. There’s no official release date yet but the band expects it to be “at some point before the fall.”

Livings With Lions released their latest effort Make Your Mark with Adeline Records in July, 2009.

Female fronted punk rock act Fiction Reform is offering a free download of their track Small Silhouette right here.  The song appears on the band’s most recent album Revelation In The Palms Of The Weak released in April on Basement Records.

Fiction Reform is currently on tour.  Check out the dates and locations on their Dying Scene Shows page.