So I guess in order to release all of the songs for the 12 May release date of This Sinking Ship, Swedish punk band Splitside has treated their fans to (the final?) two tracks of the album.  Intoxication and Glory Days can be heard on Splitside’s MySpace along with a few other songs to be released on This Sinking Ship.

This Sinking Ship is a follow-up to the band’s 2007 release Our Days Our Numbered, both of which are Knuckle Ride Record releases.  If you live in Europe, they’re playing a heap of shows to promote the new album, so check out Dying Scene’s Shows page for the dates.

LA hardcore group Eken Is Dead covered the Deftones’ classic jam My Own Summer (Shove It) recently for a show at O’Connell’s in San Diego, CA, last Friday.  Who doesn’t like a little Deftones to brighten up their day (BTW, get Diamond Eyes… so good)?  The video features Joe LA of Silence Betrayed on back-up vox.  Peep it here.

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England’s folk punk, and all around good guy, Frank Turner, has announced in his blog a competition to find two new bands/singers to go on the b-side of his upcoming single, Try This At Home. He is looking for one US based and the other based in the UK. You can find more details here. The song comes off of 2009’s Poetry of the Deed.

He has also announced a few US shows, some solo, others full band with support from William Elliott Whitmore. You can find those dates here. If you haven’t seen Frank Turner live, try your hardest to catch him sometime. His energy, passion, and talent are pretty unbeatable. For more show information be sure to check out Frank’s Dying Scene Shows page.

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GBH has been a staple in the punk rock community for over 30 years now. After countless records, innumerable shows, the band is still going strong, and released their newest album, Perfume and Piss, last month on Hellcat Records. Recently, the San Francisco Examiner sat down with singer Colin Abrahall to discuss the sentiments around rocking for 30 years, thoughts on the new album, and plans for the future.

Read the interview here.

Last month, Canadian punks The New Enemy sat down with Hardtimes.ca, a Canadian music news site. In the interview, the band discusses the ‘oppressive forces’ that surround our lives, big business, and a whole bunch of other controversial topics. Check out the entire video here.

The New Enemy has a couple of shows scheduled. Head to their Dying Scene Shows page for more info.

Michigan hardcore emo kids I See Stars were recently featured on the super amazing compilation from Fearless Records Punk Goes Classic Rock, with their cover of The Outfield’s 1986 hit Your Love. Today, AltPress released a video of Devin (vocals) and Brent (guitar) rocking out to this song acoustic style. Check out the video here. I just write the articles, ‘ll leave it up to you guys to judge.

I See Stars will be playing the entire Warped Tour circuit, so check out their Dying Scene Shows page for dates and locations.

So The Bled‘s bassist, Brad Murray has recently quit the band, and Shane Sheffer is filling in for the remainder of their tour but folks, it just wouldn’t be news if the story ended there. In a MySpace blog entitled Gobble Gobble, guitarist Jeremy Talley* lets the world in on exactly what happened with Brad, and his feelings towards the departure. It’s a shame what Brad did, and only he will truly understand the motivations behind why he did what he did. Am i being vague enough? Check out the whole blog here.

*I am assuming that jrt = Jeremy Talley, but I could be grossly mistaken.*

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Death to False Hope Records have released a sick 33 song comp for free download. It features rare and unreleased tracks from a lot of awesome punk artists including (but not limited to) Direct Hit!, Bouncing Souls, Random Orbits, Joey Cape, Anchor Arms, Mixtapes, Why I Hate and a bunch more I’m too lazy to make links for.

You can check out the full track listing when you go to download the album here.  So worth it!

Newfoundland punks The Class War Kids have posted a video of them performing the The Clash classic White Riot while on tour in Germany.  You can check out the video here.

The band released Twinkles Last Stand, a 4-song cover EP, earlier this year. It is available on a donation basis on their bandcamp page.

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New Jersey punk band The Gaslight Anthem have released the third studio video in their seven video series taking a behind the scenes look at their upcoming American Slang album. You can watch the video here. In the video guitarist Alex Rosamilia discusses putting the lack of “soul” in much of todays music and had this to say:

We don’t write this for other people. We’re really doing it for us. We want to write the best record we can come up with. We want everyone to like it, and we want to put in elements that people are going to like, but at the end of the day, we want this to be something that we are truly proud of.

American Slang is scheduled to be released on June 15th on Side One Dummy Records . They will be on summer tour with Tim Barry (of Avail) and Chamberlain, so be sure to give their Dying Scene shows page a look to see when they’ll be playing in your town.