So this is a little old but it’s a sloooow friday news day.  Progressive punk/hardcore act No Bragging Rights did a punky/slightly hardcore (sometimes) version of Bon Jovi’s epic tune Livin’ On A Prayer a while ago and you can stream it right now on the band’s MySpace page.  This version might not be as good as the original but it’s worth checking out.

No Bragging Rights are currently working on a new album to be released soon on Blk Heart Group.

Boxing Day is a new hardcore punk band out of Florida comprised of ex members from No Harm Done and Offsides.  You can stream a bunch of songs from their demo on the band’s MySpace page and if you like what you hear you can download their entire demo for free right here.

Fans of No Harm Done will obviously dig this band.

Metalcore band Bullet For My Valentine have premiered the music video for their song Your Betrayal and you can check it out right here.  The song appears on the band’s upcoming album Fever which will be released April 26th on Dive Records.

You can also check out a full stream of Fever on MySpace.

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Paper + Plastick Records has announced that they will be releasing Broken Strings, a new EP from New Jersey’s Let Me Run, on June 15th.  Until then you can stream the track CSJ from the album on Paper+Plastick’s website (player on the right).

“I love Let Me Run,” says P+P founder Vinnie Fiorello. “Catchy sing-alongs and honest lyrics always get me. I am excited to work with the band on this EP. It’s been a long time coming, but the songs and the art are all done, and now we can finally welcome LET ME RUN to the P+P family.”

While Voodoo Glow Skulls work on their next full-length album they will periodically be posting new tracks to their MySpace page.  The latest addition is the song Knucklehead, which you can listen to right now.  No word yet on a title or release date for the album but we’ll keep you posted.

Voodoo Glow Skulls released their last album, Southern California Street Music on Victory Records in 2007.

Pittsburgh, PA’s The Edukators have both of their EPs up for free download on their Bandcamp page. You can get 2009’s “We’re All a Little Dead Inside” and 2010’s “Jeff Goes to College” right here.

Recommended for fans of: The Menzingers, The Ergs!, Broadway Calls, The Holy Mess

Tit Patrol, a pop-punk Band out of Delaware, has announced that they will be releasing their 3rd full-length album titled Hate Speech in mid to late summer.  The album was recorded in December, 2009 with Joe Queer down at Monster Zero studios(GA) and you can stream 3 of the album’s tracks (Adios Anxiety, I Don’t Wanna See Your Face, and Emergency Hot Dog) on the band’s MySpace page.

You can check out the track listing for the album here and download the song Adios Anxiety for free right here.

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Packed full of punches, The Flatliners have recently released what appears to be the most true to form punk album I’ve heard in a long time. There really aren’t many words for Cavalcade (The Flatliners third full length) other than “Wow!”

These days, it seems like most “punk rock” bands are trying harder and harder to adapt to the changing of times, and with this, lose a fair amount of musical integrity and honesty. It’d be funny to be a fly on the wall in the studio for these bands, just to hear the words “Well, (insert popular band here) are putting synths in their choruses, why don’t we?” It is terribly upsetting to go to a punk show these days and see veteran punkers changing their look and sound to fit in with the younger crowd.

Luckily, there is The Flatliners. They don’t candy coat there sound, or hide behind any sort of post-production reverb. In your face and abrasive, The Flatliners delve deep into their roots, and revive what we all like to call “punk f’ing rock.” Cavalcade sees these youngsters getting down and dirty. There is a seriousness in their sound that makes their dedication to music and their scene evident.

With songs like Bleed and Here Comes Treble, The Flatliners have brought back the PUnch in Punk. Fat and chunky guitar tones complete with rambunctious, throaty vocals. The songs found on Cavalcade are furiously fast, yet don’t get caught in the wind by this lead footed-ness. The Flatliners do a nice job of keeping everything contained in their V-12 gas guzzling speed machine. By track 5, The Flatliners know it is time for a break, and what better way to relax than a nice reggae themed jam? He Was A Jazzman could be found in both a sweaty VFW hall, or on the back porch of a Jamaican Zionist. While containing all the nice upstrokes made famous by The Wailers, there is also a linear progression towards heaviness, until finally near the end of the song, everything explodes back to true rock and roll. The 170 MPH ride starts right back up with Shithawks, and that’s when you realize there is no way to stop The Flatliners.

A lot of reviews like to say Cavalcade drops off in the second half. This couldn’t be less true. Yes, things maybe slow down a bit, but not to this complete drop off people like to make you believe. All that happens is The Flatliners have a little bit more of a generic punk sound. Filthy Habits is no less amazing than The Calming Collection, it is just a little more refined, a little more old school, and just slightly more 1,3,5 chord. I’ll give it to you, Count Your Bruises is slightly cheesy and poppy, but its fine, aged French cheese.  Still cheese, but cheese you’d find in a gourmet punk store, rather than a bubblegum pop-rock candy shop.

The Flatliners have done it again. Don’t say the scene is dying until you’ve listened to Cavalacade.

Atlanta hardcore /screamo band The Letter Organize are streaming a brand new song titled The Gummist of Bears.  It looks like it will appear on a yet to be titled upcoming album. No release date has been announced yet either but we’ll keep you posted.

To hear the rough mix of the new song visit the band’s MySpace page.

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 a little known EP from a well know band.

Whether you’re a punk rock elitist, hardcore loyalist or an indie rock enthusiast, chances are there’s at least one Thrice album you’re a fan of.  Obviously the indie lovers skew toward the newer releases while the punk fanatics go for Illusions of Safety or their debut full-length Identity Crisis, but there’s one more release that the punk lovers should know about.  The band’s original EP titled First Impressions is a glorious piece of Thrice history that is relatively unknown. It was released in 1998 on Hopeless Records and features seven tracks which include an early version of T&C that would later be remastered and released on Identity Crisis. This recording has long been out of print but if you’re lucky enough to own it you know its more in the vein of 90’s skate punk than the other albums. The artwork and track listing can be seen here.

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