Recently, Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher.  He promoted Green Day’s Broadway show American Idiot.  In the interview they discussed the progression of Green Day’s sound, politics, the origin of the band’s name (pot) and what it’s like for him to now have a teenage son and be married.  The interview is interesting and definitely good for a laugh.

You can check out a clip here where Billie Joe touches on the whole “are we punk” issue. To see a different clip go here. To see the rest of the interview you’ll have to catch a rerun on HBO. Green Day is currently supporting their latest album 21st Century Breakdown on tour with AFI. For a complete list of dates and locations visit Green Day’s official website.

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Michigan pop punk band The Swelllers are offering their song Fire Away for free download right here. The song is off of their 2009 release Ups and Downsizing on Fueled by Ramen Records. You can watch the music video for the tune here.

The Swellers are currently on tour and you can check out their Dying Scene Shows page for dates and locations.

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California punks Chaser recently tore it up at FlashRock studios. They played Nevermore and More Than You Know off their new album The Big Picture, which was released last February on Drop Anchor Entertainment.

This was the second time Chaser played Flashrock. The first time was when they were promoting 2006’s debut full-length Numb America on Felony Records. Check out the new one here. and the old one can be seen here.

If you’re new to Chaser you can hear the album versions of both songs on the band’s MySpace page.  Fan of No Use For A Name will really dig their new album.

Within The Ruins is another band we haven’t heard much about lately. Mostly because they have been on tour since last summer. Here‘s the tour video update to prove it. Along with being on the road the guys have been writing a new album and have switched up guitar players. According to a MySpace post the band is scheduled to begin recording their album in the beginning of May.

There are still a few more tour dates left before recording begins. Check out the band Dying Scene Shows page to see when and where.

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Fresh off the announcement that they’ll appear at this summer’s Sound And Fury Festival, Down To Nothing has added two songs from their most recent EP to their MySpace page. You can stream Number One and Undefeated from All My Sons, which dropped on Reaper Records earlier this year.

The band also recently announced that they’ll be hitting the UK in September with Every Time I Die, Terror, and more as part of the Hell On Earth Tour. Get all the details here.

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It’s been awhile since we’ve posted any news from The Higher and what better way to welcome them back then with a video. Check out the guys doing an acoustic cover of  Micheal Jackson’s Give In To Me here.

The Higher is currently on tour be sure to take a look  at their Dying Scene Shows page for more details. Their last album It’s Only Natural was released last summer on Epitaph

Metalheads Knights Of The Abyss will be headlining the 28 Days La Tour which is set to kick off in early May. The band recently announced they were in the studio recording a new album and it should be released sometime this Summer on  Ferret Music.

To see complete list of shows and locations check out the bands Dying Scene Shows page.

Hawthorne Heights is releasing their new album Skeletons shortly but to hold you off, you can sneak a listen to their new song End Of The Underground here.

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Skeletons hits shelves 1 June 2010 on Wind-Up Records and is a follow-up to 2008’s Victory release Fragile Future.

We wrote on Monday that The Briggs were going to play their song This Is L.A. during games 3 and 4 of the Kings playoffs series against the Vancouver Canucks. Click here to watch the video of their performance taken after game 3, a game which the Kings won. Game 4 takes place tonight!

Their song This is L.A. has been played before and during Kings games all season – it’s off The Briggs‘ 2008 LP Come All You Madmen, which was released on SideOneDummy Records.

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Descendents/ALL guitarist Stephen Egerton has released another song from his upcoming solo project The Seven Degrees  of Stephen Egerton, a collaboration between some really great artists.

The song is titled Fire’s On and features Jon Snodgrass of Drag The River and can be heard here. You can check the details & track listing for the album here

The collaborative effort is due out May 11th on Paper + Plastick Records