UK music site, The Daily Dose, talks with AFI guitarist Jade Puget about the band’s current European tour.  In the interview, Jade discusses the band’s first time touring Europe with The Offspring and what it’s like playing hot festivals, day shows, and Japan.  To check out the interview, click here.  And for a little AFI treat, watch the official music video for Beautiful Thieves at the bottom of the interview.

The band is scheduled to play Lollapalooza, along with Green Day and Social Distortion.  Click here to check out the festival tour schedule.

Nashville, TN’s Blacklist Royals have leaked another song from their upcoming album Semper Liberi, their debut record for Paper + Plastick.

You can stream the song California here.

California is the third track off of Semper Liberi that’s been released. The other two leaks that we wrote about can be heard here. If you haven’t heard of them, you MUST check them out! These guys totally rock, they make great music.

Semper Liberi will be released on vinyl and digital download on May 25th via Paper + Plastick. Check their Dying Scene shows page to see when you can catch the guys in your town.

Malcom McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols and key figure of the punk rock scene of the 1970’s, died today as a result of complications from cancer. He was 64.

According to a report on CNN, his death was confirmed by his longtime girlfriend Young Kim.

Music journalist Jon Savage, author of “England’s History,” a history of the Sex Pistols and punk, said that “without Malcolm McLaren there would not have been any British punk.”

You can read his obituary here.

Condolences to the McLaren family and his loved ones.

Australia hardcore act Parkway Drive have just posted a new update from the studio in LA where they are currently working on a new album, the follow-up to their 2007 release Horizons.

In the update the band talks about recording the guitars, bass, and vocals, what it’s like working with Joe Baressi, and the surprise visit they received from Bad Religion guitarist (and Epitaph owner) Brett Gurewitz.

This will be Parkway Drive’s third album to be released on Epitaph Records, following Horizons and Killing With A Smile and fourth album overall.

Read the full studio update here. [Read more…]

Progressive metal act The Human Abstract have found their new frontman.

Back in November we reported that vocalist Nathan Ells had left the band and that they were looking for a replacement. A couple of months later and the band have found their man. Travis Richter, formerly of From First To Last, and original guitarist/song writer A.J. Minnette both join the band.

The band is currently recording material for their 3rd album on  Hopeless Records and have released their first studio update. The video doesn’t feature much but shows a sneak peak at what Travis’ vocals are like. Click here to watch.

Drummer Brett Powell has this to say about the band,

“We couldn’t be more pumped on the current state of the band and can’t wait to give our fans the best album our hard work has to offer”

The album will be finished this summer with a tentative release date of “sometime this fall.” Keep checking back here at Dying Scene for more information as it becomes available [Read more…]

Southern California punk rock legends Social Distortion are currently in South America performing a couple of shows.

The band took a break today from traveling and stopped by the Rock and Pop 95.9FM studios in Bueno Aires, Argentina and performed The Creeps and Nickel and Dimes on the “Cual Es” radio show.

Click here to watch the in-studio video.

Social D is scheduled to play a couple of headlining shows at the end of July/beginning of August, as well as co-headlining this years Lollapalooza. Check their Dying Scene shows page to see when they’ll be rolling through your town.

Canadian hardcore band, Cancer Bats are releasing their new album/DVD titled Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones April 13th on Good Fight Music.   A video for the making of the DVD as well as the track listing and artwork for the album can be found here.

Cancers Bats have also announced recently announced their “Off the Wall Tour”.  Tour Dates can be found here.

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Austin, Texas street punks Lower Class Brats are streaming a new song on their MySpace page.  It’s titled America’s Standard and we have no idea what album it’s going to appear on.

Lower Class Brats released their last album, This Is Real, on TKO in 2008.

Screamo act Our Last Night have added a new song from their forthcoming album to their MySpace page.  Entitled Across The Ocean, the track will appear on the band’s upcoming May 4th, 2010 Epitaph release We Will All Evolve (<–coverart).  Beginning late April, Our Last Night will be hitting the road with Asking Alexandria, We Came As Romans, and From First To Last.

We Will All Evolve is a follow-up to the band’s 2008 release The Ghosts Among Us, also out on Epitaph.

Sum 41 is currently recording their follow album up to 2007’s Underclass Hero.  For those of you that were missing the almost daily studio updates from the band, here’s another one for ya.  This time Deryck gets a letter from a fan concerned fan, but most interestingly there is a 5 or 10 second snippet of what is probably going to be a new song on the upcoming album.

Check out the video here.

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