Legendary Canadian rockers SNFU have brought back former drummer Jon Card back full time. Jon Card played in the band between 1985 and 1987, then again during 1991. Card is taking over for Shane Smith who leaves the band on good terms.

Vocalist Mr. Chi Pig says, “Talk about full fucking circle….its great to welcome Jon back into the fold….he has an energy and charisma unmatched behind the skins.”

The band will be touring in May in support of their documentary Open Your Mouth And Say… Mr. Chi Pig. Check their Dying Scene shows page to see when they’ll be rolling through your town.

Pop-punk New Hampshire act The Queers are playing a handful of shows and will begin recording songs for their next album. Joe Queer writes,

“We are doing Insub Fest and the NY Harbor boat cruise the next day. I still have to list the boat show info but it is indeed the day after we do Insub. We are playing with the immortal Screeching Weasel in Orlando and the next night with The Riverdales. Can’t wait.

We will record our new album in the next couple of months finally. We might have a few special guests on it but I will confirm all that later. It is looking like we will do a big pop tour this fall when the new album is out. We are hoping to do it with The Yum Yums from Norway as well as The Apers and maybe another Asian Man band.”

Keep checking back here at Dying Scene for more information as it becomes available.

Their last album The Queers Alive In Hollyweird was dropped last May on Punk Rock Social.

I wrote on Monday that Against Me! was planning on releasing the I Was A Teenage Anarchist 4-song EP on April 20th. Well, in what appears to be another epic failure at a major label, Warner (parent company of Sire Records) released the EP yesterday.

If you haven’t gotten your copy yet, head on over to iTunes to purchase and download it.

Against Me! is releasing their next full length album White Crosses on June 7/8th on Sire Records.

Bad Religion recently appeared as the featured band for the “spotlight” segment on the Last Call with Carson Daly show on NBC.

The 5-minute long video shows the band members being asked questions about topics ranging from the beginnings of the band to what the guys believe is the driving force behind the success of the band throughout the past 30 years.

Click here to watch.

The band has a couple of dates left on their HOB residency shows. Check their Dying Scene shows page to find out which HOB they’ll be playing at next.

English hardcore band The Ghost of A Thousand have premiered the music video for their song Fed to the Ocean and you can check it out right here.  The song appears on the band’s latest album New Hopes, New Demonstrations which was released in June of 2009 on Epitaph Records.

Yesterday Metalcore act Underoath announced that they were parting ways with drummer & clean vocalist Aaron Gillespie.  Reasons for his actual departure were pretty vague and today Aaron made the following statement on his own:

“guess there are still rumors, in internet land there are always rumors, maybe i helped create that machine. I feel like alot of you need exact closure about the whole me leaving uo thing. Fast forward- all the rad dudes you know and love joined this band and we made music together, and i Believe with my all that God used it (and still does and will) to touch alot of people. I feel so blessed to have been a part of this, it has been triple what i ever imagined or thought could happen,and some of the most fun times of my life. Truth be told, things change, people change, lives rearrange. My time here in this band is up. I love it, the people the traveling. It is just time for me to go. I will still be doing the almost, still giving drum lessons, still hanging with you when I was fourteen i was asked to join a band called’ “underoath” this was long before any of the members you know now were here. We began as a sort of progressive-metalish type band. I just knew i was young and had an incredible opportunity to play as fast as i could, which was super fun.”

Underoath’s last record Lost In The Sound Of Separation was released in September of 2009 on Tooth & Nail Records.

I want so very desperately  to not like this; Nicolas Merritt, a precocious 7-year-old with a Mohawk from San Diego, CA, covering the Blink 182 classic Dammit.  By no means is his performance in question… I just don’t have a very high tolerance for stuff like this.  However, I can’t help but tap my foot along while wee Mr. Merritt bangs on his drum set (rather well, too) with his own vocals laid over the video (guitar picking courtesy of his father).  Watch Nick’s version of Dammit here.

By now, Nicolas should be well into recording for his upcoming album, which appears to be a follow up to February’s Punk Rock Elementary.  Nicolas has a few shows coming up so check Dying Scene’s Shows page to get all of the info. [Read more…]

The latest EP from Thousand Oaks, CA’s, Halifax was released today and will be available for stream all this week on AOL Music (scroll to the end of the list).  If you’re diggin’ the sound, hit up iTunes to buy the 6-song EP.  Definitely worth checking these dudes out!

Halifax’s last release, Inevitability Of A Strange World, came out in 2006 on Drive-Thru Records.

United Kingdom psychobilly act Frenzy have just announced that they have signed to People Like You Records.  The band plans to release their new album, In The Blood, with the label on June 4th.

Frenzy released their last album, Nitro Boy, in 2007.

In case you missed it, available now for digital download is a 3-song EP from Propagandhi.  The Recovered EP features two cover songs and one original which features a member of the Weakerthans.  All three tunes are from the band’s How To Clean Everything and Less Talk, More Rock Fat Wreck Chords era.

The Recovered EP is available for purchase here on G7 Welcoming Committee Records.  Costing only three bucks, all of the proceeds will benefit Partners In Health, an organization that helps bring health care to impoverished regions of the world.  Included with the digital download purchase is a 19-page digital booklet “in which Chris drones on endlessly about recording techniques or some shit,” so drop a few dollars to rock out to some classic Propagandhi and help support a noble cause.