The line-up for this year’s East Coast Tsunami Fest has just been confirmed, and is looking like it’s going to be a pretty good weekend. The two-day festival will take place on Friday and Saturday, June 11 &12, in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania – so all you East Coasters, make you you get you tickets now! Friday seems like it may be more like a regular show, starting in the evening with bands like Death Threat, CDC, and Agitator among some on the bill. Saturday is the day to be there! The day begins at 11am at a park, so I’d imagine more of a ‘festival’ feel on Saturday. The bands playing Saturday include Sick Of It All, H2O, Earth Crisis, Dysphoria, All Out War, and more. Check out more information on the festival by going to their website here.

What is up with bands and vans? Apparently, the newest curse over the punk/ska/etc culture is that of the van, which is doomed to break down at some point throughout the course of the tour. The newest victim of this curse is SoCal metal band I Am Ghost. In a recent blog, the band states that their, “van of 5 years has finally given up on us, and therefore we are unable to continue. If we could, we would… believe us.” Subsequently, I Am Ghost was forced to cancel their upcoming Death by Dawn tour with Black Veil Brides. Keep checking back Dying Scene for updates and info on a hopeful rescheduling.

Australia hardcore band Parkway Drive has just posted a new update from the studio, where they are currently working on a new album, a follow-up to Horizons, which was released in 2007. Parkway Drive is in LA doing the recording and production of the album, and in the update the band talks about their sentiments of being in the states, as well as what it’s like to work with producer Joe Barresi (Queens of The Stone Age, Bad Religion).

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

Read the full studio update (with pictures!) here.

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It seems like lately lots of bands are breaking up, disbanding, going on hiatus, or something of the like. Today, I am saddened to announce that Manchester, UK ska/punk band Harijan has decided to call it quits. The band didn’t give any specific reasons as to why, after six years of rocking, they decided to walk away. You can read the full blog from Harijan themselves right here.

Harijan has a couple shows lined up before they go their separate ways. Their May 3 show in Bolton with the Voodoo Glow Skulls is said to be their last. We wish these guys the best as they go on to other ventures.

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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 current Street Dog vocalist Mike McColgan and the other famous band where he got his start:

Besides being frontman for Boston punk act Street Dogs, Mike McColgan was also a founding member of Dropkick Murphys. Formed in 1996 with current DKM bassist/vocalist Ken Casey, the band began playing in the basement of a friends barbershop in Quincy, Massachusetts. Realizing that people really enjoyed their music, they began recording and touring. Shortly after the release of their debut album Do or Die in 1998, Mike left the band to pursue his lifelong dream of being a Boston firefighter. After leaving the fire department, he formed Street Dogs and have released 4 full lengths since 2003 with another currently due out later this year.

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According to AFI News Headquarters, AFI may be on the lineup to play Chicago music festival Lollapalooza on August 6th-8th.  The band is touring with Green Day around that time, but there is a gap of four days that happen to fall conveniently during the days of the festival.

It has also been rumored that Green Day may headline the Lollapalooza. This info comes from the Lollapalooza website, which has a fill-in-the-blank game. Green Day and AFI fit into two of the blanks.

“We’re not saying that this is definite, because it hasn’t been confirmed by anybody. We just want you all to be aware of the possibility when the official Lollapalooza lineup is revealed on April 6th.”

The Years Gone By posted a new track on their MySpace page.  The new catchy, upbeat single, Down, may be the last single from this band for awhile, seeing as the band recently announced a tentative break-up.

The Years Gone By released their last album, Forever Comes Too Soon, September 8th, 2008 on Rise Records.

The last release we saw from GBH was a medley of previously recorded EPs and live clips called Cruel and Unusual released in 2004.  Now, after six years of silence, the British, hardcore punk band is finally releasing their new album, Perfume and Piss.  Musically, the band has managed to maintain their unique folk sound, but now have the backbone of a solid label to ensure that this album is heard.

The album will be streaming on Exclaim News until April 5th.  To listen, click here.  It will be released 0n April 6th on Hellcat Records.

After his flight on American Airlines, guitarist Brian Fallon of The Gaslight Anthem received his luggage in pieces! After opening his undamaged guitar case, he found a cracked headstock on his acoustic guitar, which was attributed to the airline’s carelessness.  Though the airline refuses to take the blame for guitar’s injury, they have still asked the band to do a feature for their in-flight magazine! That’s going to be an interesting story…

But this incident isn’t the worst thing this guitar has gone through.

“Before I got it, it was actually in a house that burned down and it survived. Like a whole wall of a house entirely burned down and this guitar was leaning on the other side of the wall,” Fallon says. “I’ve never had a broken headstock before. Some people say it’s not quite the same, some say it’s fine and some say it doesn’t work at all. I guess I’ll find out.”

The band’s upcoming album American Slang comes out on June 15th on SideOneDummy Records. Hopefully the guitar is fixed in time for the album’s tour!

We wrote a month ago that Alexisonfire was planning on releasing their new EP Dogs Blood “before 2011.”

Now, we have more details. In an interview with Blare magazine, vocalist George Pettit says that the band already has 4 songs  that they plan on recording sometime in the spring.

There’s still no word on the release date but they do plan on getting the album out before they get back from Australia.

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

The band’s most recent release Old Crows/Young Cardinals was released last summer on Vagrant Records.