Miami’s The Crumbs are streaming their entire new 10-inch release titled Gator Kicks right here.  The album was recently released on Livid Records.

Finland street punk act Heartbreak Stereo have released the video for their song 2 Kids, and you can check it out right here.  The song appears on the band’s new album Carried Through This Waltz, released in February on Mitstrick Records, Boss Tunage and Rookie Records.

Fans of Bombshell Rocks and/or Rancid should check these guys out.

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When I heard that the RX Bandits were playing in my town, I knew I’d be there. What I didn’t know was that I’d end up interviewing them and photographing the show for Dying Scene. I’m not a journalist and I’ve never interviewed a “real” band before, but I got to sit down with Steve and Chris from RX Bandits and talk about their writing process, playing Bonnaroo, and what’s next for the boys from Seal Beach. Check out the interview for yourself to see how it went. Big thanks to the guys from RX Bandits for participating, and to Cathy and Chase at Sergeant House Records for setting it up!

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Weird.  A Japanese elementary school marching band has randomly covered the song Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) by The Offspring.  Check out the video of it here.

Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) appears on The Offspring’s 1998 album Americana.

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Here’s a random, but entertaining story involving The Dopamines.  This was posted on Paper + Plastick from the band regarding an incident after a show in Columbus, Ohio

“we were at the end of a long driveway, sitting on the bumper of the back of our open van, starting to load out. jonW, his girlfriend Lauren, Thomas from Doppelganger and i were bullshitting when all of the sudden what we though to be an M80 went off about 20 feet behind us. we laughed it off. then 6 more went off in a weird succession so we took note. then we heard screaming coming from the house. so i put jon’s GF under the bunk in the back of the van and also got in. jonW locked us in and ran into the cab of the van, and locked the doors as people went running by the van. then someone started hitting the van, then i heard the window get blown out. then someone was screaming “dopamines!” which led me to believe that this dude who blew out the window was after us. i called the cops, but by the time i went through the automated bullshit a helicopter and about 10 cars pulled up all over the house.

so, apparently, during he last band, a fight broke out between a 13 year old juggalo and a random guy. the juggalo stabbed the kid, and the other 5 juggalos that were with him bailed out the back door, one fired a 22 into the air, and as they ran off, busted out a window in the van in front of us, as well as ours, with his pistol. someone yelled “dopamines!” because they were warning us that people were fucking up our van, not knowing we were in it, scared to death. so the window was an afterthought to these rednecks. they didn’t even know it was our van. in fact, they loved our set and bought records.”

For those of you who have no freakin’ clue what a juggalo is (I sure didn’t) go here.

The Dopamines recently signed to Paper + Plastick and are releasing a new album entitled Expect The Worst, in late June on LP/Digital download.

Blessthefall is currently on tour and you can catch up with their zany adventures in this tour video, beginning with a fatal hit and run… with a deer.

Find out if Blessthefall is coming to your town in the Dying Scene Shows section.

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So yesterday their was a lot of speculation about whether or not original Taking Back Sunday members John Nolan and Shaun Cooper would rejoin the band after the departure of Matt Fazzi and Matt Rubano.  Well, this here video confirms it:  The original lineup from the album Tell All Your Friends is back in action.

If you can’t read fast enough to catch the message at the end of the video, here’s the most relevant bit:

“Sometimes it takes some time to remember where you were headed in the first place and the people you intended to go there with. There’s no hard feelings, just the future.”

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Zoli Teglas is a busy dude.  Not only is he still on the roster as the lead singer of his original punk band Ignite, he has also recently replaced Jim Lindberg as the lead singer of Pennywise and is currently writing a new album with the band.  And as if being the lead singer of two well known punk bands wasn’t enough, the guy has just released a new album under his solo, rock side-project Zoli Band and announced intentions to tour (dates coming soon)!

The Zoli Band release is a two disc set titled Red And Blue Album and it includes the re-release of the original Blue record and new songs on the Red.  You can check out a trailer for the album here and buy it here.

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F me, the news is slow today!  For some reason it seems that every band and label decided to take the day off from but that’s not going to stop us from trying to keep you peeps entertained.  Here’s a video of 3 bands (Less Than Jake, Breathe Carolina, and A Rocket To The Moon) telling their best stories from the Warped Tour.  JR from Less Then Jake tells a story about Fat Mike cutting off his hair in the middle of a set, the Breathe Carolina dudes talk about pissing in each others bunks on their tour buss and I completely zoned out what the Rocket To The Moon guy said.

Pre-sales for the 2010 Warped Tour have already begun.

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Ever wonder where some bands come up with their band names?  Well, we do, and we’re sick of sitting around scratching our heads about it.  We’re hitting the streets (aka. “Internet”) to find the origins behind some of the more bizarre, intriguing or just plain random band names in the scene.  Every Wednesday we’ll be pulling the curtain back on a different band and this week it’s So Cal skate punk icons NOFX.

According to guitarist Eric Melvin, he came up with the name, inspired by the broken up Boston hardcore band “Negative FX”. The name was also meant to symbolize the band’s rejection of gimmickry that was prevalent in the music scene at the time of their formation in 1983.

If you’ve got a good band name origin story, or want us to research one for you, message us on the Dying Scene facebook page.