Michigan’s The Bravest Kids have posted a new song titled I Hope Edge Kids Don’t Beat Us Up to their MySpace page.  I’m not sure what album this song will appear on, although they do have a 7″ split with In Bear Country due out this summer via Barrett Records.

Georgia rockers Seven Story Fall have announced that they will be leaving for Florida today to enter the studio and record with James Paul Wisner (Paramore, Underoath).

The band also mentioned that they have decided to stay a 4-piece band and not find a new singer to replace former vocalist Mike Hart as bassist Ryan McManus will be taking over. They will also be recording videos while in the studio and will also be using Stickam for live streams.

Keep checking back here at Dying Scene as we’ll cover stories from the band as soon as they are released.

Italian hardcore-punk act Strength Approach have released another studio session video, this time from their second day of recording for their new 7-inch Stand Your Ground. This time, the video shows the band recording vocals for the chorus of an unnamed song.

Click here to watch.

Stand Your Ground is scheduled to be released in April. Keep checking back here at Dying Scene for more updates as they become available. [Read more…]

Metal/Screamo act Look To The East have announced that their new EP will be titled Look To The East and will feature 1 new song and 2 familiar ones.

The band recently canceled their summer tour in order to finish the EP. No word on when it will be released.

Hey all you east coast Bayside fans! The band has announced that they’ll be embarking on a couple of headlining shows in April and June, with special guests Hawthorne Heights.

Click here to check out the rest of the dates and keep checking back here at Dying Scene as more dates in June are announced as part of the “Zumiez couch tour.”

Recently, we wrote that Bayside had left Victory and had signed with Wind-Up Records. They will be releasing their first full-length on their new label sometime this fall. [Read more…]

Bad Religion‘s Brett, Greg, and Jay made an appearance on Loveline last night in the KROQ studio. You can download the audio here.

Bad Religion, will be heading into the studio in May to record their 15th studio album.

Tallahassee’s Go Radio has released a new track, Goodnight Moon, from their upcoming EP Do Overs and Second Chances. They put the song up on their MySpace page and also posted the track listing and art for the album (<==shown over there). The album drops April 20 on Fearless Records.

The band is heading on a US tour in a few weeks – check out the details at Dying Scene shows!

Italian punks ActionMen have posted a new song on their MySpace page. It’s called Disoporc and they think it sounds nothing like what they’re recording for their new album. I’ve never heard of a band promoting an album like this, but all of their music is pretty catchy. I’m interested to hear their “absolute street punk” album currently being written and recorded.

The band is also playing a few shows in Italy coming up – get the details on Dying Scene Shows and check them out if you can!

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In this day and age, finding good music is hard. There are just so many bands to listen to on MySpace. How many times have you found out that the band that claimed to be “for fans of,” turned out to be a total rip off? Do you over indulge yourself in free album downloads, only to find the 35 megabytes you just gave away turned out to be wasted on a band that totally sucks?

Well, hopefully, if you are thinking music fan, you take your time to do some research. MySpace visits and a read through of music reviews aren’t a bad idea before you click “download.”

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let me suggest a band to you… Using synth as bait, The Appreciation Post may hook you, reeling your ears into the party they like to call Work/sleep.

Work/sleep is a 7 song EP that leaves no room for error. Starting out with the melodramatic Beating of a Lifetime, The Appreciation Post invites you into their oppression from negative comments. Yet, through all this downward speak, The Appreciation Post doesn’t let their music get affected. Squishy power chords reign free on top of carefully crafted keyboard runs, generating a contrasting dance of both light and dark. It is obvious that The Appreciation Post has a sarcastic outlook…

You may be asking yourself “Well Xan, haven’t you said the same thing before about some other band that can write a good hook? Aren’t I going to listen to the band and be disappointed that they’re just another teenybooper dream?” Well, skeptic, I’m glad you asked that question. No, you wont find the same, overused 1,3,5 chord progression. You see, The Appreciation Post revives the idea of musical construction… Where the verse may be slow and soft, the pre-chorus will build and build, until the chorus finally goes POP and out come the wolves… And this tension keeps you hooked; the pleasurable waiting for things to break (as found on the song No Songs Is Good Songs).

But Work/sleep isn’t all like this. In fact, I lied a little bit. The Appreciation Post does write a straight forward pop(punk) song. Doom And Gloom is reminiscent of The Starting Line, splashed with some Motion City Soundtrack. A cocktail of pure fun. Vocalist/guitarist Jim Keaney sounds like the dude from Innerpartysystem, but with a much more perfected voice. Doom and Gloom is a race-to-the-finish blend of guitar riffs turned chords and a persistent drum-beat that goes “bam” instead of “thump.”

The overall tone of Work/sleep would have to be “making the best out of the bad,” and as cliché’ as it sounds, The Appreciation Post makes it work.

Don’t take my word for it though, download the album for free here.

Michigan rockers I Am Abomination have released a new song The Deceiver on their MySpace page. The song is off their upcoming album To Our Forefathers which is coming out May 11 on Good Fight Music.

The band is playing absolutely all over the place in the coming months, so get the details at Dying Scene Shows for when to catch them in your neighborhood – and go check them out!