Sleeping With Sirens are streaming their entire upcoming album With Ears To See And Eyes To Hear on their MySpace page. The album is being released March 23rd on Rise Records so give ‘er a listen before it hits stores. Sleeping With Sirens is currently on tour. Check out their Dying Scene Shows page for […]
Sleeping With Sirens are streaming their entire upcoming album With Ears To See And Eyes To Hear on their MySpace page. The album is being released March 23rd on Rise Records so give ‘er a listen before it hits stores.
Sleeping With Sirens is currently on tour. Check out their Dying Scene Shows page for dates and locations.
Montreal punks Pole Position have recently uploaded a new track available to stream on their MySpace page. Steve Young Is A PUNK is quintessential fast punk rock, check it out here. I couldn’t find any further information on the track; I want to assume it will be featured on the band’s upcoming album, State Of […]
Montreal punks Pole Position have recently uploaded a new track available to stream on their MySpace page. Steve Young Is A PUNK is quintessential fast punk rock, check it out here.
I couldn’t find any further information on the track; I want to assume it will be featured on the band’s upcoming album, State Of The Country, which is coming out April 20, but we all know what assuming does…
The boys of Sick Of It All have just posted a teaser video promoting their upcoming album, Based On A True Story (set to be released April 20 on Century Media Records). In the video, the band goes through the album track-by-track explaining how the origins of the songs as well as the tracking process. […]
The boys of Sick Of It All have just posted a teaser video promoting their upcoming album, Based On A True Story (set to be released April 20 on Century Media Records). In the video, the band goes through the album track-by-track explaining how the origins of the songs as well as the tracking process. Part one of this feature just came out and deals with the first seven tracks of the album, however we have to patiently wait for part two in the near future. In the meantime, check out the video feature here.
Based On A True Story is Sick Of It All’s latest album since their 2006 release Death To Tyrants.
Sick Of It All is currently on tour in Europe. Check out dates and locations on their Dying Scene Shows page.
In anticipation of their debut album release Far Q, UK punk act Lower Than Atlantis recently sat down with Punktastic for a quick interview. During the interview guitarist/singer Mike Duce talks about the process of making their new album, why they’ve had so many different members, and what the future holds for the band. Read […]
In anticipation of their debut album release Far Q, UK punk act Lower Than Atlantis recently sat down with Punktastic for a quick interview. During the interview guitarist/singer Mike Duce talks about the process of making their new album, why they’ve had so many different members, and what the future holds for the band. Read the entire interview here.
While you’re at it, check out the music video for Lower Than Atlantis’ new song Taping Songs Off The Radio, here.
Far Q is set to hit stores March 29 on Wolf At Your Door Records.
As you all may know Bad Religion is currently playing their House of Blues residency shows in Southern California. During last night’s show, the band played a new song from their forthcoming album. The song is titled Resist Stance and let me tell you, it sounds pretty sweet! Definitely has me stoked for the new album. […]
As you all may know Bad Religion is currently playing their House of Blues residency shows in Southern California. During last night’s show, the band played a new song from their forthcoming album.
The song is titled Resist Stance and let me tell you, it sounds pretty sweet! Definitely has me stoked for the new album.
In addition to this new song, they also played an electric, full-band version of Won’t Somebody, originally found on the New Maps of Hell deluxe version as one of the bonus acoustic tracks.
Click here two watch videos of both songs!
UPDATE: I’ve added another version of the video that is clearer and has slightly better sound quality.
LA rockers Letlive have just posted two new songs on their MySpace page. The tracks, Casino Columbus and The Sick, Sick 6.8 Billion will appear on the band’s upcoming album Fake History, which is set to be released April 13 on Tragic Hero Records. Check out the songs here. The band’s last album, Speak Like […]
LA rockers Letlive have just posted two new songs on their MySpace page. The tracks, Casino Columbus and The Sick, Sick 6.8 Billion will appear on the band’s upcoming album Fake History, which is set to be released April 13 on Tragic Hero Records. Check out the songs here.
The band’s last album, Speak Like You Talk, came out in 2005 on At One Records.
Letlive currently has tour dates scheduled. Find out when they’ll be playing near you at their Dying Scene Shows page.
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 punk rock icon Tim Armstrong and his many projects: Tim Armstrong is perhaps best known as the front-man for legendary punk act Rancid, a band […]
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 punk rock icon Tim Armstrong and his many projects:
Tim Armstrong is perhaps best known as the front-man for legendary punk act Rancid, a band he started with long-time, childhood friend and bass player Matt Freeman. But before the masses new him as Tim Armstrong he used to go by the name “Lint” as guitarist & co-vocalist for Operation Ivy, the band that put punk-ska on the map. After Op Ivy disbanded in 1989, he and Matt went on to form another ska-punk band called Downfall before eventually forming Rancid in 1991. After years of continued success with Rancid Armstrong formed Hellcat Records in 1997 as a sub-label on Epitaph Records where he heads up scouting and has last say on who signs for the label. In addition to also producing albums, he has co-written songs with artists such as Pink and Gwen Stefani. In 2002 he started up the punk-hop side-project Transplants with Rancid roadie Rob Ashton and Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and in 2007 he released a solo album, A Poets Life. These are just some of the dude’s projects. Whether you’re a fan of Tim’s music or not, there’s not disputing the guy has been a huge influence in the scene.
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Who can release an album that at its core is unoriginal material, but also garner frenetic anticipation for its release? Who can release a pure cover album to a punk scene teeming with listeners traditionally bent on the motto “gimme something better, gimme something new” and expect any success? Who the fuck can juxtapose Radiohead, Bad Religion, Paul Simon & one hit wonder, The Cyrkle onto an album and maintain a solid cohesiveness and not end up tagged as pure gimmickry?
Streetlight Manifesto can. Streetlight Manifesto did. The anticipated 99 Songs of Revolution finally takes off with Volume 1 and does not disappoint. To make a quick aside, I’m a sucker for the great remake of a song. I also get nauseated, quickly, at the horrible & senseless song remake, and usually I find more of the latter. I love the subversive cover usually done by punk bands. It’s a natural fit. Then sometimes a band will take a mediocre song, and make it better or even take a staple song and just make it new with a complete and measured overhaul. What I can’t stand is the pure “karaoke” cover. Country music loves this crap. One version of Freebird was enough, thank you. Streetlight Manifesto doesn’t have covers on this album, they release Streetlight Manifesto / Ballads of the Acoustic Revolution VERSIONS. Bad Religion is and will always be #1 in my book so I cringed when I saw the punk anthem “Skyscraper” was on the ticket. The jangly reggae version by SM made the same song sound like so much more. Is it better? No. But it’s as powerful, which not only celebrates Bad Religion but also displays the concept of the project. It’s a song of revolution, and its composition pervades styles and sound. It’s not just a song, it’s an idea. NOFX’s “Linoleum” is delivered in the same manner and “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” seems tailor made for SM’s music mode. Radiohead’s “Just” begins with quick nod to Nirvana and delivers a bombastic sing-a-long that in many ways pays homage to Radiohead’s experimentalism, but done in the ska sandbox.
The amazing part of the album is how easily SM could pass off all these songs as their originals. If a listener had no idea this was a cover album nor of the bands in reference, they would experience another seamless masterpiece from SM. Although they are spanning multiple decades of music & genres, one never gets any sense of disjointedness or chunkiness. My only rug with the album, and it is to just be nitpicky, is the appearance of “They Provide the Paint for the Picture-Perfect Masterpiece.” This song has a great version by essentially the same band already on record. I just would have preferred it probably on a later volume than the first much anticipated release. To SM’s defense, this isn’t just the old song dropped on the record to make it to that magic #11 to work out the 99 song framework. There is significant sonic revision to the song.
Great album and lived up to its hype. If the next 8 albums are done with this amount of integrity & vision, it will be one of the great sweeping projects of our time.
Green Day announced yesterday that they have already begun working on a new record to be released “sooner rather than later” . Lead singer, Billie Joe Armstrong, stated that the band used their down time on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour to hit recording studios around the world and make some progress on the upcoming, […]
Green Day announced yesterday that they have already begun working on a new record to be released “sooner rather than later” . Lead singer, Billie Joe Armstrong, stated that the band used their down time on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour to hit recording studios around the world and make some progress on the upcoming, untitled album. Armstrong also assured fans that the anticipated album will not take nearly as long (four years) as 21st Century Breakdown did to hit stores. The album’s release date is unknown, but it will be released on Reprise Records.
The band will also be touring this summer so be sure to check back to find out show dates.
A year after the release of their critically acclaimed last album Supporting Caste, Propagandhi have announced that they are currently working on their next full-length (can I hear a “hell, yeah!”). Apparently they have already finished 7 new tunes for the record, which they claim is “going to leave everything [they’ve] done in the past […]
A year after the release of their critically acclaimed last album Supporting Caste, Propagandhi have announced that they are currently working on their next full-length (can I hear a “hell, yeah!”). Apparently they have already finished 7 new tunes for the record, which they claim is “going to leave everything [they’ve] done in the past in the stinking dust.”
Supporting Caste was released last March on Smallman Records but according to Propagandhi the label has called it quits, leaving the band on the hunt for a new home. Fans can expect to see the new album before the end of the year.