Below are a couple albums that hit stores today. Listen to a few of their tracks – if you like what you hear support the bands and go buy an album.

The Audition: Great Danger (Victory)

Listen to 2 album tracks on the band’s MySpace.
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Dropkick Murphys: Live At Lansdowne (Born And Bred)

Listen to 1 album track on the band’s MySpace.
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From First To Last: Throne To The Wolves (Rise)

Listen to the entire album on the band’s MySpace.
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Streetlight Manifesto: 99 Songs To A Revolution (Victory)

Listen to an album track on the band’s MySpace.
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The Atom Age: Kill Surf City (Solidarity)

Listen to the entire album on the band’s MySpace.
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Vultures United: Savages (Red Scare)

Listen to album 3 album tracks on the band’s MySpace.
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Wrench In The Works: Decrease/Increase (Facedown)

Listen to album 3 album tracks on the band’s MySpace.
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Gainesville, Florida’s Douglas Shields & The X-Factors have posted their debut full-length, Beerhorse: The Album, for free download on their bandcamp page. Donations are accepted, of course.

Here’s a note from the band about the release:

Douglas Shields & the X-Factors are oh-so excited to have finished their first real album (clocking in at a whopping 27:56!) and share it with you. It was recorded and mixed between March 10th and 11th of 2010 at Rob McGregor’s Goldentone Studio in Gainesville, Florida, and we had a blast doing the whole thing. Thanks to everyone who’s helped us out along the way — our first year or so leading up to the release of our debut album has been awesome! We hope you enjoy the finished product, and if you *really* like it, then please donate through our Bandcamp or purchase a physical copy if ever one is released. We paid for a good bit of the recording with money saved from playing shows and selling T-shirts, but we (read: Kiko) ended up having to put some of our (read: Kiko’s) own money into the endeavor and it’d be nice to get some of that back. Thanks to all of you for being the awesome people that you are!

Traffic Street Records have announced that Rumspringer are currently in the studio working on their full-length debut. The as-yet untitled album will be released on Vinyl by Traffic Street on May 31st, but there are talks of possibly getting it released sooner.

Rumspringer are playing a handful of shows in Arizona in the coming weeks so check their Dying Scene Shows page for details.

The Creepshow‘s lead singer/lead bombshell Sarah Blackwood has posted a teaser of her new solo album Wasting Time on her MySpace page.  It’s pretty different than her Creepshow material so don’t be expecting any psychobilly, punk-rock…

Wasting Time is set to be released April 13th on Stomp Records, and will be a follow up to Way Back Home, which was released November 18th, 2008.

The Dillinger Escape Plan are streaming their entire upcoming album Option Paralysis on their MySpace page.  The album is being officially released March 23rd on Season Of Mist.

The Dillinger Escape Plan are currently on tour supporting the album so head over to their Dying Scene Shows page for dates and locations.

Sing Me Insomnia have released a downloadable cover of Iyaz’s song Replay. If you don’t know who Iyaz is, don’t worry, neither did I until I googled him 2 minutes ago.  He’s an R&B artist and the cover is actually kinda cool.  You can stream Sing Me Insomnia’s version on their MySpace page and you can download it here.

Sing Me Insomnia put out their debut EP The Introduction this past February.

As you most of you have probably figured out, we here at Dying Scene are HUGE Fat Mike/NOFX fans which means if there is any news about him or the band we’re going to report it. Today’s update brings news of Fat Mike’s new restaurant. Thistle Hill Tavern will finally be opening their doors to New Yorkers next month after having to push back to original open date.

The restaurant will feature “European- and Mediterranean-influenced cooking,” plus single-malt whiskey bottled in New York. I guess that means a vacation to the Big Apple”  is in order. Who’s coming with?

Paramore announced today that they have added 5 new dates to their upcoming European tour. The band is set to kick off their first leg of shows stateside in April.

Check out Paramore’s Dying Scene Shows page for more details.

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Underoath is currently on tour in the UK and posted a new video of them hanging out and a new song they are working on. Peep the clip here.

Underoath will be in the UK through the end of April. Check out their Dying Scene Shows page for more details.

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Hawthone Heights just put up a preview of their new song Nervous Breakdown. The song will officially be released on March 23. This song comes off their new album Skeletons which is set to drop May 18th on Wind Up Records.