Jon Snodgrass (Drag The River, Armchair Martian) and Joey Cape (Lagwagon, Bad Astronaut) performed an acoustic version of the Armchair Martian song Jessica’s Suicide for Issue Oriented.

Watch it here.

Goth punk rock outfit Aiden are releasing a live CD/DVD March 16th on Victory Records.  The release is titled From Hell… With Love and it was recorded in Chicago last month (January 13th).  The cover art is <= yonder.

Aiden has a few shows left in the US this month before they head to Europe.  Details here.

Close Your Eyes are releasing their Victory Records debut album We Will Overcome on February 2nd but you can stream two of the album’s tracks right now.  The songs are titled Wake Up! and The Body and you can give them a listen on the band’s MySpace page.

Close Your Eyes has a handful of Texas shows coming up.  Check out their Dying Scene Shows page fore details.

You can check out another new track from The Bled‘s upcoming album Heat Fetish.  The song is titled Crowbalt and you can hear it on the band’s MySpace page.

Heat Fetish is being released March 2nd on Rise Records and is a follow-up to the 2007 release of Silent Treatment.

Florida screamo act Sleeping With Sirens has posted a new track to their MySpace page.  The track is titled The Bomb Dot Com and it will appear on the band’s debut album With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear, which is being released March 23rd on Rise Records.

Sleeping With Sirens is currently on tour.  Check out their Dying Scene Shows page for dates and locations.

Shortly after Chiodos kicked their lead signer Craig Owens out of the band they surprised fans by announcing that singer or no singer, they were going to continue writing a new album anyway.  For months the band remained without a vocalist but it seems they’ve managed to finally find a suitable replacement and are reportedly heading into the studio this month to record a new full-length album for Equal Vision Records.

The band is keeping the identity of their new singer a secret until The Bamboozle festival in Anaheim, CA on March 27th.

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 Laguna Hills, CA punk band Chaser, who have a new album coming out in two weeks, by the way.

According to an online interview here’s the explanation for Chaser’s band name straight from the source:

The band formed when we were in high school. We started out just doing cover songs and a few original songs, but of course we weren’t that serious yet, so we didn’t have a name to go by. After a few months, We garnered legions of fans with our Pennywise cover songs so we decided to take things serious from that point and we needed a name. We threw around a ton of ideas but none were really that good. Finally one night we were at a party with all our friends from high school (House parties being the popular thing at the time) and the discussion for our band name came up. Someone threw out the name Chaser and we all drank to that. Although it came about through drinking, it doesn’t necessarily have to be associated with alcohol or drinking. Lots of people have come up with their own interpretations of the name Chaser.

Well everyone raise your glasses….here’s to Chaser! I guess I need to be more creative because my first thought goes straight to drinking.

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.

This is f’ing hilarious.  There have been a series of youtube videos surfacing that feature new sub-titles written into an old foreign nazi film.  I’ve seen some pretty good ones so far but this takes the cake.  But first some background:  If you didn’t know, NOFX did a song called “Creeping Out Sara” on their last album Coaster.  The song is about Fat Mike “creeping out Sara” of indie rock duo Tegan And Sara.  Got it?  Ok, now watch.

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Popular hip-hop group Flobots have a new song up on their MySpace page which features vocals from Rise Against frontman Tim McIlrath and some Rise Againstish guitar breakdowns.  It’s titled White Flag Warrior and is actually a pretty interesting combo.  Rise Against fans should definitely give it a listen.

The song is available for purchase on iTunes as a single right now but it will also appear on the upcoming Flobots album, Survival Story, due out on March 16th.

More good punk tunes coming out of Canada.  Montreal’s Pole Position announced today that they will be releasing their new album State Of The Country on April 20th.  To get a sampling of the coming album and the band’s metal influenced political punk sound check out their new track It’s Up to US on their MySpace page.