Residents of the Omaha, NE, and Bowling For Soup fans area are in luck!  Radio station Q98 is holding a contest for their Club Q members (it looks free to sign up) in which subscribers can enter to win two tickets for a Club Q  member exclusive acoustic set on Friday, 12 February.  All you have to do is sign up for the Club Q and then register to win.

Bowling For Soup’s latest release, Sorry For Partyin’, came out last October on Jive Records.  Check out the music video for No Hablo Inglés off of the new album right here. [Read more…]

And yet another update from the studio from The Big Smoke punks, Sum 41.  In this update, Deryck explains his methodology behind his songwriting techniques and some fun on the bass.  There’s not a whole lot since the clip is just a minute or so long, but it’s still interesting anyway.  Give it a peek here.

Sum 41 began recording for their follow-up to 2007’s Underclass Hero (Island Records) late last year.

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The highly anticipated Swingin’ Utters tribute album, Untitled 21: A Juvenile Tribute to Swingin’ Utters, will be released February 16th on Red Scare.  The album boasts an impressive list of contributing bands, one of which is Dropkick Murphys who are covering the song Strongman from the Utters’ 1996 album, More Scared: The House Of Faith Years.

You can give the song a listen right here.

Well this should be interesting.  Fat Mike is going to be on Loveline tonight giving sexually confused kids advice on sex and romance.  This should be good.

Loveline is a radio show that airs at 10Pm pacific standard time.

The Gaslight Anthem have released Live At Park Ave in digital format for only $2.99. Live At Park Ave was originally released as a limited 10″, but it is now available here (again) for a limited time only.

The EP contains six songs which were recorded in Orlando, Florida at Park Ave CD’s.

Attack! Attack! have joined up with Breathe Carolina, I See Stars, Asking Alexandria and Bury Tomorrow to go on a midwest/east tour. The tour starts in March, and will be hitting spots in Ohio and going all the way to Texas. Check out the Dying Scene Shows Page for more information.

Attack! Attack! have been in the studio for the last dew weeks recording the follow up to 2008’s Sunday Came Suddenly.

VersaEmerge are currently in the studio recording their debut full-length album.   While recording the band is releasing a series of “studio diary” videos and in this installment you can check out what bass player Devin Ingelido has to say about the sound of the coming release in this ridiculously artsy video.

This album will be a follow-up to their February 2009 self-titled Fueled By Ramen release.

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Millencolin frontman Nikola Sarcevic is releasing his third solo album March 3rd on his own label Statlemate Music.  The album is titled Nikola & Fattiglapparna and contains 11 new songs recorded in Swedish, one of which you can check out right here.

Virginia’s hardcore act Worn In Red have just announced an extensive 43-date US tour to support their new album In The Offing, released last October on No Idea Records. The tour will find the band playing dates with Strike Anywhere, Dead to Me, Thank God, Tubers, The Fucking Wrath, Git Some, and a slot on their year’s Harvest of Hope Fest. You can check out a full listing of dates on their Dying Scene Shows page.

To celebrate, No Idea Records has launched a media player where you can stream In The Offing in its entirety. You can check out the album stream here.

There have been a lot of unsubstantiated rumors around the next Bad Religion album but now it is absolutely official.  The band announced today that they are currently writing their 15th studio album, which they plan on recording this spring and releasing this fall.  Hey oh!

This year marks the band’s 30th freaking year of bandhood and to celebrate they will be performing music spanning their storied career at multiple-night shows at House of Blues in Los Angeles, Anaheim, San Diego and Las Vegas beginning March 17.  Tour dates here.

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