Florida hardcore punk act His Name Was Iron has posted a brand new song titled Small Islands Keep Secrets on their MySpace page.  Not sure what future release it may end up on but it’s worth a listen so go check it out.

Sundays.  They’re sorta weird, right?  It’s still technically the weekend so that’s good, but Monday is looming just around the corner which is vaguely depressing.  You’ve got mere hours left to experience life worth living before you report back to the cubicle or the classroom, and while you still have your freedom you should be out grabbing life by the proverbial horns, climbing mountains, getting laid, or getting outta Dodge.  But what are you doing?  You’re sitting in front of the f’ing computer, surfing the Internet instead.  It’s OK though because so are we.  And while we’d love to be dropping some mind-blowing punk news on your lethargic asses there aint sh#!t going on cuz it’s Sunday – a notoriously slow news day.

So while you’ve got time to kill why don’t you come meet some other punk fans or chat with us over IM on the Dying Scene Facebook page?  You can also follow us on Twitter and get notified instantly as soon as something worth reporting happens.  Or don’t.  It’s your life.

Oceana is heading into the studio later this month with producer Matt Goldman (Underoath, The Chariot, Drop Dead, Gorgeous) to record an ep of B-sides from their album Birtheater, which was released last May on Rise Records.

In the meantime, the band has a handful of shows coming up around the Florida area.  Dates and locations can be found here.

Fans can check out two brand new songs from A Hero A Fake over on the band’s MySpace page.  The songs are titled Elk River Falls and Astronomical, and both will appear on their upcoming album Let Oceans Lie, due out January 19th on Victory Records.

Let Oceans Lie is the group’s sophomore release, a follow-up to 2008 LP Volatile.

The fellas in Gatorface are extremely busy.  It seems every member is playing in at least 2 other bands, which is why we can forgive them for delaying the released of their upcoming album Wasted Monuments.  The album is being released on No Idea Records and was originally set to hit streets in November ’08 but according to this statement from the band it looking more like March 2010.  Good things come to those who wait, people…

“We had the record remastered because we wanted to tweak a couple of things and make it sound as good as it possibly can. Richard has also been KILLING IT with the artwork, and although he’s super busy with all of his Horsebites craziness, he really manages to save some of his coolest stuff for our band (which is very sweet of him).”

Motion City Soundtrack are doing a track by track testimonial of all the songs on their forthcoming album My Dinosaur Life and the subject of today’s video is the song Hysteria.  I’d tell you more but the video on the page didn’t work for me.  Maybe it will for you and then you can fill me in.  Find it here

My Dinosaur Life hits stores January 19th via Columbia Records.

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 another oldie by goodie:

When Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin isn’t singing songs about anti-disestablishmentarianism (?) in front of thousands of punk rockers, you can find him teaching Life Science 1 and Earth & Space Sciences 116 (paleontology) at UCLA during the winter or fall quarters of each school year.  If you couldn’t tell from the lyrics of just about any Bad Religion song, Professor Graffin is one smart bastard.  The dude also has a PhD in zoology from Cornell University and was was awarded the  Harvard Secular Society’s “Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism” on April 26, 2008.

Know an interesting story or bit of punk rock trivia?  Share it with us here and if we publish it, we just might send you a reward.

It seems as though tour season is starting to pick up again. Progressive Ska outfit Rx Bandits have just announced new tours dates for late February-late April. They will be in Australia for the Soundwave festival from February 20th to March 1st and then starting March 9th, they will be kicking off a month and a half long US tour with The Builders And Butchers and Zechs Marquise in Tempe, AZ.

The tour is pretty all over the place, so check out the Dying Scene Show shows page to get the complete details…

Off With Their Heads has a lot planned for the coming months.  For starters, they have two new split EP’s coming out – the first is a split EP 7″ with No Friends and the second is a split with Detournement where they’ll be contributing one cover of a Detourenment song and one acoustic tune.

On top of these releases Off With Their Heads will also be touring up the eastern seaboard with The Slow Death starting February 3.  Once that tour is finished on the 16th, they’ll be picking up with The Queers mostly through Canada until the 1st of march.  Check out their Dying Scene Shows Page for more information.

Time to spend some more vicarious time on the road with Protagonist.  In this Fall Tour edition you’ll witness the band’s run-in with the fuzz, weiner costumes, sick Cocksparrer and Operation Ivy covers as well as tons of live footage in this ten-minute video jaunt through the US and Canada.  It’s Friday, you’re not really working anyway – Check out the video here.

Protagonist released their last album, The Chronicle, in April on Paper + Plastick Records.

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