The Racket posted a cover of Ramones The Crusher on their MySpace…well, what are you waiting for check it out.

Then you can check out where they’re playing next on their Dying Scene Shows profile.

In a recent interview with Express Night Out, Gaslight Anthem vocalist Brian Fallon sheds announces the title of the band’s upcoming full-length album American Slang.   Brian also discusses everything from what fans can expect from the album to growing up in Jersey and the band’s rise to fame.

In regards to the them of the new album compared to the last Brian states:

“I’ve kind of abandoned all of that,” said Fallon. “There are no names and none of the old stuff. I feel like I’ve said a lot of what I had to say about that old stuff. I’m moving on. … [‘American Slang’] is a hyper-literal album. These stories are coming out of my life and the reflections on the things I’ve gotten as I’ve gotten older. It’s more autobiographical, definitely more direct. Not so shrouded in mystery. I’m not trying to confuse anyone with a trail of images on this one.”

“I think I have a better focus on what to say to people. Now, I have a reason to tell people things, instead of crying on someone’s shoulder. I just kind of got ahead on it [life], and I know where it’s going.”

Check out the full interview here – it’s worth a read.

It’s official, Lagwagon frontman Joey Cape and Tony Sly of No Use For A Name are releasing a split 7″ on March 2nd on Fat Wreck Chords. It will feature a solo acoustic version of the Lagwagon song, The Contortionist, by Joey and a previously unreleased and original song from Tony Sly.

This is a complete collaboration with both guys drawing the cover art and lending back-up vocals for each others track.

Check out the album artwork and official announcement here. [Read more…]

The guys from Propagandhi recently finished recovering three previously unreleased tracks from How To Clean Everything and Less Talk, More Rock recording sessions. The plan is to release them in March as a digital EP on a donation basis, in hopes of recovering the costs with any profits going towards “a progressive community initiative that reflected our core values”. In light of the recent events in Haiti, that “progressive community initiative” is an organization called Partners In Health, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care, specifically in Haiti.

More details to come later but for now you can read the band’s official statement here. [Read more…]

The extensive list of Warped Tour bands keeps growing and growing. Today, over 25 more bands were announced. The bands include The Bouncing Souls, Four Year Strong, Agent Orange and many, many more.

See the complete list here. [Read more…]

Don’t get your hopes up, Piebald isn’t getting back together, but they will be releasing Piebald: Our First Ten Years in a three volume set on Rise Records. The discs will contain their first three albums, all their EP’s, b-sides and a few live gems. There are no set in stone release dates, but Piebald says Vol. 1, 2 and 3 should be out mid-April, mid-May and mid-June respectively.

Piebald is scheduled to play Bamboozle and a few other shows in celebration of the re-release of their out of print catalog.

Dropkick Murphys are known for their intense live shows. Finally, the time for a live album is just around the corner. March 16th is the set release date for Live On Lansdowne on Born and Bred Records. The album will feature 20 fan requested songs, and will be available in a variety of formats: CD, double disc digipack with CD, HD DVD, as well as a double gatefold vinyl with bonus CD insert.

Dropkick Murphy’s will be on tour basically non-stop from the end of January till the end of March. Check the Dying Scene Shows page for more details.

If any of you are uneasy about purchasing All Time Low‘s new Mtv Unplugged album, don’t fret, you can stream the whole thing for a limited time, free at Rhapsody. Pretty sweet deal considering the album goes for 10 dollars on iTunes.

All Time Low released Nothing Personal in July and the Unplugged album this past Tuesday. They are gearing up for a pretty extensive overseas tour starting in the end of January. Check out the Dying Scene Shows page for more details.

Boston’s Street Dogs have announced plans to record a new full length album for Hellcat Records in February.  Frontman Mike McColgan made this announcement on MySpace regarding the release:

We are set to go into the studio to record our new album in February.  The studio we will record at is the Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado.  Also we are excited to be working with Rick Barton as he will be co producing our fifth release with Johnny Rioux. We expect to release this next effort some time in late August or early September 2010 on Hellcat records and we will launch a worldwide headlining tour to support the record.  Very soon as well we will be finalizing and anouncing upcoming US dates and European tour plans.

The new record will follow up 2008’s State of Grace and will be their second for Hellcat Records.

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Common Enemy is a 5-piece Punk/Thrash band based out of Reading, PA. Their latest release, Living The Dream?, is the full-length debut of new singer Gary Critical. The album was released on September 8th of 2009 with help from Horror Business, DRP, and Overdose On Records.

It’s clear as soon as the first track kicks in that this is the good ole’ Common Enemy you’ve grown to love with a great addition following a successful hunt to track down a vocal grit that meshes perfectly with the band’s raw style and rabid tempo. Gary immediately feels like part of the Common Enemy family when he belts out ‘I’m still having fun playing different places, I’m still having fun thrashing off faces’. One difference the longtime Common Enemy fan may notice is a slightly political theme not seen in their previous releases. While songs such as ‘Bail Out’ may be reminiscent of the classic Common Enemy track about skateboarding, the motive behind the album name is more prevalent in songs such as the title track ‘Living The Dream?’ which features Jason Navarro of the Suicide Machines/Hellmouth and ‘Never Enough’ with an opening line that I feel sums up the record better than any other lyric, ‘I have a disease, it’s the American Dream.’

The album is tied together with songs confessing hardships and the struggle of the daily grind. However, for those in search of another fun Common Enemy record with songs about skating, partying, and yes, video games…you certainly won’t be let down with tracks like ‘Beer Bong’, ‘Pac-man fever’, and ‘My Board, My Rules’. There’s something in this one for the whole family and they’re the only band I know that can rip through 20 tracks this well in under 28 minutes! Face it, this band couldn’t release a boring album if they tried. If you learn one thing from this record, it may be that no amount of skating and drinking can blind us from everything that’s wrong with society…but it’s sure as hell worth a try!

Other standout tracks: Shut Your Mouth, Warped in World 8, Nothing’s Wrong, Hey Kid Wake Up, Standing In Line