German hardcore/punk band Stehcafe have posted a new song to their MySpace page. It’s titled Friendship For A Lifetime and it is a rough mix of a song that will appear on the band’s upcoming 4-song EP.

At least I think that’s what it’s from – I had to translate the band’s announcement in a German to English online translator.  Here’s a snippet of the translation (anybody else think these dudes sound like pirates?):

It around a rough because the songs are yet unfinished and the shouts yet be missing.

Atreyu drummer/vocalist Brandon Saller has recently been working on some solo material and today he has posted another new song titled Little One to his MySpace page.

Little One lyrics

Although there are no definitive plans for an official release yet Brandon did state last July that he hoped to put something out in 2010.

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It’s been almost 5 years since punk/hip-hop super group Transplants put out any new material but according to a tweet from Travis Barker (Drums) it looks like we haven’t seen the last of them.  It’s a bit vague but here’s what it said exactly:

“Get ready for new TRAN$PLANT$ music”

Fresh off a six week tour New Jersey melodic hardcore band, One Win Choice, have announced that they will be hitting the studio in February/March to record a new full-length before hitting the road yet again.

The band’s last release was a 7″ titled “Define/Redefine” put out on Jump Start Records in February 2009.

Scottish folk/punkers The Real McKenzies will be releasing a live CD and DVD on January 15th but you can get a preview of some of the DVD footage and a couple new songs right here.  The footage was shot Live at Wild at Heart Berlin in August of 2009.

The Real McKenzies released their last album, Off The Leash, in August of 2008 on Fat Wreck Chords.

Progressive metal/punk act The Syncope Threshold has inexplicably changed their name to I, Omega.

Here’s the announcement from the band.

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On January 12th Driver Side Impact is releasing a new EP titled Double Vision on Victory Records but fans can get a little taste of the album today in the form of 2 new songs (Downfall and White Horses) posted to the band’s MySpace page.

The band’s last album, Lion, was released on Victory in 2008.

Well, happy new year, punk fans.  Sorry we haven’t had more stories to entertain you with in the last few days but things will surely pick up for the punk scene in the next few days.

Hoping you’re incorporating some good music in your celebrations tonight.  Be safe.

Johnny X

Goooooooood morning, 2010!!!  Welcome to the future, punk rockers.  We’re going to kick the decade off with the first post in a new weekly column where 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 an oldie but goodie:

NOFX frontman, and owner of iconic punk label Fat Wreck Chords, is known throughout the punk community simply as “Fat Mike”.  Not many people know this, but his real name is Mike Burkett and if you’ve ever seen him, you’d know he’s not really fat, though he apparently picked up the nickname in highschool when he was a bit on the chubby side.

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.

From First To Last have just posted the first song from their upcoming album Throne To The Wolves due out this spring on Rise Records.  The song is called Ill Inoculate The World With The Virus and you can check it out on the band’s MySpace page.

The band has a few upcoming shows, check out when/where on their Dying Scene Shows page.