Well it’s official folks’ Jerry Pierce is leaving VersaEmerge. Don’t get to sad kids, the band is continuing on without him and are currently working on a full length album.

Here is what Jerry had to say about leaving the band:

As many of you know, the OP Presents Tour will be my last with VersaEmerge. After considering many things, I’ve decided to take a break from touring and performing music. Although I love what we do, I have decided that being on the road is not for me. It’s was an incredibly hard decision but I feel like it’s something I have to do; it would be selfish of me to adjust my priorities to fit my career. With that said, I want everyone to know that my relationship with VE hasn’t changed at all. I’ll always support the band as if I were still a part of it and will always consider Blake, Sierra and Devin my closest friends.

Yours,
-Jerry

The band still has a few shows left on their tour. Check out their Dying Scene Shows page for more details.

Driver Side Impact announced today that they will be releasing their Double Vision EP January 12th, on Victory Records.

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

Knock-Out have posted a couple tracks from their Christmas EP on their MySpace page.  The band recently signed to Kung Fu Records and will soon be re-releasing their entire discography, including The Christmas EP, digitally.

Knock-Out is playing a series of shows with the Vandals.  Check out the Dying Scene Shows page for details.

Letlive has signed to Tragic Hero Records.  At least it appears that way.  No “official” statement has been released but the band did write this in a recent blog post:

Today I will be making it loud and clear that after years of not really searching for a label, we have been given the best reason to put faith in someone other than ourselves. That reason is….. ……. ……. Tragic Hero Records. As mentioned before, there’s a lot of bullshit to look out for and these people at this label do not subscribe to any of it. We love it. Never have we encountered a team that not only wholeheartedly believed and condoned what letlive was doing, but also understand what this is about.

The band’s last album, Speak Like You Talk, was released on At One Records in 2005 and they have recently posted a new song, Homeless Jazz, to their MySpace page.

Yep, another Christmas song by a punk band.  August Burns Red did O Come O Come Emanuel last week, and this week they’ve posted Carol Of The Bells to their MySpace page.

August Burns Red released their last album, Constellations in July on Solid State.

And the punk versions of Christmas songs just keep on coming…  My Chemical Romance‘s version of All I Want For Christmas Is You (recorded in 2005 for a limited release in 2006) is now available as part of a special holiday Warner Bros Records album on iTunes.

The band is currently working on a new full-length album follow-up to 2006’s Black Parade.

A couple members of Mewithoutyou recently started a Weezer cover band called Sleezer. The band played their first gig at a party they threw for a bunch of their friends. Check out the video here.

Mewithoutyou’s latest album “It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A Dream! It’s Alright” was released on Tooth & Nail Records this past May.

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In honor of the holiday season, MxPx has given us another present in the form of another song off their just-released album, Punk Rawk Christmas, which hit stores today. The song, Auld Lang Syne, is a New Year’s staple, and if the rest of the album rocks as much as these songs do, we’re all in for a treat this year!

Check out the songs on the band’s MySpace page.

German pop-punk act Green.Frog.Feet has just uploaded a new video of part of a set they played in their hometown of Regensburg. The band performed several songs including Souled Out, Capricorn, and It*’s Okay for the German TV channel Südwild. You can watch the video here.

Green.Frog.Feet has tour dates planned for the next several months, but unless you live in Germany it might be a little hard to catch them. If you do live in Germany, check out the band’s Dying Scene Shows page.

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Metal Blade Records has just announced that they have signed Colorado metal act Allegaeon. I’m a punk rocker at heart, but every now and again a metal band comes around that really catches my ear. Allegaeon is one of those bands. These guys have been rocking since their formation in mid-2008, and already have an EP released. According to the band,

“We all are super stoked to be a part of this legendary label. Metal Blade to us is the past, present and future of metal. With new tunes that will be equally crushing and catchy, we look forward to producing an album that will most definitely turn heads.”

Allegaeon is working on an album that is slated to be released sometime in mid-2010, but you can check out songs off their self-titled EP on their MySpace page.

You can also check out the official music video for their song, Nex of Terra, here.

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