The boys from Mayday Parade recently took time out of of their busy tour schedule to jam out acoustic-style at the Hurley studios in Los Angeles. The band performs two songs (The Silence and I Swear This Time I Mean It) from their latest album, Anywhere But Here, as well as a classic from their 2006 EP Tales Told By Dead Friends (Three Cheers for Five Years). Visit hurley.com to watch the video. The band has promised more videos to come in the near future so keep checking back for updates.

Mayday Parade is currently on tour supporting the release of this new album. Check out dates and locations on the band’s Dying Scene Shows page.

A Hero A Fake are streaming the title track from their upcoming release called Let Oceans Lie. Expect the album to hit stores on January 19 thanks to Victory Records. Plenty of dates are up on their Dying Scene Shows page, so head on over and check out the details.

Paper + Plastick Records welcomes folk act Greenland Is Melting. Just to show you how stoked everyone is, Paper + Plastick is offering a download of their entire album Our Hearts Are Gold, Our Grass Is Blue for free here. Plans for some vinyl are under way and we can expect a release in early 2010.

The band Sing Me Insomnia have big plans for 2010. They have a debut EP planned to be released on iTunes sometime early 2010. Until then you can check out the new songs, Louder Than Words and Tip You With A Kiss on their MySpace.

Pouyan Afkary, of the band Scary Kids Scaring Kids, posted an official statement regarding the break-up of the band after embarking on a final tour in January. It seems after starting the band in high school, they have grown apart and intend to end the band on a positive note. Keep an eye on the upcoming shows to find out more details about their final tour.

According to recent tweets posted by Craig Owens, it appears the former Chiodos lead singer is in the studio recording a new solo album with producer John Feldman.  FYI, it includes screaming.

Check out the tweets yourself right here.

According to a recent bulletin posted by the band, Watchout! Theres Ghosts are heading into the studio tomorrow.  That’s all I got.

The band released Ghost Town last February on Rise Records.

If any of you computer nerds out there still read books, you might be interested to know that Joshua Dies, vocalist for Showbread, has just published a new novel titled Nevada.  It’s published under the name Joshua Porter but we know it’s him because we’re super sleuths.

Nevada is the follow up to Josh’s 2006 hallucinatory novel The Spinal Cord Perception and tells the story of a large hole discovered in the Mojave desert that becomes a doorway for something strange to enter our world.

You can order it here.

I Am Ghost have posted their This Is Home Remix to their MySpace page. The song is the bonus track off their upcoming album, I Am Ghost: Live in Orange County, which is set to release on December 17th.  Listen to it here and go to the Full Story page for a closer look at the album art and list of the tracks on the album.

The band’s last album, Those We Leave Behind, was released in 2008 on Epitaph.

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Have a glance at all the bands that will be part of “The Mosh Lives II Tour” in this video promo. On the promo, you will see snippets of Emmure, Terror, After The Burial, Miss May I, and Thick As Blood. Click here for a look.

The tour begins in January and you can get a full list of the dates and locations here.

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