Listen up all you Ska and Rockabilly fans..if you have been waiting for a festival to come around you are in luck because The Bashments will be playing on December 6th at the “Rude and Crude” Ska and Rockabilly Festival in Pomona, CA. At this show it doesn’t matter if you’re 12 or 42 because all ages are welcome. Check out the details and make some room in your calender for what’s sure to be an exciting night.

Traditionally Santa is the guy you want coming to your house for Christmas, but this year you may have the opportunity to get Since Forever to show up instead…and you don’t even have to leave out cookies and milk! (…or the carrots for the reindeer) Slight catch…you have to live in Nashville, TN…but don’t get too sad if you don’t live there,  because they will be broadcasting the whole thing live on their Stickam Dec. 13th. All you have to do is enter the contest, hope to get picked, and if you do Since Forever will show up at your house ready for some caroling and partying. Gotta love the holidays…..

Anchor Arms sure have a busy year ahead of them. They are going to be doing a 7″ split with their friends Vacation Bible School, a 7″ split with Sharks Come Cruisin’ (out on Mind Over Matter Records), and then a split for Vinyl Collectives Under The Influence. To round it all out they have their own full length record, The Morning Pistol, coming out some time in 2010 on Kiss Of Death Records…they are currently finishing up the writing for the album. Make sure you keep checking back for more news on the release dates.

Anchor Arms released their last full-length, “Cold Blooded” on Fail Safe Records in 2008.

Iwrestledabearonce just put up the second part of their Euro Tour Diary and I must admit, Europe through their eyes is pretty interesting. There are a couple clips from shows and site seeing..but best yet you get to see one of the guys interpretation of break dancing, catch a couple making out outside a show, and see that going to the bathroom in Italy is easier said than done. Check it out and live your travels vicariously through them.

You should also check out the Dying Scene Shows page because their touring doesn’t stop in Europe…

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Alternative Press is streaming the song Her Words Destroyed My Planet by Motion City Soundtrack right here.  The track will appear on the band’s upcoming release My Dinosaur Life slated for release January 19th on Columbia Records.

Motion City Soundtrack is currently on tour with Weezer.  Check out the Dying Scene Shows page for dates and locations.

Sum 41 entered the studio this week to begin production on their foll0w-up to 2007’s Underclass Hero.  Today lead singer Deryck Whibley posted this studio update in his blog:

gil norton and i have been working in my studio for the pas few days. we’ve mapped the whole record. everything’s been going amazing. this record is going to be so much fun to make. it’s going to be a lot of work. probably more work than any other record we’ve ever done. but it’s all worth it. i love the direction this record is taking. more updates soon!

East Bay hardcore-punk act Static Thought have uploaded a brand new track titled FLAMESTHATFUEL to their MySpace page.  The band reported in September that they were working on material for a new album, I’d say there’s a good chance this song will be one of the new album tracks.

Static Thought’s last album, The Motive For Movement, was released in September of last year on Hellcat Records.

Time for more punk versions of Christmas classics.  This time it’s Rudolph The Rednosed Reindeer done by Southern California punkers Strike Tweleve and you can check it out on the band’s MySpace page.

Strike Twelve recently signed to Felony Records.

You Me At Six have posted the lyrics for their song The Consequence.  The track appears on the band’s upcoming album Hold Me Down due out January 11th.

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Greeley Estates have posted the lyrics to their song Jealousy Breeds Killing Sprees.  The track appears on the band’s upcoming album No Rain, No Rainbow due out January 16th on Tragic Hero Records.

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