Chicago’s hardcore-punk group, Scouts Honor, is releasing their final album, “Buried” post-humorlessly over a year after calling it quits.  The release will include a full-length album and DVD and it’s slated for release March 9th, 2010.  Until then you can listen to the track “Arise” from off the album over on the band’s MySpace page.

The band’s last release, “I Am The Dust” was released on No Idea in 2006.

Detroit psychobilly band, The Koffin Kats have recently signed with Stomp Records and have announced that they have a new album set to be released October 27th titled “Forever For Hire.”

Here is what the band had to say about the signing and the album:

Cool thing about signing with Stomp is that you’ll be able to get this cd easier then our past releases as the [distribution] of it is much larger. I’m pretty happy with this record. Of course its going to be different from each of the previous releases.

The band has plenty upcoming shows. Take a look at the Dying Scene Shows page to see if they are playing in your area.

Check out this Bilboard.com interview with Social Distortion‘s Guitarist Jonny “2Bags” Wilkerson. It’s been five years since the bands release of “Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll,” and in the interview, he talks about new material for a possible 2010 release.

Here is what 2Bags had to say:

Hopefully we’re going to get busy when we get home from this current tour…Yeah, we’ve been road testing like four songs into the set and working on songs at sound checks and stuff, which we do pretty regularly. There’s one that we’ve been doing for quite a while called “Can’t Take it With You.” It’s a cool rocker.

To read the full interview, click here.

Rise Against have bowed out from headlining the Buzz Bake Sale in Florida this December after finding out that the event was to be sponsored by the US Army’s Recruitment Department. Having been involved in counter-recruitment efforts in the past and after adamantly and openly being opposed to the war, the band feels it would be “hypocritical and inappropriate” to headline the show.  I say right on Rise Against!

Unfortunately, the band is having to deal with some backlash from the radio station holding the show. Here is what they have to say about it:

In an act reminiscent of McCarthyism witch-hunts, the radio station has come to the unfounded, false and irresponsible conclusion that Rise Against is “against the army” and, as of this morning, has decided to spread this misinformation over the airwaves, threaten to not play songs, and call for a boycott of Rise Against.

Take a look at the band’s full statement here. It’s well worth reading and shows just how much things can be twisted by the powers that be when you do something counter to their interest.

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Olympia, Washington’s Aires and Graces and Texas’ The Broadsiders announce the release of their Split EP set for October 6th on Longshot Records . This is the fifth of Longshots’ Split EP Series featuring two like-minded bands from different parts of the world. It’s available on two different versions of limited edition red splatter color vinyl and you can order it now at interpunk.com .

Here is what Aires and Graces had to say about it:

This is the last release with our original singer Matt on it. It sounds great! Beyond anything we would really like to thank Matt for all the hard work he did in the first year of the band, The Broadsiders for being on the split with us and Mike at Longshot for his continued support of our band and the greater street punk scene in general.

For a list of the songs on the EP, take a look at the Full Story page.

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Apparently Say Anything did a secret show, and performed their new song “Ahh Men”. Luckily, someone captured this performance and posted it for all of you who weren’t able to make it to the show. This song is off their upcoming self-titled album..watch it by clicking the Full Story.

The new album is coming out on Doghouse Records November 3rd. [Read more…]

Bassist Garret Nickelsen does a Q and A for all you fans out there. You post the questions…and he gives his answers. The whole thing is pretty informal, but definitely gives you a feel of what Garret is really like off stage…he even shows you his skills on Rock Band. Check it out…it’s entertaining for sure.

The Maine will be on tour soon so check out the Dying Scene Shows page. [Read more…]

Death By Stereo is going to be touring the US, Canada, and Europe in support of their newest album, “Death Is My Only Friend”, released in July ’09 on Adrenaline. Joining them will be Nations Afire, Chaser, Ignite, Walls Of Jericho, and Evergreen Terrace. With bands like that, it’s bound to be a pretty intense show. Check out the Dying Scene Shows page to get the details on where and when.

So according to an interview X96 DJ Corey O’Brien had with Davey Havok, AFI has been shooting the music video for “Medicate”, a song featured on their newest album “Crash Love” since late September. What’s the concept of the video? Click on the Full Story to see what Davey had to say.

Their is no word yet on the release date for the music video… [Read more…]

Capital Chaos caught up with Dennis Casey in Sacramento, CA and did a pretty lengthy interview. There’s a lot of talk about touring, the music industry (which Dennis claims he doesn’t pay much attention to), how they pick songs as singles, and even a little bit about politics. There’s a lot more to the interview and you can watch it all right here.

Flogging Molly released their last album, “Float” in 2008 on SideOneDummy.

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