Dutch melodic punks Sidewalk have premiered their brand new EP. ‘Here and Now’ came out last week and is up for listening below.

If you live in central Europe, keep your eyes open. The boys might play your country soon.

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Gravelly-throated Ottawans Dead Weights have released their second full length, “Mountain Arresting” on bandcamp.

You can pick it up for 8 Canadian Beaverbux, and preview the whole thing below! [Read more…]

HavenHurst dropped a new EP, and you it’s pay-what-you-want!

You can buy it at bandcamp, but we’re so nice we’ve given you a chance to check it out in the stream below! [Read more…]

Real Life Version have announced the uncomfortably-named “Furious Winds and Ice Cold Showers” for release around October 30th. The album is available for pre-order at bandcamp and will be released via Giljotina Records.

Check out “Challenging Ghost” off the album, below! [Read more…]

After a seven year hiatus, legendary UK skate punkers, Sombulance have returned with a brand new EP! The album, entitled Lifer, is due out on August 4th via heavyweight punk label Lockjaw Records but we got our hands on it a day early and it rips! When asked about the release, founding member and guitarist, Ant Harrison explained “We’re excited and relieved to finally be releasing new music, and doing so through our friend’s label Lockjaw Records. We’ve actually been sitting on this EP for a while because it was written in the context of full length but it made sense to record our six strongest songs to release for our Punk Rock Holiday appearance.” Well lucky reader, today you’re the direct beneficiary of that decision because we’re premiering all six, strong songs exclusively here at Dying Scene! So, enough reading, get to streamin’, below!

The quartet’s last release was 2010’s debut full length, A Cynic’s Response.

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Back in March, the punk world was all atwitter with the news that everyone’s favorite Ramones-influenced unpretentious popular indie punk band from Wyoming was back in the studio. Then, when Teenage Bottlerocket announced a couple of weeks later that the new album would not contain any new original music but would instead be a cover album, Facebook was littered with disappointment.

Apparently the idea behind Stealing the Covers had been kicked around by the band for at least 10 years and it may even have been late drummer Brandon Carlisle’s idea (reports vary). If that’s the case, then the fact that the first full-length Teenage Bottlerocket album recorded in Brandon’s wake is filled with covers of obscure songs by unknown bands, makes this album an entirely appropriate tribute to co-frontman Ray’s fallen twin.

A drummer change in the lineup can potentially change a band’s sound more than any other position excepting the singer (see blink-182’s transition from Scott to Travis and the Bouncing Souls’ Shal to Michael). But then album opener “The Way I Know” functions similarly to previous album openers “Freak Out” and “In My Head” – no instrumental introductions found here. And that’s the remarkable things about Stealing the Covers: for an album of cover songs with a brand new drummer it really does sound just like another Teenage Bottlerocket album, even early Teenage Bottlerocket – both the opener and the second track, “Back and Forth”, would not have been out of place on Total (2005).

And then the haters be hating: They’re just another Ramones ripoff and Screeching Weasel wannabes; They’re getting slower and slower, mellowing out at least 10% for Tales From Wyoming (2015); They’re old now and should change their name to Middle-Aged Bottlerocket; They write the same song over and over; They record the same album over and over.

But it’s a good song they keep re-writing, and it’s a good album they keep re-recording.

And the familiar TBR sound continues with “College Town” and “Don’t Go.” Really, it isn’t until the new-age synthesizer at the opening of “Robocop is a Halfbreed Sellout” (by short-lived Laramie, WY-based Sprocket Nova) that the listener might scratch his head, raise an eyebrow, and wonder “what the hell?” but even then the song rocks out in typical TBR fashion, and by the time the synthesizer reappears before the final refrain it no longer seems out of place considering the eighties-themed lyrics.

Most of the songs on Stealing the Covers seem to have been selected because someone in the band thought it was funny. We’ve got the 35-second instant classic “Shit Fuck God Damn”, originally by a band called Artimus Maximus which, we learn from the extensive liner notes, first appeared on a four-minute EP with “a good 6 or 7 songs”. Then the band is “riding my rocket ship to the gay parade”, written by another no-namer, The Gullibles, whose members were in junior high at the time and broke up before graduation. “Hat Nerd”, from The Four Eyes, is one of the dumbest songs ever written, according to Kody.

The album closes with a contribution from The Punchlines, a song (named after a punchline) called “Why the Big Pause”. Or maybe “Paws”.  A really long pause separates the first and second halves of the song, but the lyrics are about a bear with big paws. Y’all’ve heard the joke before. And maybe the real punchline is that Teenage Bottlerocket has managed to make an album of cover songs sound just like one of their regular records. The fact that hardly anyone has heard of any of these bands before, let alone any of the songs, is at least a pretty original idea. Don’t be turned off because someone else wrote the songs. Stealing the Covers sure sounds like Teenage Bottlerocket to me.

4.5/5 Stars

Pop punks 3rd Times a Charm have announced a new record, “EP Collection.” The record will contain both previously released and new tracks.

Get a taste with their video of “Empty” below! [Read more…]

Who wants another pay-what-you-want album? Stepbrothers have you covered with “There is Always Something to Worry About.”

You can check out one track below, then head on over to bandcamp for some sweet, sweet sounds of Idaho. [Read more…]

Slovenian punks Pigs Parlament put their newest release up on bandcamp, and you can check it out for free.

You can stream the whole dang shred-heavy, politically charged thing below, but you can be a peach and throw some money at the band. CDs are also available for seven euros. [Read more…]

Bronx hardcore act Crippled Earn have released their debut EP “Swine” on MorseCode Recordings. You can order the EP straight from MorseCode on vinyl, cassette, or digital for $4-7.

Check out “Disappointed & Disengaged” below for a preview of the brutal yet melodic hardcore. [Read more…]