Photos by Meredith Goldberg Last Saturday, Chicago’s Bottom Lounge came alive with ICE OUT: a powerful showcase of Chicago’s vibrant music scene united in solidarity with Minnesota after the murder of Renée Good, a Minneapolis resident brutally murdered by an ICE agent in January 2026. The lineup featured local punk & rock legends, including Deanna […]

Happy Hump Day, comrades! For the first time in what seems like forever, we get to bring you some brand new music to get your day going. Today, we’re stoked to bring you a track called “Bare Ends.” It comes to us from Philadelphia post-hardcore band King Slender. Here’s what the band has to say […]

Inside Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, a replica Russian prison cell sits in the Edlis Neeson Theater with Nadya Tolokonnikova inside. Best known for founding the Russian punk rock performance art and protest group Pussy Riot, Tolokonnikova sits inside the cell sewing garments as visitors peek inside through small slots, giving them a small grim glimpse of what Russian prison life was like as part of her performance art installation Police State.   Running from November […]

Two old school pop-punk powerhouses in the Beatnik Termites and The Putz are joining forces for a 6-song split 12″ coming soon on Mom’s Basement Records. The split will feature each band covering 3 oldies songs, and you’ll be able to grab it on three different vinyl color variants. Get an exclusive sneak peak of […]

Italian punks Proton Packs have been teasing their 5th album for quite a while now, and the time has almost come! In the coming weeks they’ll be releasing 3 singles from the new full-length, starting with “Corrupted File”, exclusively premiering right here, right now on Dying Scene. Check that shit out below! The theme anticipates […]

Riot Fest, celebrating its 20th year in 2025, is most publicly about the bands on stage. But so often, the much more compelling stories are found on the grounds of the music festival’s home in Douglass Park. Here are a few of those stories. Love and Heartbreak at the Riot Fest Wedding Chapel Olivia Beck […]

Today marks the release of Los Angeles folk-punks Hoist the Colors’ brand new album Dear Wanderlust, available on colored vinyl from HEY!FEVER Records and streaming everywhere. We’re stoked to bring you the exclusive premiere of the music video for track #6 on the album “The Sins of Saints”. Check that shit out below! “The song […]

Hands Off Our Fest is back! The music festival celebrating the women, femmes and thems of the Chicago punk scene features a mix of live music, stand-up comedy, drag performances, queer expression and joy, and feminine rage, all washed down with plenty of beer.   This year the fest will take place on October 11th at the Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb, Illinois. […]

Baltimore indie rockers Underlined Passages are back with a brand new, eight song album. It’s called The Accelerationists, and the band hooked up with the iconic J Robbins to do the honors. Here’s what the band had to say about the album: The record’s influences include the failed futurism of The Long Boom and the stark realism of […]

Formed in 1998 out of the epicenter of SoCal skate punk, Los Angeles’ Western Waste are gearing up for the release of their first new EP in over 20 years. The band has signed on with Felony Records for the release of the new 4-song ripper entitled Wasteland, which you can pre-order on four bad […]