DS was in the building as Pierce The Veil and @sleepingwithsirens.bsky.social teamed up for a sold-out amphitheater show in Chicago. Check it! dyingscene.com/ds-gallery-p...

DS was stoked to debut the latest single from Boston's Pimmer! Check it! Great tune! dyingscene.com/ds-exclusive...

DS was in the building at Schubas in Chicago for Die Spitz and Edging. Chaos ensued. Check it! dyingscene.com/ds-gallery-e...

DS Show Review & Galleries: Nerf Herder; Diesel Boy; Keep Flying; and Capgun Heroes. Chicago (05.23.2025) The best spot to be on Friday, May 23, 2025 in the p.m. was Reggies Rock Club. It was the place to get your geek on. Geek Punk, that is. Nerf Herder returned to

1996 me would have been stoked to see Nerf Herder and Dieselboy together. 2025 me is stoked we got to cover them in Chicago! With Capgun Heroes and Keep Flying! dyingscene.com/ds-show-revi...

Tragic Ripples Strike the Music Industry: Sound Talent Group Co-Founder, Dave Shapiro, 2 Employees, and 3 More, Gone Too Soon I'm sure by now everyone in the music industry has heard of the tragedy that's struck Sound Talent Group. Co-founder Dave Shapiro, alongside two booking associa

Remembering Dave Shapiro and friends, lost in a plane crash at the end of last month.
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DS Exclusive: Sweetie Releases New Music Video Paying Homage to John Waters, Divine, and All Things Queer and Weird Chicago lipstick-punk band Sweetie returns with a new music video just in time for Pride Month, and Dying Scene is giving you the exclusive premiere! Oh

Happy Thursday comrades! DS are stoked to bring you Sweetie's newest video, a delightful ode to John Waters, Divine, and all things queer and weird. Check it!!
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DS Show Review and Photo Gallery: Smoking Popes "Born To Quit" and Off With Their Heads "In Desolation" from Arts At The Armory in Somerville MA It was a double-whammy night for the punkers of a certain age a week ago Thursday when a two-headed monster of beloved Midwestern-area bands - Smoking Popes and

Anyone else catch the Smoking Popes "Born To Quit" 30th Anniversary / Off With Their Heads "In Desolation" 15th anniversary shows? Jay was in Boston - nay, Somerville - and had some thoughts about a fun and cathartic night!
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DS Album Review - Gas Station Boner Pills - “Welcome to the Shit Show” Atlanta, GA party punks Gas Station Boner Pills are a punk rock trio known for their comical lyrics and hard driving punk rock. It almost feels like punk rock f

Check out Forrest's thoughts on Gas Station Boner Pills' "Welcome To The Shit Show," which might be my favorite little promo sentence I've written in this space in a long time!
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DS Featured Release: Dropkick Murphys unveil new record "For The People," debut video for "Who'll Stand With Us?" The boys are back, and they're looking for trouble! Beloved Boston punk rock stalwarts Dropkick Murphys have never been a band to shy away for standing up fo

Dropkick Murphys are back! Watch the video for "Who'll Stand With Us?" and check out all the details on "For The People" and see which special guests make appearances...Billy Bragg? Fletcher from Pennywise? Al Barr?!?
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DS Photo Gallery: Sessanta V2.0 (Primus, Puscifer, and A Perfect Circle) Eagle Bank Arena, Fairfax, Virginia (05/18/2025). On Sunday, 18 May 2025 Primus, Puscifer, and A Perfect Circle brought their Sessanta 2.0 tour to EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia. These bands came together

DS was in the building when Maynard James Keenan celebrated his 61st birthday in Virginia. It's Sessanta tour v2.0 with Primus, Puscifer and A Perfect Circle. Crazy show to shoot. Check it!
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Krust Toons - Dying Scene #5 Check out more Krust Toons here and here. You can support Tedd Hazard on Patreon here.

Punk houses forever. #funny #KrustToons #punkcomics #Tour
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*is now available, not "are now available." I'm a dummy.

DS Featured Release: Lucero frontman Ben Nichols announces new solo record, "In The Heart Of The Mountain," unveils video for "Fading Back Into The Night" When we chatted with Lucero frontman Ben Nichols earlier this year, he gave us a brief peak at plans for an upcoming solo record that was going to feature a bac

Information about Ben Nichols' first solo record since 2009's "Last Pale Light In The West" are now available. Check out the details about "In The Heart Of The Mountain" here!
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DS Show Review & Photo Gallery: Gouge Away Plays Cobra Lounge in Chicago with Gumm and Smut Gouge Away is back since their pandemic hiatus with their first album since 2018. The hardcore band out of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, split ways to pursue differe

Max checks in from Chicago, where Gouge Away, Gumm and Smut threw down at the Cobra Lounge. Check it!
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DS Interview: Ceschi Ramos (and friends!) on Codefendants' new single, "Right Wrong Man," their upcoming full-length, the Connecticut hardcore scene and more! "My whole life has been a trip since I met these guys." - Ceschi Ramos (L) on his relationship w/fellow Codefendants Fat Mike (C) and Sam King (R) - Photo by Ni

Maybe you're headed to see Codefendants at Punk Rock Bowling or the Punk Rock Museum this weekend. Maybe you're home with FOMO.
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Dying Scene Show Review: "Home Grown, Limbeck, and Reckoner - Santa Ana, CA 5/16/2025 Home Grown is back, everybody! After being gone for almost twenty years, the pop-punk band has been making the rounds. After opening for a few shows in the surr

Forrest was in the building at the Observatory OC as Home Grown made their triumphant return, alongside Limbeck and Reckoner. Check it!
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Dying Scene Show Review: Ministry, Nitzer Ebb, Die Krupps, Baltimore Soundstage, Baltimore. ND (05/12/2025). On Monday, 12 May 2025, Ministry brought their industrial rock carnival to a sold-out show at Baltimore Soundstage in Baltimore, Maryland. The band was out prom

DS was on the scene as Ministry, Nitzer Ebb and Die Krupps blew the doors off a sold-out Baltimore Soundstage. Check it!
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DS Gallery: Teen Mortgage & Upchuck light up Chicago in true punk fashion (Cobra Lounge, 5/8/25) Teen Mortgage just debuted their first Roadrunner Records album Devil Ultrasonic Dream on April 11th and are wrapping up their headlining tour with support from

Teen Mortgage and Upchuck played the Cobra Loungue in Chicago and wouldn't you know it...Mary was there! Check it!
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DS Show Review & Galleries: Riverboat Gamblers; Violets; and The Evictions. Chicago (04.27.2025) Reggies hosted a raucous Sunday triple bill of two veteran bands and a new band composed of punk rock veterans. Riverboat Gamblers was the headliner with The Ev

DS was on the ground for another fun Chicago night that featured Riverboat Gamblers, Violets and The Evictions at the one-and-only Reggies. Check it!
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DS Featured Release: My Favorite Band - "Questions" Laguna Hills' My Favorite Band will be releasing a remastered version of their album, Monkey Business, in January 2026 to celebrate the record's twenty-fifth an

OC pop punkers, My Favorite Band will be dropping a single each month leading up to the 25th anniversary remaster of the album Monkey Business. MFB gave us a few minutes of their time to talk about it.
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DS Review: Arm's Length - "There's a Whole World Out There" When they hit the scene back in 2019 with their debut EP What’s Mine Is Yours, it was clear that Arm’s Length weren’t just “another emo band." And when

Arm's Length has a new record out tomorrow. It's called "There's A Whole World Out There," and Karina gave it an early listen and reported back for all of us. Check it!
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DS Throwback – Forty Years of Descendents – “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up” The number of times the Descendents were thrown in my face was ridiculous. If the universe was ever trying to highlight something to me, it was their music. Eve

Wanna feel old(er)? It's the 40th birthday of "I Don't Wanna Grow Up"! To mark the anniversary of the release of the classic Descendents album, Forrest gave it an updated listen. Check it out (and make sure you refill your blood pressure medication you old fogy)!
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DS Book Club - Fahrenheit-182 by Mark Hoppus Mark Hoppus is no stranger to public life, having been in one of the biggest rock bands of the last thirty years. blink-182 is a band that seemed open about eve

Next up in the DS Book Club, Forrest gives us his thoughts on Mark Hoppus' new memoir, Farenheit 182. Have you read it yet? Whaddya think?
#blink182 #DanOzzi #Fahrenheit182 #HarperCollins #MarkHoppus
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DS Album Review: The Speedways - "Visiting Hours" I’d purchased London’s The Speedways debut album, Just Another Regular Summer, on a Bandcamp dive back in 2019 while stealing time at a random office job. I

Lanny checks in with a stellar review of The Speedways' latest release, "Visiting Hours." What are your thoughts?
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DS Photo Gallery and Show Review -- Jake Albi/Lores/No Momentum/Alliteration -- Balmville, NY 4/26/2025 The Balmville Grange is a small converted church tucked in the mountains that range across the Hudson Valley. Standing outside the brown-red wooden walls, you'r

Avalon checked out a sweet DIY show in a small converted church in the Hudson Valley. Jake Albi, Lores, No Momentum and Alliteration - check it out! dyingscene.com/ds-photo-gal...

DS Interview: Josh Caterer on songwriting, faith, "Allegiance" and the Smoking Popes new record, "Lovely Stuff" When last we spoke with Smoking Popes frontman Josh Caterer toward the end of 2024, the band were in the midst of what would ultimately be one of their busiest

Speaking of Popes from Chicago, have you all checked out the great long-form interview we did with Josh Caterer about the new Smoking Popes record, "Lovely Stuff"? No? What are you waiting for?!? dyingscene.com/ds-interview...

Pig Pen - "Mental Madness" Here's one for the hardcore kids! If you haven't yet had your face sufficiently ripped off by Pig Pen, allow us to introduce you. The five-piece Canadian har

Matty Matheson has yelled at you on The Bear and yelled at you on "Cookin' Somethin'" and now he's yelling at you in Pig Pen, his new hardcore band with Wade MacNeil and friends. Check it! dyingscene.com/releases/ds-...

DS Feature: Refused Are (Still) Fucking Dead: Refused's Enduring Legacy & Farewell Tour Words and photos by Tay Hansen, founder of Soundboard, a music media collective and creative studio based in Denver, CO. Refused set the Ogden Theatre o

Our latest collab with our friends at Soundboard finds Tay checking in with a dynamite look at Refused's farewell tour's stop in Denver. Check it! dyingscene.com/ds-feature-r...

DS Show Review: Linda Lindas, Be Your Own Pet, and Chicano Mosh at The Glass House in Pomona, CA (4/1/2025) My family and I have gone to see the Linda Lindas play at least once a year for the last four or five years. It's been good to see them grow as musicians in tha

Check out Forrest's full rundown of the Linda Lindas / Be Your Own Pet / Chicano Mosh show at the Glass House in Pomona! dyingscene.com/ds-show-revi...

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