East Coast surf punks Night Birds have announced plans for a brand new full-length album. Entitled “Born To Die In Suburbia,” the 14-track album is now set for release July 9th via Grave Mistake Records.
Night Birds have also added a bunch of dates to their Summer US tour schedule. Click here for the full, updated rundown.
Night Birds released their “Maimed For The Masses” EP on May 7th through Fat Wreck Chords. Here’s our review.
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Okay, now that I’ve got that out of my system, let’s get on with this review.
“Maimed for the Masses” is the first single off of Night Birds’ upcoming album, Born to Die in Suburbia, and boy does it pack a punch. At three minutes and seventeen seconds, it’s easily the longest Night Birds song (for now), but it goes by so fast that it’s hardly even noticeable. “Maimed for the Masses”, a tribute to WWE Superstar Mick Foley, sees the band continuing their brand of Adolescents-meets-Dead Kennedys punk rock, complete with monster imagery and vocal harmonies that have no place being in a song so snotty. Usually such little progression from previous material isn’t always the most welcome, but there is always room to make exceptions for Night Birds, and all this familiarity brings high hopes for the upcoming album. “Barred Out”, the first b-side on this EP, is another blast of old school punk but done in half the time. It’s not an awful song, but compared to the EP’s lead track, it’s easy to see why this song didn’t make the cut.
Side B contains two more non-album tracks, and also finds the band channeling their inner-Agent Orange in some of their most surf-influenced songs to date. The semi-chanted yells in the chorus of “Last Gasp” are vaguely reminiscent of the surf punk classic “Bloodstains”, while “Boat Trash” is a speedy instrumental with minimal lyrics- a staple of the surf genre. It almost plays as if Night Birds wrote their own version of a Dick Dale song being covered by Agent Orange. It’s a shame that these two songs were deemed unworthy to be included on the band’s sophomore LP, but at the same time it’s exciting: if the songs that didn’t make it are this good, just imagine how amazing the tracks that did make it will be.
Maimed for the Masses exceeds its job as a teaser for the band’s new album and the EP fits in right at home alongside Night Birds and Midnight Movies. Had Born to Die in Suburbia not already been announced, I think that these four songs could be the only four songs that the band releases this year, and there would not have been a single complaint. Yes, that’s how good this is.
Night Birds!
4.5/5 Stars
RIYL: Adolescents, Agent Orange, The Spits
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East Coast surf punks Night Birds are streaming their “Maimed For The Masses” 7-inch in its entirety.
You can check it out here.
The 7-inch was released today on Fat Wreck Chords. The band will be releasing a new full-length album called “Born To Die In Suburbia” sometime this summer via Grave Mistake Records.
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East Coast surf punks Night Birds have announced they will be hitting the road for a run of US tour dates this summer.
Click here to check out a full list of dates and locations they will be playing.
The band will be releasing a new 7-inch called “Maimed For The Masses” May 7th through Fat Wreck Chords. After that, they will be releasing a new full-length album called “Born To Die In Suburbia” sometime this summer via Grave Mistake Records.
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East Coast surf punks Night Birds have put up full streams of both their debut album, The Other Side of Darkness, and their EP/demo compilation album, Fresh Kills Vol. 1 for your listening enjoyment. You can listen to both albums here.
Night Birds will release their Maimed for the Masses EP on May 7th through Fat Wreck Chords, and are planning to release their sophomore effort, Born to Die in Suburbia, sometime later this year on Grave Mistake Records.
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East Coast surf punks Night Birds recently announced that they had finished the recording process for their upcoming EP, “Maimed For The Masses”.
Today, the band is premiering the title track of the upcoming album, which is set to be released May 7th through Fat Wreck Chords.
While the B-side of this EP features three exclusive songs, several tracks on this album will appear on the band’s forthcoming full-length, “Born To Die In Suburbia”, which is slated for a summer release through Grave Mistake Records.
Listen to “Maimed for the Masses” here. Here’s what Night Birds vocalist Brian Gorsegner had to say about the new work,
“‘Maimed for the Masses’ is about giving something you love your all, even if it means bloodying and destroying yourself along the way, because it is all you know. Whether it is playing rock & roll, skateboarding or wrestling, it’s that “play to destroy” mentality that is truly inspiring. This song is more specifically an ode to wrestler Mick Foley. These are some of my favorite lyrics Joe has ever written and I am glad to finally have it on wax.”
Night Birds head out on tour to middle America tomorrow. Head here to view a complete list of tour dates and locations.
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East Coast surf punks Night Birds have announced via Facebook that they have finished up work in the studio on their new album. Still no word on a release date though.
While the band’s sophomore album, Born to Die in Suburbia, doesn’t have a release date yet, the band’s upcoming EP, Maimed for the Masses will see a May 7th release via Fat Wreck Chords.
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East Coast surf punks Night Birds have announced they will be releasing a new 7-inch entitled “Maimed for the Masses” through Fat Wreck Chords on May 7th. Along with that, the band will also be hitting the road with Give and Tenement for an extensive tour of the United States.
Click here to check out the tracklisting for the 7-inch and a full list of dates and locations that the band will be playing on tour.
Night Birds’ upcoming full-length album “Born to Die in Suburbia” is being released sometime in the upcoming summer on Grave Mistake Records. We’ll keep you posted as more details on that release surface.
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East Coast surf punks Night Birds have announced Born to Die in Suburbia as the title for their upcoming sophomore LP. The album will have 14 tracks, and will be co-released by Grave Mistake Records (in the USA) and Taken By Surprise Records (in Europe). It is expected to release by late-Spring or early-Summer, but the band plans to release a single prior to the album to help tide fans over.
More information can be found here and here.
Night Birds released their debut album, The Other Side of Darkness, in June 2011 on Grave Mistake Records.
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New York/New Jersey surf punks Night Birds announced a few days ago via Facebook that they will have two new releases coming out in 2013:
One month from today we start recording for TWO new records to come out next year. A brand new 14 song 12″ AND a 4 song 7″ ep. Details on both of them coming very soon[...]
Night Birds released their debut album, The Other Side of Darkness, in June 2011 on Grave Mistake Records.
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East Coast surf punks Night Birds recently sat down to do an interview with Razorcake. The interview primarily pertains to vocalist Brian Gorsegner’s experience on TLC’s A Makeover Story with his former band Snakebite. Live footage of the band playing select songs is woven into the video.
Check it out here. It’s pretty funny.
Night Birds released their debut album, The Other Side of Darkness, in June 2011 on Grave Mistake Records.
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New York/New Jersey surf punks Night Birds announced the other day that they are demoing a batch of new songs to be recorded in their upcoming January studio session, as confirmed via a Facebook post:
We are doing demos for another batch of 6 brand new songs tomorrow. 18 new Night Birds tunes coming in early 2013.
No word on how these new tunes will be released, but presumably they’ll be in the forms of a new LP and splits with other bands. We’ll keep you posted as that information surfaces.
Night Birds released their debut album, The Other Side of Darkness, in June 2011 on Grave Mistake Records.
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New York/New Jersey surf punks Night Birds announced the other day that they have booked dates to enter the studio to record their sophomore studio effort. In a post on Facebook, the band wrote:
“Dates are scheduled in January to record our 2nd full length album! We’ll be at the Seaside Lounge in Brooklyn who have recorded some really great records from bands like the Obits, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Stalkers, and most recently our buds The Livids. More information to follow soon…”
We’ll keep you posted as that information surfaces.
Night Birds released their debut album, The Other Side of Darkness, in June 2011 on Grave Mistake Records.
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San Pedro punk act Toys That Kill have announced they will be hitting the road for an extensive run of US tour dates throughout this month and November with Teenage Bottlerocket, Night Birds, Future Virgins, and many other varying bands playing select dates.
You can check out a full list of dates and locations they’ll be playing here.
Toys That Kill released their most recent album, “Fambly 42,” on May 15th via Recess Records.
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Big news day from the Night Birds camp. The New York/New Jersey surf punks have unveiled plans to release their 2011 singles and demos collection, Fresh Kills Vol. 1, on 12-inch vinyl for the first time. The album will be released via Grave Mistake Records, and you can stream each of the tracks right here.
Additionally, Night Birds have lined up a bunch of tour dates stretching from Brooklyn to Honolulu. Click here for the full rundown.
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Much The Same bassist Franky Tsoukalas and guitarist Dan O'Gorman, both primary songwriters in their former band, have started a new punk band with Franky taking the lead vocal role as well. They're called Burn Rebuild and you can stream the band's first demo song, "My Therapy Is Failing" right here.
