Our pals over in Real Friends have just announced that they’ll be setting off on tour in support of their new album “Composure” starting on October 17th! “Composure” marks their most adventurous release with tracks that branch outside of their pop punk roots and into new territory, as well as follow up to their 2016 release “The Home Inside My Head.”
The outfit will be touring with Boston Manor, Grayscale, and Eat Your Heart Out
Check out the dates below!
UK punks Homebound are now streaming a new music video for their music video “Indelible.”
According to Charlie Boughton in regards to the softer and more emotive approach to the track, “taking influence from the word’s meaning, it [Indelible] highlights the significance of people and how their actions can leave a lasting impressions on others for better or for worse.”
The track comes off of their newest EP, More to Me than Misery.
Check it out below!
Swedish easycore band Abandoned By Bears have released a new video for their song “Greyscale,” which comes from their upcoming album, Headstorm, that is set to be released on August 24th, 2018 via Victory Records.
You can check out the video below.
Abandoned By Bears last released The Years Ahead in 2016.
Swedish pop-punk act Those Without have released a video for their new single “C.O.A.C.O.”
You can check it out below.
Those Without last released Blackout//Amnesia in January 2018.
To get everyone ready for this upcoming weekends Rocket From Russia Fest, being held in the Astoria Hastings Pub in the lovely city of Vancouver. Rocket From Russia Fest is streaming the brand new Punkouver Vol. 2 compilation. The compilation features the musical stylings of Daggermouth, You Big Idiot and Canadian pop-punk icons The Hextalls.
Get ramped up for Rocket From Russia Fest here.
Rocket From Russia Fest will be held this upcoming weekend, August 16th, 17th, and 18th in Vancouver, BC. The Hextalls and Cambridge will be playing shows for the first time in a while, so if you’re in the area grab some tickets, they are still available here.
Pop punks Southpaw, who recently released “White Lighter Myth” via Anchor Eighty Four Records, have released a video for “Lately” to mark the start of their tour support Belmont and Such Gold.
You can watch the video – and see details of the tour – below.
Indianapolis pop punks Sloppy Seconds have announced some Northwestern tour dates, to promote their first new music in a decade. They are to release a split 7″ with Dangerbird, offering up “Johnny Be Dead,” a tribute to Johnny Thunders. The 500 press, coloured 7″ is up for pre-order now from Failure Records.
Tour dates are below.
Great stuff here! Harmonious UK band Eat Defeat is taking pop-punk back to school with their new LP, I Think We’ll Be OK, out on Bearded Punk Records. Stream that below… and if you don’t like pop-punk, maybe just give track 2 a quick listen.
Brazilian pop punks Flanders72 are now streaming their new vinyl, “Glad To See You Surf.” The vinyl features the likes of Flanders 72, Jagger Holly, and Die Schnickers.
This vinyl follows up the release of their 2016 album, “Atomic.”
Check out the new track below.
Pop punk veterans Alkaline Trio have just released a video for the title track of their upcoming full length “Is This Thing Cursed?”
The highly anticipated album is the first recorded material the three piece have released in five years.
Alkaline Trio also kicked off their tour in support of the new album a few days ago, so make sure to check the dates and the new video out below!
Georgia’s own The Gullibles have released a new EP, Do You Like Heavy Metal, for name-your-price at bandcamp. Their song “Gay Parade” was covered by Teenage Bottlerocket in last year’s Stealing the Covers.
You can stream the EP below, and buy it at bandcamp.
This one goes up to eleven… so crank it!
Dying Scene is busting out the Spinal Tap references, and bustling out the exclusive punk rock and roll premiere for Denver punk band Poor Me‘s new EP, Sugarcane. From bottom to top this riff-driven EP is guitar-heavy with dualing guitars from Nick Butler and Jason McWhinnie, and incorporates a powerful backbone, laid down by drummer Nick Chmel and bassist Mike Goyn, with calculatedly “woke” lyrics from front man Brett Delaney, channeling a Joey Cape-esque storytelling ability through his warm gravel voice.
Sugarcane is the third release from Poor Me, who managed to write and record the album between college courses and after work, touring and playing shows whenever they got the chance or days off. Mostly inspired by the daze and doldrums of uninspired systematic upbringing, and looking through the black and grey to “serve relentlessly the improvement of humanity’s condition,” heavy palm mutes and ripping leads curl through the dynamism of the bass, and gut wrenching screams corroborate with the frustrations of the day inherent in Delaney’s lyrical themes. Albeit we should all be wary of any conclusions drawn for he assures us “Mistakes can be made.”
From the band… “This record is inspired by a proliferating feeling that the world is getting harder to navigate morally. Falsities are acceptable as warrants for our beliefs, social issues are diluted and polarized until they are palatable for the ill-informed, and confidence in ourselves is replacing the competence of collaboration. As we negotiate circumstances in our lives, we have a plethora of sources to turn to for direction. We can gut-check the moment, or we can turn to science, philosophy, religion, government, our families, etc. — each has its limits, its agendas, but increasingly, a satisfaction with conversion rather than persuasion. Watching the world turn this direction is frustrating, but not surprising… the carrot and stick has always been this effective on the masses.”
Poor Me is self-releasing Sugarcane which will be available on August 14th but we have it for all you Dying Scenesters a full week early. The band plans to support this EP with a west coast tour, so be on the lookout for those dates coming in the near future. In the mean time, you can follow the figurative carrot and give the album a play below.
South Carolina pop-punk act Happy. have announced that they will be releasing their debut album Cult Classic on September 7th via Rude Records. To give you a taste of what to expect from the album, the band has released a video for their new song “I Call Shotgun.” You can check that out below.
Jersey pop punks Only On Weekends are streaming “The Rex Motel”, taken from their new album “Another Wasted Night”, which is out on August 24th. You can have a listen now over at Pure Grain Audio. Details of upcoming tour dates are up there too.
Album pre-orders are up now on the band’s webstore.
Do you guys remember when Flogging Molly put out music that made you want to dance a jig and mosh at the same time? Fast and aggressive enough to satisfy your rebellious soul yet folky enough to provide a depth sometimes lacking in more traditional punk rock? Those were the days. And I thought they were over until I stumbled across The Killigans. Hailing from Lincoln, Nebraska of all places, this six-some channel folk-punk as if they were spawned from the back of a gypsy caravan in the heart of the Old Country. Playing together since 2004, how they escaped my notice until now is beyond me, but let's not dwell on that. What's important is that they just released a new full-length titled "Dance On Your Grave" and I'm here today to tell you it is well worth a listen. Do so here.
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