Canadian pop-punk legends Sum 41 have announced dates for a U.S. tour called the “No Personal Space Tour”, which will kick off next month in Salt Lake City and wrap up in May in Chicago. The dates and locations are at the bottom.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow (March 15th) and you can get ’em on the band’s official website.

Sum 41’s latest album 13 Voices was released in October, 2016 through Hopeless Records. They are reportedly working on a follow-up album that is due for release this year.
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DIY New Jersey punx, Houston and the Dirty Rats have embarked on their “The Dirty 100” tour, featuring the greatest front man to ever wear shiny shoes, James Brown. It’s an impressive feat. The tour is already underway, so be sure and check below to see if they’ll be making their way through your town. All dates are listed, but I’ve included a flier detailing the band’s March shows, so there’s no need to bust out the magnifying glass.  [Read more…]

Pretty cool new video for your viewing enjoyment today, boys and girls.

It comes to us from none-other than Finnish punk rockers Custody. The track is called “Tuesdays,” and according to the band, it’s about their habit of getting together on Tuesdays to carve out new music. It’s Custody’s half of a new split single with fellow Finnish punkers The Phoenix Foundation. The new release is due out today (March 14th) on Little Rocket Records; head here to get one of your very own, and in the meantime, check out the video for “Tuesday” below!

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Terror, the LA stalwarts of hardcore, came swinging back with their latest album Total Retaliation. Released back in September, 2018 via Pure Noise, the album deserves a listen from any hardcore fan. And if you listened back when it came out, I’m here to tell you why you should be spinning it again.

The album starts incredibly strong with “This World Never Wanted Me,” a hard rejection of conformity and a triumphant yell of “Thank god this world never wanted me.” Terror do that classic hardcore sound perfectly, encapsulating a genre and exploding out with blistering beatdowns.

The album starts on rejecting the world that doesn’t want them, and keeps a solid concept of a rebellion against humanity. Keeping the basics of hardcore themes, Terror actualize this in an interesting and direct way with describing the world itself as what has become stained and overbearing. But in that they still find retaliation in their determined and anger fueled delivery. Terror have a lot to say on the album, and run through a host of subjects they feel are tearing society apart. In doing so they keep with their central concept, and also manage to use some great wordplay to get across their message clearly but not resort to hamfisted cliche. Tackling issues from authority to religion, Total Retaliation pulls no punches.

On the sonic side of things, of course Terror kills it, heavy rolling drums, deep and always on point bass, and some interesting guitar work which expands but never strays too far from their core sound. Total Retaliation even has a rap interlude, perhaps inspired by the interludes that 90s hip-hop frequently featured though arguably less jokey. There’s something to be said about the comparison between hip-hop and punk music, born from different situations but finding a similar place in rebellion and community. But after just a moment the track is over, and we dive right back into brilliant hardcore with “Spirit of Sacrifice.”

With Total Retaliation the band hasn’t found any massive new ground in their music, but instead have this chaos-controlled feeling with their mastery of the hardcore sound. Always able to flow through vocal inflections and able to so perfectly build a sound that brings anyone right into that local venue feeling the electricity run from the band through the crowd, Terror still remain an important voice in the genre. Terror bring the intensity and determined message only the finest in hardcore can produce, and Total Retaliation is a must listen for fans of the genre.

You can listen to the album below.

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The year was 1989. The first George Bush had just been inaugurated President, and yours truly was turning ten years old. Bobby Brown’s Don’t Be Cruel and Aerosmith’s Permanent Vacation and Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire” and Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 were in near constant rotation on the Panasonic cassette player in my southern New Hampshire bedroom. Elsewhere in the world, bands like The Cranberries and 4 Non Blondes and Wilson Phillips and The Black Crowes and EMF (remember them?!?) and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch and Right Said Fred and SHeDAISY were in their formative stages. And down the I-95 corridor in a central Jersey college town, a group of four high school buds, Greg Attonito, Bryan Kienlen, Pete Steinkopf and Shal Khichi, had started a new musical project and were playing the first shows in that new band’s tenure. That band, of course, is The Bouncing Souls.

Fast-forward to 2019. With but a few changes to the role of drummer in their history (Khichi would be replaced by Michael McDermott in 1999; McDermott would in turn be replaced by Hot Water Music’s George Rebelo in 2013) the Souls have at this point carved out a career that includes ten full-length studio albums, countless splits and 7-inches, and long-ago established a reputation as one of the hardest-working groups in the punk rock scene. All the while, the band maintained – and even strengthened – reputations as genuinely good dudes, establishing personal friendships and relationships with fans across the globe.

To celebrate the Herculean achievement that is maintaining a band over the course of three decades essentially without interruption, The Bouncing Souls have a whole slew of special events planned. There are somewhere between 40 and 50 tour dates that’ve already been announced, featuring support from such heavy hitters as Swingin’ Utters, The Bronx and Off With Their Heads. Yesterday brought with it the announcement of Stoked For Summer, the band’s annual outdoor throwdown at the Stone Pony, located along the boardwalk in Asbury Park, New Jersey. All tour dates can be found here, but you’ll have to wait a little while longer for the full Stoked lineup.

But perhaps most intriguing amongst the 30th Anniversary festivities is Crucial Moments. Due out this coming Friday, Crucial Moments is a six-song EP of new material and companion 100-page book that culls stories and pictures and anecdotes from all stages in the band’s career. It’s a compelling trip down memory lane, regardless of when and where you first encountered the Souls on your own musical journey. There are requisite stories from longtime friends of the band like Tim Barry and Dave Hause and Benny Horowitz and Mark Stern and Kevin Seconds and Jack Terricloth. If you’re a longtime Souls fan, you’ll recognize some of the stories from the likes of Dubs and Wig and Johnny X and Matt Gere and Pedro Serrano and, of course, the mighty Kate Hiltz. There are myriad stories, most of them short and sweet, from fans, the true believers and hopeless romantics from all corners of the globe. There are even a few surprisingly poignant stories from the likes of Shanti Wintergate (Greg’s wife) and Dr. Neel Khichi (Shal’s younger brother).

We caught up with Souls’ frontman Greg Attonito via phone from his snowy Idaho home this past weekend to talk about both new releases. As always, we found Attonito to be open, honest, reflective, and pretty fired-up to chat about the legacy that he and his high school buddies Pete and Bryan (with assistance from Shal and Mike and George) over the course of the last three decades. Head below to check it out! While you’re at it, you can check out the first two singles from Crucial Moments here and here. The album is due out on Rise Records; you can still pre-order it here.

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New York City Oi! band LVGER have announced their debut self-titled EP will be released on March 21st via Oi! The Boat Records.

The band is streaming 4 of the 6 songs ahead of the release.  You can give those a listen below, and pre-order the EP here. [Read more…]

Australian garage punk act Private Function have released a music video for their new single “Talking To Myself.”

You can check it out below.

Private Function last released Rock In Roll in November 2017. [Read more…]

Scottish based post hardcore act Kaddish are streaming their new album, What World Was Still?, which was released on November 30th, 2018 via Make That A Take Records.

You can give it a listen below.

Kaddish last released Thick Letters To Friends in August 2014. [Read more…]

Deltona, FL’s The Problem Addicts have announced they will be releasing their new album, Bad Breaks, on May 24th via A Jam Records.

We will be sure to keep you updated as more information and hopefully some streams get announced before the release.

The Problem Addicts last released a split with RushmoreFL in December 2018 via A Jam Records.

Spanish punk act Weak have announced their debut album, The Wheel, which is set to be released in early April via White Russian Records.

To give you an idea of what to expect from the album the band is streaming “The Wheel” and “Parachutes.”  You can give those songs a listen below, and pre-order the album here. [Read more…]