Boston punk veterans Street Dogs are now streaming a second track “Other Ones” off of their upcoming album “Stand for Something or Die for Nothing.” The new album will be making it’s way to the public on June 22 from Century Media. The track serves as an anthem to those who serve in the line […]
Boston punk veterans Street Dogs are now streaming a second track “Other Ones” off of their upcoming album “Stand for Something or Die for Nothing.” The new album will be making it’s way to the public on June 22 from Century Media.
The track serves as an anthem to those who serve in the line of law enforcement and the mental toll it can take on them especially in today’s day and age of a politically and socially charged climate.
You can stream the new track below.
Chicago pop punks Belmont have just announced that they’ll be heading out on a headlining tour with support from Rarity and Stickup Kid. These guys are also expecting that their debut full length album will be following up their last single of “Step Aside” released in July of 2017. We’ll keep you updated on the […]
Chicago pop punks Belmont have just announced that they’ll be heading out on a headlining tour with support from Rarity and Stickup Kid.
These guys are also expecting that their debut full length album will be following up their last single of “Step Aside” released in July of 2017. We’ll keep you updated on the new album as soon as we know more!
Scope out the tour dates below.
Pop punk icons New Found Glory have just released the deluxe edition of their album “Makes Me Sick,” as a vinyl available as “Makes Me Sick Again.” The deluxe edition features three new tracks for the fans who didn’t get enough of NFG the first time around! You can pre order vinyl here. In addition, […]
Pop punk icons New Found Glory have just released the deluxe edition of their album
“Makes Me Sick,” as a vinyl available as “Makes Me Sick Again.” The deluxe edition features three new tracks for the fans who didn’t get enough of NFG the first time around! You can pre order vinyl here.
In addition, the boys have dropped a new music video for their track “Call Me Anti Social” which tells the story of the three friends Sam, Jimmy, and Brooke who take on the ‘cool kids’ at the beginning of their loathed summer.
Check it out below!
New Jersey punks The Nectars have just released a new video for their track, “We Will Run.” The track comes off of their new album “Sci Fi Television” which is set for release on May 25 of this year. According to lead vocalist Jessica Kenny: “We wanted to capture the feeling of running away with […]
New Jersey punks The Nectars have just released a new video for their track, “We Will Run.” The track comes off of their new album “Sci Fi Television” which is set for release on May 25 of this year.
According to lead vocalist Jessica Kenny:
“We wanted to capture the feeling of running away with your friends, escaping the monotony of daily life and believing in each other. With the long, balmy, summer days ahead we have our souls set on nostalgia. We Will Run, together.”
Check out the new video below!
DIY record label Vicious Mistress Records are now streaming a fourteen track compilation of Oi! tracks. Vicious Mistress most recently released their fourth volume of “Punk In The Streets” in November of 2017. Check out the new Oi! compilation below!
DIY record label Vicious Mistress Records are now streaming a fourteen track compilation of Oi! tracks.
Vicious Mistress most recently released their fourth volume of “Punk In The Streets” in November of 2017.
Check out the new Oi! compilation below!
LA punk act Failing Up are now streaming their new EP, “Voices In My Head.” The three track EP shows off their female fronted-punk signature style. The four piece broke out onto the scene with their first debut EP, “Parasite” which was released in March of 2017. Check out the new EP below.
LA punk act Failing Up are now streaming their new EP, “Voices In My Head.” The three track EP shows off their female fronted-punk signature style.
The four piece broke out onto the scene with their first debut EP, “Parasite” which was released in March of 2017.
Check out the new EP below.
Canadian harcore act Fucked Up have announced that they’ll be releasing a new limited edition 7″ on Tankcrimes. There are only 500 copies available for sale which you can pre order here. The 7″ features a cover of “High Rise” by the Trainspotters and their track “Tower on Time.” The vinyl will officially be available […]
Canadian harcore act Fucked Up have announced that they’ll be releasing a new limited edition 7″ on Tankcrimes. There are only 500 copies available for sale which you can pre order here. The 7″ features a cover of “High Rise” by the Trainspotters and their track “Tower on Time.” The vinyl will officially be available June 15th, so make sure to grab a copy before they run out!
Fucked Up are also streaming their cover of the 80s classic track, which you can check out below.
This should come as not exactly breaking news, but this coming weekend in Las Vegas marks the twentieth installment of Punk Rock Bowling. Created by Stern Brothers of Youth Brigade fame two decades ago, the annual bacchanalian celebration of all things punk rock has grown into a much larger festival than it originally started out […]
This should come as not exactly breaking news, but this coming weekend in Las Vegas marks the twentieth installment of Punk Rock Bowling. Created by Stern Brothers of Youth Brigade fame two decades ago, the annual bacchanalian celebration of all things punk rock has grown into a much larger festival than it originally started out as. Yet somehow it has remained true to the the spirit of the scene that spawned it. It remains a must-see destination for punk rockers from not just around the country but around the world. Like, for example, Joey Cape.
The solo artist-slash-Scorpio-slash-Gimme-Gimme-slash-Lagwagon-frontman is not only pulling double duty at the event this year (he’s headlining a solo gig on Friday alongside Tim Barry – limited tickets still available here – and Lagwagon headlines the sold-out Fat Wreck Chords showcase on Saturday), but he’s been in attendance for all but a small handful of Punk Rock Bowling weekends over the last two decades. And while it’s long been a compelling event for Cape even if he’s not playing, he remembers having misgivings in the earliest years about if the concept would take off. “I’ll be honest, I remember the first year or the second year, thinking that “this isn’t going to last!” I didn’t know that it would work. I was definitely skeptical,” he explains. While Vegas has long attracted people from across all walks of life and garnered a well-earned reputation for glitz, glamour, and debauchery, there was something about the derelicts taking over and throwing a bowling party that might be too much for even Sin City to handle. “I just imagined with all those people, that I was going to enjoy (the first installment of PRB) because it was definitely going to be the first and last one of those, you know!” Cape credits not only the Stern brothers for running a great ship, but the location itself for creating a unique environment that keeps the festival working. “It’s all in one area, and it’s in Vegas, which is just the built-in best possible platform. You throw a stone in any direction and there’s a bar or something else to do that’s wild and fun. That place has always been an escape for adults; like a Disneyland for adults. So you couple that with this kind of music, and there’s the simple absurdity of it that works for people.”
There are a handful of milestone events coming rapidly down the ‘pike for Lagwagon this year, although when your band has been in existence for such a long time, there are seemingly no shortage of such milestones to celebrate. The band’s highly-regarded fourth album, Double Plaidinum, somehow turned twenty last year, while its stellar – albeit shorter – follow-up Let’s Talk About Feelings reaches the same milestone this year. Once Cape and his Lagwagon cohorts return from a fairly lengthy European tour in August, there are plans in the works to hopefully celebrate both albums in a meaningful way, and to tie them into an even larger and more meaningful milestone: 2019, you see, marks Lagwagon’s thirtieth year as a band. Kinda.
“Within the band, we kinda go “is it ‘88 or ‘89?” explains Cape. “There was a band in ‘88 that I wasn’t in that was the band I joined. When I joined the band (Section Eight), I started writing songs for the band, and it was enough of a revamp. I like to think (it was) ‘88, but it’s funny, the one other member that was in the band before me, Chris Flippin, The Big Bitch, prefers ‘89.” Because of the somewhat nebulous origin of the band’s initial formation, the band have blown by several milestone anniversaries in the past – their 25th anniversary roughly coincided with the Fat Wreck Chords 25th anniversary tour a few years back, though even that tour came around the label’s actual 26th anniversary – but whatever timeline you go by Cape and his bandmates seem to realize that this milestone is an important one. “You have anniversaries that you’re married every year, and the tenth anniversary of a marriage is a big deal, so the thirtieth anniversary of a band should be celebrated! That’s five assholes trying to get along! And they’re not even having sex!”
Some plans to celebrate the band’s coinciding milestones are still taking shape, but we do know that Lagwagon will perform Let’s Talk About Feelings in its entirety at Fest 17 in Gainesville this coming October. Album-specific shows and tours have become more of the norm for bands of all genres over the last handful of years, and while that might give one initial pause to jump into that fray, there is a special lure to events like that if they’re done the right way. “I love doing it because I think there is a historic time-stamp that coincides with the release of an album,” Cape explains. “We obviously come from a generation where sequence and the entire album matter and have their own feel. That still matters to us, being old men in a day and age where singular songs and Spotify are the norm. I think there’s something really cool about doing it with a band. It takes playing a whole record to really revisit that vibe and that feeling and that climate that the band was in.”
Stay tuned for more on Let’s Talk About Feelings and Double Plaidinum plans in the ramp-up to Lagwagon’s 30ish anniversary in 2019. And who knows..maybe we’ll even get new music before 2019 is up: it has, somehow, been four years since the release of their latest full-length, Hang, after all. “We’ll probably get back in the studio by the end of the year or the beginning of next year, so we are going to actually follow through,” says Cape. “After we made Hang, everybody agreed and said “let’s stop doing this bullshit, let’s get right back on the horse after tour.” Between touring for Hang and touring for Fat Wreck’s 25th, anniversary, that “tour” lasted for a couple years, however. Cape jokes: “we toured for like two years, and at the end of two years it’s like “alright, I’ll see you guys NEVER! I love you guys, but fuck you!!”
Head below to read our full chat with the Joey Cape. We caught up over the phone on the eve of “Lagwagon Day,” and a long, winding, fun conversation ensued, ranging from details on the band’s history to tidbits about new solo material. And let us know if you’re in Vegas for PRB or Gainesville for Fest!
Dyingscene favorites MakeWar have announced some upcoming European tour dates for June. You can check out all the dates and locations below. MakeWar last released Developing a Theory of Integrity in 2016 via Red Scare.
Dyingscene favorites MakeWar have announced some upcoming European tour dates for June.
You can check out all the dates and locations below.
MakeWar last released Developing a Theory of Integrity in 2016 via Red Scare. [Read more…]
Uxbridge pop-punks Colour Me Wednesday are streaming their new album Counting Pennies in the Afterlife, which which was released on May 15th via KROD Records. You can give it a listen below. Colour Me Wednesday last released Anyone and Everyone in 2016.
Uxbridge pop-punks Colour Me Wednesday are streaming their new album Counting Pennies in the Afterlife, which which was released on May 15th via KROD Records.
You can give it a listen below.
Colour Me Wednesday last released Anyone and Everyone in 2016. [Read more…]