Philly based pop punks Grayscale have just released their new video for “Forever Yours” off of their upcoming album, Adornment via Fearless Records. The video tells the story of the life cycle of relationships, from “birth, middle years, to death.” 

Watch the video below.

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Ottawa, Canada’s biggest treasure Jon Creeden and The Flying Hellfish has released its debut full length “Stall”. It’s up for pay what you want now but if you like what you hear you can also pre-order some physical formats including Vinyl, CD, and photo prints of the album art right here.

The album is a co-release effort with Map and Continents Records (CAN), Dead Broke Records (USA), and My Fingers! My Brain! Records (CAN). Head down below to give it a spin. [Read more…]

Orange County punk staples The Offspring‘s guitarist Noodles has hinted at a new album coming from the veterans. He recently told a Spanish website that the new album should be finished in two or three months with 10 or 11 songs ready (vocals and lyrics to be finished).

Boston punk legends Dropkick Murphys have just announced their collaboration with Magic Hat Brewing for a traditional English pub ale that is “dark amber in color and with a roasted coffee aroma that invites the imbiber into a smooth caramel and chocolate malt finish.” 

Barroom Hero will support the Claddagh Fund, a charity formed by Ken Casey (frontman) to support non profits in benefitting vulnerable populations.

The ale starts shipping in February, in time for the band’s spring U.S. tour and St. Patrick’s Day, and will be available for a limited time through the summer in 4-packs of 16oz cans and on draught.

Every once in a while, the mythical creatures that put show lineups together get one so correct that you and your better half pack up the car, drop the kiddo off at her grandparents’ house after her basketball game (go Panthers or Blueberries or whatever we’re calling ourselves now!) and make the five-ish hour trek from Boston to a tiny little borough in north central Jersey over a torrentially rainy February weekend. And so, when the inimitable Andy Diamond announced that February 10th at Crossroads in Garwood, New Jersey, would consist of an evening featuring the musical stylings of Lucero‘s Ben Nichols and The Scandals/Mercy Union‘s Jared Hart, it seemed the mythical creatures had spoken.

Jared Hart led off the late evening’s festivities in stellar fashion in what was all but a hometown show for the Bayonne-based punk. Lucero fans are an intensely dedicated lot who travel far and wide to see “their” band – let alone to see the band’s frontman in a rare, one-off solo gig – but Hart was more than up to the task of getting the night started on the right track. Hart has a penchant for penning sweeping, sing-along choruses, and that was on display from set-opener “Totem” on forward. The bulk of Hart’s set consisted of material from the Scandals catalog and his first solo album, 2015’s Past Lives And Pass Lines (including a duet with his own longtime better half, Casey, on “The Leo”), with a track from the forthcoming debut from his new project, Mercy Union, thrown in for good measure. Oh, and there was a rousing cover of the Wallflowers’ “One Headlight” which was resoundingly well-received.

After a bit of an extended layover between sets, Nichols took the stage accompanied by only by his trademark Martin acoustic and a half-filled fifth of Bulleit Rye Whiskey and embarked on what would become a rollicking, spirited look through the deeper portions of his songwriting catalog. Beginning the night with “Chambers,” Nichols highlighted the bulk of his brilliant debut solo EP, 2009’s The Last Pale Light In The West, across the evening. As could be expected at a Lucero show, the crowd was a constant vocal present throughout the duration of Nichols’ largely freeform set. And while a couple of expected long-time crowd favorites (“Nights Like These,” “Raising Hell,” “I’ll Just Fall”) made their staple appearances, the bulk of the twenty-nine (by my count, anyway) song setlist focused on either brand new material, or songs that have long since fallen out of regular live rotation.

While we’re not yet sure exactly how many songs will appear on Lucero’s forthcoming studio album (due hopefully this coming summer), we have gotten a pretty stellar taste of what’s to come on tracks like — and these are apparently working titles — “To My Dearest Wife I Write” and “Everything Has Changed” and “Bottom Of The Sea.” Also included on this evening were brand new tracks that won’t be on whatever becomes their new album – a sweet ode to his year-old daughter “Hello, My Name Is Izzy” and the searing and already underrated “One Last Fuck You.” Nichols also dusted off “The Outsiders,” a track by his pre-Lucero band Red Forty, and dedicated it to a longtime, well-known fan in the crowd. Nichols enjoyment of the evening was not only quite noticeable — not only by his eight or nine whiskey-infused Cheerses to the crowd — but was increasingly infectious over the course of the two-plus-hour set. As the midnight hour came and went and the *ahem* sobering reality of a 10:30am trip to catch a flight out of Newark sank in (prompting the image above), both Nichols and the still engaged crowd might have brought the musical portion of the evening to a close, but most were slow to leave, choosing instead to revel in the afterglow of what was a memorable (depending on your alcohol intake) and inimitable evening.

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UK emo-rockers Moose Blood are getting ready to release their new album, I Don’t Think I Can Do This Anymore, and have released a music video for their new song “Have I Told You Enough.”

You can check it out below.

I Don’t Think I Can Do This Anymore is set to be released on March 9th via Hopeless Records.  It will follow up Blush which was released in 2016.

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If you’ve never heard of Autonomads then let me give you a little info. They are from Machester UK and mix dub/ska/punk with scathing political lyrics to give you a unique style of anarcho punk. I was a big fan of their last release One Day All Of This Will Be Gone…Everything Now! so I was delighted to get a message from them asking me to review their upcoming 7″ All Quiet On The Western Front.

The EP consists of 4 tracks, one of which I wrote about last year when the video was released. That song is the first track and is titled “All Roads Lead To Hulme”. Hulme is an inner city area of Manchester and the song attacks the gentrification of the area. The song opens with that clean guitar that Autonomads use so well, and soon turns it up a notch when the chorus kicks in with the battle cry “Stuff your yuppie flats, we’re happy with the rats!”. The song is ridiculously catchy and I found myself playing it over and over! It is definitely the highlight of the EP.

Next up is “Babylon Rocks”, a song raising the issue of peoples misguided views on immigration and racism. The song continues on in the same style as before, crisp clean verses with a short catchy chorus with a worthwhile message. I am fan of dual vocals and they work so well in all of their songs.

“Run Like A Girl” is a great song taking a look at the way we wrongly attach characteristics to gender. A song against using terms like “man up” or referring to men as “girls” for showing emotion as if that is an insult. The message here is clear, gender has nothing to do with being tough or weak. We are all human beings that should be allowed to show emotion and feelings without society telling us it isn’t natural. Again the dual vocals work well in putting across each side of the problem and I felt the chorus took it up a notch on this

The final track “Dog” takes aim at the working class being exploited to line others pockets. It starts off a bit more melodic than the others both musically and in the vocals which makes for a nice ending to the record. Again the lyrics are brilliant and are exactly what you want from good anarcho punk.

Overall it is another solid release from a great band that have much deserved respect in the UK d.i.y scene. All Quiet On The Western Front is set to be released tomorrow on Ruin Nation Records. If you’re a fan of bands like Inner Terrestrials then do yourself a favour and get a copy here.

4/5

You can listen to the opening track “All Roads Lead To Hulme” below.

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Twitching Tongues are getting set to release their new album Gaining Purpose Through Passionate Hatred, and they are streaming their first single, “Kill For You,” now.  You can check it out below.

Gaining Purpose Through Passionate Hatred is set to be released on March 9th via Metal Blade Records.  It will follow up Disharmony, which was released back in 2015.

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Richmond, VA’s Iron Reagan and Sonoran death metallers Gatecreeper are getting ready to release a split album on March 2nd.  To give you a taste of what to expect, each band is streaming a song from the release.

Check out “Warning” from Iron Reagan and “Dead Inside” from Gatecreeper below.

The split will be released by Relapse Records. [Read more…]

Misfits Guitarist Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein has announced some US tour dates for his As We Die World Abomination tour.

You can check out all the dates and locations below.

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