Boston hardcore veteran act Death Before Dishonor are streaming their new album Unfinished Business. Released through Bridge Nine Records, the album features eight new tracks, and carries a great old-school hardcore feel/sound.

Check out the new album below.

This is the first new album from Death Before Dishonor since their 2010 release Better Ways To Die. If you’re a fan of Suicidal Tendencies or Madball, these guys are for you. [Read more…]

Chicago skate-punk stalwarts Much The Same are streaming their highly anticipated new album Everything Is Fine. Released July 26th through this Dying Scenesters favorite Canadian record label Thousand Islands Records. The highly anticipated album does not disappoint as Much The Same delivers the crisp, high-tempo music we’ve come to love.

Check out the new album below.

This is the first new music from Much The Same since 2006’s Survive. If you’re into skate-punk do yourself a favor and check this gem out. [Read more…]

Streetsville punks No Big Deal have released a video for their song “Once Wild”. The video features some rad montages of the band skateboarding, horsing around, and generally just engaging in some old-fashioned shenanigans.

You can check out the new video below.

“Once Wild” comes from the band’s latest EP Smiling Politely. If you’re a fan of No Use For A Name or more recently Pkew Pkew Pkew, these guys remind me of both. [Read more…]

Cincinnati based punks 500 Miles to Memphis have released a video in collaboration with horror specialists Rue Morgue for their song “Hold On Tight”. The video is absolutely phenomenal, zombies, live shots and blood, lots and lots of blood. 500 gallons ironically enough.

Give the new video a watch below.

“Hold On Tight” comes from 500 Miles to Memphis’ upcoming album Blessed Be The Damned. Due out August 9th through Paper + Plastick, if this is just a taste, the rest of the album promises to be a real banger. If you’re a fan of The Raygun Cowboys or Lucero you will enjoy these guys. [Read more…]

The last weekend in July marked the maiden voyage of a new New England-based punk rock experience. It’s called the Roadblock Festival, and it took place outside at Bold Point Park in East Providence, which serves as Rhode Island’s largest outdoor concert venue and comes complete with views of the Narragansett Bay and the sunset over the state capital. It’s not the best run venue, but my personal feelings about staff communication deficiencies aside, it’s a pretty picturesque place to take in a punk rock show when the weather cooperates. This particular show featured a diverse lineup, food trucks, wrestling, and a late-arriving crowd that allowed show-goers the opportunity to spread out and seek a little shade from the midsummer sun.

For traffic and parking-related reasons, we arrived shortly after our beloved Rebuilder took the stage. They band were playing with a bit of a retooled lineup; with co-frontman Craig Stanton out of town, Sal Ellington and bassist Daniel Carswell were joined by regular drummer Brandon Phillips on guitar and vocals and by Choke Up’s Harley Cox filling in on drums. It was a high-energy, well-received set that was certainly worthy of taking place later in the afternoon. They were followed out of the chute by a back-to-back pair of legendary acts: Cro-Mags and HR from Bad Brains. Technically speaking, the former was “Cro-Mags JM,” the John Joseph/AJ Novello version of the influential NYHC band. HR performed a half-hour set of punk-infused reggae songs with a band that was heavy and airtight in spite of a relative few shows under their collective belts.

Next up came Portland, Maine’s Roseview, a five piece post hardcore band who are, admittedly, not my speed. A band that are my speed, The Old Firm Casuals, came next. Making their first and only New England appearance as a four-piece – lead guitarist Gabe Gavriloff joined in the four-ish years since OFC were last here, the quartet overcame a handful of bizarre, REd Hot Chili Peppers-infused technical difficulties to buzzsaw a way through forty minute set of rock solid street punk rock-and roll. In one of the more interesting musical segues of the day, they were followed by Charly Bliss, the four-piece New York-based band who were wrapping up two successful months of world touring in support of their latest synth-pop-infused release, Young Enough.

The Menzingers played the event’s penultimate set as the sunlit portion of the day’s festivities came to an end. By that point, the bulk of the late-arriving crowd had finally descended upon Bold Point Park, and Philadelphia’s beloved sons were met with a barrage of crowd-surfers and thrown beer cans from the opening tones of their hour-long set. Bad Religion closed out the night in flawless fashion. I’m frequently left in awe that a band that’s been around literally as long as a band as I have as a person (editor’s note: I turn 40 next month) can sound just as vital and important and energetic as ever. This is punk rock, not the Beach Boys or a Grateful Dead cover band (both of whom would occupy this stage in the next week), yet on their recently-released Age Of Unreason full length, and more importantly in their live show, Bad Religion keep showing the rest of us how it’s done.

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Chicago based post-hardcore punks Wilmette have released a video for their song “Winter Stay”. The song comes from their new album Anxious Body which came out July 19th. The video features some sketchy looking fellows out on safari, they eventually find their target, but as is usually the case when man and nature meet, it doesn’t go as planned.

Check out the new video below.

As mentioned above Wilmette recently released Anxious Body earlier this summer through Mutant League Records. If you’re a fan of Neckdeep or Matchbook Romance you’ll enjoy these guys. [Read more…]

South African underground punk label We Did This Records is streaming their new compilation album “Mixtape 2019”. Featuring 54 tracks, the album features mostly underground local artists, but does feature a few tracks from international acts that rolled through over the past year or two. Most notably the album boasts the track “Don’t Shoot” by Leftöver Crack.

You can check out the new compilation album below.

We Did This Records is a non-profit record label based out of South Africa. [Read more…]

Continuing their summer of cover releases, Ontario’s The Dirty Nil have just released You’re Welcome III, which features covers of David Bowie’s “Queen Bitch” and The Who’s “The Kids Are Alright.”  Not only are the covers awesome, and available on YouTube and Spotify, I have to take a second to applaud the band for not doing “My Generation”. Thank you, guys. You can check out the two songs here.

For those of you that haven’t written off Blink 182, you can stream “Darkside,” a new single from their upcoming album “Nine,” below.

“Nine” is due out September 20th and marks the band’s second new album since co-founder Tom Delonge was replaced by Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba.

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Red Scare Industries is celebrating their 15th anniversary with the release of “Red Scare Industries: 15 Years of Tears and Beers,” a compilation featuring new, previously-unreleased songs from Brendan Kelly (covering The Lillingtons), Broadway Calls (covering The Menzingers), the first new Sundowner song in years, the first new Lippies song since they reunited, as well as tracks by Sincere Engineer, The Copyrights, Elway, The Bombpops, Tightwire, Ramona, MakeWar, Billy Liar, and more. Here’s what the label says:

Fifteen years?!? Now that Red Scare has overstayed its welcome for a decade and a half, we figure we better celebrate it… ‘cuz no one else will! We’ve got the label’s past, present, and future represented on this album: fifteen Red Scare artists with fifteen brand new, unreleased songs. Good ones too! The keen observer will recognize some Red Scare covers in the mix. That, along with some cool artwork/liner notes and a bonus poster with the vinyl make this a pretty sweet package. Needless to say, it requires a lot of support from listeners and the underground music community to last this long, and these fifteen hits are the best way we can repay y’all. Crank it or spank it, comrades.

The comp comes out September 27 via Red Scare (pre-order digital or physical). Check out the full tracklist below.

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