DS Record Radar: This Week in Punk Vinyl (New albums from Sum 41, Mad Caddies, Post Ramone & More!)

Sum 41 gets us started this week with the official announcement of their long-awaited new (and supposedly final) album Heaven :x: Hell. The 2xLP featuring an album’s worth of pop-punk songs and another album’s worth of heavier songs is due out March 29th, 2024 on Rise Records. Naturally, there’s no shortage of color variants… Here are all of them:

Rise Records merch store
– Clear w/ Red/Black/Blue Splatter (2,000)
– Red & Blue Cornetto (1,000)
– Blue/Red/Black Tri-Pie (500)

Indie Variants
– Red & Black Quads w/ Blue Splatter (US)
– Black & Cyan Quads w/ Red Splatter (EU)

Retailer Exclusives
– Black/Gray Smush w/ Red & Blue Splatter (AP Magazine, 500)
– Half Red/Half Blue (Urban Outfitters, 500)
– Tri-Stripes (Rock Sound, 750)
– Half Red/Half Blue w/ Black Splatter (HMV, no pressing info)

If you rely solely on the Record Radar for the head’s up on new vinyl drops, it’s with great shame that I admit we let you down this week. We missed the boat on this surprise Strung Out – Live in a Dive repress. I mean, I got a copy, buuuut it sold out before this here column could be published. Anyway, Fat repressed this bad ass live record on two new variants, with 348 copies on Half & Half w/ Black Splatter and 334 copies on Blue/Yellow Blob colored vinyl. If you missed out, there’s always a chance some orders get cancelled and a few copies pop back up on FatWreck.com.

The almighty Asian Man Records threw a bunch new pressings of old releases up on their webstore this week, including all three AMR-released Lawrence Arms records, the Classics of Love self-titled LP, four Smoking Popes albums & more! Head on over there and get some last minute Christmas shopping done.

The Mad Caddies have a new album coming out March 15, 2024 on SBÄM Records. It’s called Arrows Room 117 and it goes toe-to-toe with the Sum 41 record when it comes to color variants. I honestly don’t even know where you can get some of these – it sounds like maybe some are tour variants? Anyway, you can get the same 5 variants from SBÄM’s US and EU stores, as well as People of Punk Rock Records in Canada. There’s also an Australia-exclusive Green & Gold color variant that you can get here.

Here’s another new record that’s out right now! It’s the debut album Sounds Like This from Ohio pop-punk newcomers Post Ramone, who we premiered a bitchin new single from earlier this week. If you wanna listen to the whole record, the only way you to do so (currently) is by grabbing it on wax from Mom’s Basement Records (100 copies, random mixed colors), Jolly Ronnie Records (100 copies, Popcorn Bucket Yellow colored vinyl), or the band (100 copies, red wax).

Very short-lived Hot Water Music side project The Draft’s lone album In a Million Pieces is getting a deluxe double LP reissue, featuring previously unreleased demos and live recordings. There are a bunch of very limited color variants for this one, some of which have already sold out; links to all of them can be found here. There’s also a EU Indie Exclusive orange & black splatter variant you can get here.

The pride of Worcester, Mass, hardcore punk veterans Bane’s latest album Don’t Wait Up is getting a 10th Anniversary reissue courtesy of Equal Vision Records. There are two color variants, limited to 500 each. You can get both here.

And the ever-prolific Raging Nathans will put a bow on this final pre-Christmas Record Radar with some new variants of their 2022 album Still Spitting Blood. This coming Friday (Dec 22nd), Rad Girlfriend Records will have an exclusive lime green variant up on their webstore; our friends across the pond can get a UK exclusive purple variant from Brassneck Records.