Greetings, and welcome to the Dying Scene Record Radar. If it’s your first time here, thank you for joining us! This is the weekly* column where we cover all things punk rock vinyl; new releases, reissues… you name it, we’ve probably got it. Kick off your shoes, pull up a chair, crack open a cold one, and break out those wallets, because it’s go time. Let’s get into it!
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Propagandhi’s got a new record called At Peace due out May 2nd on Epitaph Records. The title track’s streaming now and it’s available to pre-order on a shitload of color variants; or at least it was, looks like most of them sold out! You can still get it on opaque white smoke (1,000 copies) and black vinyl from the band’s online store, and on cloudy pink & blue colored vinyl from Epitaph’s EU store.
Interscope has repressed two quintessential records from rival Blink 182 side projects +44 and Angels & Airwaves… and Box Car Racer! +44’s When Your Heart Stops Beating is back in print for the first time since 2019, with this new pressing on “Clear Base with Orchid Color Splatter Vinyl” (say that 10 times fast!) available to pre-order here. AVA’s We Don’t Need to Whisper hasn’t been out of print quite as long, but nonetheless you can get this new pressing on Purple Galaxy colored vinyl right here. This new variant of Box Car Racer’s self-titled LP on Black & White Half & Half vinyl is the latest in a long line of recent repressings of this record; get it here.
How bout some more new records? Punk Rock Radar’s got some bad ass new records coming soon! The first of which is this bitchin split LP from two awesome Italian melodic punk bands, Weekend Cigarettes and Verse, Chorus, Inferno titled Weekend Inferno! Limited to 300 copies (half on green, half on blue colored vinyl) and available to pre-order now from Punk Rock Radar (US), High End Denim (Canada), Cat’s Claw Records (UK), Engineer Records (Also UK!), Pasidaryk Pats Records (Lithuania), and I Buy Records (Italy).
Punk Rock Radar’s also putting out Czech hardcore punks Jet8’s new record Break the Silence. The first single “Less Than You” features Random Hand’s Robin Leitch on trombone and it kicks fuckin ass. Check that shit out below 
and head over to the Punk Rock Radar store to grab your copy of this bad ass record on Grimace Purple and/or Milky Clear Tan colored vinyl. Also available from Ska Punk International (US), High End Denim (Canada), Cat’s Claw Records (UK), Pasidaryk Pats Records (Lithuania), and Jet8’s Bandcamp in the Czech Republic. MR. WORLDWIDE!
Death, taxes, new Raging Nathans record! Room For One More is due out May 16th and you can pre-order it on translucent red colored vinyl from Rad Girlfriend Records (US), gold colored vinyl (100 copies!) from Thousand Islands (Canada), and yellow splatter colored vinyl (200 copies!) from Brassneck Records (UK).
Bracket’s 4-Wheel Vibe is being reissued in honor of its 30th birthday; Double Helix Records has an exclusive Mustard w/ Ketchup Splatter color variant limited to 100 copies, while SBAM Records has a Clear (?) w/ Ketchup and Mustard Splatter variant also limited to 100 copies. Both labels have a plain clear variant (sans splatter) available as well.
As I’m writing this SBAM just announced two MASSIVE Leftöver Crack reissues for Fuck World Trade and Constructs of the State, both of which will go up for pre-order this coming Friday, March 28th at 10am pacific / 1pm eastern. Both of these records have been out of print for close to a decade; bookmark the link and save the date if you wanna get em.
SBAM’s also got a new pressing of SNUFF’s latest album Crepuscolo Dorato Della Bruschetta Borsetta Calzetta Cacchetta Trombetta Lambretta Giallo Ossido, Ooooooh Cosi Magnifico! (HOLY FUCK!) up for pre-order. This is the “Blue Edition” – What’s unique to the “Blue Edition”? Well, it’s blue! Get it on mint splatter, clear splatter, or one of the pricey “liquid filled” variants right here.
Our friends at Mom’s Basement just put out a bunch of cool shit – what else is new?! Said cool shit includes:
– A bad ass new 4-song 7″ from German ramonescore kings The Haermorrhoids! These songs are fucking awesome and you can get Treatment on your choice of three color variants, and they’ve got some test pressings, too!
– A bad ass new Young Hasselhoffs box set cataloging the band’s output from 1998 through 2011, limited to 50 copies and including three (3) LPs, one (1) 10″ EP, a boxset exclusive version of their new split 7″ with the Huntingtons (more on that in a moment), a CD and a DVD, and an 18-page Young Hasselhoffs zine. You get all that for the low, low price of $60. WHAT A DEAL!
– A bad ass new split 7″ from the Young Hasselhoffs and the Huntingtons, featuring Ramones covers from both bands! Limited to 200 copies on beautiful orange swirl colored vinyl.
ALL THAT AND MORE AVAILABLE NOW ON THE MOM’S BASEMENT WEBSTORE!!!
Our other friends at Sell the Heart Records have some bad ass new records of their own coming soon, such as Little Low’s (members of No Trigger, Save Ends, BearTrap, etc.) new album Sunshine Guilt. Due out May 9th and available to pre-order on lavender colored vinyl and black wax; get it here (US) or here (Canada).
Also coming soon from Sell the Heart: Middle-Aged Queers’ brand new album Theatre of Shame – featuring the hit single “Glizzies Bangin'” – is due out April 11th and you can get it on not one, but two(!) color variants right here.
3 Martini Lunch, the 1996 debut album from Houston ska-punk band Middlefinger – a band I just learned featured past and present members of the almighty 30footFALL – is being released on vinyl for the very first time thanks to People of Punk Rock Records. Limited to 100 copies on Laguna Blue colored vinyl; grab yours here!
Another awesome new release from People of Punk Rock Records is this LP combining Montreal skate punk band Down Memory Lane’s first two EPs, 2016’s Recycled Punk Rockers and 2017’s Vice Caché. This is the first time both of these have been released on vinyl, and this Black Ice / Milky Clear split color variant is limited to 100 copies. Get it here.
Staying north of the border, we’ve got Thousand Islands Records coming in hot with some bitchin’ new records of their own! Up first is Montreal’s The Last Mile with their new album Holding On To Hope, due out April 11th. Check out the lead single “Anything” below and pre-order the record on gold colored vinyl 
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Also coming soon from Thousand Islands Records: a brand new record from Norway’s Oh See Demons! More Than Meets the Eye is due out June 13th and promises to showcase the band’s eclectic sound ranging from fast paced skate punk to emotional pop-punk with a touch of post-hardcore energy. Check out the awesome leadoff single “Jimmy In-Security” down there and get it on marble pink colored vinyl here.
British punks the Diaz Brothers have a brand new record called The World Is Yours coming June 6th. The lead single “By My Side” is great, and they also happen to be releasing it as a 7″ single with a B Side called “My World”. You can pre-order the LP and the 7″ from Dead Broke Rekerds (US), Serial Bowl Records (UK), Waterslide Records (JP), and Break the Silence Distro (DE).
Good things come in pairs, and these new releases from Shield Recordings are no exception! They’re releasing a 7″ for Dutch hardcore punk band Krime’s first demo on red and black vinyl, and an LP compiling Portland punk band Amusement’s first three EPs on “Breaking Bad” colored vinyl. Get these records and many more from Shield Recordings’ webstore. If you’re in the UK and want to grab the Amusement record, Brassneck Records has the hookup.
And we’ll wrap up this week’s yuge Record Radar with Big D and the Kids Table bassist Ben Basile who’s releasing his debut solo LP Benergy on May 2nd. Check out the latest single “74 Leonard Street” below and click this link to grab the record on black vinyl.
Well, that’s all, folks. Another Record Radar in the books. As always, thank you for tuning in. If there’s anything we missed (highly likely), or if you want to let everyone know about a new/upcoming vinyl release you’re excited about, leave us a comment below, or send us a message on Facebook or Instagram, and we’ll look into it. Enjoy your weekend, and don’t blow too much money on spinny discs (or do, I’m not your father). See ya next time!
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