DS Record Radar: This Week in Punk Vinyl (Ramones, Reel Big Fish, Guttermouth, Teenage Bottlerocket, Borderlines, ROACH SQUAD & More!)

Up first on this week’s absolutely MASSIVE Record Radar (I’m talkin 25+ releases!) we’ve got one of my favorite pop-punk bands in the game right now: Borderlines! With their brand new 4-song 7″ REPAIR KIT, out now on Mom’s Basement Records! Available on three color variants, limited to 100 copies each. Get it now from the Mom’s Basement store!

Hopefully you didn’t miss my mid-week Record Radar Alert(!) on this next pair of records because they’re already mostly sold out! Enjoy the Ride Records has released Double LP Deluxe Editions of Reel Big Fish’s Why Do They Rock So Hard? (this is just the 2nd pressing and it’s been of print since 2018) and Cheer Up! (on vinyl for the first time ever!). Other points of interest: Both records have been remastered, they come with nearly an album’s worth of previously unreleased bonus tracks on Disc 2, and they’re nestled snugly in beautiful gatefold sleeves.

They pressed six(!) variants of each record; here’s the full list:

Why Do They Rock So Hard?
– Red – 300 copies – Le Noise Exclusive
– Yellow – 300 copies – EU Indie Exclusive
– Red Moon Phase – 500 copies – Smartpunk Exclusive
– Blue / Red / Yellow Stripe w/ Black & White Splatter – 650 copies – Enjoy the Ride (OUT OF STOCK)
– Two Tone Checkerboard Twist – 250 copies – Enjoy the Ride (OUT OF STOCK)
– Clear w/ Multi-Color Splatter – 1,000 copies – Enjoy the Ride

Cheer Up!
– Red – 300 copies – Le Noise Exclusive
– Yellow – 300 copies – EU Indie Exclusive
– Yellow Moon Phase – 500 copies – Smartpunk Exclusive
– Cigar Smoke – 1,000 copies – Enjoy the Ride
– Two Tone Checkerboard Twist – 250 copies – Enjoy the Ride (OUT OF STOCK)
– Clown Swirl & Cheer Up Swirl – 650 copies – Enjoy the Ride (OUT OF STOCK)

Record Store Day is right around the corner, and this year’s lineup has a handful of notable releases for my fellow punk collectors! The first of which is something I’ve been clamoring for for a while now: a big time reissue of my favorite Ramones live record Loco Live! Hit up your local record store on April 12th to grab this 2xLP on red and blue colored vinyl. There’ll be 6,000 copies so hopefully this one’s easy to come by. Take it CJ!

Guttermouth is also infiltrating Record Store Day with the long awaited reissue of Gorgeous, back in print for the first time in over 25 years. Limited to 1,300 copies on yellow smoke colored vinyl.

And the three headed monster of Record Store Day punk records is Teenage Bottlerocket’s Total, another record that’s been out of print a long ass time. In this case it’s been 20 years! This reissue is limited to 1,000 copies on “colored vinyl” (they don’t specify what color) and comes with a currently unannounced bonus track. Also noteworthy is this is branded as a “RSD First” Release which means there’s a good chance Total will get a wider release after RSD has passed.

Save the date: April 4th. That’s when Montreal skate punk band Dutch Nuggets have not one but two bad ass records coming out! The band’s 2013 album Nervous Wreck (a favorite amongst the DS crowd upon its original release) is getting its first ever release on vinyl and they’ve also got a brand new record called Fishbowl’d coming out on the same day. Fuck yeah! Pre-order both of these beasts from Thousand Islands Records (North America) and Bearded Punk Records (Europe).

San Diego melodic punks PunchCard have signed on with Felony Records for the release of their new album Soap Box Hero. It’s due out February 22nd – check out the lead single “Stealing My Identity” down below 👇 and 👉 click here 👈 to visit the Felony Records Bandcamp and buy the record on some drop dead gorgeous color variants.

Reno’s Boss’ Daughter and Seattle’s Big Time have joined forces for a 4-song Split 7″, limited to 100 copies split equally between transparent green and blue color variants. This is due out March 21st and you can pre-order it now from Asteroid M Records.

Speaking of splits, DustyWax Records has announced a yuge reissue of 88 Fingers Louie and Kid Dynamite’s 1999 split. That’s all the info I have to share for now; just wanted to give you a heads up! Stay tuned to the Record Radar for details on color variant(s), pre-orders and all that stuff. You know I always try my best to keep you abreast of the situation 😉

The Queers’ debut album Grow Up is back in print for the first time in over a decade, and more notably this is the first pressing since 1990 to use the album’s original mixes. Limited to ??? copies on seemingly random mixed color vinyl; Discogs says it’s silver but pictures on the band’s webstore and the copy I got are both purple-ish. Grab your copy here and find out for yourself!

Cleveland pop-punks Heart Attack Man have announced their new record Joyride the Pale Horse will be released on April 25th. 2023’s critically acclaimed Freak of Nature is a hard act to follow, but I think they’re up to the task. Check out the lead single “Laughing Without Smiling” below and pre-order the record here.

Ska veterans Westbound Train’s 2009 album Come and Get It is being released on vinyl for the first time ever. Limited to 500 copies, this is a double LP release on “smoke” and “gold flake” colored vinyl with two bonus tracks and brand new cover art. Get your copy here.

German melodic punks The Heart Punches’ debut album is out now on Gunner Records. This is one of my favorite albums of the year so far! It’s bad ass! Check out the opening track “A Hopeless Case” below and grab the record on mystery colored vinyl (ltd. 500 copies) right here.

How bout some more ska? We could all use a lil more ska. The Slackers have a new 12″ single called “My Last Star” coming April 25th on Pirates Press Records. Pre-order it now on black vinyl with a beautiful intricate UV printed B-Side.

There’s a very interesting story behind this song, which someone much more articulate that me has provided a nice summary of:

“My Last Star” began as a dream that Greg Lee of Hepcat had the week before his death in March of 2024. Greg dreamed of a Slackers song. The Slackers have completed this song, and now the world can hear this truly one of a kind collaboration.

In Greg’s dream, an old neighbor picked him up in a classic car, turned on the stereo, and played a Slackers song that – at the time – did not exist on our plane of reality. It sounds like the stuff of myth, but the song was so crystal clear in the dream that when he awoke around 2 or 3 in the morning, he immediately wrote down the lyrics he had heard, still humming the tune.

Edmonton’s Real Sickies have a new record coming out! Under a Plastic Bag is due out March 14th – check out the first single “Triage” below and get the record on Cloudy Blue Skies and/or Bone White colored vinyl from their Bandcamp.

Vinyl Me Please has announced a fancy pants $45 reissue of the Dropkick Murphys’ debut album Do or Die, limited to 500 copies on clear w/ blue swirl colored vinyl. I guess $45 is a totally reasonable price for a record on a union salary! Perhaps I should join a union? Anyway, buy the fuckin record I guess.

A fuckin like 20th variant of Less Than Jake’s new Uncharted EP has popped up seemingly out of nowhere. You can get this “2nd pressing” on yellow marble colored vinyl from 1-2-3-4 Go! Records and Rock this Town Records in the states, and from Artist First in Australia. Artist First is the only place I could find a picture of the color, and they say 600 copies were pressed.

Nashville punks Secondself have signed to Punkerton Records and will be releasing their new album The Current Dissent on May 23rd. Speaking of Less Than Jake, this album was recorded with and mixed by LTJ drummer Matt Drastic. Check out the bad ass title track below and pre-order the record on six (6) sick nasty color variants right here.

PUP’s got a new record coming out in may, too! More specifically, Who Will Look After The Dogs? releases on May 2nd. They just released a music video for the new single “Hallways” (check that out below 👇) and pre-order the album on vinyl, CD and/or cassette right here 👈🐶

Apparently there’s a Jeff Rosenstock feature on the new PUP album, so it’s only fitting that the next artist featured on this week’s Record Radar is Jeffrey! He just threw up a bunch of cool records on his online store, including a repress of the ever-elusive Arrogant Sons of Bitches’ Three Cheers for Disappointment, which has been out of print since 2019 and is out of print once again because that fucker sold out lmaoooo 😂 However, the other two records in question, the first physical release of 2020 DUMP – a collection of Jeff Rosenstock home recordings from everyone’s favorite year – and a new pressing of Bomb The Music Industry!’s Vacation on neon orange colored vinyl, are still in stock. You can get both of those here, and also cry at the sight of the Sold Out product page for that ASOB record while you’re there.

More good shit from our friends at Mom’s Basement Records! ¡Muerto, Carcel, O Rocanrol! Renacido is a freshly remixed reissue of Ramonescore heroes the Huntingtons’ 2020 LP ¡Muerto, Carcel, O Rocanrol! that’s due out on February 28th. You can pre-order it pre-order NOW on two vinyl color variants – white and clear – from Striped Music in Italy, as well as here in the states from Mom’s Basement Records and Burnt Toast Vinyl.

SoCal punk rock ‘n’ rollers The Jack Knives are staying hot with their third new album in as many years. Album #3 Into the Night was produced by Bouncing Souls guitarist Pete Steinkopf at Little Eden Studios and will officially release on June 6th, but if you grab the record you’ll get it now – 4 months early! Get your copy here.

Allow me to introduce punk rock’s newest supergroup: ROACH SQUAD! Fronted by Hugo Mudie from the Sainte Catherines, the band also features Leatherface bandmates Graeme Philliskirk and Frankie Stubbs on guitars, Murderburgers drummer Alex Keane, and Sim Robson on bass. Their self-titled debut album is due out April 4th and you can get it on orange, transparent blue, and/or transparent magenta colored vinyl from Rad Girlfriend (US), Little Rocket (UK – they have CDs, too!), Sounds of Subterrania (EU – Special Edition black vinyl w/ screen printed cover), and Waterslide Records (JP).

And rounding out this week’s MONSTROUS Record Radar is the ever-prolific J Prozac with his brand new 7″ single Take Me Away. This is due out April 18th and you can get it on yellow colored vinyl (200 copies) from Mr. Prozac’s Bandcamp. If you’re in Europe, Soundflat Mailorder’s got you covered.