The Menzingers have released a video for their new song “Come on Heartache”. The video was directed by Britain Weyant. The song is off their upcoming album Some Of It Was True which will be out on October 13 via Epitaph Records. The Menzingers will be touring North America starting in November and touring Europe next year. Check out the video below.

Botch have announced that they will be reissuing their 2002 EP An Anthology of Dead Ends. The reissue will be out on October 27 via Sargent House. The band has also released a live video for their song “Japam” which was filmed at their February 17 show at the Spanish Ballroom at McMenamins Elks Temple in Tacoma, WA by Ahren Lanfor, Caleb K. Baker, and Brian Richard Roossien. Botch will be touring the US starting next month. Check out the video and dates below.

Vancouver-based A Mourning Star have released a new song. It is called “Would It Be Easier If My Flesh Tangled Through This Blade” and is off their upcoming album A Reminder of the Wound Unhealed which will be out on October 13 via DAZE. A Mourning Star released To See Your Beauty Fade in 2022. Check out the song below.

<p>When reminded of the scene in your high school restroom, what immediately comes to mind? Was it a cool place to congregate with friends between classes, or was it an evil hellscape where social nightmares became reality? For Zoe Ko, the New York City alt-pop artist who dropped the voyeuristic video for spiky new single “Baby Teeth” this past Friday (September 15), it’s a little bit of both. “The school bathroom is one of the most nostalgic or traumatic places […]</p>
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<p>The Dandy Warhols are busy. The Portland psych-rock survivalists are hitting the road with The Black Angels next month, culminating in a headlining appearance right before Halloween at LEVITATION music festival in Austin. So Courtney Taylor-Taylor and the gang have turned to A.I. to craft the music video for punchy new garage rock single “The Summer of Hate,” off their forthcoming ROCKMAKER album. “Musically, ‘The Summer of Hate’ became our homage to the sounds of The Damned, The MC5, and […]</p>
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Houston, Texas-based hardcore band Strange Joy have announced that they will be releasing a new EP. It is called Power Pop and will be out on October 20 via Sunday Drive Records and Coreuption Records. The band has also released the title track. Strange Joy released their EP 5 Tracks in 2022. Check out the song and tracklist below.

Gel have released a video of their full set from Columbus, Ohio-based laundromat Dirty Dungarees. The show took place on September 17 and was shot by Jaxx Traxx Productions. Gel will be supporting Thursday on select dates on their ongoing US tour, will be touring the UK and Ireland with Municipal Waste in October, will be touring North America starting later in October, and will be touring the US supporting Jeff Rosenstock starting in November. The band released their album Only Constant earlier this year and we spoke to them about it in March. Check out the video below.

The Sleeping Souls, who you might know as Frank Turner’s band, have announced that they will be releasing their debut album. It is called Just Before The World Starts Burning and will be out on November 24 via Xtra Mile Recordings. The band has also released a video for their new song “Rivals” which was created by Mihaly Sipos. Check out the video and tracklist below.

<p>Editor’s Note: Vanyaland film editor Nick Johnston is back in Canada all week covering the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. We wish we were up there with him! Check out our continuing coverage of TIFF 2023, read our official preview, and revisit our complete archives of prior editions.  An interesting quirk of the best movies about writing – be it fiction, memoir, or journalism – is that many are about so-called “recluses.” I’ll spare you platitudes about the solitary and isolated nature of putting pen to […]</p>
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