<p>Editor’s Note: After a few years working remotely, Nick Johnston is back in Canada all week covering the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. We’re all very excited! Read through our continuing coverage of TIFF 2022, check out our official preview, and revisit our complete archives of this year and past festivals. Out of all the mediocre melodramas that Sam Mendes has released throughout his quarter-century as a filmmaker, Empire of Light might very well be his most decent. American Beauty has aged like a long-forgotten bottle […]</p>
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<p>Editor’s Note: After a few years working remotely, Nick Johnston is back in Canada all week covering the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. We’re all very excited! Read through our continuing coverage of TIFF 2022, check out our official preview, and revisit our complete archives of this year and past festivals. Ruben Ostlund’s Palme-winning satire Triangle of Sadness is almost too on-the-nose with how eerily its three sections echo the gradual descent of his recent filmography. The Swedish director broke on to the international scene with […]</p>
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Laura Jane Grace is best known for her punk rock band Against Me! and being one of the first well-known punk rock musicians to publicly come out as transgender. Grace released her powerful folk punk debut solo album Stay Alive in October 2020 through Polyvinyl Record Co. and her second solo EP At War with the Silverfish in September […]
Laura Jane Grace is best known for her punk rock band Against Me! and being one of the first well-known punk rock musicians to publicly come out as transgender. Grace released her powerful folk punk debut solo album Stay Alive in October 2020 through Polyvinyl Record Co. and her second solo EP At War with the Silverfish in September 2021. She kicked off her solo Canadian tour in September, but not without stopping at The Raccoon Motel in Davenport, Iowa first.
The name of the music venue alone was enough for me to make the trek from Chicago…but Grace playing there, too? Count me in.
The sold-out show included two openers, the first being Everlasting Light, a black metal band with piercing vocals native to the Quad Cities.
Next up was Planning for Burial, a musical project from Thom Wasluck based in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His solo act featured killer distortions with sounds that span across shoegaze, doom, and post-metal.
Grace was soon welcomed to the stage with roaring applause. Armed with her acoustic guitar, Grace’s outspoken songs and powerful voice completely captivated the entire room, along with her melodic yet raw sound. Check out more photos below!
Hello friends, and welcome back to the Dying Scene Record Radar! If you missed me, sorry – things have been a bit crazy lately, between Dying Scene undergoing continued renovations, and my miserable job pulling me away from my extracurricular efforts. But I’m back again, with a bunch of new colorful plastic discs you may […]
Hello friends, and welcome back to the Dying Scene Record Radar! If you missed me, sorry – things have been a bit crazy lately, between Dying Scene undergoing continued renovations, and my miserable job pulling me away from my extracurricular efforts. But I’m back again, with a bunch of new colorful plastic discs you may be interested in purchasing with the money your miserable job has deposited into your bank account! Let’s get into it.
First up is something I’m very excited for: Less Than Jake‘s In With The Out Crowd is finally getting reissued! This has been out of print since 2006, and prior to this there were only 1,000 copies in existence. It’s available on purple vinyl here, and I’m certain other variants will be popping up elsewhere very soon. Is this my favorite LTJ record? No. Is it the flaming pile of dogshit people make it out to be? Absolutely not! This is a solid album with some of the band’s more introspective lyricism.
Also from Less Than Jake: a new Deluxe Edition of their latest album Silver Linings. This reissue features two brand new tracks, and four acoustic versions of existing songs. It’s a 2xLP on beautiful colored vinyl, with a screen print of the cover art on Side D. Pre-order yours here.
Italian pop-punk veterans The Manges have a new record coming soon. It’s called Book of Hate for Good People, and you can listen to a few of the singles below. The record is available on blue vinyl here, and yellow vinyl here.
Skate punk fans, listen up! No Fun At All‘s new album Seventh Wave will be available to pre-order Friday, September 17th from SBÄM and DustyWax Records. There are a ton of variants – the white with black splatter will be exclusive to DustyWax, and limited to 200 copies.
Mustard Plug’s iconic 1997 album Evildoers Beware is getting the 25th Anniversary treatment. Hopeless Records has the yellow w/ red splatter LP pictured to the left (or above if you’re on mobile) on their webstore. The band has a silver variant on their own store. Grab an essential piece of third wave ska!
Speaking of third wave ska… Asian Man Records is repressing a bunch of MU330 records! This is the first time these have been in print for a while. Head over to their webstore to get your hands on these.
As always, our Canadian friends at Thousand Islands Records have some awesome stuff on the way! First up, they will be releasing California melodic punk band Sic Waiting‘s comeback album A Good Hill To Die On this fall. Check out the first single “Uncommon Veins” below, and pre-order the record here.
Also from Thousand Islands, a brand new record from German skate punks Straightline. The whole album is available to stream right now (check it out below, it’s fucking killer), and the LPs should start shipping this winter. Head over to their store to get your pre-orders in.
SideOneDummy is reissuing the Swingin’ Utters compilation album More Scared: The House of Faith Years in honor of its 25th Anniversary. Pre-order yours here.
Fat Wreck‘s 25th Anniversary reissue train rolls on, with the latest installment being Me First and the Gimme Gimmes‘ Have a Ball. One of the finest punk cover albums of all time, if I do say so myself. You can get it here (US), here (EU), and here (AUS). Yeah!
I am a steadfast supporter of underrated 90’s pop-punk bands, and Cletus is one of those bands. Hey Pizza! Records is releasing their 1999 album Horseplay Leads to Tragedy on vinyl for the first time. The record has been remastered by Mass Giorgini, and it’s available on three color variants. Grab it here.
And last but certainly not least, we have Dan Vapid and the Cheats announcing their fifth studio album Welcome to Dystopia. The official release is months away, but Eccentric Pop Records has announced a special “test pressing edition”, limited to 100 hand numbered copies on black wax. This will be available on their webstore Friday, September 16th at Noon Eastern.
And 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, 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. See ya next week!
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Episode #607 of the Punknews Podcast is now up! In this episode Em talks about seeing My Chemical Romance live (read her review right here!), John talks about going to see The Spits at a skatepark and Eric Flea of Zorn swinging around a flaming sword (read his review of that show here!). Other summer vacation stories are told before the dynamic duo dive into the news stories of the week.They discuss the new business venture from Lee Spielman and Garrett Stevenson of Trash Talk, NFTs, NOFX coming to an end, the Nirvana lawsuit finally ending, Blag Dahlia's upcoming Ralph Champagne LP, Bauhaus cancelling the rest of their North American tour, and Fucked Up reissuing Hidden World. Listen to the episode below!
On September 14, Momma played The Garrison in Toronto, Ontario. Momma are currently touring the US and released their album Household Name earlier this year. Our photographer Stephen McGill was there to capture the show. Check out his photos below.
Arm's Length have announced they will be releasing a new album. It is called Never Before Seen, Never Again Found and will be out October 28 via Wax Bodega. The band have also released a video for their new song "Object Permanence". Arm's Length released their EP Everything Nice in 2021. Check out the video and tracklist below.
Sad Park have announced that they have signed to Pure Noise Records. The band have released a lyric video for their first single with the label, "OMW". The video features animation by Ethan Tran and photos by Robert Nunez. Sad Park released their album It's All Over in 2021. Check out the video below.
