Super stoked today to announce that our much loved Nerdlinger LP ‘Happy Place’ is getting a do-over! The 12″ has been out of stock for quite a while now, so it’s with great pleasure we announce today that the record will be back in stock next month in a brand new variant… We’ve combined the blue and green colours from the LP’s original press as a splatter, and colour in colour effect on a frosted clear LP for the repress, with the awesome original artwork by Aussie illustrator Jase Harper also getting a slight update, including a printed inner sleeve. […]

<p>Well, I guess this is growing up. On Marmite and Boudica and Red Dwarf and The Van Pelt and the best punk rock album of the year.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, Frank Turner released his ninth studio album. Entitled FTHC, it is by far his most "punk rock" album to date (I suppose one could argue that his previous album, 2019's No Man's Land, which was primarily a historical folk album with each song telling a different tale about a woman from history, ranging from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Christa McAuliffe, was his most "punk rock" album to date for entirely different reasons, but that's more of a semantic argument than we need right now). FTHC is his most personal album to date – no easy feat for someone who's made a career of wearing his tape deck heart on his sleeve. It may indeed be his best album to date. It is, most certainly and perhaps not surprisingly given the above factors, his first album to debut at #1 on the charts in his native UK.</p>
<p>We caught up with Turner the day after learning that FTHC was, in fact, named the number one selling album in the land. We talked about the importance of that distinction, particularly as it came fifteen years and nine albums into his solo career. We talked about the influences behind the album and about how getting married and turning 40 and still being alive has provided a different sort of perspective that wasn't afforded to his younger self. We talked about the making of the album (the image of Ilan Rubin recording drums in a Los Angeles studio over Zoom while Frank watched from London and producer Rich Costey watched from Vermont is still one I find endlessly amusing). We talked about the stories behind some of the album's more personal tracks, although I did leave out the songs about his struggles with anxiety and cocaine addiction and how his relationship with his father changed after the latter came out as a trans woman several years ago; those have been covered at length in other outlets. And perhaps most importantly, we talked about the legion of Turner fans, aptly known as the Frank Turner Army, that has been steadily building for the better part of the last decade and who, frankly, rightly share in a lot of the success behind FTHC. They even pitched in for a few questions that certainly ran a stylistic gamut.</p>
<p>If you haven't bought FTHC yet, get it at your local indie record store or here: <a href='https://store.frank-turner.com/'>https://store.frank-turner.com/ </a></p>
<p>If you want to go back in time and read our chat with Frank from the steps of Boston's City Hall before his 2014 appearance at Boston Calling, go here: <a href='https://dyingscene.com/ds-interview-and-photo-gallery-frank-turner-in-boston-on-his-1567-show-rise-to-fame/'>https://dyingscene.com/ds-interview-and-photo-gallery-frank-turner-in-boston-on-his-1567-show-rise-to-fame/ </a></p>
<p>If you want to watch my then-four-year-old daughter sing "English Curse," go here. She said it was okay, I promise. https://youtu.be/VgBHrbP0kRU Listen to The Van Pelt here: <a href='https://thevanpelt.bandcamp.com/album/sultans-of-sentiment'>https://thevanpelt.bandcamp.com/album/sultans-of-sentiment </a></p>
<p>To read more about Boudica, go here: <a href='https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Boudica/'>https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Boudica/ </a></p>
<p>If you want to buy Marmite, go here: <a href='https://www.marmite.co.uk/'>https://www.marmite.co.uk/ </a></p>
<p>Watch Red Dwarf here: <a href='https://www.reddwarf.co.uk/tv/'>https://www.reddwarf.co.uk/tv/ </a></p>
<p>(*both laughs*) theme song is an excerpt from [laughs] track "Hurts To Laugh." © KALI MASI 2021 ℗ Take This To Heart Records 2021</p>

<p>If you've read any of the press that came out surrounding LA hardcore band Sweat's debut LP, "Gotta Give It Up," you've probably noticed that the common theme throughout is that Sweat aren't a typical hardcore band. They've got a sound and a style and a swagger that are unique; hardcore, for sure, but with riffs and rhythms that range from thrashy to chunky to 70s rock (think Think Lizzy). At the center of the activity is the firebrand that is Tuna Tardugno. It's abrasive and confrontational and a whole lot of fun. </p>
<p>We caught up for a super fun conversation with Tuna about the band's history (they've only got nine gigs under their collective championship belts, a byproduct of the band's formation less than a year prior to the world shutting down) and recording with Grammy-nominated producer Jack Shirley and their upcoming plans (tour? new album?). We also talked a lot about Tuna's introduction to the world of punk and hardcore in upstate New York and the parallels between the DIY punk and wrestling communities, both of which are near and dear to Tuna's heart. Oh, did we mention Tuna's a wrestler as well? Admittedly, my knowledge of modern wrestling is actually more limited than my knowledge of hardcore, which is pretty effing limited in its own right. Still, I am from the same hometown as Paul "Triple H" Levesque, so maybe I can hold my own a little.</p>
<p>Anyway, this was a super fun conversation. Hope you dig it.</p>
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<p>Order "Gotta Give It Up" here: <a href='https://shop.piratespressrecords.com/products/sweat-gotta-give-it-up-lp'>https://shop.piratespressrecords.com/products/sweat-gotta-give-it-up-lp</a></p>
<p>Order Sweat's debut EP here: <a href='https://vitriolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sweat-s-t'>https://vitriolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sweat-s-t</a></p>
<p>Sweat videos:</p>
<p>"Joke's On Me" – <a href='https://youtu.be/hBoWvRItbAw'>https://youtu.be/hBoWvRItbAw</a></p>
<p>"Hit And Run" – <a href='https://youtu.be/uoX_OrpDAVU'>https://youtu.be/uoX_OrpDAVU</a></p>
<p>Oh, and here's the video Tuna and I were talking about with Mackie on drums. turns out the song was Charles and Eddie's "Would I Lie To You," which somehow is from 1992, not 1964. <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANL1tk0Qy9Q'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANL1tk0Qy9Q</a></p>
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Because our bands are a fertile bunch, we had some DTG print toddler tees made up for the little Nerdlinger punks. Since posting posting the photos we’ve been approached by several parents eager to get one for their own little humans, so we’ve made them available on our webstore here as a ‘print to order’ item. The t-shirts feature our logo and the back with our “Punk Rock Baby” logo on the chest, DTG (direct to garment) printed with 100% water-based ink, which is safe for babies. The tees are 100% combed ringspun cotton and are available in Black, White, […]

Because our bands are a fertile bunch, we had some DTG print toddler tees made up for the little Nerdlinger punks. Since posting posting the photos we’ve been approached by several parents eager to get one for their own little humans, so we’ve made them available on our webstore here as a ‘print to order’ item. The t-shirts feature our logo and the back with our “Punk Rock Baby” logo on the chest, DTG (direct to garment) printed with 100% water-based ink, which is safe for babies. The tees are 100% combed ringspun cotton and are available in Black, White, […]

<p>This is an episode that I've been looking forward to since before (*both laugh*) was even an idea for a show. I was introduced to Sarah Shook's music when their debut album, Sidelong, was rereleased by Bloodshot Records back in 2017 (it had initially been self-released by their band, Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, several years prior but I was waaaay out of the loop at that point). I found Sidelong to be an interesting listen; it felt like it ran a real throwback country-and-western vibe through a little bit of a modern roadhouse filter. It certainly wasn't like much else I listened to at the time, and Sidelong and its follow-up, 2018's Years, even stood out amongst the large quantity of Bloodshot artists I'd been listening to for a long time (Cory Branan, Scott H. Biram, Murder By Death, Lydia Loveless, etc). </p>
<p>The Disarmers went into the studio in California to record their third album in early 2020, just as the world was on the cusp of shutting down for the foreseeable future. Label issues and supply chain issues and inability to tour issues got in the way got in the way, as they're wont to do. Fast forward to 2022 and Sarah Shook is on the cusp of releasing their third album. It's called Nightroamer and it's on a new label (Thirty Tigers) and it's really, REALLY good. Fans of Sarah Shook and the Disarmers will certainly find plenty of recognizable sounds, but there are left turns and even-further-left turns and some new and different subject matter. All of that results in an immensely compelling listen, easily their best output to date.</p>
<p>We caught up with Sarah to talk at length about the new album; from finishing the recording roughly a week before the pandemic became "a thing" in the States, to the obvious label issues, to the choice of when to actually release it to the world. We also talked about some of the subject matter; parts of the album were written after Shook got sober, and obviously created a very different writing process for them this time around. Perhaps most compellingly, we talked about their increasing involvement as a vocal force to be reckoned with, advocating for the elevating of queer and non-white voices in the country music world. Oh, and we talked about their growing up in strictly religious household and teaching themselves to play guitar and write songs in spite of having no popular music frame of reference, a concept that is truly mind-boggling to me.</p>
<p>Nightroamer is due out February 18th. Pre-orders are still available here: <a href='https://www.disarmers.com/store/Music-c23349544'>https://www.disarmers.com/store/Music-c23349544</a></p>
<p>You can also check out the Disarmers' videos and live performances and more on their YouTube page here: <a href='https://www.youtube.com/c/SarahShooktheDisarmers/videos'>https://www.youtube.com/c/SarahShooktheDisarmers/videos</a></p>
<p>(*both laughs*) theme song is an excerpt from [laughs] track "Hurts To Laugh." © KALI MASI 2021 ℗ Take This To Heart Records 2021</p>