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Bad Objection: "Curb Stomp"


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Montreal-based hardcore punk trio Bad Objection have released a new song. It is called “Curb Stomp” and is available digitally now. The song appears to be a standalone single. Bad Objection released their album 3 Strikes You’re Out in 2023. Check out the song below.

The Ramona Flowers take a ‘Human’ approach to personal growth


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<p>Flowers bloom brightest in the spring, and so it makes sense that The Ramona Flowers deliver the soundtrack for the upcoming season with a catchy and infectious new single called “Human.” With a strut and swagger that recalls late-’80s efforts from U2 and Primal Scream, the electric all-together-now vibes of “Human” hit the streams this past Friday (March 21), complete with a music video that pulls back the curtain on the English band’s busy 2024. “’Human’ is a song about […]</p>
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Festivals & Events: Merauder, End It, Death Before Dishonor, more to play This Is Hardcore 2025


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Philly-based hardcore festival This Is Hardcore has announced its lineup for this year. Merauder, End It, Shattered Realms, On Broken Wings, Death Before Dishonor, Raw Brigade, Desperate Measures, Bayway, COA, Combust, Age of Ruin, Deal With God, False Salvation, Fire in the Blood, Last Ride, Limb From Limb, Minefield, Naysayer, Risk, Street Power, Soulless, and Suicide Eyes will be playing the festival. This Is Hardcore will take place on August 8-9 at Underground Arts in Philadelphia.

Nova Twins release video for "Soprano"


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Nova Twins have released a video for their song “Soprano”. The video was directed by Harry Lindley and features dancers Erika Palma Estrada, Timoni Longe, Vy Nguyen, Chanda John, Saarah Fernandez. The song is off their upcoming album Parasites and Butterflies which will be out on August 29 via Marshall Records. Nova Twins will be playing two US dates in July for Warped Tour and will be touring the UK and Europe starting in September. The band’s most recent album is Supernova which was released in 2022. Check out the video below.

DS Record Radar: This Week in Punk Vinyl (Propagandhi, Leftöver Crack, +44, Raging Nathans & More!)

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 […]

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!

Check out the video edition of this week’s Record Radar, presented by Punk Rock Radar:

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 👉 rite here.

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!

Wanna catch up on all of our Record Radar posts? Click here and you’ll be taken to a page with all the past entries in the column. Magic!

by Staff Writer Screeching Bottlerocket

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Navel Gazing for March 23, 2025


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Welcome to Navel Gazing, the Punknews.org commenter community's weekly symposium, therapy session, and back-alley knife-fight. Chime in below with your latest playlists, record store finds, online time wasters, and site feedback.

DS Photo Gallery and Show Review: Dropkick Murphys w/Bouncing Souls, Hot Water Music and Rebuilder (Boston MA)

I feel like every time I do a Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick’s Day Boston show, I tell myself it might be the last year I do it, because it’s a lot. It’s always near Fenway so parking is a bit of a nightmare and it’s always just A) so many people in general and B) […]

I feel like every time I do a Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick’s Day Boston show, I tell myself it might be the last year I do it, because it’s a lot. It’s always near Fenway so parking is a bit of a nightmare and it’s always just A) so many people in general and B) so many people ossified on green beer and Jameson and the older I get, the less that’s my thing. I mean, I come from a Boston Irish family…but I’m not THAT Boston Irish if you catch my drift. But then, something happens that inevitably pulls me back in and reminds me A) why I still love going to shows and B) why Boston can be the best place in the world for a few days. You see, Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick’s Day runs feel like – well, they feel like a homecoming weekend of sorts. This weekend, I saw people I hadn’t seen since last St. Paddy’s Day, or the St. Paddy’s before that even. And I saw people from around the country (and Canada, which I guess will be part of this country before long if a certain orange puppet gets his way) and introduced old friends to other old friends and watched them become new friends, united by the common language that is punk rock.

Wait, sorry, this is supposed to be a show review and photo gallery, not a cultural thinkpiece or whatever that was. Mea culpa. ANYWAY, part of the reason that I jumped at the chance to make my way to Lansdowne Street for another year’s festivities was that the lineup for this particular weekend was insane. I’ve told people before that the last year that I went to a Mighty Mighty Bosstones (RIP) HomeTown Throwdown was for a lineup that featured opening sets from Flogging Molly and Avail and these very Dropkick Murphys and that the lineup couldn’t get better so I had to go out on top. If I never go back to a Dropkick St. Patrick’s show, I’ll have gone out on top there too, as the Sunday lineup included local favorites Rebuilder and the legendary Hot Water Music and Bouncing Souls performing opening duties. That lineup is bananas (not that the other nights weren’t also amazing lineups, with The Kilograms and The Menzingers and Cody Nilsen also helping to burn the neighborhood down over the course of four nights).

Rebuilder in the leadoff position was a particularly special moment. The band have been one of the finest punk rock bands in the city’s underground for over a decade at this point – and co-frontman Sal Ellington and bassist Daniel Carswell have been familiar faces to anyone who’s been in the MGM merch lines since the venue opened – so to have them occupy the bright lights at center stage was an awesome moment. The band – which also features co-frontman Craig Stanton on guitar and vocals and Brandon Phillips on drums and, in a return appearance for the big day, Patrick Hanlin on keys – kicked their set off with “Mile or an Inch” from 2017’s Sounds From The Massachusetts Turnpike, and blazed through a half-hour set that primed the surprisingly early-arriving crowd for the festivities to followed. I’ve seen close to two-dozen Rebuilder shows in venues of all shapes and sizes at this point, and while many of those venues have been of the sweaty, dive-bar variety, they more than showed that they belong on stage with a bunch of career heavyweights in a 5000-cap room.

Hot Water Music were in the two spot, and boy it says something about the quality of your lineup if Hot Water Music gets a half-hour set as second of four on a bill. The foursome ripped through “Remedy” to start the set in high-energy fashion and never really took their foot off the collective gas pedals. The iconic cheat code of a rhythm section that is Jason Black and George Rebelo pushed the tempo from their spot at stage center creating space for Chuck Ragan and Chris Cresswell to soar and wail through the set’s nine songs. I wasn’t quite sure how they’d be able to make a thirty-minute set seem representative of their thirty-year career, but it turns out that following “Remedy” with “Menace,” “Flight and a Crash,” “After The Impossible,” “Turn The Dial,” “Wayfarer,” “Burn Forever,” “Drag My Body” and, of course, “Trusty Chords” does a pretty good job of that. The latter song especially, turned into the first of what would be many full-venue singalongs, with most of the band even cutting out of the last chorus, letting the audience lead the charge before kicking back in in full force. Ragan seemed particularly amped up, at multiple points looking like he was trying to stomp a hole in the floor.

Accompanied by their longtime walk-up song “Don’t You Forget About Me,” the almighty Souls batted third and set themselves a high bar by jumping right into crowd favorite “Hopeless Romantic.” Much like Hot Water Music, the Souls have been headlining stages around the world for decades at this point, so they seem to be of a similar opinion that when occupying a comparatively abbreviated opening spot, there’s no time for messing around or exchanging pleasantries, and it is better to just get down to business. Probably doesn’t hurt that they also have George Rebelo behind the drum kit to keep the needle pinned. I know I’ve mentioned it a few times on these pages in recent years, but I genuinely think that the Souls sound as good or better now than they ever have. Greg Attonito’s voice is probably stronger now than it was three decades ago, and now that he’s recovered from the broken ankle that had him booted-up last time we caught them, he’s a ball of constant motion at center stage. And Pete and Bryan are – well – Pete and Bryan. They’re a package deal, left and right brain at this point, effortlessly creating high-energy melody after high-energy melody in a way that fills out the sound on a live stage more than you’d expect from merely a single guitar and bass. Highlight’s from the band’s fifteen-song, forty-five minute set included “That Song,” The Ballad of Johnny X,” “Gone,” and of course given the location, “East Coast! Fuck You!” The links between the HWM and Souls camps go back decades – long before Rebelo started doing double-duty – and in honor of that, Ragan made a return to the stage to join the Souls on gang vocals during set-closer “True Believers.”

And of course, that means Dropkick Murphys batted clean-up in this Murderer’s Row of a lineup. Wait, sorry, that’s a Yankees reference. Whatever, the Red Sox don’t have a similarly-named team. I mean yeah, the Morgan Magic lineup was fun, but Boggs and Barrett and Evans and Greenwell wasn’t exactly Ruth and Gehrig and Meusel and Lazzeri. I’m gonna regret this section text time I walk through Quincy Center, aren’t I… ANYWAY, accompanied by somber tones of the Chieftains/Sinead O’Connor classic “The Foggy Dew,” Ken Casey led his squad onto the stage and stormed into high-octane singalong renditions of “The Lonesome Boatman,” “The Boys Are Back” and “Middle Finger” before so much as taking a breath. Oh, who am I kidding…it’s St. Patrick’s Day weekend in Boston – every song the Dropkicks play is a singalong.

Casey spent the bulk of the ninety-minute set in a state of constant motion, pacing the length of the stage and making endless trips atop the barricade to whip the devoted into a full-throated frenzy. Tim Brennan and James Lynch hold down stage right and stage left respectively, the latter baring likeness to a punk rock Keith Richards (the one from the Stones, not the one from the Bruisers – he’s already punk rock!). It seemed like every time I looked up from the spot I was wedged in in the photo pit, Jeff DeRosa (guitar/mandolin) and Kevin Rheault (bass) had switched places, which actually came in handy given the limited elbow room in the scaled-down pit. As per usual, Matt Kelly maintained as steady a backbeat as you’ll find in the business from his perch at the rear of the stage, flanked by the band’s most recent piper, Campbell Webster. The setlist on this night drew predominantly from the earlier portions of the Dropkicks’ career, with songs from Do Or Die, Blackout and The Warrior’s Code making up close to half the set. It feels like it was during the Red Sox “Tessie” inspired run during the 2004 playoffs that there started to become a multigenerational feel at local Dropkicks shows, but it never really gets old seeing people across a forty or fifty-year age spectrum belt out the lyrics to songs like “The Fields Of Athenry” or “The State Of Massachusetts” in unison, arm-in-arm.

The Dropkicks found themselves at the center of media attention for what seems like the dozenth time in their near-thirty-year career for making pro-Union, anti-fascist commentary at a recent show. It baffles the mind that there are people who were somehow clueless as to where the band stood politically and who somehow find themselves bewildered that their for democracy and for the American worker and against things like Nazis and dictators, but then again, it’s 2025, so there are a lot of things that baffle me. This weekend found yet another on-stage confrontation with a MAGA-hatted showgoer. You do have to wonder if people make such style choices at a show like this hoping they’ll be singled out from the stage, which seems weird, but we know that proverbial shoe certainly fits.

The four bands on this bill – and really all of the other bands on the bills across the four-night, two-venue run – made for an epic event, and I don’t say that lightly. If it was my last Dropkick’s St. Patrick’s Day show – and I’m not assuming it will be – then I definitely went out on top with a lineup that was second to none and an evening full of performances that were poignant, cathartic, and representative of why this little corner of the music scene (and probably this little corner of the country) is just the best. It was like Homecoming Week for punks from across the land to come together amidst the growing chaos in the outside world to reinforce that we’re all in it together and that there are some people out there – like Rebuilder and Hot Water Music and the Souls and the Dropkick Murphys – fighting the good fight. Check out more pics in the galleries below – and probably stay tuned for more Dropkicks coverage in the coming months!

by Staff Writer jaystone
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  1. A Mike Greenwell reference in a punk rock show review! I’m glad to be alive to read it.

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    • He was my brother’s favorite player growing up. I remember telling one of my fall ball coaches that and he said “great player to have as your favorite if you don’t care about the fundamentals of playing outfield.”

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Three members of U.K. Subs denied entry to US


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Bassist Alvin Gibbs, guitarist Marc Carrey, and drummer Stefan Haublein of U.K. Subs were denied entry into the US last weekend. Lead singer Charlie Harper was granted entry into the States and went on to perform at the LA Punk Invasion festival with a lineup of stand-in musicians. On Wednesday Gibbs shared a Facebook post detailing his experience which says that he was flagged for questioning upon landing in LA and told that he did not have the proper visa. He also stated that there was an “undisclosed issue” raised by the immigration officer of which he said, “I’m now wondering if my regular and less than flattering public pronouncements regarding their president and his administration were a factor; or maybe that’s just me succumbing to paranoia”. He was led to another part of the airport where Carrey and Haublein were being held and had his phone, luggage, and passport confiscated. He was then held for “25 hours without sleep”. Gibbs, Carrey, and Haublein ended up being deported back to the UK. You can read the full post below.

Peter Murphy releases new song


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Peter Murphy has released a new track. It's called "The Artroom Wonder" and it's off his upcoming album Silver Shade. That LP was produced by Youth and will be released May 9, 2025 via Metropolis. You can hear the track below.

V3 Weekend: Emei, Fugitive Comedy, Boston Underground Film Festival


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<p>Editor’s Note: Welcome to V3 Weekend, Vanyaland‘s guide to help you sort out your weekend entertainment with curated selections and recommendations across our three pillars of Music, Comedy, and Film/TV. It’s what you should know about, where you need to be, and where you’ll be going, with us riding shotgun along the way. Music: Emei at Brighton Music Hall Brighton Music Hall has been a true launchpad for future superstars lately, and next to roll through the Allston rock club en route to bigger stages is Emei, […]</p>
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