The Damned announce 50th Anniversary Show

The Damned have announced a big bash for their 50th anniversary. The show is at Wembley Arena on April 11, 2026. Bands that will be joining them are The Courettes, Peter Hook, and Marc Almond. The band stated "We haven’t made up the set list as yet but with 50 years of catalogue to choose from only the best songs from our checkered history will be performed and with the passion and commitment all good music lovers deserve- you know we won’t disappoint…" Tickets go on sale on Wednesday.

The Dirty Nil looking for bassist

The Dirty Nil are looking for a new bassist. The band announced this in an Instagram post that reads, ” DO YOU PLAY BASS, SING & SCREAM? DO YOU LIVE IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO? DO YOU WANT TO PLAY A ZILLION SHOWS? IS THE PIRATE’S LIFE FOR YOU? 🏴‍☠️email for more info: dirtynilaudition@gmail.com” Their most recent bassist Sam Tomlinson, who joined the band in 2021, left the band earlier this year. Kian has been playing with them on their spring/summer tour dates. The Dirty Nil will be releasing their new album The Lash on July 25 via Dine Alone Records and released their album Free Rein To Passions in 2023. The band will be touring Canada in September and will be touring Europe with Spanish Love Songs in October. Check out the post in full below.

Videos: Tired Radio: "Your Great Escape"'

Brooklyn based punks Tired Radio just released a new single titled "Your Great Escape" over at Chorus.FM. The single will be off the band's upcoming new LP that is set to be released late Summer though Red Scare. The band is playing tonight in Brooklyn, NY at the Woodshop with Get Dead, Scarboro and The Challenged.

Happy birthday, Glenn Danzig: These are his 70 greatest songs

<p>Glenn Danzig has accomplished quite a bit in his 70 years since he was born a future longhair named Glenn Allen Anzalone in the New Jersey suburb of Lodi. The highlights include pioneering an entire genre known as horror punk with a band having one of the coolest names in history: Misfits. Before that group even had the chance to gain a foothold, he broke them up and moved forward with a goth/deathrock hybrid in Samhain, which then evolved into […]</p>
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Festivals & Events: Real Sickies, School Damage, Scott Reynolds of ALL, more to play Punx Can't Laugh 2025

Toronto-based music and comedy festival Punx Can’t Laugh has announced its first wave lineup for this year. Real Sickies, School Damage, Scott Reynolds of ALL, Johanna Medrana, and Mike Mitchell will be performing at the fest. Punx Can’t Laugh Fest will take place on October 16-19 at the Bovine Sex Club, Rainhard Brewery, and additional locations in Toronto, Ontario.

Superchunk: "No Hope"

Superchunk have released a new song. It is called “No Hope” and is off their upcoming album Songs in the Key of Yikes which will be out on August 22 via Merge Records. Superchunk will be touring the US starting in September and released their most recent album, Wild Loneliness, in 2022. Check out the song below.

Tours: Gob announce first-ever European tour

Gob have announced that they will be heading across the pond for their first-ever European tour. The tour begins on July 25 in Wemelskirchen, Germany and wraps up on August 10 in Igea Marina, Italy. Gob will also be playing Peterborough Music Fest in Peterborough, Ontario on July 19. The band released their album Apt 13 in 2014 and they have a chapter in Matt Bobkin and Adam Feibel's book In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World which was released earlier this year. Check out the dates below.

Tours: AC/DC and Amyl and the Sniffers to tour Australia

AC/DC have announced Australian tour dates for this fall. These are their first Australian shows since 2015. Their lineup for this tour is Angus Young, Brian Johnson, Stevie Young, Matt Laug, and Chris Chaney. Amyl and the Sniffers will be joining them on all dates. The trek kicks off on November 12 in Melbourne and wraps up on December 14 in Brisbane. Tickets go on sale on June 26. AC/DC released their album Power Up in 2020. Check out the dates below.

Music: NOPE : "EXTRA!! EXTRA!!"

We are so pleased to bring to you a Punknews Exclusive premiere for Milanese punks NOPE. NOPE is a hardcore punk band that merges the sounds of orgcore with traces of emo influences into the fabric of their songs. Today, we have the band's third single "EXTRA!! EXTRA!!" off of their debut full-length album, Done Grieving, out on July 4th through Rad Girlfriend Records (US), I Buy Records (EU) and Engineer Records (UK).The band will be playing a few dates this summer with The Dopamines in Switzerland and Germany, see below to see the full list of tour dates and a blurb from the band about the third single. Contains members of Low Derive, Breakmatt Fastgyver and I Like Allie.

DS Record Radar: This Week in Punk Vinyl (NOFX, Teenage Bottlerocket, Skeetch, Curbside & 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:

NOFX continues to fund their retirement with represses, with the latest being this 25th Anniversary Pump Up The Valuum reissue. This is a zoetrope record (google that if you don’t know what it means) and it’ll run ya $40 which is pretty lame but it does look sick as fuck. Get it here.

German skate punks Skeetch will be releasing their debut LP Sunny Side of Shitty Town on August 22nd and you can pre-order it now! Punkerton Records has three bad ass color variants up on their webstore, and Cat’s Claw Records has an EU exclusive variant as well. Check out the music video for the new single “Sunny Side” down below 👇 and lock in your pre-orders for the skate punk record of the year!

Teenage Bottlerocket’s new record Ready to Roll is due out August 29th on Pirates Press Records and pre-orders are going fast, with two of the most limited variants (including the deluxe edition with a foil sleeve and bonus 7″) already selling out. Pick through the scraps and grab one of the leftover variants here.

In case you missed my Record Radar Alert(!) last week, I’ll remind you Mom’s Basement Records is releasing two bad ass albums from 2024 on vinyl for the first time: YES FLAG’s Grand Bystander and Unicorn Dogs’ Age Typical Junk Behavior. You can grab both records on an awesome selection of color variants right now on the Mom’s Basement webstore.

DRAIN …IS YOUR FRIEND or so they say! DRAIN’s got a new record coming out November 7th on Epitaph and there are a fuckload of color variants to get this one on. Links to pre-order all 27 of them can be found right here. Check out their new single “Nights Like These”:

Let’s take a lil break from all the new records and talk about some old records. Here’s a kinda old record! Bayside’s The Walking Wounded was released in 2007 and has been out of print for nearly a decade, but now you can get it on three new color variants by clicking this link and ponying up $40! What’s the deal with this shit? $40 records! Jesus H

SBAM Records is repressing The Ataris’ 1999 classic Blue Skies, Broken Hearts…Next 12 Exits on two bad ass new color variants, and picture disc! Who doesn’t love picture discs? Also! They’re doing that liquid filled record thing still. These are only available on their EU and UK stores.

SBAM’s also repressing The Vandals’ Peace Thru Vandalism on three sick nasty color variants – and again, on a $99 liquid filled “Anarchy Burger” variant. These are only available on their EU and UK stores as well.

The fine people at Sounds Rad! Records continue to revive the legendary Lookout! Records catalog one record at time, with their latest endeavor being a big time 30th Anniversary reissue of Squirtgun’s classic self-titled debut, freshly remastered by Mass Giorgini at Sonic Iguana Studios. A red, yellow, and blue splatter variant will be available to pre-order from the Sounds Rad! webstore this Wednesday, June 25th, with a “standard retail variant” coming in October.

13 years after their bad ass debut album The Sound I Know, Ontario skate punks Curbside are back in action and ready to release their sophomore LP A Lifetime to Outgrow August 8th on Thousand Islands Records! Check out the new single “We Were The Thieves” below and pre-order the record on beautiful colored vinyl right here. Also! Thousand Islands is also releasing the debut album on vinyl for the first time ever; you can get that at the same link.

Add Modern Life Is War to the list of bands releasing a new album for the first time in a long time, as they’ve announced Life On The Moon, due out September 5th on Iodine Recordings and Deathwish Inc. They’re pressing this on nine (9) variants! Links to buy all of them can be found here.

Ska revivalist JER will be releasing a new album called Death of the Heart on August 15th via Bad Time Records. Check out the lead single “The Way You Tune It Out” below 👇 and pre-order the record on three color variants (actually two, since one already sold out 😵) right here 👈

Dead Broke Rekerds continues to reissue bad ass kinda obscure 90s punk records, with the latest being from New Jersey’s Humble Beginnings. Their 1998 EP Overanalyzing the Manifestations of the Unconscious has been remastered for its first ever vinyl release, limited to 220 copies on random mixed color vinyl. Get it here!

The Smoking Popes have a new 7″ single Allegiance out now on Anxious and Angry, limited to 300 copies on gold vinyl and another 300 copies on black wax. All proceeds will be donated to the ACLU. Get it here.

Speaking of 7″s! The Dollyrots have a new single called “Get on this Ride” coming out this Friday, and you can get it on a 7″ featuring the exclusive B-Side “You Don’t Own Me”. Get it on evergreen colored vinyl right here.

London, England’s Burnt Tapes are releasing their new album New Lungs August 8th. Check out the new single “MOTHERSGUILT” below and get the record on two color variants from Wiretap Records (US), Lockjaw Records (UK), and Nasty Cut Records (EU). Nasty Cut has an exclusive – and very limited – cassette tape release as well.

More 7″s! Split 7″s even! Mercy Music and Danger Days contribute one new song each on their new split 7″, due out July 11th on Double Helix Records and available on five(!) color variants right here. And that’s not all; Double Helix is releasing another split 7″ from Her Head’s On Fire and Arms Like Roses. New songs from both bands! Three variants! Limited to 100 copies each! Get it here.

Motion City Soundtrack’s first new album in a long-ass time The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World is due out September 5th on Epitaph. You can get it on “Teal Wave” colored vinyl and black wax from the band’s merch store. Other colors include the Electric Fetus exclusive white variant, the US indie exclusive opaque orange vinyl, and the EU indie exclusive blue white marble variant. There’s also a sweet looking tour exclusive red and orange splatter variant, so I guess look out for a MCS tour being announced soon?

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