<p>There are playing of so-called “retro” or “old-school” theme nights and dance parties around Boston these days. And to that, Johnny Dalton says “hold my phonograph.” The Boston Music Award-winning engineer, musician, and owner of Kung-Pow! Recording & Mastering sets up a throwback shop tonight (August 19) for an Antique 1900s soirée at O’Brien’s Pub, spinning antique Victrola DJ sets and turning the Allston dive into a laid-back speakeasy. In addition to the sounds from a pair of vintage record […]</p>
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Hagfish are reforming for at least one show. they are celebrating the 30th anniversary of …Rocks Your Lame Ass. That show is October 18 in Dallas. the band is also issuing a vinyl version of the record via Poterhouse. The orignal version was produced by Bill Stevenson and Stephen Egerton of the mighty Descendents at the Blasting Room in CO. The new version has audio mastered by Porterhouse Records and Golden Mastering. Lacquers cut by John Golden himself, plated at R.T.I. You can see more info below.

Brooklyn-based rockers Wetsuit have released a video for their new song “Cider”. The video was directed by Carina Allen. The song is off their upcoming album Yarn For Future Scarves which will be out on August 22 via Substitute Scene Records. Wetsuit released their album Sugar, I’m Tired in 2023. Check out the video below.

<p>We’re easy-to-please folks, honestly (we’re not simple, mind you) — all you have to do is say “Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton are in a gambling thriller,” and we’re there day one. Hell, perhaps we’re even at the world premiere. That film is Edward Berger’s Ballad of a Small Player, which is about as far away from the worlds of the Western Front or a Papal Conclave as you can possibly get. Sadly, there probably won’t be a bunch of […]</p>
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Toronto-based music and comedy festival Punx Can’t Laugh has added more bands and comedians to this year’s lineup. Debt Cemetery, Sixteen Scandals, Last Drag, Snakes, Ashlee Schatze, Fast Eddie, Laraigne, Jesse Landen, JC Sifton, Carter Deems, Andre Medrano, Nick Fierro, Finn Bogi, Ethan O’Reilly, Manny Petty, Jameson Cox, Brian Rabadeau, Dan Treadway, Jacob Morrison, Erich Laux, and Ryan Visser will be performing at the festival. They join the previously announced lineup of Heart and Lung, Real Sickies, Scott Reynolds of ALL, Chuck Coles and Kenda Legaspi of The Creepshow, Mike Warne of Pkew Pkew Pkew, School Damage, Mike Mitchell, Johanna Medranda, Rush Kazi, Jason Allen, and Reid Pegram.The festival will also have an art market with vendors Little Monkey Art, Stephen McGill Photography, Libby Photography, and Piotr’s Pickles. Punk Can’t Laugh Fest will take place October 16-19 across several venues in Toronto, Ontario: Bovine Sex Club, Ted’s Collision, and Rainhard Brewery.

Evan Greer has released a video for her new song “Spray Paint”. The video was directed and edited by Taina Asili. The song is off her upcoming album AMAB/ACAB which will be out on September 19 via Get Better Records. Evan Greer released her album Spotify is Surveillance in 2021. Check out the video below.

Portland, Oregon-based hardcore band Dry Socket and Tijuana, Mexico-based punk band Violencia have announced that they will be releasing a split EP. The record features four tracks by Dry Socket and three tracks by Violencia. It will be out on October 10 via To Live A Lie Records and Get Better Records. Dry Socket has released their first single from the record called “Last Chance”. Check out the song and tracklist below.

Punk in the Park is throwing Punk Rock Christmas. MxPx, Face to Face, The Vandals, and more play the one day gig. that's December 6 in Chandler, Arizona. You can see the info below.

Earlier this month, Edmonton-based pseudo-antigone (the experimental pop project of philosopher and interdisciplinary artist Simone Atenea Medina Polo), released her excellent fourth album Melancholic Melodrama. Throughout fourteen tracks, pseudo-antigone tracks the rise and fall of the Popstar, an artist who gives up her humanity to make it big, with incredibly visual lyrics, superb vocal delivery, and extremely danceable beats.The album is a culmination of years of creative output, from the enhanced production to the crafting of the songs. Since the release of her debut album Into the Void of Infinite Sadness in 2021, a lot has happened in pseudo-antigone’s life and Melancholic Melodrama draws on those experiences to find catharsis. Speaking about how the album came about, pseudo-antigone said, "Towards the end of 2021, I had already a draft far along the way for what would become the self-titled album I released in 2024. There was a stark gap in time between releases as, to put it discreetly, I ended up in a harsh living environment where I was discouraged from pursuing music endeavours. As I came out from this situation and started putting stuff out again, I felt like I missed my chance and lost any momentum the project had. The self-titled didn’t get much attention — which is really fine with me, I just wanted to finish that project that sat in limbo for several years. But since I am a one gal operation doing all the music and PR, it felt personally bad at times. Leading up to the release earlier in 2025 of lovers (confusing and messy is what i am here for), I was feeling dejected about the project. Basically just asking the question: does anyone care or even like what I do? I was feeling depressed and anxious, overwhelming myself by trying to bolster and push the release as much as possible. I had just started therapy again back in September 2024, so I ended up discussing much of this with my therapist. My therapist and girlfriend at the time helped me greatly throughout that whole span of time in the process of recovery from the survival mode I was once in, and along the way I learned just how much pressure I put on myself. I had to learn to discern the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivations around making music. I also had to relearn that music was something I did to take care of myself and my immediate relations first and foremost. Melancholic Melodrama was conceived and built out of the anxieties and concerns I plagued myself with whenever I tried to force a creative vision out. I felt like I missed my chance to develop the momentum I had with the project back in 2021. I was recovering from trauma throughout a good portion of 2024. I overwhelmed myself with all these expectations I placed on myself, possibly out of the traumatic immigrant inclination to have to only rely on yourself to hustle your way into any place. I was crashing out before I released lovers. I actually rushed its release so I didn’t have to think about it anymore. The story in Melancholic Melodrama is a fictionalization of the tension between these anxieties and the fantasy of becoming The Popstar through the exaggeration of my character and ambitions in this project. The story of an insecure artist who gave up her humanity in a Faustian pact to become this inhuman Idol was a way in which I confronted my own artistic practice and vision. I’ve described this project to my peers in the academic psychoanalytic world that the story is about traversing the fantasy of becoming a Popstar which occludes these anxieties that point towards something unsettlingly real. And in that traversal, the protagonist undergoes what we call “subjective destitution” by assuming her contrived contradictions and tensions as her own rather than obsessively fixating over this rigid ideal. This album could only happen in the backdrop of this personal context.”We also caught up with pseudo-antigone to hear what went into each of the fourteen tracks on the album. Listen to Melancholic Melodrama and read the track-by-track breakdown below!

<p>Pop-punk powerhouses Action/Adventure are back with their most ambitious release yet: their brand new album, Ever After, out 24th October 2025 via Pure Noise Records. The record marks a bold new chapter for the Chicago-based band, pairing their signature high-energy riffs and soaring hooks with…</p>
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