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!
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NOFX‘s original 7″ Of The Month Club from 2005 is being reissued on colored vinyl. The full set of 12 is available to pre-order now and will ship in October. It’ll run you 120 freedom dollars. Get yours here.
Also available from Fat Wreck Chords: a new record from The Last Gang! Obscene Daydreams is due out September 20th. Check out the new single “Madness” below and add the record to your cart before checking out with your NOFX 7″s.
Punk veterans Ann Beretta are releasing a live album, recorded at their final show at Richmond Music Hall in their hometown Richmond, VA last June. This is limited to 200 copies on “hand poured” “whisper red” “colored vinyl”. Don’t think about what any of that means, just send your money here.
Back in April, yours truly gave you – the loyal readers of the Dying Scene Record Radar – the inside scoop on Against All Authority’s yuge reissue of 24 Hour Roadside Resistance (that already-announced red w/ black splatter color variant is still available btw – get it here). There’s been a new development, however! Smartpunk Records now has their own exclusive variant on white w/ black splatter colored vinyl. It’s limited to 300 hand numbered copies and you can get it here.
The almighty Slackers have a lot of cool stuff going on, as they’ve announced the first-ever vinyl reissue of their 2003 album Close My Eyes. This has been out of print for over 20 years, but thanks to Pirates Press you can now get it on “Port Marble” colored vinyl, or black vinyl if you’re more into that kinda thing. Both are available here and cost the same amount of money.
The other cool thing the Slackers have going on: a new 12″ single featuring two brand new songs “What We Gonna Do Now?” and “Pick and Choose”. This is on black wax with a pretty cool printed B-Side. Get it here.
Here’s a new record from a band I’d never heard of before – Bewitcher! These guys have been around since at least 2016 (that’s when their first record came out), but their new record Spell Shock is my introduction to the band. It was produced by Rancid‘s Lars Frederiksen and is due out September 27th. You can get it on black wax in the US and lilac (purple) colored vinyl in Europe; they’ll have a tour exclusive orange color variant on their upcoming US tour with Skeletal Remains. The first few singles are pretty bad ass – this one reminds me a lil bit of Motörhead:
In a surprising turn of events, Clown Sounds has released a new record! Par For The Curse is out now on Recess Records and you can purchase it on opaque purple colored vinyl (limited to 300 copies) right here. For the unimitated, Clown Sounds is fronted by Todd Congelliere (FYP, Toys That Kill, Underground Railroad to Candyland, etc.), who is backed up by Jacob Gaxiola (guitar, Killer Dreamer), Isaac Thotz (bass, The Arrivals), Jimmy Felix (drums, Toys That Kill) and Trevor Rounesville (also drums, Underground Railroad to Candyland). This is a bad ass record by the way! Highly recommended pickup.
This one’s a contender for my Album of the Year and it’s not even a full-length album! It’s the new 5-song EP from North Carolina punk supergroup Evening Shadows (members of Strike Anywhere, Valient Thorr, and more). If you like 90’s pop-punk this is a must-pickup – check it out below and grab the 10″ EP (limited to 300 copies on blue colored vinyl) from the friendly people at Eccentric Pop for the low price of $13.
The Dance Hall Crashers’ 1995 album Lockjaw is being reissued in honor of its 30th 29 & 1/2 Year Anniversary! It’s a Double LP set with a ton of demos, including two tracks that seem to have never been released – “American Dream” and “Footsteps”. It comes in a gatefold jacket with a bunch of flyers and photos curated by the band. Get it here.
Keeping with the theme of “Double LP reissues of a sophomore record from the 90’s”, we’ve got the new 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of The Get Up Kids’ Something to Write Home About. The album has been remastered and, like the DHC record, the 2nd LP is full of demos and rarities. There are at least 5 variants of this to choose from; you can find links to purchase any and/or all of them right here. The band will be playing the album in full on their upcoming US Tour with the Smoking Popes as well.
How ’bout some new-ish music? Canadian melodic punk band The Corps released their new album Fractured Protocol digitally back in May and now Thousand Islands Records is releasing it on translucent blue colored vinyl. Go here to get the record for $19.99 – or get a bundle with the CD for just $3 more! They’ve got test pressings for $29.99 as well. Shoutout to Thousand Islands for always keeping it real.
New Jersey hardcore punk band School Drugs have repressed their 2018 debut 7″ Relative Suffering on 200 copies of transparent gold colored vinyl. Quick fucking around and get that shit here.
New records have landed in the Punk Rock Radar superstore! Behold! The might of European skate punk is on full display with Finnish melodic punk band Bucket’s new album Abandon Paradise! Also the latest album from Danish skate punk band Uphill Struggle, Tall Tales and Low Blows! Also still available: the PRR Birthday Box featuring three (not two, three!!) awesome records, a t-shirt, stickers, and the opportunity to pick the topic of a Punk Rock Radar Youtube video. All of the and more available right here, right now.
Red Scare‘s 20th Anniversary compilation features new songs by The Menzingers, Laura Jane Grace, Dead To Me (holy fuck!!), The Falcon, Cobra Skulls (holy fuck!!!!), No Trigger, Sludgeworth, The Bollweevils, and more. In fact, all 17 tracks on 20 Years of Dreaming and Scheming are brand new, unreleased material from the contributing band. That’s huge! What are you waiting for? Buy that shit!
Speaking of cool-ass compilations, this one might be the coolest of them all. Master of Trumpets! The Suicide Machines, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Dissidente, Hans Gruber & The Diehards, Sonic Boom Six and more team up to cover a bunch of metal songs with a lil ska flair. Sound good? Get it here on that sweet looking gold and black splatter colored vinyl.
Austrian melodic punks You Know?! have released their brand new record Post Utopia on SBÄM Records. Nearly 10 years in the making, the band began writing this record in 2015. It’s available on three color variants – each limited to 100 copies – on SBÄM’s European store. No clue if this will be popping up on any of their North American webstores anytime soon.
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!
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