Photo by Jeff Schaer-Moses Photography
Choking Victim at their last New York City headlining set October 30, 2016.

As if the excitement wasn’t high enough for one Choking Victim show in New York City on June 14,  Scenic Presents decided to hit the Big Apple off with another dose of Crack Rock Steady on June 15. The Friday night lineup was already completely ridiculous with the Crack Rock Steady originators being joined by The Pist, All Torn Up, Trashy, and Eve Minor.  But the Saturday night rowdy down has to be one of the best punk lineups to hit the Empire City in a decade and it’s all devoid of corporate dollars as all Scenic shows are.

For the second night of musical mayhem, Scenic went out and tapped the otherworldly entertaining World/Inferno Friendship Society, Philadelphia heavy-hitters Soul Glo, New Jersey’s wildest in Crazy & the Brains, and Wisconsin’s own folk-punks We the Heathens. Anyone of these bands as direct support for Choking Victim is already an unbelievably stacked bill, but all of them together following what is a wild lineup on the June 14th show … it’s like true love, this doesn’t happen every day.

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door, and they will be on sale tomorrow. This one is going to sell out so get ’em early. … can you hear that? It’s the WIFS faithful chanting “Tonight, we’re gonna, fuck shit up!” before Jack and Scott lead an uproarious crowd in obliterating Bushwick’s Market Hotel.

Pop punk superstars The Copyrights have released the video for “Welcome Wagon,” which is off the split EP with Kepi Ghoulie (of the Groove Ghoulies), titled Observation Wagon.

The band will also be touring with Kepi Ghoulie in the US and the EU, on the Re-Animation Festival Tour. The dates, as well as the video for “Welcome Wagon” can be found below. [Read more…]

Chump‘s new video for “Cessation,” which is from their album, Welcome to the Punk Rock Family, has just been released and you can get your skate punk fix from Belgium below. [Read more…]

War on Women have released a new video for the single, “Capture the Flag,” which takes place at an outdoor competition and has the band and some friends battling the bad guys in all the games. You can watch the brand-new video below.

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Ogikubo Station has announced they will be releasing their new EP, Okinawan Love Songs, on June 14th via Asian Man Records.

To give you an idea of what to expect from the new EP, the band has released a music video for the song “Would I Break My Heart Enough For You.”  You can check it out, along with the bands’ upcoming UK tour dates, below.

Ogikubo Station last released We Can Pretend Like in August 2018, also via Asian Man. [Read more…]

Against Me! have announced an upcoming tour in which they will be playing 4 of their albums over 2 nights in each stop.  They will be performing Searching For A Former Clarity, New Wave, White Crosses and Transgender Dysphoria Blues.

You can check out all of the dates and locations below.

Against Me! last released Shape Shift With Me in 2016 via Total Treble. [Read more…]

Russian pop-punk band The Dumbheads are streaming their new album, Tales Of Terror, which was released on May 6th.

You can give it a listen below.

The Dumbheads last released Something Did Go Wrong in November 2018. [Read more…]

NOFX are streaming a newly released demo song “Scarlett O’Heroin,” which comes from the Punk In Drublic Europe festival exclusive Fat Music Music For Wrecked People: Punk In Drublic 2019 compilation.

You can give the song a listen below.

NOFX last released Ribbed – Live in a Dive in 2018 via Fat Wreck Chords.  Their last studio output was First Ditch Effort in 2016. [Read more…]

Chicago skate punk act Much The Same have announced they will be releasing their new album, Everything Is Fine, sometime this summer via Thousand Islands Records (North America), Pee Records (Australia), and Lockjaw Records (Europe).  We will keep you updated with any other news regarding the new album as it comes out.

Much The Same last released a cover of Lagwagon’s “Making Friends” in January 2019.  Before that was Survive all the way back in 2006.

Massachusetts ska act The Pomps are streaming their new single, “Autopsy.”  

You can give it a listen below.

The Pomps last released the single “P.A.D.D.” last month.  Before that was their 2017 Alternate America EP. [Read more…]