DS Exclusive: Watch Bridge the Gap’s music video for their new single “Revenant”

Bridge the Gap instantly made waves in the skate punk scene with the release of their debut album Secret Kombinations earlier this year. Now they’re back with a brand new single called “Revenant”, produced by Bill Stevenson at the Blasting Room. We’re thrilled to bring you the exclusive premiere of the track’s music video. Check […]

Bridge the Gap instantly made waves in the skate punk scene with the release of their debut album Secret Kombinations earlier this year. Now they’re back with a brand new single called “Revenant”, produced by Bill Stevenson at the Blasting Room. We’re thrilled to bring you the exclusive premiere of the track’s music video. Check it out below and add “Revenant” to your rotation on Spotify.

Frontman Chad Jensen had this to say about the band’s new single and their plans for the near future:

“We’re going back to The Blasting Room in February to record album No. 2, so we wanted to drop a new tune to hold our fans over and let everyone know we’re staying busy. This is an emotional song for the band. It was also produced by Bill Stevenson.“

Bridge the Gap’s debut LP Secret Kombinations is out now on People of Punk Rock Records. Read our review, buy the record, and stay tuned for more details on the band’s sophomore album.

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Dying Scene Album Review: The Cruelty – “Hand in Hand”

Hello again friends! Back again with a single to review. It’s been about a month since the release of this single (9/30), and I’m FINALLY getting around to reviewing it. I wanted to put this out sooner, but life got kinda crazy over here (like, couch surfing and boilers exploding crazy), BUT better late then […]

Hello again friends! Back again with a single to review. It’s been about a month since the release of this single (9/30), and I’m FINALLY getting around to reviewing it. I wanted to put this out sooner, but life got kinda crazy over here (like, couch surfing and boilers exploding crazy), BUT better late then never!

I want to start out by saying that I love this single, a lot. Like, listen to it once and buy it for $10, a lot. And it’s their debut! I really, really hope this band – The Cruelty – keeps going, or at least puts out a full-length LP, because just this single is stellar.

Let’s get to it, shall we? It seems to me a prevailing theme in this track is the dichotomies in life that we just kind of live around, and avoid looking at. Homeless and housed, screaming and laughing, even down to the intro, the juxtaposition of some softly strummed, acoustic chords, immediately followed by heavy, overdriven electric guitar, grumbling bass, and overwhelming drums. The visceral, unsettling tragedy that the distance between these things can evoke is really quite elegantly expressed.

Co-vocalist/bassist Jeff Wright says, “Hand In Hand is a direct observation from a darker time in (bandmate) Cody’s life – shrouded in possibly one too many visits to the local dive bar. Written from watching a houseless person from afar while they had a breakdown – they quite literally dropped a Safeway cake on the hot pavement and ate it off the ground. After seeing that go down and meeting them, it was a reminder that when all things seem lost, sometimes all it takes is someone to lend a hand and guide you out of the dark.”

Even this precedent set by the intro doesn’t get to stay the same. It transitions into a bass lead, a simple plucked guitar riff, and a rim shot keeping beat. Here the vocals are introduced, gently crooning. Halfway through the verse, tension builds with a reintroduction of that acoustic guitar, quickly strumming, with more bass and complicated drumming.

Everything cuts out except that acoustic, playing those intro chords again, before getting thrown into the chorus. The back and forth between loud strummed chords, and a lilting, screaming riff, accentuates that feeling of being caught between two sides of the world. Gang vocals behind the lines “Head in your hands, you scream and shout”, I’m reminded of the feeling of being surrounded by people, but feeling stuck and alone.

A lovely break post-chorus, with a guitar riff leading the bass and drums into something more solemn in feeling. The drums still keeping with a complicated beat, holding a feeling of mildly controlled panic. In come the vocals, juxtaposing the homeless man from the chorus with someone in the lyricist’s own life. A delay effect and subtly increasingly layered vocals make it sound like someone talking with ghosts.

Cut again to that acoustic in the pre-chorus, and suddenly these two sides are talking to each other, as the acoustic repeats the chords of the electric. The two lines “Hand in hand, foot in mouth” and “Head in your hands, you scream and shout” are the only lines sung in this chorus. Again, in my mind, the lyrisist’s own ghosts from a failing relationship are talking with the memory of the homeless man on the street. Finally coming to a close with isolated vocals in the outro, the vocalist sounding drunk, almost talking, with the line “you scream and shout”.

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DS Record Radar: This Week in Punk Vinyl (Green Day, New Found Glory, Less Than Jake, Mighty Mighty Bosstones & 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 our friends at Punk Rock Radar:

As I’m sure you’ve already heard, Green Day announced their new album Saviors earlier this week. Accompanying the release of the lead single “The American Dream is Killing Me” was a relentless onslaught of vinyl color variants. So far 18(!) variants have gone up for pre-order. A comprehensive list of color variants with links to pre-order can be found here.

Western Mass ska-punks PWRUP just released their new album Just Devils and it’s pretty fuckin bad ass. Ska Punk International is giving this hardcore infused ska-punk banger the wax treatment it deserves. Get your copy here and get it quick because they’re selling fast.

SS Decontrol’s The Kids Will Have Their Say is getting its first official repress since 1982 thanks to Trust Records. There are a bunch of variants, most of which sold out in less than an hour. Yellow vinyl & grey vinyl are still available here and those fucks at Newbury Comics haven’t sold through their exclusive orange color variant either because the fucking thing’s $38. Black wax will hit record store shelves November 17th.

Last week we gave you a head’s up that New Found Glory would be releasing 2004’s Catalyst on vinyl for the first time ever, with pre-orders launching on Friday. Well, it happened, and all of the band’s webstore variants were gone within an hour or so. The good news for anyone who wants this but missed out is there are still some retailer exclusive variants in stock, namely Mondo and Revelation Records. Don’t be surprised if NFG issues a 2nd pressing through their webstore either. This thing will be a money printer.

Here’s another thing we told you about on a past Record Radar: Less Than Jake‘s 25th Anniversary Hello Rockview reissue! The band had a tour exclusive splatter variant of this record at all their shows over the summer, and now a second variant has emerged. This half white / half silver color variant is limited to 300 copies and is only available at Smartpunk’s Fest 21 merch tent. I expect this 2xLP deluxe reissue ft. bonus tracks (including the never-before-heard “Honest Answers”!), demos & live recordings will be getting a broader release with online distribution soon, but we’ll have to wait and see.

Swedish skate punk veterans No Fun At All‘s debut album No Straight Angles is back in print once again, with a new pressing limited to 200 copies on transparent red and 300 copies on black vinyl. Our European readers can grab both colors from La Agonía de Vivir; North Americans can save on shipping and get the black wax from Thousand Islands Records.

AFI‘s Black Sails in the Sunset and The Art of Drowning seem to be back in print, as copies of both have started to pop up all over the place in the past week. No fancy colors or anything like that, just good ol’ black wax. Wally World is probably the cheapest place I’ve seen these.

Asian Man Records and Kill Rock Stars are co-releasing a Split LP from Teens in Trouble and Desert Mambas on November 17th. There are a bunch of color variants, links to where you can pre-order each can be found here. No songs streaming 🙁 Here’s an old Teens in Trouble song:

The first Record Radar of October featured this long awaited repress of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones‘ Let’s Face It. Unfortunately, it was sold out at the time, but I told you to have hope because more copies would likely pop up. Well, that’s exactly what happened. Apparently “limited edition” doesn’t mean what it used to. That’s good for you though! Go here and grab your copy before it sells out and they re-stock it again.

Speaking of the Bosstones, Dicky’s (somewhat controversial) new band The Defiant released their debut LP If We’re Really Being Honest this week. In addition to the embattled ex-Bosstones frontman, other members of the band include former Offspring drummer Pete Parada, Street Dogs bassist Johnny Rioux, Joey Briggs & original Smash Mouth guitarist Greg Camp. Check out a few tracks below and get the record on neon green colored vinyl here.

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 week!

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!

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DS Show Review & Gallery: Subhumans, FEA, Smokers (Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 10/20/23)

Veteran British Anarcho-punks Subhumans kicked off a 14-night American tour at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco last Friday. Opening the show were local punks Smokers from Oakland, CA with some straight up simple punk rock. FEA hail from San Antonio, TX and have been handing out furious punk rock since 2014. One […]

Veteran British Anarcho-punks Subhumans kicked off a 14-night American tour at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco last Friday.

Opening the show were local punks Smokers from Oakland, CA with some straight up simple punk rock.

FEA hail from San Antonio, TX and have been handing out furious punk rock since 2014. One hell of a set.

Your correspondent met the Subhumans in Germany earlier this year at an independent punk festival called BOBFest. Great people, and Dick Lucas’ incredible energy on stage blew us away. The Subhumans are touring the Western US with FEA until November 6th with dates in CA, AZ, NV, OR, WA and CO.

See all our photos from the show in the gallery below!

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DS Exclusive: Check out UK skate punks Making Friends’ video for their new single “Millionaires”; debut LP “Fine Dying” coming soon

With just a week to go before the release of Brighton, UK skate punks Making Friends‘ highly anticipated debut album Fine Dying, Dying Scene is stoked to bring you their newest single “Millionaires”. It’s a no nonsense minute and 30 second banger; check out the music video! Fine Dining is due out next Friday, November 3rd, […]

With just a week to go before the release of Brighton, UK skate punks Making Friends‘ highly anticipated debut album Fine Dying, Dying Scene is stoked to bring you their newest single “Millionaires”. It’s a no nonsense minute and 30 second banger; check out the music video!

Fine Dining is due out next Friday, November 3rd, and it’s being co-released by a bunch of awesome labels all over the world. Here are all the places you can pre-order the record:

• US: Punk Rock Radar
• UK: Cat’s Claw Records / Making Friends Bandcamp (CDs!)
• Canada: High End Denim Records
• EU: Johnny Be Good 
• Japan: Waterslide Records
• Australia: Pee Records

The possibilities are truly endless, folks!

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DS Exclusive: Chicago punks Turn N Fire debut video for “F.O.M.O.”

Happy Thursday, comrades! We’ve got a super cool exclusive for your viewing pleasure this afternoon. It comes to us from Chicago’s own Turn N Fire. The three piece are putting out a brand-spankin-new album, Dying On This Hill, on November 17th, and in order to get your appetites sufficiently whet, they’re unleashing the video for […]

Happy Thursday, comrades!

We’ve got a super cool exclusive for your viewing pleasure this afternoon. It comes to us from Chicago’s own Turn N Fire. The three piece are putting out a brand-spankin-new album, Dying On This Hill, on November 17th, and in order to get your appetites sufficiently whet, they’re unleashing the video for the standout track “F.O.M.O.” today! Check it out!


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Dying Scene Photo Gallery: Off with Their Heads, Dead Bars, Black Cross Hotel, and Brox, Beat Kitchen, Chicago, Illinois (10/14/2023)

Off with Their Heads performed a SOLD OUT show at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago. Opening bands Dead Bars, Black Cross Hotel, and Brox were a great addition to this killer lineup. Chicago’s own Off with Their Heads performed an “All Request Set” where their hometown fans requested the songs that they wanted to hear. […]

Off with Their Heads performed a SOLD OUT show at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago. Opening bands Dead Bars, Black Cross Hotel, and Brox were a great addition to this killer lineup.


Chicago’s own Off with Their Heads performed an “All Request Set” where their hometown fans requested the songs that they wanted to hear. Led by vocalist/guitarist Ryan Young, the band recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of their Home album. Let’s see what the next 10 years bring! It was a great night. Find them near you here.


Seattle-based Dead Bars brought their brand of Pacific Northwest punk rock to a sold out Chicago audience. The band were celebrating their 10-year anniversary and appeared to be having a blast! Many in the crowd were familiar with the band but all went wild for their cover of the Ramones’ “Pet Sematary”! Find them near you here.


Post-punk, industrial band Black Cross Hotel performed songs from their debut HEX album. They were a great local addition to the lineup and it just so happens that their keyboardist, Andrew, is a neighbor of Ryan from OWTH. Find them near you here.


Performing under the name Brox, Chicago-based vocalist/performer Scott Walker delivered a wild show with elements of folk, garage rock, no wave, noise, and pop music, reminding listeners of Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and Jarvis Cocker. Spicing up their neighborhood, Scott also lives near Ryan from OWTH and Andrew from BCH. Check him out when you can!


Check out the Off with Their Heads photo gallery below.

Check out the Dead Bars photo gallery below

Check out the Black Cross Hotel photo gallery below.

Check out the Brox photo gallery below.

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DS News: Green Day announce new album “Saviors,” unveil video for first single “The American Dream Is Killing Me”

So unless you’ve been living under a rock – I guess it wouldn’t be a punk rock, would it?! – you’re probably aware that Green Day debuted a new track, “The American Dream Is Killing Me,” last week at a club show in Vegas. Our own Brittany Queen was there! And as you probably assumed, […]

So unless you’ve been living under a rock – I guess it wouldn’t be a punk rock, would it?! – you’re probably aware that Green Day debuted a new track, “The American Dream Is Killing Me,” last week at a club show in Vegas. Our own Brittany Queen was there! And as you probably assumed, that means they’ve got a brand new album coming down the proverbial ‘pike. And now we know what that looks like!

Due out January 19th, the band’s 14th (I think I did the math right…) studio album is called Saviors. Here’s what the band says about it:

Saviors is an invitation into Green Day’s brain, their collective spirit as a band, and an understanding of friendship, culture and legacy of the last 30 plus years. It’s raw and emotional. Funny and disturbing. It’s a laugh at the pain, weep in the happiness kind of record. Honesty and vulnerability. What is Saviors about, you ask? Power pop, punk, rock, indie triumph. disease, war, inequality, influencers, yoga retreats, alt right, dating apps, masks, MENTAL HEALTH, climate change, oligarchs, social media division, free weed, fentanyl, fragility,,.. What would Andy Warhol do? What would John Waters do? What would Quentin Tarantino do? What would GREEN DAY do?

Saviors is available for pre-order in all the usual options. And more importantly, the video for “The American Dream Is Killing Me” is also now available. Keep on scrolling and check it out!

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DS Record Radar: The many vinyl color variants of Green Day’s new album “Saviors” (and where you can buy them)

You’ve probably heard by now that Green Day has a new album called Saviors on the way. Perhaps you’ve even listened to the first single “The American Dream is Killing Me”. But have you pre-ordered all 367 color variants of the album on vinyl? I sure hope not! But, if you’d like to, we’ll be […]

You’ve probably heard by now that Green Day has a new album called Saviors on the way. Perhaps you’ve even listened to the first single “The American Dream is Killing Me”. But have you pre-ordered all 367 color variants of the album on vinyl? I sure hope not! But, if you’d like to, we’ll be enabling you to do so. This edition of the Dying Scene Record Radar is dedicated solely to the many color variants of the new Green Day record! Let’s get into it, shall we?

Editor’s Note: This album has since been released but more and more color variants keep popping up, so this will continue to act as a tracker for the numerous variants of Green Day’s new record Saviors. Enjoy.

Hot Pink
No pressing info
Amazon exclusive

Clear w/ Hot Pink Galaxy
Limited to 2,000 copies
Green Day store exclusive
SOLD OUT

Black Ice w/ Hot Pink Splatter
Limited to 7,350 copies
Green Day store exclusive

Neon Pink w/ Neon Green Splatter
Limited to 4,800 copies
Green Day store exclusive
New as of October 27th these MFs are actually shameless

180g Black Vinyl w/ embossed gatefold sleeve & poster
No pressing info
Available everywhere

Standard black vinyl
No pressing info
Available everywhere

Baby Pink
Limited to 1,000 copies (hand numbered)
1-2-3-4 Go! Records exclusive
SOUL DOUBT

Black/Magenta Split
No pressing info
Indie variant, available everywhere

Opaque Gray
Limited to 1,000 copies
ZIA Records exclusive

Tangerine
Limited to 1,000 copies
Newbury Comics exclusive (no fucking surprise this is the most expensive of the bunch; jackasses)

Sky Blue
Limited to 1,500 copies
Urban Outfitters exclusive (lol)

Neon Pink w/ Black & White Splatter
Limited to 6,000 copies
Spotify exclusive

Neon Pink
No pressing info
HMV exclusive (step aside Newbury Comics, this one’s actually the most expensive!)

Violet
No pressing info (yet)
Hot Topic exclusive
Pre-order starts 10/25 allegedly… guess they forgot?

Unnamed Shade of Pink(???)
No pressing info
Barnes & Noble exclusive

Clear (looks silver but trust me it’s just clear)
No pressing info
Target exclusive

“Rose” (not gonna fucking lie this looks exactly the same as 1-2-3-4 Go’s variant, we’ve been hookwinked)
No pressing info
JB Hi-Fi Exclusive (AUS)

“Lemonade” (it’s fucking yellow! Just call it yellow!)
Probably like 5 trillion copies
Punk as phuc Walmart exclusive
I AM SICK OF THIS SHIT

No fucking way there’s another one and it’s called Bluejay Marble
Limited(!!!) to 4,725 copies
Green Day webstore variant #4

Blood Records exclusive zoetrope picture disc
4,000 copies – soul doubt
Blood Records

UPDATE 1/5/2024: We have eclipsed 20 variants, folks! #21 – Tricolor Black White Hot Pink Vinyl LP
Limited(!!!!!!!!!) to 3,350 copies
Get it here, there and everywhere

Aaaaaaaand #22! “iHeart Exclusive” White Vinyl
Limited to 1,000 copies
Green Day webstore

Variant #23: UK Indie Pink / Black Marble
??? copies – this was supposed to be the same as the US Indie variant but someone fucked up
Any record store in the UK

Did we miss any? Let us know in the comments!

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!

This edition of the Dying Scene Record Radar is brought to you by the new album from UK skate punks Making Friends! Get their debut LP Fine Dying on limited edition colored vinyl here and listen to the album on Bandcamp.

  1. Another two releases need to be added
    Neon pink green and Walmart lemonade

    • Thank you very much brotherman

    • I see another one on the Barnes and Noble Website for $60??

    • The 2nd link has the 1234 go sticker so my guess is 1234 Go are numbering them but the vinyl is the same colour as the others

      Two new ones yesterday though

    • Added to the tracker! Thank you soldier

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DS Exclusive: Check out Ramonescore torchbearers the Manarovs’ music video for their new single “Long Time Ago”

Savannah, Georgia’s Manarovs are back with another new song called “Long Time Ago” and we’re stoked to bring you the exclusive premiere of the music video. This is the latest single from the Ramonescore band’s upcoming album Callsign: Proton. Check it out below! Callsign: Proton will be out soon, with Mom’s Basement Records (LP / CD) and Memorable […]

Savannah, Georgia’s Manarovs are back with another new song called “Long Time Ago” and we’re stoked to bring you the exclusive premiere of the music video. This is the latest single from the Ramonescore band’s upcoming album Callsign: Proton. Check it out below!

Callsign: Proton will be out soon, with Mom’s Basement Records (LP / CD) and Memorable But Not Honorable Records (Cassette). We’ll keep you posted as more details band’s sophomore album are revealed. For now, go back and check out their 2022 self-titled debut LP.

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