On May 3, Sum 41 stopped by Good Morning America to perform live as well as talk about their final album and tour. The band played “Dopamine” from Heaven :x: Hell which was released earlier this year. Sum 41 are currently on their final world tour and will be playing their final Canadian shows in January 2025. Check out the video below.
Koyo, One Step Closer, and Anxious have announced US tour dates together for this summer. Prize Horse will be joining them on all dates. The bands all toured together in March. Koyo released Would You Miss It in 2023. One Step Closer will be releasing their album All You Embrace on May 17 and released This Place You Know in 2021. Anxious released Little Green House in 2022. Check out the dates below.
Hit Like A Girl has released a new song called “The Decider”. The song is available digitally and was self-released. Hit Like A Girl will be playing Stoopfest in Michigan this weekend, Pouzza Fest in Montreal next week, and Pug Fest 2 in Michigan in June. Hit Like A Girl released their EPs Becoming and Heart Breaker in 2022. Check out the song below.
SECT have announced that they will be releasing a new album. It is called Plagues Upon Plagues and will be out on June 7 via Southern Lord Records. The band has also released a new song called “New Low”. SECT released their album Blood of the Beasts. In 2019. Check out the song and tracklist below.
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THICK have released a video for their new song “Mother”. The video was filmed, edited, and directed, by Sydney Tate Bradford. The song appears to be a standalone single and is available via Epitaph Records. THICK released their album Happy Now in 2022. Check out the video below.
Last week, Jeff Rosenstock announced the first show of a "potentially infinite" amount of shows at Warsaw in Brooklyn, New York. Since then Jeff Rosenstock has added four more shows. Show one will be opened by Chris Farren, show two will be opened by Good Luck, show three will be opened by Catbite, night four will be opened by Oceanator, and night five will be opened by Laura Stevenson and Dro Cardoso. As long as the shows keep selling out, more will be added. We’ll keep you updated. Jeff Rosenstock released HELLMODE in 2023. Check out the updated dates below.
Saosin have released two new live cover songs along with accompanying videos. With original singles Anthony Green they covered “Seven” by Sunny Day Real Estate and with Cove Reber they covered “Pitiful” by Blindside. Both covers are on their upcoming live album Live at The Garden Amphitheater which was recorded on June 17-18, 2023, and which will be out on July 19 via Born Losers Records. Saosin will be supporting Hawthorne Heights on select dates of their upcoming 20th anniversary tour including dates on their traveling Is For Lovers festival this summer. The band will also be touring the US with Cove Reber for the first time in 14 years starting later this month. Check out the videos below.
Otoboke Beaver have recorded a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR’s ongoing series. The band played “Akimahenka”, “S’il Vous Plait”, “Bakuro Book”, and “Don’t Light My Fire” from their 2019 album Itekoma Hits along with “Pardon?”, “I Am Not Maternal”, “Yakitori”, and “I Checked Your Cellphone” from their 2022 album SUPER CHAMPON. Check out the video below.
Green Day have announced that they will be playing Dubai for the first time in 2025. The Offspring will be joining them. The show is set to take place on January 27, 2025 at Expo City. The band kicked off their tour of North America and Europe last month and released Saviors earlier this year.
South London-based adults and Oxford-based Spank Hair have announced that they will be releasing a split together. It is called …in the big league and will be out on May 22 via Fika Recordings. One song by each band has been released - “trouble” by adults and “Cowboy Scene” by Spank Hair. adults released their album for everything, always in 2022. Spank Hair released See You in the Morning in 2022. Check out the songs below.
Sound and Fury Fest has added a handful of bands to their festival this year. Cosmic Joke, Nothing, Peeling Flesh, Provoker, Sanguisugabogg, Desmadre, Drug Church, Torena, World of Pleasure, and Zulu will be joining the previously annouced lineup which includes Anxious, Fiddlehead, One Step Closer, Chat Pile, and Koyo. Sound and Fury Fest will take place on July 13-14 at Exposition Park in Los Angeles, California.
Unto Others have released a video for their new song “Butterfly”. The video was directed by Zev Deans. The song appears to be a standalone single and is available now via Century Media. Unto Others released their album Strength in 2021. Check out the video below.
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Foreign Hands have released a video for their new song “Horror Domain”. The video was directed and edited by Anthony Altamura. The song is off their upcoming album What’s Left Unsaid which will be out on June 21 via SharpTone Records. Foreign Hands are currently touring North America with Better Lovers and released their EP Bleed The Dream in 2022. Check out the video below.
Punk Island has announced its lineup for this year. 95 Bulls, A New Bug, Bachslider, Better Plastic, Black Lincoln, Caitlin Starr, Calendar Year, Car Becomes Airplane, Cash Bribe, Cat Crash, Chemical X, Come Mierda, Crazy and The Brains, Crush Fund, Dead Tooth, Despot, Dias Azules, Dodomeki, Drogato, Erica Dawn Lyle, Fox Teeth, Femcel, Francie Moon, Frida Kill, Goblin City Rat Boys, Hands of Spite, Jekssaira, Joudy, Kaiser Solzie, Kissy Noises, Lagrimas HTX, Lake Lanier, Laurel Canyon, Lurking Class, Maafa, Mary Shelley, Miltiaismyname, Monica Bang, Necrotic Society, Neon Rayon, Not Yer Baby, One Hour Photo, Person(A), PMFD, Presence of Conflict, Prostitution, Psychic of Orange, Pucker Up!, Pusch, Queer Chaos, Rats En Zelo, RBNX, Red Hunting Cap, Sgt. Scag, Shred Filntstone, Shut Up!, Skorts, Sludge Bunny, Soji, Speakeasy, Spike Polite, Stop The Presses, Suzuki Methyd, Tilt, Tesla’s Revenge, The Breathing Light, The Bum Babies, The Car Bomb Parade, The Milkmaids, The Muckrakers, Timeless Clock, Tits Dick Ass, Tracy City, Trouble Bound, Tula Vera, Two Headed Girl, Winter Wolf, World Sucks, and Worse Off will be playing the festival.
Along with the music the festival will also be holding a Zine Fest presented by #blkgrlswurld. Along with #blkgrlswurld Zine, Gnarly Headache, Battle Jester, Meghann Early, Gregorio Lewis, Porch Wwater Press, NCY Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council, Fierce Invalids, Maya Cordero, Sid Drmay, Outsider Magazine, Olive Nicole, Alfaaz Zine, Punk Rock Saves Lives, Mac, Punk Scholars Network, Interference Archive, Black Rock Coalition, Punks In Recovery, Popgym, Soundbath, Bushwick Print Lab, Theatre of the Oppressed, Time We Get Back Home, Film Diary, Faggy Notions, Saint Bimbo’s Film Church, and Damali Abrams will be there.
Punk Island is still looking for volunteers and will take place on Randalls Island in New York on June 8.
The Ratchets have released a new video. It's for the song "Swagger With Kindness." The track is a stand-alone single. You can check it out below.