Bay Area punk veterans Western Addiction have returned with their first new music since 2020, unveiling new single “Let’s Keep The Circle Small.” The track arrives alongside the announcement that the band’s new album, Psychedelic Munitions, is now available for pre-order.
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Hardcore punk lifers DFL (Dead Fucking Last) are back with their ferocious new full-length Fuck It, arriving this spring via SBÄM Records. The album will be released on vinyl April 24 in Europe and May 29 in the United States.
American Football return with LP4, a record that sees the band face some of life’s harshest realities head-on, reflecting on the disorientation, compromise, grief, and hard-won perspective of middle age.
Overhauling their writing and recording processes, the band has effectively created their most sonically ambitious album to date, layered, dissonant, occasionally confrontational, and always deeply felt. Guest features from Brendon Yates (Turnstile), Caithlin De Marrais (Rainer Maria) and Natalie Lu (Wisp).
The Bobby Lees, the Woodstock, NY punk trio known for their chaotic energy and ferocious live shows, are back with a new album, New Self, set to drop on June 12. Led by singer and guitarist Sam Quartin, drummer Macky Bowman, and bassist Kendall Wind, the band has built a reputation for turning raw teenage angst into jagged, unforgettable music.
On May 8th, Basement will return with "WIRED" marking their first new album in eight years as well as a reunion with their original label Run For Cover Records. Across the LP’s 12 tracks fans will hear a return to the unbridled passion and creative intuition that's always animated their best material.
Your favorite geeky pop punk band is back in action. Nerf Herder released “Sorry [redux]” today (Feb. 26), offering fans of the beloved band a freshly reimagined take on the classic track. In addition to the single, the band revealed they’ll be reimagining their entire self-titled album in honor of its 30th anniversary, with the revamped release set to arrive later this spring on Fat Wreck Chords. [Redux] is slated to hit shelves and streaming services this May 29, 2026.
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Box Elder's self-titled debut LP marks a profound evolution for the Salt Lake City project. What began as Chris Archuleta's solo bedroom endeavor during the isolation of Covid has blossomed into a full-band collaboration that captures the raw emotional landscape of personal struggle and growth.
Spartan Records and Criteria are excited to announce the Friday, May 22 release of SEIZE!, the forthcoming studio album from the Omaha indie-rock staple featuring Stephen Pedersen (ex-Cursive). The follow-up to 2020’s Years, SEIZE! is a sonically and thematically heavy record shaped by loss, endings, and the growing urgency to capture life while it’s still unfolding. The album reflects on a period of profound personal and professional change: relationships dissolving, chapters closing, and attention turning toward the fragile beauty of the present.
As if spilling right out of some portal from the past, smack into the middle of the 2020's, BIRDLEGS pairs Jade Puget (AFI), Gary Gutfeld (CORDUROY, HI-FIVES), and Eric Ozenne (THE NERVE AGENTS, UNIT PRIDE) came up together in Northern California's East Bay, REDEMPTION 87 in the late 1990's. Now joining up with Ryan Doria (OVEREXPOSURE and PRESSURE CRACKS). This is not a rehash of the same old ways seeking to resurrect 1987 hardcore practices, this is a relevant fusion of old school hardcore punk with a myriad of edges being pushed in all directions.
Orange County’s finest are back with a vengeance: Social Distortion’s long-awaited eighth album, Born To Kill, will be released May 8, 2026 via Epitaph Records.
Born To Kill is more than the conclusion to a 15-year wait between Social Distortion albums, it’s a revelation: 11 songs of pure, unadulterated rock ’n' roll fury, joy and catharsis, all imbued with the signature blend of defiance and world-weariness that has made founder Mike Ness a poet and sage to the dispossessed for more than 40 years.
