Xtra Mile Recordings and "Yacht Punks" Bandaid Brigade are excited to announce the Friday, August 26 release of Sex Is Terrifying (pre-order), the brand new album by musicians and collaborators Zach Quinn (PEARS) and Brian Wahlstrom (Scorpios, Gods of Mount Olympus). Formed on one of Joey Cape’s (Lagwagon) One Week Records tours, the band has since evolved into a unique unit producing music with powerful choruses and soaring melodies, all injected with Eighties synths, plaintive punk guitars and self-deprecating but poignantly poetic lyrics.

Failing Up is a four-piece punk rock band hailing from Los Angeles, California. Influenced by the likes of Bad Religion, Good Riddance, and Descendents, their music is fast and aggressive, but with a keen sense of melody. Formed in 2016, Failing Up has been busy, having already released three EPs: Parasite (2017), Voices in My Head (2018), and Sword and the Wall (2019). Failing Up will be releasing their debut full length album in the summer of 2022 with the help of Sound Speed and Sell The Heart Records.

Everyone's favorite ski masked squash aficionado is back for one more serve up the D-squash Ladder! Chicago-based Punk outfit The Eradicator has announced the release of the band’s third and final LP will be released in early October 2022 via Stonewalled.

While its core members are veterans of Philly’s hardcore scene featuring former and current members of Kill Verona, No Roses and Shark Attack, Time is an animal completely different. Finding inspiration from the dark and heavy shoegaze and noise-pop of bands such as My Bloody Valentine, Sugar, Swervedriver and Catherine Wheel but with its own blushing melody and shine, the foundation for Hydrangea is built on nuanced layers of delayed guitars, lyrically fluid bass progressions and two-part vocal melodies, driven into the ground with relentless style and rhythm.

Flogging Molly return with their first new album in five years, Anthem (Sept. 9, Rise Records), a collection that finds the raucous Los Angeles-by-way-of-Dublin outfit reunited with Swagger and Drunken Lullabies engineer Steve Albini.

Chicago's Screeching Weasel provides a fierce soundtrack for the apocalypse with their fourteenth studio album, out July 15 2022 on vinyl via Striped Records, CD via Rum Bar Records, and digitally via Monona Music. Relentlessly melodic and loaded with punishing hooks, The Awful Disclosures of Screeching Weasel reveals our deepest fears while encouraging listeners to twist and shout into the abyss.

After enduring crushing sorrow, loss, and personal grief, The Darling Fire return with their sophomore release 'Distortions,' out September 16 via Iodine Recordings (pre-order).