In the winter of 2019, Bob Mould bucked the era’s despair with his most melodic, upbeat album in ages, Sunshine Rock.

Cut to spring of 2020, and he has this to say: “We’re really in deep shit now.”

That sentiment informs the new full-length album, Blue Hearts, the raging-but-catchy yin to Sunshine Rock’s yang.

Recorded at the famed Electrical Audio in Chicago with Beau Sorenson engineering and Mould producing, Blue Hearts nods to Mould’s past while remaining firmly planted in the issues of the day.

Track listing:

2019 saw the return of Much The Same, 13 years after their sophomore album Survive was released on Nitro Records.
 
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Forest Green has announced their new album In Waves that will be released July 3 through No Sleep Records.

Vancouver duo Japandroids are announcing their first-ever live album today, reverently titled Massey Fucking Hall after the historic Toronto venue where it was recorded. To be released digitally on June 19 and vinyl later this fall on October 2, the 12 tracks include live versions of songs from all three of the band’s critically acclaimed studio albums. Today the band has shared the live version of “Heart Sweats”, originally appearing on 2009’s Post-Nothing.

Chicago bred trio The Lawrence Arms will release 'Skeleton Coast', their first album in six years, on July 17 via Epitaph Records. The band offers fans a glimpse at the record with the release of the first single from the new record, 'PTA.'
 

The Bakersfield, CA loud rock band comprised of four self proclaimed “idiots” that is Niner Niner have announce the release of their debut full-length.

Destructo will be out June 20th via Killer Kern Records.

Track listing:

1. Lay Your Money Down    
2. World on Fire
3. Belly
4. The Bottom
5. Evidence of Innocence
6. Destructo
7. Don't Stop Making Love    
8. Medicine
9. Shock Better
10. So Real