Rainier, Oregon pop punks Broadway Calls will release their first new album in seven years, Sad In The City, on July 10 via Red Scare Industries. It's their first album for Red Scare, following releases on SideOneDummy, No Sleep, and other labels, and Red Scare say, "We’ve been fans of Broadway Calls for a while now and after years of pestering they finally gave in and joined the team. Their exact words were, 'It would take a catastrophic act of god that destroyed the music industry for us to consider working with Red Scare.' And what do ya know! Thank you, 2020."

On September 25th, IDLES will release their anticipated third album – ‘Ultra Mono’ – via Partisan Records.

Frontman Joe Talbot says of “Grounds”: “We wanted to write a song that embodied self-belief, and gave us self-belief - a counter-punch to all the doubt we build up from all the noise we so easily let in. We wanted to make the sound of our own hearts’ marching band, armed with a jack hammer and a smile. We wanted to make the sound of our engine starting. So we did. Thank you."

Hamburg punk band Shellycoat will be releasing their third studio album on July 17th via Fond Of Life Records. The sound of the band is strongly reminiscent of the popular US punk of the 90s and 2000s, but always leaves room for experiments with alternative and indie elements.

Past releases have been compared by the press to Billy Talent, Good Riddance, Ignite, Tsunami Bomb and Rise Against. Building on this sound, Shellycoat have added a scoop in all directions. More punk, more pop, more experiments.

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Any suburban kid of a certain age who misses the wholehearted music of their anthemic rock radio listening youth will find THE MILWAUKEES’ new effort The Calling (their sixth overall and their first since 2011) both sincere and familiar. The Jersey City rock band’s sound is inspired by rock greats like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Replacements, Hüsker Dü, The Afghan Whigs and Foo Fighters, yet it fits right in alongside today’s newer generation of notable American rock acts like The Hold Steady and The Gaslight Anthem.

NOFX and Frank Turner announced release details for a split covers album, West Coast Vs. Wessex, which will arrive on July 31, 2020. Due for release on Fat Wreck Chords, the project brings together for the first time ever the long-running Los Angeles punks and the London-based singer and ex-Million Dead frontman, for many years now both friends and fans of each other’s music. 

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.

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2019 saw the return of Much The Same, 13 years after their sophomore album Survive was released on Nitro Records.
 
Everything is Fine, their latest album released in 2019, consisted of 9 belting new tracks combining more melodic hooks and darker lyric subjects than the band had previously explored. The record was released on vinyl in 6 variations and was met with high praise from old and new fans alike.