SHEER MAG return with their sophomore album, A Distant Call. They're still writing about surviving our current hellscape, but this time around, the politics get extra-personal. It's heavy power-pop so sleek it gleams. "We've been waiting to write these songs since we started the band and we were able to take these experiences and build a story out of them," notes front woman Tina Halladay. The album verges on being a concept piece, and the protagonist resembles Halladay herself. The songs document a particularly alienating time in her life when she was laid off from a job.

LA newcomers The Paranoyds have announced their debut album, ‘Carnage Bargain’ for September 13th release on Suicide Squeeze and have shared new a new track.
 

Off With Their Heads announced that their forthcoming album 'Be Good', will be out on August 16th through Epitaph Records.

“All the other records were about moping around and feeling sorry for yourself,” says frontman Ryan Young. “This one is less about feeling sorry for yourself and more about accepting how goddamn miserable you are.”

Bad Brains frontman HR will be releasing his new solo album 'Give Thanks' on Oct 18th via Hardline Entertainment.

Paul “HR” Hudson is best known as the front man of the iconic punk band Bad Brains, formed in 1979. With unprecedented speed and precision, Bad Brains took the Washington, DC music scene by storm and quickly became the most influential band in American punk history, breaking down cultural barriers and creating emotionally charged music centered on the message of maintaining a positive mental attitude (PMA). This concept of PMA continues to inspire HR’s fans.

Sleater-Kinney will release their new album 'The Center Won't Hold' on August 16th via Mom + Pop Records.

Entering the studio with Annie Clark / St. Vincent, Sleater-Kinney dropped a few hints as to what fans can expect.

Carrie Brownstein about the album:

“We’re always mixing the personal and the political but on this record, despite obviously thinking so much about politics, we were really thinking about the person -- ourselves or versions of ourselves or iterations of depression or loneliness - in the middle of the chaos.”