Yawpers - Human Question
- by Nate Hennon
- by Nate Hennon
Telethon. You might know them as the band that wrote a rock opera about being extremely and apocalyptically online, or the guys who released a lyric video via a Gmail screenshare. Maybe you’ve never heard of them until now, because you’re reading this blurb for their Take This to Heart Records debut, Hard Pop. In any case, this album—which drops June 21—is hard pop both in name and nuance, and it’s a perfect combination of whatever this one group’s wild Midwest ambition can offer.

- by Tom Dumarey

- by Tom Dumarey
Decent Criminal will be releasing 'Bliss' on June 21st on Wiretap in the US and Beared Punk Records in EU.
Decent Criminal's last album ‘Bloom’ was released in 2017. They made news in 2018 when sites like Vice, Kerrang!, Alternative Press and others reported on a vinyl pressing error in which their music was mistakenly pressed onto copies of Kendrick Lamar's second album 'Good Kid, M.A.A.D City.'
Seattle trio Dude York have returned with the new full-length Falling, their tribute to adolescent romance and the pop-punk that proliferated on the FM radio wavelengths of yesteryear. To celebrate the announcement, the band has shared a new animated music video for the album's title track. Falling will be out Friday, July 26th on LP, CD, Digital, and Cassette via Hardly Art. First-run LP copies come on frosting-colored vinyl.

- by Tom Dumarey
Filthy Friends are Sleater-Kinney co-founder Corin Tucker, R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, indie stalwarts Scott McCaughey and Kurt Bloch, and Linda Pitmon on drums.
Wear Your Wounds was created by Converge founder Jacob Bannon. Initially conceived as a solo project, it evolved into a five-piece band that often works with collaborating musicians. In 2017 Wear Your Wounds released WYW (the debut double album) and Arthritic Heart (a New Noise Magazine single). A live band was then assembled for a number of shows including Roadburn Festival 2017 and Desert Festival UK. Later on that year their Dunedevil (an experimental album) was released; a companion piece to Bannon's abstract art book of the same name.
Fat Wreck Chords and singer-songwriter Joey Cape, frontman of the long-standing punk band Lagwagon, are pleased to announce his brand new solo album titled Let Me Know When You Give Up. Out on Friday, July 5, Let Me Know When You Give Up is, conceptually, about giving up a losing fight. Even more so, it's about quality of life and abstaining from the madness that encircles our daily lives.

- by Tom Dumarey