10 Songs that influenced Chicago's Sludgeworth


Back in late 2022, Chicago pop punk vets Sludgeworth (members of Screeching Weasel) reissued their 1995 Lookout!
Back in late 2022, Chicago pop punk vets Sludgeworth (members of Screeching Weasel) reissued their 1995 Lookout!
Seminal melodic punk band Farside formed in 1989 in Orange County, California and had a strong eleven year run before disbanding in 2000. During that time the band released three albums, two EPs and a split with Sense Field. Released on June 21st, 1994 through Revelation Records, Farside’s sophomore album Rigged became a fan favorite spanning praise from audiences across punk, hardcore, emo, and alternative rock. In celebration of the record’s 30th anniversary, Farside and Revelation Records announce a special pressing of Rigged on mint green eco-vinyl with an accompanying 16 page booklet.
Sammy Kay is familiar with the stories, songs and the tapes of those who walked before him in the lineage of the Jersey Shores musical history. On his new record, July 1960, Kay went back to basics and looked in the mirror.
Santa Cruz, CA based post-hardcore band HotLung have announce their debut album, In Spite Of, releasing on June 13th, 2024 via Sell The Heart Records (U.S.), Little Rocket Records (U.K.) and Amplify Music
The brand new full-length album from SoCal's Raised On TV. From breezy indie-rock to energetic rockers, this album picks up where their previous album, Strangers In Pictures, took off. Much like their previous album, Make Time To Make Time has a very "California" sound to it.
The album is available on gorgeous Orange Crush 12" Vinyl (limited to 100 copies), Compact Disc, and Digital Download
BOSTON MANOR are today announcing new album Sundiver for release on September 6th via SharpTone Records. News of the band’s fifth studio album arrives alongside the release of its lead single ‘HEAT ME UP'.
Borne from the ashes of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lions Of West Texas (LWTX) are a Philadelphia-based “power-punk” group fusing together elements of punk, power-pop, and alternative rock for a familiar but new kind of guitar-driven tension.
Growing Stone, the musical moniker of Taking Meds vocalist/guitarist Skylar Sarkis, has announced his new full-length, Death of a Momma's Boy, due out June 28th via Near Mint. For years now Sarkis has been one of the most unique voices coming out of DIY punk, but Growing Stone proves he's just as adept at making incisive and intense music that doesn't rely on volume. Death of a Momma's Boy is his most accomplished work to date, a strikingly candid album that looks so unflinchingly at discomfort and despair that the beauty around the edges starts to shine through brighter.
Swami & the Bed of Nails featuring Swami John Reis (Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu, Rocket From The Crypt, PLOSIVS and more) are excited to announce the Friday, August 2 release of the band’s debut album, All Of This Awaits You. Produced by John Reis and mixed by Ben Moore, All Of This Awaits You was born out of the final Hot Snakes writing sessions in 2023.
At one point a Chicago band but now describing itself as having members who “live in various cities throughout the eastern Midwest”, Distants is a Midwestern punkrock band.