Santa Cruz hardcore band Scowl have announced a new album, Are We All Angels, for April 4th via Dead Oceans, their first with the label, whose roster includes Phoebe Bridgers, Mitski, Japanese Breakfast, etc. Produced by Will Yip (Turnstile, Title Fight, Mannequin Pussy, etc.), who worked on their most recent project, the Psychic Dance Routine EP, Are We All Angels finds the venomous and antagonistic band funneling their aggression through a more expansive version of themselves. The album was mixed by Rich Costey (Fiona Apple, My Chemical Romance, Vampire Weekend, etc..).

Welcome to KOKO, Lottery Winners’ most adventurous album, while also home to their most infectious songs yet. Having played to over half-a-million people at their shows in 2024 alone, it’s a captivating album which will only see that fanbase continue to grow.

023’s “Bottom of the Pomps” brought a timelessness that resonated with a certain type of listener (the type with ears and taste).  The Pomps’ perfect purple LP scrapped its way to cult fandom, and gained just enough traction for the band to say “ok, fine, one more”. 

Based in the capital city of Canada, The Riptides have been cranking out high-energy blasts of melodic, poppy punk rock for over 25 years. With their new LP Burn After Listening, the band makes the move to Pirates Press Records, and are ready to bring their sound to an all new worldwide audience! The band have released the video for the lead single, “End of the World.”

“Beliefs & Thieves”, the debut full-length album from The Kilograms, is a bold statement from a band already destined for legendary status. Released through Rad Girlfriend Records, a label renowned for championing punk and ska artists, alongside the newly minted Weights and Measures Records, this LP brings together a powerhouse lineup of seasoned musicians from the punk, ska, and reggae scenes.

Seattle's DEAD BARS — John Maiello, C.J. Frederick, Jon Oddo, Elliot Thordarson, and Rosie Gonce — were described by Razorcake as a band that "makes something impossible to duplicate look so simple and attainable." #Truth

For over a decade the band, founded and led by Maiello, has been belting out life-affirming hard rock with the same gift for the craft as acts like Japandroids, White Reaper, and Fucked Up. Since then, they've earned both national accolades and a reputation as a local institution, the band you're likely to see sweating it up onstage any given night.

Dirt-bike-riding, gun-toting, hell-raising hardcore heavyweights, Ingrown, are back. Today Boise's loudest and most vicious export have announced their sophomore album, Idaho, due out March 7th via Closed Casket Activities and shared it's vitriolic opening track "Bullet."

Pet Needs break into the new year with "Punk Isn’t Dead (It’s Just Up For Sale)" (Acoustic). The track is peeled from the upcoming new album ‘Kind of Acoustic’, which arrives on 24th January. A track that has found the Essex four-piece parading their punk with pride, with tongues firmly in cheeks, since their very earliest days; this January the band deliver us a fresh rendition of this favourite cut.

Of this new acoustic reworking of “Punk Isn’t Dead (It’s Just Up For Sale)”, Johnny of the band says:

Philadelphia's hardcore punks Staticlone sign to Relapse Records and make their debut with the crushing new album, Better Living Through Static Vision, out March 7, 2025.

Hardcore and punk aren't genres that necessarily celebrate change. It’s not like the music is stagnant; it’s more that the tried and true is rewarded while anything new, anything different, is greeted with a quizzical eyebrow and the spoken or unspoken question of: “Is this good? Can you mosh to it?"