Box Elder's self-titled debut LP marks a profound evolution for the Salt Lake City project. What began as Chris Archuleta's solo bedroom endeavor during the isolation of Covid has blossomed into a full-band collaboration that captures the raw emotional landscape of personal struggle and growth.
Spartan Records and Criteria are excited to announce the Friday, May 22 release of SEIZE!, the forthcoming studio album from the Omaha indie-rock staple featuring Stephen Pedersen (ex-Cursive). The follow-up to 2020’s Years, SEIZE! is a sonically and thematically heavy record shaped by loss, endings, and the growing urgency to capture life while it’s still unfolding. The album reflects on a period of profound personal and professional change: relationships dissolving, chapters closing, and attention turning toward the fragile beauty of the present.
As if spilling right out of some portal from the past, smack into the middle of the 2020's, BIRDLEGS pairs Jade Puget (AFI), Gary Gutfeld (CORDUROY, HI-FIVES), and Eric Ozenne (THE NERVE AGENTS, UNIT PRIDE) came up together in Northern California's East Bay, REDEMPTION 87 in the late 1990's. Now joining up with Ryan Doria (OVEREXPOSURE and PRESSURE CRACKS). This is not a rehash of the same old ways seeking to resurrect 1987 hardcore practices, this is a relevant fusion of old school hardcore punk with a myriad of edges being pushed in all directions.
Orange County’s finest are back with a vengeance: Social Distortion’s long-awaited eighth album, Born To Kill, will be released May 8, 2026 via Epitaph Records.
Born To Kill is more than the conclusion to a 15-year wait between Social Distortion albums, it’s a revelation: 11 songs of pure, unadulterated rock ’n' roll fury, joy and catharsis, all imbued with the signature blend of defiance and world-weariness that has made founder Mike Ness a poet and sage to the dispossessed for more than 40 years.
24 years after their start, TERROR still reign as one of the most influential bands in hardcore. Now TERROR announce their tenth full length record, STILL SUFFER, releasing April 24th through Flatspot Records. Working with producer (and former guitarist) Todd Jones, the band created ten fast, aggressive, in-your-face tracks that embrace the themes that made TERROR so influential in the first place.
Equal Vision Records, Dine Alone Records and The Flatliners are excited to announce the Friday, May 8 release of Cold World, the longstanding, Juno-nominated Canadian punk quartet’s brand new studio album. While 2022's New Ruin was preoccupied with the inherited damages of the last generation, Cold World sees that legacy for what it is — a ghost, a fading memory. If New Ruin was about the rage of realization, now we're damned with the aftermath of clarity. Welcome to the future.
Los Angeles trio Failure – Ken Andrews, Greg Edwards, and Kelli Scott – announce ‘Location Lost’, their seventh studio album and fourth since reuniting in 2014 after a 17-year-hiatus. The LP features nine new tracks that showcase a focused, modern and ever-evolving vision of Failure’s utterly unique sound, led by first single ‘The Air’s on Fire.’ ‘Location Lost will arrive April 24th as the first release under Failure Records/Arduous Records/Virgin Music Group.
Never hardcore enough for the punk scene, too destructive for the ska circle, and hailing from a small city no one has ever given a damn about, Offend Your Friends (members of The Color Morale, Dead Horses, Devils Teeth) has always done things their way. Almost Didn't Make It is no exception. Is it more polished or poppier than their earlier efforts? Maybe, but the songs are arguably better. The vocals are acerbic, bouncing between the literal and allegorical. The guitars are big, the bass gets funky, and the sax ties a melodic thread throughout.
Philadelphia power-pop powerhouse, The Blackburns, have staked their claim on alternative rock with their aptly-titled upcoming album Alternative Rock. The new albums follows up their 2024 self-titled debut that caught many listeners off-guard with extremely hooky, radio-friendly rock songs that felt like unearthed gems from the 90s. Everything that made their debut album stand out is carried over and even more focused on Alternative Rock. Your first glimpse at what's to come is their new single "A Reunion Show (Rated PG-13)", which is out now.
Smartpunk Records and War On Women are teaming up for a big year of new music that's as timely as ever. The band's fifth full-length album, "Time Under Tension," comes out on May 8, 2026. While the upcoming record fulfills fans' cravings for thoughtful lyrics and powerful punk energy rooted in advocacy, the band also experiments with melodic genre elements from alt-rock, indie, and more. This expansion and evolution are captured clearly in their latest single, "Messages Unsent".
