Hot Water Music channel classic skate videos for "Collect Your Things and Run" music video
Hot Water Music have shared the second single off their upcoming album Feel The Void, their first album with producer Brian McTernan since the mid 2000s. “Collect Your Things and Run” is an anthemic ripper that feels like it could’ve fit on Caution, and it comes with a skate video-inspired music video, made with the help of Andrew Canon at Santa Cruz Skateboards and starring pro skaters Steve “Salba” Alba, Emmanuel Guzman, Jereme Knibbs and Kevin Braun.
“The end result is cooler than anything we could have hoped for, and we all felt like kids again making and watching the video,” said Hot Water Music bassist Jason Black. Co-vocalist/guitarist Chris Wollard added, “In some ways it is about standing up for who you are, but it’s also about discovering who you really are. It’s about learning to live in the moment and not letting circumstances bring you down. Find yourself and accept yourself. It’s OK to be a work in progress.”
Watch the video and check out the band’s upcoming tour dates (including shows with AVAIL, Strike Anywhere, Good Riddance, The Menzingers, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, and Brian McTernan’s band Be Well) below.
Hot Water Music — 2022 Tour Dates
FEBRUARY
09 — Baltimore, MD — Ottobar #
10 — Cleveland, OH — Beachland Ballroom #
11 — Detroit, MI — The Crofoot #
12 — Chicago, IL — Bottom Lounge #
25 — Carrboro, NC — Cat’s Cradle &
26 — Atlanta, GA — The Masquerade &
27 — St. Petersburg, FL — Jannus Live &
MARCH
23 — Boston, MA — The Sinclair ^
24 — New York, NY — Elsewhere ^
25 — Garwood, NJ — Crossroads ^
26 — Garwood, NJ — Crossroads ^
27 — Philadelphia, PA — Underground Arts ^
APRIL
09 — Toronto, ON — Phoenix Concert Theatre *
10 — London, ON — London Music Hall
12 — Winnipeg, MB — The Park Theater
13 — Edmonton, AB — Union Hall *
14 — Calgary, AB — The Palace Theatre *
15 — Victoria, BC — Capitol Ballroom
16 — Vancouver, BC — Vogue *
JUNE
10 — Denver, CO — The Gothic Theatre (w/ Elway)
JULY
07 — Los Angeles, CA — The Roxy %
08 — Garden Grove, CA — Garden Amp %
09 — San Francisco, CA — Great American Music Hall %
SEPTEMBER
16 — Portland, OR — Doug Fir
17 — Seattle, WA — The Crocodile
* — co-headline with The Menzingers
# — w/ Tim Barry and Be Well
& — w/ Avail and Be Well
^ — w/ Strike Anywhere and Be Well
% — w/ Good Riddance and Bad Cop/Bad Cop
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18 Essential Early 2000s Melodic Punk & Hardcore Albums
Kid Dynamite – Shorter, Faster, Louder (2000)
Alkaline Trio – Maybe I’ll Catch Fire (2000)
Rancid – Rancid (2000)
AFI – The Art of Drowning (2000)
Black Sails is usually the AFI album that's considered "the one that's cool to like," and Sing the Sorrow is usually the one that's considered the biggest musical and cultural achievement. Coming right in between them, The Art of Drowning is loved by longtime fans but might get overlooked by casual listeners or newcomers for not having much of a defining narrative beyond "the one after Black Sails" or "the one with 'The Days of the Phoenix.'" "Days of the Phoenix" is a milestone in AFI's career; it's the song that most predicted the sound of Sing the Sorrow, helped gain the band major label interest, and it's the one Nitro Records era song you're guaranteed to hear at an AFI show today. No matter how many times I hear that song, it never ceases to feel like the first time. It's a true classic, but it shouldn't overshadow the rest of The Art of Drowning, which is a much clearer progression from Black Sails than it sometimes gets credit for being.
"Days of the Phoenix" is also the one song on The Art of Drowning where AFI realize that if they settle into a mid-tempo alternative rock pace, they sound like they could be the biggest band in the world (and they'd do this for most of their career afterwards), but it's far from the only song on the album with masterful songwriting. Much more so than on Black Sails, Davey shows off his singing voice on The Art of Drowning, and the album’s got hooks for days -- not just from Davey but also from all the gang vocals and group whoa-ohs that are just about as perfect here as they would be on Sing the Sorrow. It'd probably be easier to list the songs that don't have cathartic choruses, but here are some of the ones that very much do: "Sacrifice Theory," "The Nephilim," "A Story At Three," "Catch A Hot One," "Wester." All of those are played at Misfits speed, but they come with blissful melodicism that proved AFI were just too good to remain in the punk underground for much longer. It's pop and punk without being "pop punk" -- it's still too dark and heavy for that -- and its combination of darkness, intensity, and remarkable melodies still feels innovative twenty years later. [Read more in our AFI album guide.]
The Movielife – This Time Next Year (2000)
Propagandhi – Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes (2001)
Anti-Flag – Underground Network (2001)
The Bouncing Souls – How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2001)
Strike Anywhere – Change Is A Sound (2001)
The Lawrence Arms – Apathy and Exhaustion (2002)
Against Me! – Reinventing Axl Rose (2002)
Dillinger Four – Situationist Comedy (2002)
Hot Water Music – Caution (2002)
Rise Against – Revolutions Per Minute (2003)
The Distillers – Coral Fang (2003)
Bad Religion – The Empire Strikes First (2004)
Bad Religion never really went anywhere so don't call it a comeback, but after two less-well-received major label albums without original guitarist/songwriter Brett Gurewitz, Brett rejoined the band in 2001, the band re-signed to his label Epitaph Records, they welcomed the insanely hard-hitting new drummer Brooks Wackerman (previously of Suicidal Tendencies, currently of Avenged Sevenfold, among many other projects), and they released the excellent 2002 album The Process of Belief. It rivals their classic late '80s/early '90s run and it's home to songs that are still live staples and fan favorites today. It can't be easy to follow up a big comeback like The Process of Belief, but Bad Religion did it by getting harder and faster than ever on The Empire Strikes First. With the metal chops of Brooks Wackerman behind the kit, Bad Religion could now write menacing songs like "Sinister Rouge," which seems to answer the question: "what if Slayer were a pop punk band?"
Pop punk as we know it wouldn't exist without Bad Religion, whose 1988 LP Suffer was one of the '80s punk albums that shaped the '90s pop punk boom, and when Green Day and The Offspring were bringing punk to the masses with 1994's Dookie and Smash, Bad Religion were right there with 'em with their popular 1994 major label debut Stranger than Fiction. But a decade later, mainstream pop punk was very bubblegummy and Bad Religion went in a more aggressive direction, all while retaining the melodies, harmonies, and whoah-ohs that made people fall in love with Suffer. Like The Process of Belief, The Empire Strikes First is home to some of the band's most classic songs, and that's no small feat for an album released by a punk band who were then 24 years into their career (now 40). Coming at the height of George W. Bush backlash and the Iraq War, The Empire Strikes First tackled the capitalist greed that accompanies war ("Let Them Eat War"), religious conservatives ("God's Love"), California wildfires ("Los Angeles Is Burning"), and other then- (and now-) relevant topics that made The Empire Strikes First rank among the most incisive Bush-era protest music. It sounds lyrically urgent and musically thrilling in the Trump era too, and here's to hoping one day it only sounds the latter.