Toys that Kill

PUP, Modern Baseball, The Hotelier, Beach Slang, Against Me!, Face to Face, Bad Religion & more prove 2016 is pop punk's best year in a while.

This week includes massive, sometimes-overwhelming statements from Blood Orange, Bat For Lashes, and Maxwell, plus two fuzzy punk albums.

Toys That Kill, one of the bands of the great melodic punk staple Todd Congelliere, are releasing their new album Sentimental Ward this Friday (7/1) via Todd's Recess Records. You can pre-order it, but if you want to hear it before you do, you're in luck. A full stream premieres in this post...

The Fest also added Lemuria, Mean Jeans, Somos, Vacation, Iron Chic, Slingshot Dakota, PUP, RVIVR, Timeshares, Frameworks, Lifted Bells, Antarctigo Vespucci, Ian Graham, Katie Ellen, Roger Harvey, Museum Mouth, Hiccup, Amanda X, Die Choking, Sonic Avenues, Mac Sabbath, Creepoid, Sports and mannnnnny more.

California melodic punk vets Toys That Kill have announced a new album and tour. Sentimental Ward will be out on July 1 via Recess Records which is run by frontman Todd Congelliere. They've also announced a run of summer tour dates in support of the new album...

It includes Planes Mistaken For Stars, Propagandhi, Small Brown Bike, Samiam, Dead To Me, Strike Anywhere, Knapsack, Tim Barry, Braid, Latterman (who are reunited again), The Menzingers, AJJ, War On Women, Underground Railroad to Candyland, Toys That Kill, United Nations, Iron Reagan, Jeff Rosenstock, Night Birds, and many more.

Gainesville punk bonanza The Fest has added more bands to its 2015 lineup. There's reunited hardcore legends Government Issue (who also play NYC this month), party animal Andrew WK, Ramonesy punks Mean Jeans, Gainesville vets Radon, one of Mikey Erg's many bands Hatrabbits, a solo set from KJ of Chixdiggit, emo revivalists Foot...

Weston are a punk rock band from Bethlehem, USA. Founded in 1990, they took their name from singer Dave Weston's parents for allowing them to practice in their basement...

Melodic punk greats Dillinger Four are still active, but chances to see them are few and far between and they haven't played NYC in ye...

The Underground Railroad to Candyland is one of the many projects of the great Todd Congelliere (also of Toys That Kill and FYP, and the owner of Recess Records), and they're releasing a new album called The People Are Home on May 26 via Rec...