September 2021 is locked in for Slam Dunk Festival where we now have confirmation of the acts who will be playing this years iteration of the festival.
Along with confirming the acts who will still be playing from the originally scheduled May dates, the festival organisers have also announced that Crown The Empire, Escape The Fate, Malevolence, Hacktivist, and Snuff will also be joining the bill.
The acts who sadly are unable to confirm that they can make the rescheduled dates and are no longer part of the bill are 3OH!3, Billy Talent, Code Orange, Dance Gavin Dance, Grayscale, Hands Like Houses, I Am The Avalanche, Issues, Motion City Soundtrack, Sleep On It, The Wonder Years, Young Guns, and Yours Truly.
More acts are set to be announced in the coming weeks.
Check out the full list of bands below.
A The Baboon Show Basement Blood Youth The Bottom Line Bury Tomorrow Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Comeback Kid Counterparts Crown The Empire Days N Daze Deez Nuts Doll Skin Don Broco Dream State Escape The Fate Face To Face The Faim Four Year Strong Free Throw Hacktivist I Am The Avalanche Ice Nine Kills Knuckle Puck Malevolence Mayday Parade Me First And The Gimme Gimmes Movements NOFX Normandie Pennywise Popes Of Chillitown Reel Big Fish ROAM Snuff Spunge State Champs Static Dress The Story So Far Stray From The Path Sum 41 This Wild Life Trash Boat The Vandals Vukovi Wargasm We Are The In Crowd While She Sleeps With Confidence Your Demise Zebrahead
Slam Dunk Festival 2021 will take place on September 4th 2021 at Temple Newsam, Leeds and on September 5th 2021 at Hatfield Park, Hatfield.
Tickets from last years event will be honoured and remain valid for 2021.
Remaining tickets are on sale now with a range of payment plans, and can be purchased online from seetickets.com.
Chicago based Pop Punk band Sleep On It have announced they are breaking up.
The band have released a statement which follows from a previous post after online allegations of sexual misconduct around Neverkept’s Dorian Cooke which involved the band and how they reacted when the allegations were bright to their attention.
“First and foremost, we want to acknowledge that we alone accept full responsibility for our decisions. We are sickened by our own mistake. The information the four of us received at the time led us to believe that Dorian Cooke was not a threat to the community. However, our inability to communicate with each other and parties involved doesn’t absolve us of not taking responsibility for the consequences of those actions. It was our responsibility to create the safe spaced we speak of, and we failed you. We are disgusted by Dorian’s actions, and we disappointed in ourselves for giving him a platform and giving him access to the women on the tour and in our community.
We have reached out to Fran personally to apologise and take responsibility for our actions. We would like to acknowledge that our initial response was inadequate, and our intent to show public support for Fran and survivors overshadowed our ability to listen and reflect, and for that we are truly sorry for the pain we have caused.
Second, we acknowledge our failure to hold ourselves accountable for our own treatment of the women in our personal lives and community. We read through all the statements posted by friends and former partners, and the actions that happened behind closed doors are inexcusable. We made decisions and took actions that have hurt women and shielded men, including ourselves, of being held accountable. We should have done better and held each other responsible for those actions. We are sorry for the pain we caused to these people.
After discussing amongst ourselves, we have decided it is best for us and the community to end Sleep On It. We will be taking this time to put in the work to better ourselves, and each other, and do everything we can to heal the pain we have caused. Part of that helping process is listening.
These are the steps that we will be taking to begin that process. – We’re reaching out to several organisations dedicated to reducing violence against women to learn more about bystander intervention, sexual violence in the music scene, how to unlearn our own harmful thoughts and actions and overall be better allies to women in our community. – Zach and Luka have already put in a few months of therapy, acknowledging these issues, and will continue treatment to learn how to grow from this and better themselves.
We apologise to anyone else who has been affected by our actions, our inactions and for betraying the trust you had in us. We understand that for some of you, this situation may alter your view of us as individuals, but we hope that you don’t discount any comfort or community you may have found through our music when you needed it. We all find what we need at different time, and right now we need to work on ourselves. Thank you to everyone who ever came to a show, bought merchandise or a record, or supported us in anyway. Our time together has meant the world to us. We hope that our music gave as much joy and relief to you as it gave to us to create it.
Hello everyone and welcome back! It’s time for another week of the best singles that have recently been released, all in good order of epicness. I’ve tried to make sure that none of these overlap with the Music Videos Roundup post which should have gone live in addition to this post as well so when you’re done be sure to head over to have a read of that!
I hope everyone is doing well in lockdown and hope you’re enjoying these posts so you can find (if any) some good new music to listen to!
And lastly, before we get into all the music, I have to say this, I wanted to change the name very quickly and I know I’ve just referred to this as the singles post but I wanted to include this as in all tracks so non-singles, (mainly because sometimes artists don’t release tracks as singles but as B-sides and covers etc. So we’re cool yeah?
Let’s get things started!
First up this week is Bronnie. Following on from the latest single, ‘Over You’, the Singer/Songwriter from the Pop Punk side of things has shared her latest effort, ‘Where I Want To Be’. Just in case you don’t know, this isn’t part of her latest EP, ‘Dream Or Nightmare’, which is out right now.
Seconds up are the folks over in Sleep On It where they’re doing as much s possible to spread the simple message of the current COVID-19 situation in that it is, ‘Stay At Home.
The band’s latest record, ‘Pride & Disaster’ is out right now via Rude Records / Equal Vision Records.
Next, we’re in Philadelipa for the release of PHNTMS new single, ‘Towers’.
On the track, Adam Jessamine has said:
“The track is all about expectations. We are all force-fed dreams of great jobs, nice houses, new cars and a perfect life. We each have our own definition of “perfect” revolving these things. When things get hard, if you aren’t happy with yourself and the situation your in, no one can change that but you. At the end of the day, as humans, our expectations are the reason why we feel disappointment. Having your own personal goals is the reason you keep on pushing. ‘Towers’ is a reflection of that”.
We’re back in Yorkshire for the second to last pick of this post in the form of As Sirens Fall. The band supported Sumo Cyco at the back end of 2019 and has been gaining traction for the last few months now.
Their latest track, ‘Puppy Squad’, was released today where their vocalist Mikey Lord has said:
“This is a song about escaping toxic relationships, be they romantic or otherwise. For a very long time, I felt trapped with manipulative, agenda-driven people who made me feel like a sidekick – like I was small and worthless. It was dressed up as love, but it was all fake. Nothing I did was ever good enough. Who I was didn’t feel good enough. My world felt so small and as if at any minute everything was going to fall apart around me. I felt like I had lost touch entirely with who I am. I had to fight really hard to get away from that and to get back to me, and I LOVED the idea that as small as they made me feel I could still fight back – a tiny, adorable little dog baring his teeth and taking back control”.
The track was produced and mixed by Neil Kennedy who has previously worked with Creeper, Boston Manor and Milk Teeth in the past.
And for the last pick of the singles this week we have the phenomenal men who’ve come back from the brink who can only be The Ghost Inside. This is off their new self-titled record, which is set to be released on June 5th 2020 via Epitaph Records and will be the first release since their bus accident in 2015.
“Almost all TGI songs take the listener on a journey from dark to light or from despair to hope,” says bassist Jim Riley.
“On this record, we made a conscious effort to let individual songs explore different emotions we’ve been experiencing and not force them to have a positive turn. We feel like the album as a whole will give you that hopeful feeling, even though a song like ‘Pressure Point; might not do that by itself.
“Instead, we embraced being pissed off and let it pour out through some of the most aggressive and pointed lyrics we’ve ever had. We try to avoid cursing in our songs but sometimes you’re just so fed up that nothing less than a big loud fuck will get the job done.“
And that’s it for another week of a countdown of the best singles out in the world in the last week. Be sure to check back next week for another round of great singles. If you have any suggestions for me to check out, be sure to send an email or message us via the socials on Facebook or Twitter!
After the release of their single, ‘Under The Moment’, Sleep On It have announced the details of their upcoming second record.
Pride & Disaster will be released September 13th via Rude Records (which is also a brand new label for the band).
Here are the details for the release.
1.The artwork.
2. The Tracklisting.
1. Racing Towards A Red Light
2. Hold Your Breath
3. Babe Ruth
4. Under The Moment
5. Fix The Dark
6. After Tonight
7. Take Me Back
8. The Cycle Of Always Leaving
9. Logan Square
10. Lost & Found
3. The lead single. It’s track 4. Under The Moment.
If you’ve been left wondering who’s going to be playing the Rock Sound Breakout Stage at this year’s Slam Dunk Festival then you don’t have to wonder anymore. The lineup has been revealed!
You know what it’s time for! Another music video post!
Let’s dive straight in, first up is Glasgow based band Divides who are hard at work working on new material. That still doesn’t mean they don’t have time in between for a new music video. Here’s Catalyst.
Switching immediately to a live video for their new track Drugs & Money. This is Chase Atlantic’s new track which comes from their self-titled record which dropped today!
Now let’s move to the Rock-Pop genre for Echosmith. They’ve has to push a few things back to make room for their new material but it’s worth it. Check out Get Into My Car. below.
Next up is Have Mercy who have a belter of a track on their hands. You don’t believe me? Then watch their video for Reaper below.
Shifting the focus to the next video, here are Movements with Colorblind. This comes from the band’s upcoming record, ‘Feel Something’ which is set to drop October 20th via Fearless Records.
Going a touch heavier for the next video, this is Veil Of Maya for a track taken off their forthcoming record, ‘False Idol’, released in two weeks time (October 20th) via Sumerian records. Check out Doublespeak below.
Keeping things on the heavy side of the spectrum comes from Code Orange’s particularly new disturbing video for ‘The Mud’. This is off their latest record, ‘Forever’ which is out now via Roadrunner.
Sometimes videos like to follow bands playing shows on the road, some are okay but this one is brilliant! This can only be Obey The Brave’s new video as ‘Mad Season’ is unleashed to the world. This is the title track of their latest record which is out now via Epitaph.
Next, comes from a band that is currently on a mammoth of a tour with the like of Neck Deep and As It Is. This is the Scottish Pop-Punks Woes and their new track ‘Losing Time.
Now, this is the penultimate video on this weeks list and it comes from the band Sleep On It. This comes from their upcoming debut record, Overexposed which is set to be released November 3rd via Equal Vision Records. And if this track’s anything to go by, then the record will be a stunner! Check out Window below.
And here we’ve reached the last video of the week. This comes from hardcore Canadian’s Counterparts. They released their fifth record, ‘you’re Not You Anymore’ a few weeks ago and now here’s a video for Swim Beneath My Skin.
That’s it for this week, don’t forget to check back next Friday for another round of music videos! Until then, you have all these to feat your eyes upon.
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