Punk rock band The Menzingers have released a Friday the 13th parody poster in honor of their new album, Some of It Was True, dropping today via Epitaph Records. The 18x24 screen print costs $30 and will ship the week of November 3.
Ronnie Radke talking about his loyalty to Epitaph Records, the reasons he's been working with Brett Gurewitz all along his career and that he will be working with him till forever and a day 🫶❤️ (12/2022)
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Virality is an interesting tool in terms of a band’s popularity, because I’ve found a few bands and songs through social media, especially Tik Tok. Poptropicaslutz, a band with a very weird name that makes no sense, went a bit viral a few months ago with a song from their debut album, Face For The Radio. I kept seeing it on my for you page, and I was really curious about it, because a lot of the comments were about how they sound like Panic! At The Disco, and the mid-00s neon pop-punk sound that bands like Cobra Starship and Metro Station. I was really curious about this band, and this new record, especially where they’re signed to Epitaph, so there’s gotta be something here, right?
Well, Face For The Radio is here, and it’s been out a few weeks, but this is a record that I really enjoy. I’d go as far to say that this is one of the most unique albums of the year, namely for how it sounds. This has elements of hyper-pop, electronica, and pop-punk, as well as a dash of hip-hop, but not much. You can hear a lot of modern influence, but there is a lot of nostalgia here, especially with the 00s pop-punk and Warped Tour scene. This sounds like something that would have come from that, and if it came out in the late 00s or early 2010s, this would be considered a classic, I’m sure. This record is only a half hour, but it’s a memorable half hour.
There are two vocalists in this band, and they both have great chemistry, all the whole sounding different from each other. A lot of this record reminds me what would happen if Cobra Starship or Forever The Sickest Kids made a hyper-pop album in 2023, having this neon sound with the emo lyricism but this glitchy, poppy, and experimental sound. There’s a bit of a Panic influence, because a lot of their lyrics are very wordy, theatrical, and more elevated in terms of vocabulary, which I really like.
The only real issue I have is its length, as a lot of the songs feel incomplete, or at least very bare bones, but the hooks are really good, the lyrics are really good, and the overall sound is cool. I will say that a couple of songs aren’t that great, such as “Sierra Echo X-Ray.” I don’t care for that song much, mainly its lyrics, but its hook is fine. The album is short, only a half hour, so it’s not like it takes much time going forward, but it does feel like it ends without any real conclusion, or that it goes by without realizing that it is the end, because of how short the songs are. This is a huge step above their debut EP, which I’ve listened to a few times and didn’t like much, as that felt much more disjointed and amateurish, so this is a huge step above that, but hopefully they get a bit better with song structure. I guess it’s good when the biggest problem you have with an album is that it’s too short.
From First To Last - Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has A Bodycount.
my fav album of all time, i find copies of this in the wild for cheap and give them to people that are special to me. so far i have given copies to peter rono of kaonashi as well as my friends power and will. i also have the record store day 2021 cherry bomb red vinyl repress