Punk royalty The Casualties are back with another new song ‘Allies And Assassins’. This comes from the bands upcoming record ‘Detonate’ which drops this upcoming Friday.

 It is also their second album with David Rodriguez at the mic and solidifies his relationship with Marc “Meggers” Eggers (drums), Jake Kolatis (guitar) and Doug Wellmon (bass). “We were in the studio for [2018’s] ‘Written in Blood’ about eight months after I joined,” Rodriguez says. “With this new record, we really grew together. For me, it’s the proud moment where we clicked the three Legos together.”

“‘Allies And Assassins’ is a feeling, a state of mind!” Rodriguez explains. “Growing up we are taught to bow to State and Church and we see all the atrocities that follow. We see how it tears us apart! We see how we blindly follow the leader and WE, we the people fall off the cliff, not them.”

“It’s a feeling we felt in our youth and we set in motion as we grew older,” he continued. “During the presidential elections this feeling wrapped around me like a rope and started squeezing the life out of me. There was so much hate and tension in the air it was hard to know who your friends were. And times like these we remember, those who fought before us and we fight back!”

“It stems from being overloaded,” Meggers says. “You feel like your head is about to explode, which I think is what everybody is feeling these days. You’re pounced on day by day with terrible news and social media, and you just feel like you’re going to snap.”

With the unblinking eyes of the punk world on them, The Casualties pulled the blinds and did what they do best. “There was a degree of pressure, but not from outside sources,” Rodriguez explained. “We just wanted to do the best record that we could that honors The Casualties name and history without playing the same song over and over. But it wasn’t that we even had to go out of our way. It felt natural to write this new music.”  

The record also features special guests, including a vocal intro by hardcore legend Vinnie Stigma of Agnostic Front on “Brick By Brick” and Native American punk band 1876 who contribute guest vocals and percussion on “Ashes of War.”  “As long as I’ve been listening, I’ve felt like The Casualties always spoke up for people in society that didn’t have as loud of a voice,” Rodriguez says. “The Casualties have always had some Spanish in songs, but it just seemed like such an important time to have loud Native voices. You don’t hear it that often, and the more we spoke together, the more we really found out.”  

Ultimately, ‘Detonate’ amplifies the punk ethos that The Casualties have embodied since 1990: A raised fist in the face of oppression. “I want people to feel empowered when they hear this record,” said Rodriguez. “I want them to feel like they have a voice. I want them to feel like they’re with like-minded people when they come to a Casualties show. They can be themselves and not watch the show but be part of the show—scream with us, jump off the stage. We want them to feel like they’re part of something.”

Alkaline Trio has officially announced Tosh Peterson as their new drummer. Replacing Atom Willard who left earlier this year, Peterson has a long resume including drumming for the likes of Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny, Machine Gun Kelly, and even filling in for Fall Out Boy.

Matt Skiba posted the news with the statement below.

“I met Tosh at Swingers a few months back for lunch to meet up and discuss the possibility of him playing in Alkaline Trio. Tosh’s mom was also there who turned out to be a fellow history buff so her and I spent half the lunch talking about Churchill and the Miracle of Dunkirk while Tosh politely ate his fries. He later told Dan Andriano [of Alkaline Trio] that if we had had a problem with his mom coming to lunch he probably didn’t want to play with us anyway.

“Apart from the absolute monster he is behind a drum kit he is just a lovely guy: kind, polite, enthusiastic, driven and hilarious. I told Dan I wouldn’t want Tosh to play with us if he hadn’t brought his mom. Tosh is a beautiful human being we’re very excited to travel and play music with and a drummer we couldn’t be more thankful to be able to welcome into our family.”

Foo Fighters are back with their third single from their upcoming 12th full length record ‘Your Favorite Toy’. ‘Caught In The Echo’. A straight no chaser rock hit this continues Foo Fighters going back to a garage rock no BS sound.

Your Favorite Toy will be released April 24th via Roswell Records/RCA Records. Recorded at home, the album was co-produced by Foo Fighters and Oliver Roman, engineered by Oliver Roman and mixed by Mark “Spike” Stent, and consists of the following songs:

Caught In The Echo
Of All People
Window
Your Favorite Toy
If You Only Knew
Spit Shine
Unconditional
Child Actor
Amen, Caveman
Asking For A Friend

Your Favorite Toy’s release heralds Foo Fighters’ massive Take Cover world tour, which just added an already SOLD OUT April 28 show at the Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport, CT.  For more information on the rock ’n’ roll stadium tour of the summer, go to https://foofighters.lnk.to/ShowsPR

Influential genre favorites Failure have dropped another song from their upcoming album ‘Location Lost’, this time with ‘A Way Down’. The nine song LP is set to drop just over a month from now on April 24th.

FAILURE TOUR DATES 

Apr 21 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon (Album Release Show) *SOLD OUT

Apr 25 Las Vegas – Sick New World Festival

May 02 Chicago, IL – SPACE ECHO @ Radius

May 03 Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop *SOLD OUT

May 05 Nashville, TN – Basement East 

May 06 Atlanta, GA Masquerade – Hell

May 08 Daytona Beach, FL – Welcome To Rockville Festival 

May 09 Asheville, NC – Eulogy *SOLD OUT

May 10 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle

May 12 New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge *SOLD OUT

May 13 Cambridge, MA – Sinclair   

May 14 Hamden, CT – Space *SOLD OUT

May 15 Washington, DC – Union Stage 

May 16 Harrisburg, PA – Arrow at Archer Music Hall

May 17 Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts 

May 19 Detroit, MI – Shelter *SOLD OUT

May 20 Toronto, ON – Opera House

Cherry Bomb, the Los Angeles-based solo project of MisterWives’ Mandy Lee throws a Y2K party with a confessional, pop-drenched tune “Digital Girl”.

With a reference to Madonna’s “Material Girl,” made for 2026 on the bubbling Y2K earworm, the track details the real struggles of being both a musician and a person today. Speaking on the contrived displays of perfection on social media and pressures of constant self-promotion, Lee explains, “‘Digital Girl’ asks how far are you willing to go for your dreams and at what cost? In this Information Age where the pressures of perfection and an unsustainable quantity over quality are constantly burning out not just artists but everyone who is plugged in, it’s impossible to not romanticize unplugging entirely.”

Torn between keeping up and giving up on the broken system, but ultimately choosing to chase her passion and find love within, Lee continues, “Remembering a time when you could tour without social media to adapting to social media now becoming an algorithmic gatekeeper for musicians while the charts are riddled with AI-generated songs leaves you at a crossroads of having to partake in the systems you hate for the sake of what you love.”

Earlier this year, Lee unveiled Cherry Bomb with the splashy, upbeat banger “Never Be Me (M★ther★cker).” PAPER Magazine, who debuted the video, wrote, “The track is pop perfection, chronicling her departure from her old life and excitement for the road ahead. Her fluttering vocals that earworm synths define this genre she’s calling “popera.” Adding, the video, “highlights bright, DIY-ed costumes and the feminine energy-filled community that’s helped her reach these new heights.” 

Cherry Bomb brings her own flair to Y2K nostalgia with the infectious “Digital Girl” out now. Join all the fun via Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.

Blue Medusa, featuring Aliisa White-Gluz, are at it with their new song ‘Checkmate’. Heavy and melodic just as fans would expect this is a sure fire way to kick off her new band.

The crushing new single was written by Alissa White-Gluz, Alyssa Day and Dani Sophia, and mixed and mastered by Kile Odell.

“I know what every frame is for,” jokes White-Gluz. “I’ll share that someday, but for now, I welcome fans to dive deeper into the meaning and develop their own interpretations. That’s what makes videos and movies fun and interesting, in my opinion.”

Blue Medusa will also appear at major U.S. festivals this year, including Louder Than Life and Aftershock Festival.

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