Punk legends Good Riddance have released their 10th studio album ‘Before The World Caves In’. The album serves as a fierce response to the unprecedented times we are living in. The band shares:

“Everybody deals with struggle.

Heartbreak.

Disappointment.

To an alarming degree, humanity often finds that it creates, promotes, or allows its own malaise.”

Before The World Caves In – an album steeped in protest and dissent – comes ahead of this weekend’s No Kings Day demonstration. Taking place Saturday March 28th, No Kings Day is a nationwide day of peaceful protest in support our country’s most vulnerable communities. The previous events on June 14, 2025 and October 18, 2025, drew millions of people – all banding together against the corruption and cruelty of the current administration. For more information on how to get involved, please visit: https://www.nokings.org/

Stream/purchase Before The World Caves In now at https://ffm.to/beforetheworldcavesin, and check out latest single and music video “In Pieces” here: https://youtu.be/A_3lNy3qtjQ.

Militarie Gun are the latest band to hit the NPR Tiny Desk and their set is now out.

The stripped back show features new versions of songs from throughout their discography, including “B A D I D E A,” “God Owes Me Money,” “Throw Me Away,” “Don’t Pick Up The Phone,” “Thought You Were Waving,” and “Do It Faster.” 

Militarie Gun will headline the first ever California Chaos Festival in Los Angeles on April 11th. The all Californian band bill will include sets from Stateside, Grave Secrets, Xcomm, Blossom, Jawdropped, and Star99. A portion of the proceeds from the festival will go to chirla.org. Get tickets and learn more HERE. Additionally, Militarie Gun are midway through their North American tour with Joyce Manor, where they recently performed to a sold out crowd at New York City’s Brooklyn Paramount, and still have shows in Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, Vancouver, Seattle, and more on the horizon. Tickets available HERE. 

Upcoming Live Dates

w/ Joyce Manor

03/27 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre +

03/28 – Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed +

04/11 – Los Angeles, CA @ Pacific Electric – CALIFORNIA CHAOS FESTIVAL

04/26 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee +

04/27 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater +

04/30 – Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s +

05/01 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall +

05/02 – Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall +

05/04 – Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium +

05/05 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot +

05/07 – Great Falls, MT @ The Newberry +

05/08 – Calgary, AB Canada @ The Palace Theatre +

05/09 – Edmonton, AB Canada @ Midway Music Hall +

05/11 – Vancouver, BC Canada @ Commodore Ballroom +

05/12 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox +

05/13 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater +

05/15 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore +

This past Monday New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert posted that he was back in the hospital after doctors had found 3 brain tumors. After a successful surgery Gilbert made a post on social media about his health issues recently leading to this surgery.

Gilbert said that when playing a show in Nashville on Feb. 20, he was “struggling to control the movements” of his left hand. “My left leg was getting weaker by the day and I started stumbling and falling at times,” he shared.

“On the 23rd I was taken to the ER where a CT scan showed 3 new tumors had appeared in my brain. On 2/27 I had successful brain surgery and have been recovering in the hospital since. I regained function of my left hand immediately 🙏🏻.”

Gilbert talked about his radiation oncologist explaining what had happened to him: “This is not a fatal blow and not the end of your story, just the beginning of a new chapter.” The musician said that though his “recovery has been bumpy at times,” he’s feeling “much better now and getting stronger by the day.”

“Thankful to everyone who’s checked in on me and helped my family during this lengthy and challenging journey,”

“Can’t use my phone much yet and have a lot of messages to catch up on. More stories to come when my brain is working well again. Love you all and am looking forward to sharing more music and fun with you as we come out of this ❤️”

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