NØ MAN "Between the Sword and the Neck"

LP - $17.25 / CD $8.00 / CS $8.00
LP UPC: 725305742607
CD UPC: 725305742614
CS UPC: 725305742690
STREET DATE: 10/30/26
CAT#: IOD-101
LABEL: Iodine Recordings

NØ MAN is a Washington, D.C. political hardcore punk band formed in 2017. Featuring Maha Shami on vocals, Matthew Michel on guitar, Pat Broderick on drums, and Kevin Lamiell on bass, the band features members of Majority Rule.

Between the Sword and the Neck is NØ MAN’s fourth LP and their second album with Iodine Recordings. Across a blistering 26-minute runtime, the band merges pummeling hardcore, political urgency, grief, love, rage, and Palestinian poetry into their most vulnerable and unrelenting work to date.

The album is rooted in the Arabic word “sumud,” meaning steadfastness or perseverance, and channels vocalist Maha Shami’s lived experience as a daughter of Palestinian refugees. The title Between the Sword and the Neck is taken from Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, referencing the impossibility of genuine negotiation between an oppressor and the oppressed.

Throughout the record, Shami’s lyricism draws from Palestinian history, poetry, family, grief, resistance, survival, and refusal of erasure. The album features guest vocals from Kat Hidalgo and Jenna Pup on “In Spite,” quotations from Ghassan Kanafani, Fadwa Tuqan, and Mahmoud Darwish on “In Tongues,” and names of lives lost to the occupation read by friends and family on “They Have Names.”

Recorded and self-produced by the band, mixed by Matthew Michel, and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege, Between the Sword and the Neck stands as NØ MAN’s most intimate and politically charged statement to date.

TRACK LISTING:
01. In Spite
02. Zoo
03. Moan
04. Pregnant Hearts
05. They Have Names
06. Murmur
07. Run Faster
08. In Tongues
09. نزيف على الورق
10. Blood and Paper

MARKETING POINTS:

• New LP from Washington, D.C. political hardcore punk band NØ MAN, and their second album with Iodine Recordings following 2024’s Glitter and Spit.
• Features guest vocals from Kat Hidalgo of FAIM and Jenna Pup of The HIRS Collective on “In Spite.”
• Glitter and Spit received support from Stereogum, NPR, BrooklynVegan, New Noise Magazine, and IDIOTEQ, and was named #16 on BrooklynVegan’s 50 Best Punk Albums of 2024.
• Recorded and self-produced by the band, mixed by Matthew Michel, and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
• Campaign launches July 30, 2026, timed to New Friends Fest week in Toronto.
• Campaign support includes full PR, DSP pitching, paid Spotify / Meta advertising, specialty radio pitching, newsletters, social campaigns, postcard mail-outs, and retail in-store displays in the Washington, D.C. area.
• 2026 touring includes New Friends Fest in Toronto, Montreal, Burlington, Gainesville Fest, West Coast dates, East Coast dates, and additional live activity TBA.

FOR FANS OF:
His Hero is Gone, Blonde Redhead, Neurosis

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MyVeronica "I Hope There's Music in Heaven"

LP - $15.30 / CD - $7.00
STREET DATE: 10/23/26
CAT#: SDR-167
LABEL: Sunday Drive

Inspired by 90’s emo and alternative rock, MyVeronica began as the solo project of singer/guitarist Mia Lin. Now a four-piece band, MyVeronica is still an outlet for “exploring the deeply personal through the universal,” shares Lin. The band seeks catharsis and exorcism: accessing the deep, sensitive part of yourself that doesn’t have space in daily life.

Their debut album, "I Hope There's Music in Heaven," is set to release on August 21, 2026 on Sunday Drive Records. Channeling the heartfelt and emotional songwriting of their inspirations (Mineral, Sonic Youth, Sunny Day Real Estate), the band expands upon their previous releases with heavier guitars, earnest lyrics and soundscapes of noise. Over the course of 9 songs, MyVeronica oscillates between piercing guitar hooks and melancholic slowcore to tell a story of early-20s angst and a desperate search to find the good in the world.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Sick Sad World
02. In This Endless Lifetime
03. Sacred Heart
04. Back of a Star
05. Sleepless
06. Canyon
07. Los Angeles
08. Cross
09. Sun Song

MARKETING POINTS:

• Upcoming summer tour:
  8/21 - Los Angeles, CA
  8/24 - Phoenix, AZ
  8/25 - El Paso, TX
  8/26 - San Antonio, TX
  8/27 - Austin, TX
  8/28 - Houston, TX
  8/29 - Denton, TX
  8/31 - Denver, CO
  9/1 - Salt Lake City, UT
  9/2 - Boise, ID
  9/3 - Seattle, WA
  9/4 - Portland, OR
  9/6 - San Francisco, CA

FOR FANS OF:
Mineral, Jejune, Smashing Pumpkins

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Throes "The Colorless Light of Emptiness"

LP - $19.40 / CD - $12.00
STREET DATE: 10/16/26
CAT#: CRR265
LABEL: Church Road

THROES is a crushing Boise, Idaho, based band formed in 2014. Drawing on sludge, metallic hardcore, and doom-steeped aggression, THROES has carved out a reputation for relentless heaviness and visceral live performances. Their upcoming record, The Colorless Light of Emptiness (due Fall 2026), finds the band further exploring themes of loss, grief, self-hatred, corruption, climate collapse, and human fragility. Balancing focused, raw composition with moments of crushing sonic weight. The new material continues their tradition of confronting bleak emotional landscapes through dissonant punishing sonic intensity.

Known for a confrontational presence on record and on stage, THROES approaches recording and performance with the same intent—direct, unsparing, and difficult to ignore once it has passed.

“Throes are one of the most heavy, bleak, lightless doom bands on Earth.” — Kerrang! Magazine

“Everything sounds menacing, towering, ugly, and still retains the band’s affinity for hardcore viciousness.” — Mathcore Index

Their forthcoming album 'The Colorless Light of Emptiness' is out 16th October via Church Road Records

TRACK LISTING:
01. WESTERN VIOLENCE
02. REVENGE DEATH
03. JOY
04. EAT GLASS
05. APE/PERSON/ANIMAL/HUMAN
06. SPIRITUAL DEBT
07. THE LINE
08. PAIN
09. BEG
10. BASURA

FOR FANS OF:
Converge, Neurosis, Deftones

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Wrong Man "Here's That Feeling"

LP - $17.25
LP UPC: 641956287895
STREET DATE: 10/09/26
CAT#: DW273
LABEL: Deathwish Inc.

With a sound that reflects an eclectic range of influences, Wrong Man continue to forge their own path with every record they release, and every song they write. Their unique brand of soulful post hardcore is equal parts noisy and melodic, at times bluesy and moody.

Having played in previous bands like Oathbreaker, Partisan & Rise And Fall, Wrong Man formed to do something different than previous projects. Following their rocking, very ‘90s inspired debut, “Who Are You?” (2022), Wrong Man expanded their sound on “Big Plans”(2023), offering more sonic pushes and pulls. “Here’s That Feeling” (2026), the band’s debut full length (released by longtime friends and associates Deathwish Inc), sees Wrong Man sharpen its post-hardcore foundation into something more versatile and expressive, fusing urgency and melody with brooding tension, and undeniably catchy choruses.

Here’s That Feeling is the debut full-length from Wrong Man, following two EPs that set the stage for the band’s evolving voice. Across nine tracks, the band sharpens its post-hardcore foundation into something more expansive and expressive, fusing urgency and melody with brooding tension and undeniably catchy choruses.

Rooted in the rawness of ’70s proto-punk and the restless spirit of ’90s indie and Dischord-era post-hardcore, the record carries echoes of Fugazi, Drive Like Jehu, Quicksand, Sonic Youth, and The Wipers, while pushing forward with a sound that feels distinctly their own. Songs unfold through dynamic shifts and inventive guitar work, carrying a deep emotional undercurrent and a constant pull toward unfiltered expression.

Recorded in Kortrijk with Michael Neyt (Oathbreaker, Predatory Void, Feverchild) and mixed by Kurt Ballou (Converge, Torche, High On Fire) at God City, the album also features guest vocals from Jeremy Bolm (Touché Amoré). As Wrong Man’s debut release on Deathwish Inc., Here’s That Feeling marks a defining step forward, capturing a band stretching its sound while holding tight to its emotional core.

Track Listing:
01. Loose Ends
02. It Won't Wash Off
03. Exit Strategy (feat. Jeremy Bolm)
04. Blue
05. Petty Thief
06. Mystic Eye
07. Heaven Ain't Happening
08. Ripped Open I
09. Ripped Open II

MARKETING POINTS:

• Debut LP release, following two EP releases in 2022 & 2023
• Featuring members who previously played in Oathbreaker, Rise And Fall, and Partisan
• Lead single features vocals from Jeremy Bolm of Touché Amoré

FOR FANS OF:
Citizen, High Vis, Militarie Gun, Fugazi, Touché Amoré, The Jesus Lizard, Jawbox, Hum, Rise And Fall, Oathbreaker

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Burner "No One Is Coming To Save Us"

LP - $19.40 / CD - $12.00
STREET DATE: 09/25/26
CAT#: CRR264
LABEL: Church Road

Across these 11 blistering tracks, Burner explores bold new soundscapes, touching on serene post-metal hooks and a cinematic atmosphere that only adds to their seasoned experience in creating captivating and punishing music. In collaborating with iconic vocalists Matthew K. Heafy (Trivium), Josh Middleton (Sylosis) and Anthony Lucero (Cult Leader), Burner take a striking step forward to claim new territory while consolidating their extreme and unique sound into the heaviest and bleakest incarnation of their craft yet.

Vocalist Harry Nott elaborates on the themes behind the new album:

“If It All Returns To Nothing looked outwards to the world’s chaos throughout history, No One Is Coming To Save Us instead looks inwards at its proposed cause; humanity’s violent, animalistic nature, begging us for change. This is an album about human behaviour: that people create endless cycles of violence by repeating the mistakes of the past, forging a brutal history that we fail to learn from.

But, at the same time, the album is about questioning whether we can ever get past those sins and repetitions. This is a record that is mournful as much as it is angry and engaged. It longs to bitterly recall the moments of greatness and sacrifice in our shared history that created the better world we currently destroy. It longs to look back at these moments for inspiration and optimism, at a time where it feels like hope is running thin.

The album is also a struggle for hope, not just that humanity can overcome hatred and violence, but that we can look back on our greatest moments and take courage to build a better world. No One Is Coming To Save Us reflects this duality in its title: that no one will come to save us from the violence and tragedy we create as part of our humanity. But it also proposes that it’s up to us to change – to overcome a violent human nature and usher in a better tomorrow.”

Burner possesses the incredible ability to weave death metal, hardcore and fractions of black metal into their calculated disorder. With most bands having palpable influences, Burner impresses further by wearing theirs with a sense of real diversity, touching everything from Trap Them, Darkest Hour, and Gatecreeper to Converge, Bolt Thrower, The Acacia Strain and more.

‘No One is Coming to Save Us’ is the soundtrack to the destruction of humanity - brace yourselves!

TRACK LISTING:
01. The Third Revelation
02. What Will You Give? (feat. Josh Middleton)
03. Blood River
04. Sunrise, Parabellum (feat. Matthew K. Heafy)
05. A Shattered Visage Lies
06. Accelerationist
07. The Agony of Peace
08. Wish Granter
09. Kurtz (feat. Anthony Lucero)
10. My Hands Become Weapons
11. Agni Kai

MARKETING POINTS:

• Featuring guest vocals from Matt Heafy (Trivium), Josh Middleton (Sylosis) and Anthony Lucero (Cult Leader).

FOR FANS OF:
Trap Them, The Acacia Strain, Fit For An Autopsy

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Lord Snow "Riften"

7" EP - $8.00
STREET DATE: 9/18/26
CAT#: VIS038
LABEL: Persistent Vision

A new four song EP by Lord Snow. "Riften" was recorded, mixed and mastered by the band in spring 2026, and is their first set of new songs written together in their recently reunited, original 4 piece lineup.

Started in 2012 in Chicago, Lord Snow carves out their own unique blend of frantic and technical screamo and emoviolence, teetering between quiet guitar interludes and dizzying spells of jazz-inspired percussion.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Asbjorn Fire-Tamer
02. Dr. Avrana Kern
03. Drevis Neloren
04. Shrine of Azura

MARKETING POINTS:

• Select dates and festivals in summer/fall 2026 including a European Tour in June/July and New Friends Fest in August
• Follows up sold out vinyl releases "Solitude" and "Have You Heard of the High Elves" released earlier this year on Persistent Vision Records
• Limited colored vinyl

FOR FANS OF:
Blind Girls, Massa Nera, Nuvolascura, Heavenly Blue

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Foreign Body "Libertine"

LP - $17.90 / CD - $10.70 / CASSETTE - $8.75
STREET DATE: 9/11/26
CAT#: BPR-111
LABEL: Brutal Panda

Foreign Body play raw, hideous, and vulgar music. Emblematic of the seedy underbelly of yesterday’s New York City– where sex workers walked the streets freely, rubble and decay were prevalent, drugs were readily available and every businessman’s briefcase contained a loaded gun, the quartet spin Musou black yarns that polite society would rather have swept under the rug, soundtracking them with jaw-clenching and furious mid-tempo punk exploding with fresh ideas. And even though Foreign Body drips with a loathsome mix of hatred for modern living and a desire for its immolation, they’re also one of music’s most promising faces.

Libertine is wholly relentless album with unflinching portrayals of vice, perversions and glorified excesses. Their sophomore full-length was recorded by Matt Russell (REZN, Oozing Wound) and produced by Matt Ibarra of Rectal Hygienics.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Strung Out
02. White Lord of Hell
03. Passed Around
04. Hind Legs
05. Trophy
06. When Sex Is Not Enough
07. Man Was Meant To Take Advantage
08. Born For This
09. Libertines
10. Beauty is a Hammer

MARKETING POINTS:

• Watch 2 Music Videos here
• Recorded by Matt Russell (REZN, Oozing Wound)
• Produced by Matt Ibarra of Rectal Hygienics
• Band was brought to Brutal Panda by renowned NYC noise rockers Couch Slut as "the best new band in NYC".
• Have appeared live with Drunks with Guns, Bloated Subhumans, Prayer Position, PLQ MRX, Reaper's Gong, etc.
• Record Release Tour Dates
  • 09/18 • Philadelphia, PA @ McDuffs
    09/19 • Pittsburgh, PA @ Preserving Shows
    09/20 • Ft. Wayne, IN @ The Brass Rail
    09/21 • St. Louis, MO @ DIY
    09/22 • Chicago, IL @ Backline at Avondale Music Hall
    09/23 • Indianapolis, IN @ DIY
    09/24 • Louisville, KY @ Portal
    09/25 • Columbus, OH @ DIY
    09/26 • Washington, DC @ The Pie Shop
    09/29 - Queens, NY @ TV Eye w/ Forn & Otay Ishii

FOR FANS OF:
Brainbombs, Couch Slut, Rectal Hygenics, Unsane, Chat Pile, The Birthday Party, Flipper, Big Black, Intercourse

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16 Underground "Without a Trace"

12" EP - $15.30 / CD - $7.00
STREET DATE: 9/4/26
CAT#: SDR-166
LABEL: Sunday Drive

16 Underground formed in early 2022 out of a spirit of experimentation. The four Los Angeles-based musicians, whose musical backgrounds vary (but, notably, veer into hardcore/punk territory), wanted to push their creative limits by delving into sounds and textures that weren’t accessible through their previous projects—a new sonic palette inspired more by vintage trip-hop, ambient music, and electronic pop than the guitar-based modes they cut their teeth on.

“Without a Trace”, due out August 14 via Sunday Drive Records, was produced in collaboration with Max Epstein (Photographic Memory, Car Underwater). The band’s sophomore effort leans into a sound that still resonates in today’s dreampop landscape while also reflecting the retro radio influences to which the group pays homage. Synths swirl in stereo while lo-fi trip-hop backbeats churn. Keyboards gesture at times towards loungey jazz; guitars towards emo and shoegaze. Subsonic bass frequencies throb; digital artifacts and samples blip and whisper. Amidst it all, the ethereal, melodic vocals lull the listener into a state of bittersweet bliss.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Glimpse of You
02. Angel (On the Run)
03. Fate
04. Without a Trace
05. Mystify

MARKETING POINTS:

• Produced by Max Epstein (Car Underwater, Photographic Memory)

FOR FANS OF:
Massive Attack, Portishead, Sneakerpimp

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Pageninetynine "Document #8 (25th Anniversary)"

LP - $17.90
STREET DATE: 9/4/26
CAT#: VIS01-25
LABEL: Persistent Vision

A special 25th anniversary edition of the classic and iconic album from Virginia’s pageninetynine. Recorded by Kurt Ballou at GodCity Studio and originally released in 2001, Document #8 is a showcase to the enduring spirit of youth and punk rock.

This updated deluxe edition comes packaged in a stark black and white gatefold jacket with embossed cover artwork, an homage to an early version of the release. The LP includes a 16 page booklet, a foldout poster, and limited colored vinyl. It includes two additional songs originally released on the long out-of-print split 7" with City of Caterpillar.

Started in 1997, pageninetynine is a band founded in Sterling, Virginia who redefined what "punk rock" could mean and be, touring relentlessly and releasing a plethora of albums, splits, singles and more... all from a venerable squad of miscreants on the outskirts of the nation's capital. Pageninetynine is celebrated as one of the long running torchbearers of chaotic and emotional hardcore alongside contemporaries such as Orchid, Saetia, Raein, and Jeromes Dream.

TRACK LISTING:
01. In Love With An Apparition
02. Your Face
03. Life In A Box
04. We Left As Skeletons
05. Punk Rock In The Wrong Hands
06. Ballad Of Circling Vultures
07. The Hollowed Out Chest Of A Dead Horse
BONUS:
08. The Lonesome Waltz Of Leonard Cohen
09. The List (Filth cover)

MARKETING POINTS:

• Pg.99 will be playing select shows and festivals in 2026, including a Japan tour in October 2026, sharing dates with Envy and Mono; extensive touring history includes multiple tours throughout North America and Europe
• Recorded and mixed by Kurt Ballou (Converge)
• Comes packaged in gatefold jacket with embossed cover artwork, a 16 page booklet, foldout poster, and colored vinyl, with artwork by Pg.99 vocalist, Chris Taylor (aka Cris Crude)

FOR FANS OF:
Orchid, Jeromes Dream, Saetia

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amy rose mills "i think we've met before"

LP - $18.15
STREET DATE: 9/04/26
CAT#: BPR-114
LABEL: Brutal Panda

Amy Mills is a musician and artist from NYC who plays guitar in cult noise rock act Couch Slut and emotional noise rock band Adult Human Females. Her self-recorded debut album is full of "delicate acoustic ballads haunted by darkness (and) punctuated by eruptions of noise." - Stereogum

i think we've met before was mastered by Ben Greenberg (Depeche Mode, Drab Majesty) and features guest appearances from Theo Nobel (Couch Slut), Anya Good (Grumpy) and More Eaze.

Released via Brutal Panda Records. Includes a double-sided insert. Manufactured in USA with fair labor standards.

TRACK LISTING:
01. "i heard you call my name"
02. "catch us quick" (Feat. Theo Nobel)
03. "a little treat"
04. "222"
05. "the mosquitos keep multiplying"
06. "maybe ill see u in a year or 2"
07. "i have a crush on you"
08. "it's raining again i'm sick in bed"
09. "david tibet blocked me on instagram"
10. "idumea"
11. "animalsounds.wav" (Feat. Anya Good)
12. "wednesday july 9th at 333 AM"

MARKETING POINTS:

• Debut album from Couch Slut / Adult Human Females guitarist Amy Rose Mills
• Amy is a renowned Luthier, artist, photographer and guitarist living in Brooklyn, NY
• Amy has been featured in Guitar World Magazine (read)
• The first single "a little treat" was featured on Pitchfork's Best New Tracks in June 2026
• Features / reviews in Stereogum, The Soundboard, Pitchfork, Outside Noise, Punk News, etc.
• Mastered by Ben Greenberg (Depeche Mode, Drab Majesty)
• Features guest appearances from Theo Nobel (Couch Slut), Anya Good (Grumpy) and More Eaze.

FOR FANS OF:
current93, twinsistermoon, yeule, midwife, microphones, maria bc

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Kulk "Choosing To Die"

LP - $19.40 / CD - $12.00
STREET DATE: 08/28/26
CAT#: CRR259
LABEL: Church Road

The highly anticipated follow up to their 2024 album ‘It Gets Worse’ is finally here! Kulk unveil their stunning new record and Church Road Records debut ‘Choosing to Die’, out 28th August. This Summer has never looked so bleak.

Along with news of the album, Kulk have also released their new video single ‘An Endless Kife’:

“An Endless Knife is about growing up. When we're younger, sometimes it feels like we're invincible. Like everyone we know and love are constant parts of the universe. When that reality is shattered, it changes how we see the world. You come to realise we are all just a couple of bad days from the worst. At the same time, it feels devastating. It reminds us to look after each other” - Kulk

The band have toured across the UK extensively the past few years, playing amongst bands such as Part Chimp, Hey Colossus, Crowbar, Melt Banana, Iress, Big Brave, Gnoomes, Conan and Portrayal of Guilt… to name a few! They have toured twice with PigsX7, including shows at Electric Ballroom (London) and Rock City (Nottingham) and have appeared at the renowned UK festivals Arctangent and Desertfest.

Kulk is a two person band, composed of Thom [guitar/vocals] and Jade [drums/synth], the band is simultaneously an exploration into human suffering and an extension of their relationship. Kulk reflects exactly what heavy music is, aggressive and brutal yet ultimately made out of love for the ones around us. They pride themselves on their energetic and chaotic live performance.

Join them on their sonic assault of a journey!

TRACK LISTING:
01. An Endless Knife
02. We're Worried About You
03. Collapse
04. Being Forgotten
05. For Blood
06. To Take Life
07. The Saddest Holiday

FOR FANS OF:
The Mars Volta, Bjork, Radiohead

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Trip Six "Back With A Vengeance"

LP - $15.95
STREET DATE: 8/21/26
CAT#: RADIO-040
LABEL: Radio Raheem

One of our favorite cult classic NYHC bands finally gets the Radio Raheem treatment! Trip 6 formed from the ashes of legendary NYHC enigmas The Psychos, with ex-Psychos Tommy Rat (vocals) and Stu Psycho (guitar) teaming up with ex-Ultra Violence/WarZone drummer Charlie Rage and bassist Zippy. This lineup existed for about a year and managed to turn the crunchy, metal-tinged Psychos set list into one of, if not thee, rawest and and most blown out NYHC release of its time, 1987's "Back With A Vengeance" cassette. The cassette included new versions of nine Psychos classics plus four new cuts.

During their brief existence, Trip 6 also contributed the title track of the demo to Revelation Records' classic "New York City Hardcore – The Way It Is" compilation LP and recorded live sets on WNYU and WFMU radio, the latter of which is presented here on side B. The WFMU set from March 1988 features new drummer R.B. and includes several songs that never made it to the studio proper, as well as some choice banter from the band.

The LP is rounded out with a 12"x36" fold-out insert featuring flyers and photos from Trip 6's scant few live appearances, as well as lyrics and a reproduction of the original demo sleeve.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Trip Six Intro
02. Just Us
03. Barriers
04. From The Mind's Eye
05. Sands Of Time
06. Before
07. Rejected Youth
08. Blind Ignorance
09. Back With A Vengeance
10. One Voice
11. Who's Life
12. Trip To Infinity
13. Right To Life
14. Trip Six Intro (Live on WFMU Radio)
15. Trip To Infinity (Live on WFMU Radio)
16. Back With A Vengeance (Live on WFMU Radio)
17. Choice Of Destiny (Live on WFMU Radio)
18. Barriers (Live on WFMU Radio)
19. Never Gonna Learn (Live on WFMU Radio)
20. Sands of Time (Live on WFMU Radio)
21. Don't Bother Me (Live on WFMU Radio)
22. Just Us (Live on WFMU Radio)
23. From The Mind's Eye (Live on WFMU Radio)
24. One Voice (Live on WFMU Radio)
25. Whose Life (Live on WFMU Radio)

FOR FANS OF: New York Hardcore, The Psychos, WarZone, Ultra Violence

MARKETING POINTS:

• First time on vinyl
• Includes 12"x36" full color poster insert
• Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air

Brooke Smith "Sunday Matinee" Third Printing

BOOK - $25.65
STREET DATE: 08/21/26
CAT#: RADIO-SM-3
LABEL: Radio Raheem

If the name Brooke Smith is known to the general public, it is from her acting on television shows such as Grey’s Anatomy and Ray Donovan or her role as Catherine Martin in Silence of the Lambs. But prior to all that, Brooke was a participant in the New York Hardcore scene of the 1980s, photographing bands at CBGB’s notorious Sunday afternoon gigs and hanging out on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

In 2010 when Brooke was moving, a box was unearthed of the photos she’d taken during that heady time in her life. A year later, these pictures were exhibited at the Primary Gallery in New York City under the appropriate title, Sunday Matinee. Soon after the exhibit closed, Smith began combing through the thousands of pictures she had snapped in the hopes of editing them down into a book.

Now, after years of painstaking assembly, the book Sunday Matinee will finally see the light of day through Radio Raheem Records. Made up of live shots of Bad Brains, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, Murphy’s Law, and Underdog as well as candid photography of the colorful characters who made up the New York Hardcore scene, Sunday Matinee documents all the thrill and excitement of a Sunday afternoon on the Bowery in the 1980s and gifts it to you from the safety of the present day.

Sunday Matinee contains over 140 images, both color and black & white, spread across 160 pages in a clothbound 11"x11" book. Third printing of 500 copies.

MARKETING POINTS:

• Photos by Brooke Smith actor from Grey's Anatomy, Ray Donovan and Silence of the Lambs
• Live shots of Bad Brains, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, Murphy’s Law, and Underdog as well as candid photography of the colorful characters who made up the New York Hardcore scene

FOR FANS OF:
Photography, punk, hardcore, New York Hardcore

Bob Barry "Photos by Bob B."

BOOK - $14.00
STREET DATE: 08/21/26
CAT#: RADIO-BOB
LABEL: Radio Raheem

A couple years ago our friends at Generation Records turned up a very cool lost photo album from their friend Robert Barry, a native Long Islander who was taking pictures around various New York City underground music scenes in the later 80s/early 90s. We toyed with a few different ideas on how to use them, and in the end decided to just reproduce everything as-is in a simple fanzine format split between our two labels.

This book is an almost-exact reproduction of the original album, right down to Bob's original clippings attached to the classic 1980s peel-n-stick photo album pages, and captures a candid snapshot (pun fully intended) of an era when the lines between underground music scenes were a lot more blurred — the bands featured run the gambit from the Bad Brains to Mental Abuse to Sonic Youth to rare club show appearances of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Megadeth, and everyone in between. When was the last time you saw Krakdown and Dick Dale featured in the same publication?!

Features approximately 300 photos of 27 bands spread across 80 pages in glorious full color. Each copy comes with an original photo print attached to the front cover. Limited to 300 copies.

MARKETING POINTS:

• Comes with one of 3 original photo prints on the cover

FOR FANS OF:
New York Hardcore, Bad Brains, Agnostic Front, Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Abused "Loud And Clear"

LP - $17.25
STREET DATE: 8/21/26
CAT#: RADIO-003
LABEL: Radio Raheem

What else can we say? Reissuing The Abused "Loud And Clear" EP was one of the main reasons we at Radio Raheem started this label back in 2012. You can take your pick of urban legends as to The Abused's influences: some say the band stole a car with a Minor Threat cassette stuck in the tape deck, and others say they played their Black Sabbath records on 78rpm and tried to emulate what they heard. Either way, "Loud And Clear" is, in our not-so-humble opinion, the total package of early New York Hardcore — some of the best and hardest music combined with some of first-gen hardcore's greatest artwork courtesy of vocalist Kevin Crowley.

Since we're not content to do straight reissues, we expanded the EP out into an LP, adding the band's equally great 12-song demo tape, and a killer live cut of "Police Reign," a song that never made it to the studio. With this new 2026 pressing, have the privilege of adding one more non-studio cut — "Friend Or Foe" — taken from the same excellent quality live set as "Police Reign." If you didn't have the pleasure of hearing "Friend Or Foe" live back in the day or at one of the band's 2000s era reunions, think "Hole In The Sky" by Black Sabbath filtered through NYHC's class of '83. Truly one of the greatest lost NYHC tracks.

We've also updated the original 2013 LP packaging into a standard 2-pocket gatefold sleeve along with a revised 28-page, full-color booklet featuring all of Kevin Crowley's legendary flyers and artwork, meticulously restored from the original pen-and-ink drawings, plus many newly unearthed photos, lost lyrics and flyers not included in the original pressing.

What are you waiting for? Blow your brains out (with this LP)!

TRACK LISTING:
01. Loud And Clear
02. War Games
03. Just Another Fool
04. No End In Sight
05. Nuclear Threat
06. Watch Out
07. Blow Your Brains Out
08. Drug Free Youth
09. Friend Or Foe (Live at CBGB 1983)
10. Watch Out (demo)
11. Nuclear Threat (demo)
12. Just Another Fool (demo)
13. War Games (demo)
14. I Don't Know You (demo)
15. Rule On You (demo)
16. Senseless (demo)
17. Drug Free Youth (demo)
18. Aaargh (demo)
19. Kill And Destroy (demo)
20. We Need A War (demo)
21. Blow Your Brains Out (demo)
22. Police Reign (Live at CBGB 1983)

FOR FANS OF: New York Hardcore, Agnostic Front, Antidote, Cause For Alarm, Minor Threat

MARKETING POINTS:

• Double-pocket gatefold sleeve with 28-page, full-color booklet.

Murphy's Law "Bong Blast"

LP - $17.25
STREET DATE: 8/21/26
CAT#: RADIO-039
LABEL: Radio Raheem

In 1983, Murphy's Law issued their first release: a limited edition nine-song cassette entitled "Bong Blast" that captured the band thrashing away live at various CBGB hardcore matinees. These nine tracks are the perfect representation of the band — "thrash, punk, metal and reggae all thrown together in a humorous way" as Maximumrocknroll aptly put it way back in 1983, and which still rings true today. The original lineup represented here included vocalist Jimmy G, guitarist Alex "Uncle Al" Morris, Cro-Mags founder Harley Flanagan on drums, and early Agnostic Front bassist Adam Mucci.

The band's own Creepy Crawl label would later press "Bong Blast" on LP and CD in the mid '90s, but this release went quickly out of print with most copies ending up overseas and these days commands a premium on the collector market. Radio Raheem and Generation Records are proud to bring this release back to life the only way we know how: with lots of extras!

This new vinyl pressing adds five bonus tracks recorded in the summer of 1985 with Jimmy and Uncle Al being joined by drummer Petey Hines and future Underdog bassist Russ Iglay. These tracks were rumored to have been recorded as an EP for BYO Records, but for reasons unknown, only made it out into the world as promo cassettes sent to a handful of fanzines (with the copy used for this release coming from the Flipside archives). The band would later re-record these five tracks for their 1986 debut LP on Profile Records and the rest, as they say, is history. Rounding out the package is a 16-page, 12"x12" full-color booklet featuring the usual goods: many never-before seen photos, flyers, and other bits of forgotten ephemera.

Split release with our friends Generation Records in NYC, available on green vinyl from Radio Raheem and yellow vinyl from Generation.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Have A Beer
02. Murphy's Law
03. Skinhead Rebel
04. California Pipeline
05. I've Got The Bong
06. Wild Thing
07. Stepping Stone
08. Fun
09. J. Watson R.R.
10. Fun ('85 demo)
11. Sit Home And Rot ('85 demo)
12. Beer ('85 demo)
13. Ilsa ('85 demo)
14. A Day In The Life ('85 demo)

FOR FANS OF: New York Hardcore, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags

MARKETING POINTS:

• Includes 16-page, 12"x12" full-color booklet
• First time available on vinyl in 30 years

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New Forms "Nothing's Sacred Anymore"

12" EP - $15.30
12" EP UPC: 725305742386
STREET DATE: 07/24/26
CAT#: IOD-96
LABEL: Iodine Recordings

New Forms is a manifestation of both passion and dedication to craft, converging in an expression of longing and belonging. With a wall-of-sound approach that eschews repetition, New Forms has continued to hone their sound since their inception in 2018.

Bassist Travis Fitzgerald, guitarist Justin Valliere, and drummer Chris Musser expanded after their first release I Don’t Want to Live My Life Again to include vocalist Mary White-Valliere and guitarist Jake Letizia. Their collective first LP As Dust Collects brought them on tours with Crowning, Beau Navire, and Jerome’s Dream, while seeing them placed on several DIY festivals around the country including California Kicks, New Friends Fest, ZBR Fest, and Dilly Dally Fest.

New Forms is known for the intensity of their live shows, hitting with a pummeling force that offers little reprieve. While the moments are brief, they are able to create mournfully melodic passages, allowing their intensity to return like an earthquake’s impact in mono-pitched vocals, blended perfectly with the instrumentation. New Forms has a gritty sound with deeply emotional lyrics that are lamentations on memory, trauma, and loss, often tied to themes of nature.

“I have found my voice in this band and it’s allowed me to offer up words to others that I wish someone had spoken to me earlier in life,” White-Valliere plainly explains. “I never want to stop connecting with others and pouring love into the type of community that builds us all up.”

New Forms EP Nothing’s Sacred Anymore is their first release with Iodine Recordings. Engineered and mixed at God City by Zach Weeks (Deafheaven, The Armed, Cerce) and mastered by Nick Townsend (Fleshwater, Full of Hell, Nails), Nothing’s Sacred Anymore was recorded to tape, giving it an unmistakable rawness that only reel-to-reel media can provide.

New Forms’s immersion in the DIY scene is at their core and is continued through their work. White-Valliere states, “New Forms is us finding and trying to nourish a community we sincerely want to thrive. It’s about putting out into the world the things we wish someone shared with us at times in our lives when things felt overwhelmingly lonely. We pour our energy, emotions and ourselves into making New Forms something sincere to us.”

TRACK LISTING:
01. I’m Sorry I Left
02. Loss of Integration
03. Woolgathering
04. Return to Self
05. Threadbare

MARKETING POINTS:

• The most recent signing to Iodine recordings, this will be their first release for the label.
• Based in New England; active in the Northeast DIY circuit since 2018
• Touring history with Jerome’s Dream, Crowning, Beau Navire; appearances at ZBR Fest, New Friends Fest, California Kicks
• 2026 dates include East Coast run with Votive, TV Eye Fest, New Friends Fest, and support for The Saddest Landscape and Love Letter
• Single-sided EP w/ silkscreened B-side designed by band member and artist blackcoffiend.com

FOR FANS OF:
Sonagi, Jeromes Dream, Orchid

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Her Head's On Fire "Am I Not Your Girl?"

LP - $17.25
LP UPC: 725305742287
STREET DATE: 07/17/26
CAT#: IOD-97
LABEL: Iodine Recordings

Her Head’s on Fire announce their new record Am I Not Your Girl via Iodine Recordings, the latest from a band that’s excelled at weaving past and present to deliver rock music that hits a sweet spot of post-hardcore grit and genuine songcraft. Am I Not Your Girl? is an exercise in simplicity born from years of consistency, prioritizing true-blue songwriting that draws on a lifetime of influences: big choruses, big moments, big emotions.

Despite its members having played in a murderer’s row of beloved, important bands in the worlds of post-hardcore and emo (Garrison, Saves the Day, The Bomb, and more), the four-piece have locked in on what the band really is. Her Head’s on Fire isn’t trying to coast off those acts but rather push their work forward.

Mixed by Jack Shirley, the album excels at making the listener feel like they’re in the room with the band as it happens, with production focused on capturing the music live rather than creating anything artificial.

Nowhere is the band’s philosophy better illustrated than in Am I Not Your Girl’s cover art. Painted by Joy Johnson and inspired by the photography of Nan Goldin, it’s a collage of illusory moments all occurring within the same space, one emotion bleeding into the next.

“Maybe this record’s on in the background while people have a beautiful conversation, fall in love, or navigate a brutal moment,” Jagger says. “I am honored to be any part of that soundtrack.”

At the core of the band’s mission is community: playing shows and inviting the world in.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Nightmare Smile
02. The Chloroform Dream
03. We Both Stop The Nightmares
04. I Know You, Beautiful
05. She Beats William Tell
06. We're Not Running
07. Serpent Tongues Entwined
08. Am I Not Your Girl
09. The Way We Lie
10. The Hunger Artist

MARKETING POINTS:

• New full-length from Her Heads On Fire via Iodine Recordings
• Featuring members of Saves the Day, The Bomb, Small Brown Bike, and Garrison
• Mixed by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Joyce Manor)
• 2026 touring to support release

FOR FANS OF:
Samiam, Dag Nasty, Garrison

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Ostraca "Thread"

LP - $17.25 / CS - $7.50
STREET DATE: 7/10/26
CAT#: VIS034
LABEL: Persistent Vision

Richmond, Virginia’s Ostraca returns with “Thread”, their new album and follow-up to 2025’s "Eventualities". Not ones to slow down, the trio of bassist Gus Caldwell, guitarist Brian Russo, and drummer John Crogan pick up where their last record left off, with six new songs of emotive, heavy screamo and post-hardcore. Through quiet and loud dynamics, the dark and stark "Thread" explores lyrical themes of interconnectedness, fate and the unknowable.

“Thread” was recorded in 2025 and was engineered, mixed and mastered by Danny Gibney, who the band worked with previously on “Eventualities” and “Disaster.” The album comes packaged in a matte full color jacket with OBI strip, lyric insert and colored vinyl.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Uncollected
02. Enmiserate
03. Song For November
04. Ganymede
05. Freedom From Pain
06. Greater Darkness (Something Worse)

MARKETING POINTS:

• New album "Thread" follows up previous sold out releases on Persistent Vision and Skeletal Lightning Records
• EU/UK tour in July 2026, following extensive touring history throughout North America, Europe, Japan and SE Asia
• Select US shows and festival appearances planned for Summer 2026 including New Friends Fest (Toronto)

FOR FANS OF:
Jeromes Dream, Knumears, Majority Rule

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Dad Hats "Teenage Dirtbag & Never Better"

7" EP - $7.00
STREET DATE: 7/10/26
CAT#: MOM099
LABEL: Mind Over Matter

After their successful sophomore LP 'Spill' came out a couple years back, Dad Hats have been quietly holed up and working on tons of new music, much of which will surface in the form of their next LP which is due out later this year. Since we last heard from our pop punk heroes, they added a member (Zak Klaine, bass), which freed up vocalist Craig Turner to focus on his unique blend of self-loathing and incredibly well-crafted harmonies. Rounded out by drummer Joe Halby and guitarists Tyler Coleman & Nate Sorg, Dad Hats have officially found their stride in the genre of pop-punk-kids-drowning-in-the-minutiae-of-adulthood.

Kicking off the first side of this 7" is undoubtledly the feel good, dopamine-hit-of-nostalgia cover of Wheatus' Teenage Dirtbag, expertly executed. It's hard to think of a cover song that is more suited for the band than this one, and if you've caught them live in the past several months, you already know how amazing it is!

Rounding out the b-side of the record is a new track titled Never Better. A re-recorded version of this song will be included in the forthcoming full length album, and it's packed full of the sarcastic misery and self-deprecation that the band is already known for...just dialed up to 11. It's infectious and - on it's face - seems like a chirpy, summertime bop until you really start to peel back the tongue-in-cheek layers. Vocalist Craig Turner has never been more raw, and we get that balanced on top of some of most entertaining music the band has created to date!

This new EP was recorded at Costume Party Records in Nashville, TN, mixed by James Paul Wisner (Paramore, Underoath, etc) and then mastered by Eric Mitchell (Glassjaw) before being pressed on two wild and fun colors.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Teenage Dirtbag
02. Never Better

MARKETING POINTS:

• Dad Hats features ex-members of Foxy Shazam
• Mixed by James Paul Wisner (Paramore, Underoath)
• Mastered by Eric Mitchell (Glassjaw)
• Vinyl is limited to 200 copies, featuring a cover of Wheatus' "Teenage Dirtbag"
• Two different color variants

FOR FANS OF:
The Wonder Years, PUP, Fall Out Boy

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