Turn of Phrase / Square One "Pale Skies"

7" EP - $8.00
STREET DATE: 4/17/26
CAT#: SDR-161
LABEL: Sunday Drive

While a pale sky evokes beauty, it also feels still. Another ordinary day—a moment to breath, but a need to escape to search for something better. This chasm exists on the split 7” titled, “Pale Skies”. Side A features New York hardcore band, Square One with Side B featuring London hardcore band, Turn of Phrase, thus making this a first co-release, with an unlikely, but sensible paring between Scheme and Sunday Drive Records.

Square One and Turn of Phrase each contribute two new tracks, and their first since their demos released over a year ago. Square One’s ‘The Cycle’ and ‘What’s Real’ are filled with groove only a NYHC band can create, with the likeness of Supertouch or Beyond. Turn of Phrase’s ‘Delirium’ and ‘Still As Sin’ are fast, but full of melody, with palpable energy to dive and shout to; as you would to Lifetime or fellow English band, Leatherface.

“Pale Skies” is for the days you need to breathe and the days that you need to search for the light.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Square One - The Cycle
02. Square One - What’s Real
03. Turn of Phrase - Delirium
04. Turn of Phrase - Still as Sin

MARKETING POINTS:

• 7" packaged in a DJ sleeve with spot gloss on the cover with a silver foil promo sticker

• Turn of Phrase EU tour:
  12/05 - PRAGUE (CZ) - ETERNIA
  13/05 - BUDAPEST (HUN) - RIFF
  14/05 - SAN DONÀ DI PIAVE (IT) - GARAGE
  15/05 - VENICE (IT) - VENEZIA HARDCORE FEST
  16/05 - LYON (FR) - TOI TOI LE ZINC
  18/05 - LILLE (FR) - BRATCAVE
  19/05 - DARMSTRADT (GER) - OETINGER VILLA
  20/05 - COLOGNE (GER) - QUATTRO CULTURA
  21/05 - AMSTERDAM (NL) - OCCII
  22/05 - HAMBURG (GER) - QUARTERPIPE
  23/05 - BERLIN (GER) - CAKEWALK FEST

*Performing at Outbreak Fest

• Square One - East Coast Weekender:
  4/1 - Baltimore, MD
  4/2 - New Brunswick, NJ
  4/3 - Westerly, RI
  4/4 - Syracuse, NY

FOR FANS OF:
Supertouch, Lifetime, Title Fight

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"Free Stickers with Every Order: A History of Hardcore Stickers" by Thomas Rackow

BOOK - $25.65
UPC: 9798994447000
STREET DATE: 04/17/26
CAT#: IOD-P01
LABEL: Iodine Recordings

Free Stickers with Every Order: A History of Hardcore Stickers is the first book dedicated entirely to the visual and cultural legacy of hardcore punk stickers. Fleeting, affordable, and deeply expressive, stickers helped define the DIY ethos of the scene.

Spanning North America from the early 1980s to now, this deluxe hardcover volume presents a carefully curated archive of rare and often long-lost hardcore stickers, preserved from a medium never intended to survive. Stickers were cheap to produce and easy to distribute. They were powerful in their immediacy, functioning as both promotion and protest, identity and community. Pasted on lampposts, venue walls, record bins, and street signs, they carried the values of hardcore far beyond the shows themselves.

Collected over decades and contextualized through firsthand interviews, the book pairs full-color visual documentation with oral histories from key figures in the scene, including members of 7 Seconds, Quicksand, Earth Crisis, Have Heart, American Nightmare, Hot Water Music, Bane, Integrity, and Agnostic Front, among others.

Rather than aiming for encyclopedic completeness, Free Stickers with Every Order follows a selective and thoughtful approach. Many sticker artifacts have been lost over time and cannot be recovered. The book stands as a focused time capsule of hardcore’s visual language, values, and community, told by those who were there.

Deluxe Hardcover Edition First Edition Limited to 1,000 Copies

MARKETING POINTS:

• Deluxe Hardcover Book, over 250 pages
• Limited to 1,000 copies
• In-depth interviews with punk and hardcore luminaries from the 1980s to now
• Archival photographs of thousands of hardcore punk stickers
• Interviews with: 7 Seconds, Quicksand, Earth Crisis, Have Heart, American Nightmare, Hot Water Music, Bane, Integrity, and Agnostic Front, and more!

FOR FANS OF:
Gorilla Biscuits, Judge, 7 Seconds, Integrity

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