DS Record Radar: This Week in Punk Vinyl (NOFX, Teenage Bottlerocket, Skeetch, Curbside & More!)

NOFX continues to fund their retirement with represses, with the latest being this 25th Anniversary Pump Up The Valuum reissue. This is a zoetrope record (google that if you don’t know what it means) and it’ll run ya $40 which is pretty lame but it does look sick as fuck. Get it here.

German skate punks Skeetch will be releasing their debut LP Sunny Side of Shitty Town on August 22nd and you can pre-order it now! Punkerton Records has three bad ass color variants up on their webstore, and Cat’s Claw Records has an EU exclusive variant as well. Check out the music video for the new single “Sunny Side” down below and lock in your pre-orders for the skate punk record of the year!

Teenage Bottlerocket’s new record Ready to Roll is due out August 29th on Pirates Press Records and pre-orders are going fast, with two of the most limited variants (including the deluxe edition with a foil sleeve and bonus 7″) already selling out. Pick through the scraps and grab one of the leftover variants here.

In case you missed my Record Radar Alert(!) last week, I’ll remind you Mom’s Basement Records is releasing two bad ass albums from 2024 on vinyl for the first time: YES FLAG’s Grand Bystander and Unicorn Dogs’ Age Typical Junk Behavior. You can grab both records on an awesome selection of color variants right now on the Mom’s Basement webstore.

DRAIN …IS YOUR FRIEND or so they say! DRAIN’s got a new record coming out November 7th on Epitaph and there are a fuckload of color variants to get this one on. Links to pre-order all 27 of them can be found right here. Check out their new single “Nights Like These”:

Let’s take a lil break from all the new records and talk about some old records. Here’s a kinda old record! Bayside’s The Walking Wounded was released in 2007 and has been out of print for nearly a decade, but now you can get it on three new color variants by clicking this link and ponying up $40! What’s the deal with this shit? $40 records! Jesus H

SBAM Records is repressing The Ataris’ 1999 classic Blue Skies, Broken Hearts…Next 12 Exits on two bad ass new color variants, and picture disc! Who doesn’t love picture discs? Also! They’re doing that liquid filled record thing still. These are only available on their EU and UK stores.

SBAM’s also repressing The Vandals’ Peace Thru Vandalism on three sick nasty color variants – and again, on a $99 liquid filled “Anarchy Burger” variant. These are only available on their EU and UK stores as well.

The fine people at Sounds Rad! Records continue to revive the legendary Lookout! Records catalog one record at time, with their latest endeavor being a big time 30th Anniversary reissue of Squirtgun’s classic self-titled debut, freshly remastered by Mass Giorgini at Sonic Iguana Studios. A red, yellow, and blue splatter variant will be available to pre-order from the Sounds Rad! webstore this Wednesday, June 25th, with a “standard retail variant” coming in October.

13 years after their bad ass debut album The Sound I Know, Ontario skate punks Curbside are back in action and ready to release their sophomore LP A Lifetime to Outgrow August 8th on Thousand Islands Records! Check out the new single “We Were The Thieves” below and pre-order the record on beautiful colored vinyl right here. Also! Thousand Islands is also releasing the debut album on vinyl for the first time ever; you can get that at the same link.

Add Modern Life Is War to the list of bands releasing a new album for the first time in a long time, as they’ve announced Life On The Moon, due out September 5th on Iodine Recordings and Deathwish Inc. They’re pressing this on nine (9) variants! Links to buy all of them can be found here.

Ska revivalist JER will be releasing a new album called Death of the Heart on August 15th via Bad Time Records. Check out the lead single “The Way You Tune It Out” below and pre-order the record on three color variants (actually two, since one already sold out ) right here

Dead Broke Rekerds continues to reissue bad ass kinda obscure 90s punk records, with the latest being from New Jersey’s Humble Beginnings. Their 1998 EP Overanalyzing the Manifestations of the Unconscious has been remastered for its first ever vinyl release, limited to 220 copies on random mixed color vinyl. Get it here!

The Smoking Popes have a new 7″ single Allegiance out now on Anxious and Angry, limited to 300 copies on gold vinyl and another 300 copies on black wax. All proceeds will be donated to the ACLU. Get it here.

Speaking of 7″s! The Dollyrots have a new single called “Get on this Ride” coming out this Friday, and you can get it on a 7″ featuring the exclusive B-Side “You Don’t Own Me”. Get it on evergreen colored vinyl right here.

London, England’s Burnt Tapes are releasing their new album New Lungs August 8th. Check out the new single “MOTHERSGUILT” below and get the record on two color variants from Wiretap Records (US), Lockjaw Records (UK), and Nasty Cut Records (EU). Nasty Cut has an exclusive – and very limited – cassette tape release as well.

More 7″s! Split 7″s even! Mercy Music and Danger Days contribute one new song each on their new split 7″, due out July 11th on Double Helix Records and available on five(!) color variants right here. And that’s not all; Double Helix is releasing another split 7″ from Her Head’s On Fire and Arms Like Roses. New songs from both bands! Three variants! Limited to 100 copies each! Get it here.

Motion City Soundtrack’s first new album in a long-ass time The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World is due out September 5th on Epitaph. You can get it on “Teal Wave” colored vinyl and black wax from the band’s merch store. Other colors include the Electric Fetus exclusive white variant, the US indie exclusive opaque orange vinyl, and the EU indie exclusive blue white marble variant. There’s also a sweet looking tour exclusive red and orange splatter variant, so I guess look out for a MCS tour being announced soon?