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Bridge Nine’s Chris Wrenn will be at Lala Books in Lowell, MA, on Saturday, May 2nd at 7 pm to read select passages and talk about the experiences detailed in his new book, Fenway Punk, as part of The Town and the City Festival!
Details for the event can be found HERE!
Chris B9 was a guest on the Toucher & Rich show on 98.5 The Sports Hub this past Friday, to discuss his new book Fenway Punk. You can catch the conversation and recap by show producer Adam 12, HERE!
Chris Wrenn and Pat Flynn (HAVE HEART, Fiddlehead) will be discussing the new book FENWAY PUNK at Harvard Book Store this Thursday, April 9th at 7 pm! Come grab a copy and hear Chris and Pat talk about how Boston’s sports rivalry with New York in the early aughts helped fund the Bridge Nine label (and Have Heart’s early releases). Details for Thursday night’s event can be found HERE!
The next FENWAY PUNK book release event is Monday, March 30th, at 7 pm! Courtesy of Rozzie Bound Books and hosted at The Square Root in Roslindale, Massachusetts, author and B9 founder Chris Wrenn will be sitting down with author Ethan Gilsdorf. Make sure to RSVP, here!
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Chris Wrenn will be visiting Generation Records this Friday, March 13th, to release his new book, Fenway Punk. Join Chris and moderator Drew Stone (NYHC Chronicles / Incendiary Device) for a Q&A to learn about how the rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees in the early 2000s helped bankroll a generation of hardcore bands (from both Boston and NYC!)
This event was originally scheduled to be at PowerHouse Arena in Brooklyn, note that it is now from 6-8 pm at Generation Records in Manhattan, at 210 Thompson Street!
You can also order the. book HERE!
Chris Wrenn returned to the Podioslave Podcast for their 311th episode to discuss his new book, Fenway Punk – give it a listen HERE! (Chris was last on their pod two years ago for episode 169, check that out HERE).
Hosts and lifelong friends Tony, Nate, and Anthony discussed the new book and dug into how Boston Red Sox fans unwittingly played a role in the wave of hardcore-punk albums released by Bridge Nine in the early 2000s.
Haven’t picked up a copy of Fenway Punk yet? Grab one HERE!
Chris Wrenn returned to the New York Hardcore Chronicles Live! show and chopped it up with host Drew Stone and Lori Dawn about his book Fenway Punk on episode #417 on Sunday. You can tune in and give it a watch HERE!
In Stores February 10th, 2026. Pre-order the new book, Fenway Punk, HERE!
An audacious and inspiring debut social history that explores how entrepreneurial members of the tight-knit hardcore punk scene within the vibrant heart of Boston cashed in on one baseball’s greatest rivalries.
For eighty-six years Boston Red Sox baseball fans lived in the shadow of their rivals, the New York Yankees, who more or less dominated the sport each season. Red Sox fans grew dejected as their team often got close, but ultimately would be eliminated from contention each year as New York went on to win yet another World Series championship.
Author Chris Wrenn, a member of the Boston hardcore punk scene, had a dream of his own—to start his own record label. Embracing the do-it-yourself ethos of the scene, Chris set out to make it happen, networking and forging relationships with local bands. But such an endeavor required money he didn’t have . . . until he and his friends heard a familiar phrase echo out of Fenway Park, the home field of the Red Sox. The phrase “Yankees Suck!” was chanted at every single Red Sox game. Possessing the wherewithal to produce inexpensive merchandise and the free time to stake a claim to the sidewalks outside the baseball stadium, Chris and his crew of punks began a lucrative endeavor of selling “Yankees Suck” merchandise such as stickers and T-shirts to the fans. While navigating cops, competitors, a violent gang, and in-fighting within the crew, Wrenn and his friends turned Boston’s rivalry into “six-figure summers,” affording him the capital to launch Bridge Nine Records and bring local Boston hardcore bands including American Nightmare and Have Heart to stages worldwide just as the Red Sox got closer than ever to finally winning the World Series again.
A rousing story of entrepreneurship and ingenuity that also reveals fresh insight into one of the most epic rivalries in sports history, Fenway Punk is a gripping read for both fans of punk music and readers of Ben Mezrich, Lizzy Goodman, and Chuck Klosterman.
Since his salad days as a teenage skateboarder, Chris Wrenn has focused on two tasks: releasing albums for his favorite bands and finding unusual ways to pay for it. The indie record label that he started three decades ago in his college dorm room, Bridge Nine, has gained an international following by releasing over three hundred recordings from some of the most impactful bands in the punk music underground. At the same time, Sully’s, the Beantown-centric brand that Chris founded with an initial goal: to earn the money needed to fund the record label, went from profiting on bitter sports rivalries to celebrating all things Boston. The slogan he coined in the spring of 2004, “Believe In Boston,” has become a rallying cry that is still embraced by all of the city’s professional sports teams twenty years later. Chris and his wife Katherine live just north of Boston in Beverly, Massachusetts. Together, they are raising a toddler and a teenager while also managing the day-to-day responsibilities of both brands. You can learn more about what Chris is up to next at http://www.ChrisWrenn.com.
Chris Wrenn was on this week’s episode of the TV Guidance Podcast (episode 664!) with Ken Reid. Chris picked the April 11-17 issue of TV Guide and together Chris and Ken explore TV shows from 2004 and how the Red Sox and Yankees rivalry helped influence the direction of the Bridge Nine label. Tune in HERE!
This week Chris Wrenn was on the Jughead’s Basement Podcast with John “Jughead” Pierson. Give it a listen HERE!
For those not in-the-know, Drew Stone of Incendiary Device hosts a weekly live show: The New York Hardcore Chronicles Live! This past Sunday, he had his friends and bandmates from ID join him alongside Chris Wrenn of Bridge Nine to discuss their debut album and more! Check it out HERE. All variants of the Incendiary Device record are shipping now so grab one!
Spinning Out Podcast host Josh Robbins and B9’s Chris Wrenn sat down and discussed the band Death Before Dishonor, their landmark album Count Me In (2007), and some of the behind-the-scenes going ons that were happening at the time, as well as updates as to what Bridge Nine is up to these days with their new store and warehouse performance space. Give it a listen HERE!
We are excited to announce that the season finale, Episode 6 of the docu-series Don’t Stand In Line is now streaming on Youtube, and you can watch it HERE!
We were profiled alongside three other entrepreneurs, Sunny at Hate5Six, Greg at Wolf Brigade, and Steve at FBM Bike Company.
Check out the first five episodes (catch up HERE), and then go to Codec Projects to see how you can help support Anthony as he works on Season Two!
We are excited to announce that Episode 4 of the first season of the six-episode docu-series Don’t Stand In Line is now streaming on Youtube, and you can watch it HERE!
We were profiled alongside three other entrepreneurs, Sunny at Hate5Six, Greg at Wolf Brigade, and Steve at FBM Bike Company.
Check out the first four episodes, and then go to Codec Projects to see how you can help support Anthony as he works on Season Two!
