Iron Chic will be playing three shows at the end of the month, April 27th-29th, in support of Screaming Females! Be sure to check them out if you’re in the Philly, Brooklyn, or Boston area! Tickets available here.
Terror to Begin Tour with Black Dahlia Murder and More
Terror hits the road this Saturday (4/15) with The Black Dahlia Murder, Frozen Soul, Fuming Mouth, and Phobophilic! First date is at the Roxian Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA. Check out dates and grab tickets HERE.
Record Store Day LABEL MARKET At Bridge Nine / April 22nd
SAVE THE DATE & JOIN US FOR RECORD STORE DAY: Saturday, April 22nd! We'll be opening early at 10:00 am and will have lots of RSD2023 exclusive releases in store, including the RSD exclusive extended edition of Agnostic Front's United Blood! In the spirit of Record Store Day, we've also invited local independent record labels to pop-up in our warehouse event space for the day. Visit with labels like X-Claim! Records, Crimewave Records, Tor Johnson Records, Sound Investment Records, Hellhound Publishing, Iodine Recordings, and more! If you have a label or know a label that might be interested, have them contact us - spots are free and we have plenty of space. We are also excited to announce that educator and author Nancy Barile will be here with her book, I'm Not Holding Your Coat!
See you on Record Store Day! More details are available on the Facebook event page HERE!
This Is Hardcore 2023 Lineup Announced
Tickets go on sale Monday, April 10th!
Roger Miret (Agnostic Front) Guided Tours / Punk Rock Museum (Vegas)
Roger Miret of Agnostic Front will be at The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas this weekend (Friday April 7th, Saturday April 8th, and Sunday April 9th), giving guided tours! If you’re in Vegas, you can grab tickets for a tour with Roger HERE!
Memorial Show to Benefit The Family of Sean Lipinski (Holding On) / June 3, 2023
A memorial show to benefit the family of Sean Lipinski, who released an album with the band Holding On in 2002. He passed away in December, more about that can be found HERE.
Tickets are available HERE.
All Ages Hardcore Matinee
Sunset (with Sean’s brother Mike on guitar)
Gnaw @gnawonyourmind
Harvest @harvest.hc
Empire Down @empiredownband
Blue Ox @blueox_mpls
Desperate Acts @desperateacts
Identity Crisis @identity_crisisband
Strike Anywhere Nightmares of the West European Tour 2023
Strike Anywhere is headed to Europe this September and October! Details below:
28.09.2023 NL Venlo, Grenswerk +
29.09.2023 BE Antwerp, Kavka +
01.10.2023 DE Hanover, Faust +
02.10.2023 DE Cologne, Helios37 +
03.10.2023 DE Wiesbaden, Schlachthof +
04.10.2023 DE Stuttgart, JuHa West +
05.10.2023 DE Zwiesel, Jugendcafe +
06.10.2023 DE Lindau, Club Vaudeville +*
07.10.2023 AT Graz, Erntepunk Fest
08.10.2023 SI Ljubljana, Club Gromka
10.10.2023 IT Milan, Legend Club
11.10.2023 CH Baden, Werkk
12.10.2023 DE Nuremberg, Desi
13.10.2023 DE Leipzig, Conne Island /
15.10.2023 DE Hamburg, Molotow /
🎫 Tickets & Info: Destiny Tourbooking
+ w/ Roughneck Riot (UK)
* w/ Moscow Death Brigade (RU)
/ w/ Bellyacher (DE)
DEFEATER to Play Two Shows for The 10 Year Anniversary of 'Letters Home'
DEFEATER will be playing a Boston and a New York show supported by Caspian, Stand Still, Rough Francis, Stay Inside, and Only Sibling to commemorate their album 'Letters Home', released a decade ago. Tickets will be available HERE starting 10AM EST on Friday 3/24.
SLAPSHOT hitting the Road with Sheer Terror This Week!
Slapshot is hitting the road with the mighty Sheer Terror starting tomorrow in Baltimore. Catch them on their way back up the East Coast this week!
New Found Glory helps open the B9 Warehouse Matinee Series
Ceremonial “Ribbon Cutting” with New Found Glory, who performed at Bridge Nine on 3/16/23. Photo by Dominic DiNardo
Two years after getting the keys to our new HQ in Beverly, Mass and just six months after opening our record store here on Rantoul Street, Bridge Nine hosted our inaugural fully-plugged-in live performance with the band New Found Glory, who very graciously kicked off our first Warehouse Matinee just hours before doing double-duty at their sold-out show at the 900-seat Somerville Theatre.
Deciding to open a record store was a conscious effort to engage with people more. Our last HQ was hidden away in an industrial complex. Now that we’re on a busy street in a cool downtown area, we wanted to create opportunities for people to get together. And what better way then by inviting one of our favorite bands to perform for the most intimate of audiences?
New Found Glory performing LIVE at Bridge Nine on 3/16/23. Photo by Chris Padgett
Bridge Nine has had a long history with New Found Glory, going back to when we first met them in 2004, in Australia of all places. Chris B9 was with a band doing a club tour, and New Found Glory had just landed in the same city about to start their own tour the following day. Once they realized an American hardcore band was playing in town, they came to the show to check it out and say hello. We stayed in touch, and three years later when NFG guitarist Chad Gilbert produced our first release for H2O, the Nothing To Prove album, we started talking about releasing something for International Superheroes of Hardcore, the heavier alter-ego of NFG. That turned into the dual-release Tip Of The Iceberg 7” and ISHC LP, which came out in the spring of 2008, and the first of eleven different releases with the New Found Glory camp over the next five years.
New Found Glory performing LIVE at Bridge Nine on 3/16/23. Photo by Chris Padgett
New Found Glory is currently on tour supporting their new album on Revelation Records called Make The Most Of It, which is an acoustic album written by the band in the wake of Chad Gilbert’s cancer diagnosis. He has been receiving treatment for a rare form of cancer called Pheochromocytoma, and has sat out the second half of the tour, with Dan from Four Year Strong filling in for him. We had asked Chad if NFG would be down to play our store, and the band agreed to do it, so we created an exclusive cover for their new album in homage to the famous Judge Chung King Can Suck It LP and updated it with the Cancer Can Suck It slogan that Chad had been using on tour. These LP’s were made in a limited quantity, hand-numbered, and only available in-person at the Bridge Nine store. The bonus though, was it came with admission to see the band perform fully plugged-in less than a week later!
New Found Glory’s Make The Most Of It with limited-edition Cancer Can Suck It cover
To get the warehouse ready, long-time supporter Larry Kelley built a drum riser and tracked down a drum set and much of the backline that was needed for the band to perform. Chris picked the band up at the Somerville Theatre in a 12-passenger van, and rushed them back to the Bridge Nine store. After a short sound check, they ripped through twelve songs in just over thirty minutes.
Everyone here at Bridge Nine wants to thank New Found Glory for playing our store and warehouse, and wish Chad Gilbert well as he continues to receive treatment for Pheochromocytoma. You were missed, and we hope you can make it out to the B9HQ on your next tour!
Did you miss out on the NFG show? Don’t miss our next event! Make sure to follow us on Instagram, and get on our Mailing List!
New Found Glory performing LIVE at Bridge Nine on 3/16/23. Photo by Dominic DiNardo
New Found Glory performing LIVE at Bridge Nine on 3/16/23. Photo by Elena de Soto
New Found Glory performing LIVE at Bridge Nine on 3/16/23. Photo by Dominic DiNardo
New Found Glory performing LIVE at Bridge Nine on 3/16/23. Photo by Elena de Soto
New Found Glory at Bridge Nine on 3/16/23. Photo by Ana Massard
Defeater, H2O & Terror to Play Germany's Full Force Festival
Germany’s popular Full Force Festival has announced their lineup for June 23-25 this year and Defeater, H2O, and Terror will all be playing! European friends - check out the full lineup and grab tickets here!
No Warning: 20 Years of Ill Blood European Tour (June)
No Warning is celebrating 20 years of Ill Blood and will be headed to Europe in June for a ten-day tour playing the album straight through! Don’t miss it!
'Boston United' Fest 2023 / Unseen featuring DBD, FTW
Boston punks The Unseen are celebrating 30 years and have a host of bands with them playing downstairs at The Middle East on July 15th. From B9’s camp, we have Death Before Dishonor and For The Worse, so you don’t want to miss this, grab tickets HERE!
New Found Glory: LIVE! At Bridge Nine
New Found Glory is on tour supporting their new all-acoustic LP, Make The Most Of It, on Revelation Records. They’ll be playing a sold-out show in the Boston area on the evening of Thursday, March 16th, at the 900-capacity Somerville Theatre, but for a very lucky few, they’ll be playing fully plugged-in at Bridge Nine Records earlier that afternoon!
Want to be there??
To catch New Found Glory in such an intimate setting, you’ll need to come to the Bridge Nine Records brick-and-mortar store in Beverly, Massachusetts, between now and whenever the records sell out (we’ll post when that happens) and buy a copy of their new LP, complete with a very limited Judge-homage “Cancer Can Suck It” cover! The LPs are available on a one-per-person, while-supplies-last basis, so anyone wanting to catch the show must stop by and pick one up!
Buying the LP puts you on the list for when they perform on March 16th. Want to be there? What are you waiting for?
Please Note: The Bridge Nine Record Store WILL BE OPEN on Monday, March 13th, and Tuesday March 14th from 11am until 5pm (we’re usually closed those days, but leading up to this show and St. Patrick’s Day, we’ll be open!)
Shawna Potter on Women Who Inspire Her
Photo: Jen Vesp Photography (@jenvesp)
Recently, in honor of International Women’s Day, we reached out to Shawna Potter of War On Women to ask her about the women who have shaped her life, as well as the art and activism that inspire her own work.
Hollaback! (now known as Right To Be) is a nonprofit organization created to both raise awareness about and combat harassment.
“There's not a woman that's come into my life that hasn't shaped me in some way, but a few of the most impactful would be my mom and her mom, both of whom raised me to be independent and creative. My best friend Mel, whose knowledge and experience in gender-based violence response work pushed me to be a better activist every day. My Hollaback! family of the 2010s, who created community even when we were spread out all over the world, uniting with a single purpose to end harassment without a hint of competition or scarcity mindset.”
“Artistically, there's too much I couldn't even name it all, but what comes to mind is the raw, independent punk spirit embodied by Bikini Kill, Hole, and the Slits that I was lucky enough to find in my formative years. For books, the Valley of the Dolls, My Secret Garden, and the work of Margaret Atwood, Adrienne Marie Brown, and Carol Adams.”
Photo: Rodrigo Garrido
“Lastly, I want to elevate the work of Las Tesis, the women protesting for more freedom in Iran, Russia, and around the world, Brigid Alliance, Yellowhammer, and anyone else working towards reproductive freedom, anyone working in transformative justice, like Creative Interventions, founded by Mimi Kim, and anyone working towards environmental justice. Lastly, I am humbled and inspired every day by my sisters who are trans, Black, Brown, and/or disabled, and will continue to learn all I can do to be a better accomplice in their fights for equality.”
-Shawna Potter
Catch War On Women at Camp Punksylvania, coming up in September!