DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR kicks off the 2025 Rebellion Tour with Madball, Speed, Guilt Trip and Lies! this evening in Berlin! If you’re in one of these cities, check out the details and head to a show HERE!
Incendiary Device: Upcoming shows!
INCENDIARY DEVICE is keeping busy supporting their self-titled album on Bridge Nine with a bunch of upcoming shows in 2025. Make sure to check out their LP and catch a show if they come through your area!
Toby Morse (H2O): The Punk Rock Museum Tour Guide / May 2025
The Vegan (Mini) Market Returns to B9 on RSD: April 12th, 2025
B9 is excited to do double-duty on Saturday, April 12th: it’s both Record Store Day (so we’ll be stocked with some great RSD-exclusive releases) AND we’ll be hosting another edition of The Vegan (Mini) Market with TEN prepared food vendors in our warehouse! Mark your calendars and make sure you stop by our Beverly, MA store for the market between 11am and 3pm. You can RSVP HERE!
HEAVYHEX on tour with Love Letter in Europe/UK starting next week!
HEAVYHEX is hitting the road in Europe and the UK with Love Letter starting next week! They’re B9’s latest band so check them out if they come through your city!
CEREMONY 20 Years Shows: CA & NYC
H2O on tour with the Bouncing Souls!
Fastbreak 'Fast Cars, Fast Women' LP: Bridge Nine Exclusive Variant
In the late 90s, no one carried the torch for Youth Crew hardcore like FASTBREAK. Formed in 1994, the Connecticut band quickly made a name for themselves in the New England area, thanks to their explosive approach to fast-paced hardcore music and unrelenting positivity. Their sound was a true successor to the upbeat style of bands like Gorilla Biscuits and Youth of Today. Their energy made them a staple in Connecticut hardcore, as they became a fixture playing alongside bands like H2O, Bane, Ten Yard Fight, Right Brigade, and more.
Despite their significant impact on the hardcore scene, Fastbreak's recordings had long been out of print and unavailable on streaming services. We are so excited that Iodine Records is able to re-release Fastbreak’s seminal debut album, Fast Cars, Fast Women, and that we are able to offer an exclusive variant (limited to 200). Originally released in 1998, every idea, riff, and rhythm on the record feels as fresh as ever. Songs like “Said and Done” and “Places Trades” are bursting with pure exuberance and energy. In a time when bands were getting darker and gloomier, Fastbreak was a breath of fresh air, bringing a more inviting energy to the genre.
Fastbreak’s ideas were extremely ahead of their time, predicting the future fusion of hardcore and pop-punk that would go on to take over the world. Their influence can be heard in countless bands that followed, blending the raw energy of hardcore with the immediacy of a positive attitude and approach. It’s a painfully underrated record, but thankfully, listeners now have a chance to realize just what was going on.
Fastbreak’s Fast Cars, Fast Women features Patrick Rorick on vocals, Steven Pica and Neal St. Clair on guitar, Don Raymond on bass, and Luke Garro on drums. The album was produced by Dean Baltulonis and mastered at Metropolis Studios, and features liner notes written by Chris Wrenn (Bridge Nine Records) and Rama Mayo (BWR).
Due out March 28, 2025 - pre-orders will begin shipping on or around that date.
In Memory of Rich Hall (& fund to assist his family)
The Bridge Nine crew is incredibly sad to acknowledge that Rich Hall has passed away at the age of 48. Rich was a punk rock lifer that went from touring with bands, to booking insane shows at CBGB and other NYC venues, to becoming an accomplished artist and family man.
If you’re not familiar with Rich, check out this interview that he did about his time booking bands with Brooklyn Vegan HERE and dig into his art via Decibel HERE.
A GoFundMe that was created to help support his wife and young son during this heartbreaking time can be supported HERE.
This Is LA: A Benefit For the California Fires (Sunday, 2/2)
Incendiary Device with 7 SECONDS, NEGATIVE APPROACH (Punk Rock Bowling)
INCENDIARY DEVICE will be opening up a late-night Trust Records-sponsored Punk Rock Bowling club show on May 23rd featuring the mighty 7 SECONDS and NEGATIVE APPROACH at Fremont Country Club. Details are HERE (though tickets aren’t going on sale for it until March)
H2O "Faster Than The World" 25+ Year Re-Issue (Expanded 2xLP) Pre-Order NOW!
Bridge Nine is proud to re-issue H2O’s classic third album, Faster Than The World, on vinyl for the first time in twenty-five years! Originally released on Epitaph in 1999, this nineteen-song album has been expanded to include a 2nd LP featuring the band’s previously unreleased seventeen-song demo, which was produced by Tim Armstrong (Rancid) in 1998 and remastered by Paul Miner. H2O’s F.T.T.W. 2xLP lands in stores on February 28th, but you can pre-order two versions of it from Bridge Nine directly, today! Available on super-limited spatter vinyl (/200 copies) and this amazing-looking pinwheel vinyl (/550 copies):
H2O Photo by Jimmy Johnson
Available in select record stores on February 28th:
Indie Store Exclusive (North America): 1 Red LP, 1 Blue LP / 750
Cargo (Europe): Red/Black/Blue, Green/Black/Yellow / 300
F.T.T.W. FUN FACT: In 1999 Bridge Nine was just four years old and had only four releases under its belt. Label founder Chris Wrenn's day job was working in the art department of Boston's Tower Records, so Chris cut the "3" cover logo out of foam core by hand and painted this four-foot-wide display to promote their third release for Epitaph Records!
H2O “F.T.T.W.” album promotional display at Tower Records in Boston (1999)
American Nightmare & Foundation at TIED DOWN FEST (Detroit); May 31st-June 1st
It’s going to get a little crazy again in Detroit on May 31st and June 1st with the annual TIED DOWN fest. This year AMERICAN NIGHTMARE & FOUNDATION will be headlining alongside Speed, Fiddlehead, Judge, and so many more great bands. Grab tickets HERE!
Roger Miret & Vinnie Stigma (AGNOSTIC FRONT) on Toby Morse's ONE LIFE ONE CHANCE Podcast!
Roger Miret and Vinnie Stigma from AGNOSTIC FRONT just sat down with Toby Morse (H2O) and his One Life One Chance Podcast to discuss the release of both of their new books! Give it a listen HERE!
Bridge Nine: 2024 Review
When I first started renovating the building that became Bridge Nine’s record store and HQ in Beverly, Massachusetts, I wanted to make a place where cool things could happen. It wasn’t going to just be a record label office, we’d already had that for over 25 years in a succession of spaces, starting in a bedroom and an evolving in a series of warehouses, each bigger than the next. They had their own character and let us work on records and mail them to people, but we were hidden away, hard to find, and unable to be a space where our community could gather and grow. By the time the pandemic started, I wanted something that fostered connection. And 2024 showed that we have become that space and so much more.
Bridge Nine is a record label first and foremost, so finding and supporting artists that inspire us is our most important role. We were excited to invite HEAVYHEX onto the label and support them with the release of their debut album, True To You, recorded by Jay Maas (Defeater, Love Letter).
We were also proud to get new pressings of Ceremony’s Rohnert Park (in time for their insane show at the Hollywood Palladium where they played the album front to back; the DYS Brotherhood LP (on green!); and Have Heart’s The Things We Carry and Songs To Scream at the Sun albums in time for their reunion shows this summer!
We were also happy to collaborate with our friends at Blackout!, Iodine Recordings and Trust Records to release Bridge Nine exclusive color vinyl pressings for a half-dozen albums for bands that we dig like S.S. Decontrol, Love Letter, B9 alums Crime In Stereo, Further Seems Forever, Stretch Armstrong, and coming very soon: Piebald!
We also celebrated the release of new books by our favorite artists: Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids), Ray Cappo (Shelter, Youth of Today), Vinnie Stigma, and Roger Miret (Agnostic Front):
and invited a whole bunch of great artists to exhibit throughout the year, like Alyssa Watters, Lori Dawn, Mike Gallo, Christopher Michon / Failed Imagineer, Timmy Tanker, Alyssa Driscoll, and Meesh Dumas / Bold, Old, and Gold!
We partnered with The Vegan Market THREE times throughout the year, and packed our warehouse (and in August, the street next to our building) with delicious vegan food vendors:
The Vegan Market: August 2024 Edition
We also turned the B9 warehouse into a movie theater for two film premieres: Don’t Forget To Leave (about Tim Landers of the band Transit) and Join Or Die, about the importance of being an active part of your community!
Frank Turner cameo in the film Don’t Forget To Leave about Tim Landers of the band Transit
But the thing that got us the most excited, was to invite some of our favorite bands to perform the most intimate of sets in the B9 warehouse. HEAVYHEX celebrated the release of their new album on B9 back in May with their friends The Promised End and Spite House:
HEAVYHEX Live at Bridge Nine. Photo courtesy of Dom DiNardo
another highlight was having Calling Hours (ex-Farside) perform our two-year anniversary of the store being open show:
Calling Hours performing live at Bridge Nine on September 14th, 2024. Photo by Chris Wrenn
But the absolute banger, the “how are we going to top this” event was NYHC-pioneers Agnostic Front performing live as part of the release of Roger and Vinne’s new books:
Agnostic Front performing live at Bridge Nine Records on December 7th, 2024. Photo by Dave Boccio.
with a special half-New York, half-Boston AF lineup that featured Mark McKay (Slapshot) on drums and Jaime Sciarappa (SSD) on bass with Chris Foley (SSD) hopping on the drums for a cover of S.S. Decontrol’s song “Glue,” and Eugene Hutz (Gogol Bordello) helping Vinnie sing “Power.”
Also special shoutouts to Lenny Lashley, Keith Bennet, Smooth Brain, 5Ever, Return Address, Hyber, and Marley Brown for their special performances at B9 this year!
We want to extend a special thank you to Larry Kelley, Katherine Wrenn, Chris Padgett, Katie at Soy Much Brighter, Crystal Rose, and everyone who has made these events happen. We dreamed of a space where we could do stuff like this, and it’s become our reality. We’ve got a TON of things in the works for 2025, so make sure to keep up with what we’re doing and be a part of it!
Chris Wrenn
B9