Ray Cappo (Shelter, Youth of Today) Book Signing at Bridge Nine on RSD / April 20th, 2024 (2-4 PM)

January 25, 2024 Chris Wrenn

We are excited to announce that Ray Cappo (Shelter, Youth of Today) will be visiting Bridge Nine (282 Rantoul Street, Beverly, MA, 01915) on Saturday, April 20th to promote his new memoir, From Punk To Monk. Books will be available for sale and we will be hosting a Q&A moderated by Drew Stone (Incendiary Device, Antidote, The New York Hardcore Chronicles) from 2-4 PM, so get there early!

Note: This is Ray’s Boston-area appearance and it is also Record Store Day, so make sure it’s on your calendar!

Bridge Nine to host a Vegan Mini-Market on March 23rd!

January 24, 2024 Chris Wrenn

Bridge Nine is proud to host a Vegan Mini Market on March 23rd! Stop by between 11am and 3pm to try a variety of snacks, baked goods, food & apothecary goods from a dozen different vendors in the large warehouse behind our store at 282 Rantoul Street. For more info, go HERE!

H2O & Incendiary Device: Live at B9 (Recap)

September 16, 2023 Bridge Nine

H2O live at B9, September 9th, 2023 (Photo by Dominic DiNardo)

Bridge Nine celebrated our first year open as a brick-and-mortar store on Saturday, September 9th! To help acknowledge the milestone, we invited one of our favorite bands, H2O, to perform in one of the most intimate settings that they’ve played in years.

Chris Wrenn hand numbering the show posters. Still some left! Grab one HERE! (Photo by Dave Boccio)

Chris from Bridge Nine has been a fan of H2O since before he started the label. He even gave his college girlfriend a mixtape of H2O songs in 1996 of their demo and 7 inch! Having the opportunity to start working with the band back in 2007, and releasing the Nothing To Prove album, has been a highlight of the label.

Chris Wrenn singing along on stage to H2O, back in the 1990s (Photo by Meg Price)

To get the show started, Incendiary Device from NYC performed. The band features long-time B9 collaborator Drew Stone, and they have a full-length album in the works, look for it this fall on Bridge Nine!

Incendiary Device performing at B9 on Saturday, Septemner 9th, 2023 (Photo by Dave Boccio)

Over the past 15 years, H2O and Bridge Nine have teamed up on 15 different releases, from new albums, singles, and re-issues of their earlier material. For this latest East Coast tour, they made our office the Boston-area stop on tour, and performed to the most intimate of audiences.

Everyone here at Bridge Nine would like to thank H2O, Incendiary Device, Larry Kelley, Chris Padgett, Jimmy the sound guy, and the many people who have come out and supported our live event series and our record store! We’d like to thank Liquid Death for keeping our guests hydrated. We’d also like to thank the people who helped document the night: Bill Fulkerson, Jason Zucco, Heather McGrath, Al Quint, Todd Pollock, Aaron RTTP, Dave Boccio & Dominic DiNardo. THANK YOU for your continued support. Excited to see what we can do in year two!

Kat (left), Chris (right) and Al Quint from Suburban Voice (center)

Matt Henderson (The Eulogy, Agnostic Front, Madball, Yankees fan) being a great sport with Chris

Toby Morse crushing a can of Liquid Death (photo by Todd Pollock)

H2O photo gallery courtesy of Dominic DiNardo:

H2O, Incendiary Device, Larry Kelley & Chris Wrenn (Photo by Dominic DiNardo)

H2O photo gallery courtesy of Dave Boccio:

Incendiary Device photo gallery courtesy of Dave Boccio:

Incendiary Device photo gallery courtesy of Dominic DiNardo:

Don't Stand In Line Season 1 Episode 6 Now Streaming On Youtube

August 1, 2023 Bridge Nine

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!

H2O & Incendiary Device LIVE At The Bridge Nine Warehouse! Update: SOLD OUT

July 14, 2023 Bridge Nine

***UPDATE: this show is officially SOLD OUT***

This September marks the one-year anniversary of the opening of our record store in Beverly, MA. We thought the best way to celebrate would be to invite H2O to be the 4th band to play in our warehouse show series alongside Incendiary Device, fronted by NYHC legend Drew Stone!

Tickets go on sale right now. We will have a portion available online, as well as at our Beverly store (avoid service fees by coming in if you're local). Admission is $20, and all tickets are will call. As usual, attendance is very limited, so make sure to act fast! We look forward to seeing you there.

Bridge Nine x The Athletic "Street Vending" Playlist

July 14, 2023 Bridge Nine

“Yankees Suck” street vendors outside of Fenway Park after a Red Sox game, summer 2000 (photo by Kate Bowen)

“Yankees Suck” was the most heard phrase in Boston in 2000. So Bridge Nine record label owner Chris Wrenn walked to Fenway Park with friends to hawk souvenirs with the slogan in the street, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars and investing it all in a new generation of hardcore-punk bands.

As a companion piece to The Athletic’s story about the early days of Bridge Nine and Sully’s Brand, and how Boston sports fans (unknowingly?) helped fund a new generation of hardcore punk, Chris created this playlist featuring bands that both included members who hawked the rivalry-fueling merch at Fenway Park in the early 2000s, and the bands that benefitted. From American Nightmare to Death Before Dishonor and H2O:

CAVE IN Performed live at Bridge Nine (Recap)

July 8, 2023 Bridge Nine

CAVE IN live at Bridge Nine, July 7th, 2023 (Photo by Chris Padgett)

CAVE IN performed the most intimate of sets live in the Bridge Nine warehouse on Friday, July 7th, 2023.

I’ve been a fan of Cave In since their inception. Both Cave In and Bridge Nine got started in 1995. In 2000, I began working for Lumberjack Distribution assisting Big Wheel Recreation and Cave In’s label at the time, Hydra Head Records, right as Jupiter was being released, and I had a chance to see them navigate a very transitional time for the band.

In 2022, I was asked if Cave In could record a music video in our yet-to-be renovated warehouse space, here at the new B9HQ. It was for the song “Reckoning” on their new album, Heavy Pendulum on Relapse Records. Check out that video HERE!

CAVE IN live at Bridge Nine, July 7th, 2023 (Photo by Chris Wrenn)

When the warehouse was finished and we were ready to start asking bands to perform in it, Cave In was one of the first bands that we asked. Artist Thomas Hooper contributed a great illustration for our show posters, and I hand numbered them before the show.

Jason Zucco, who directed the music video for “Reckoning” returned to Bridge Nine and with the assistance of Ian McFarland (The Godfathers of Hardcore) helped capture Cave In’s live performance. We’ll let you know when the video is ready!

I want to thank everyone involved with making this evening happen, and everyone who came out and spent it with us.

- Chris Wrenn

CAVE IN set list / live at Bridge Nine / July 7th, 2023

CAVE IN photo gallery courtesy of Chris Padgett:

(L to R): Adam McGrath, Larry Kelley, Chris Wrenn, Nate Newton, Steve Brodsky, J.R. Conners (Photo: Chris Padgett)

CAVE IN photo gallery courtesy of Dominic DiNardo:

Cave In LIVE at Bridge Nine Warehouse on Friday, July 7th

June 30, 2023 Bridge Nine

Flyer designed by Thomas Hooper (@thomas__hooper)

Cave In is a band close to our hearts here in Boston. Not only did they get their start in Methuen, MA, but they were originally signed to Hydra Head, one of the labels that Bridge Nine shared a space with at the original 'Initech' office near Fenway Park!

Just over a year ago, Cave In used our then-unfinished warehouse space to record the music video for the song "Reckoning" off their album Heavy Pendulum, released on Relapse Records.

Next Friday (7/7), they're bringing things full circle and doing us the honor of performing for the third event in our B9 warehouse series! We're excited to welcome you to come and share this experience with us.

ATTENDANCE IS FREE, BUT LIMITED. You will be able to reserve your spot starting today by coming to our storefront in Beverly, MA during normal hours while supplies last. Tickets are non-transferrable.

Doors are at 7 PM, performance starts at 8 PM.

Bridge Nine's First Official Record Store Day & Indie Label Market A Success

April 25, 2023 Bridge Nine

Chris Wrenn (L) with Chris Foley (Drummer, SSD), Al Barile (Vocalist, SSD), and Jaime Sciarappa (Bass, SSD). *Photo by Nancy Barile.*

Bridge Nine Records celebrated its first ever Record Store Day as an actual record store this past Saturday, April 22nd, and also with the label’s first ever official Record Store Day release. Agnostic Front released “United Blood (The Extended Sessions)”, a 19-song LP version of their original 10-song EP from 1983. We pressed 3,000 copies on clear vinyl and it was amazing to hear from so many other stores that this record was the only other record that sold out that day besides Taylor Swift. This was a great way to commemorate 40 years of United Blood.

The Bridge Nine store opened early at 10 am to a line of RSD supporters and the store quickly filled with excited shoppers. An indie label market, featuring local labels from the New England area, also took place in the store’s back warehouse. Participating labels were X-Claim! Records, Counter Intuitive Records, Crimewave Records, Tor Johnson Records, Sound Investment Records, Hellhound Publishing, and Iodine Recordings.

Al Barile was onsite with X-Claim! along with his wife, Nancy Barile, author of the book “I’m Not Holding Your Coat”. *Photo by Nancy Barile*

The market featured lots of other vendors and organizations from the punk community. Al Quint of Suburban Voice, an avid record collector and seller, set up shop with some awesome titles for sale. Women Of The Pit, a charity based organization established to highlight and promote bands and fans of the hardcore music scene, was also in attendance promoting their first compilation, Stronger Together Vol. 1, featuring various female led punk and hardcore bands. The team behind Hope Fest, a yearly benefit music festival that takes place in Salem each year, was also onsite to promote their September 2nd festival in support of nAGLY. Larry Kelley displayed items from the late Lexa Vonn, an activist, fashion designer and music memorabilia collector. Local educator and author Nancy Barile was onsite with her awesome book, I’m Not Holding Your Coat. And Al Barile, Jaime Sciarappa, and Chris Foley of SSD hung out for a few hours, telling stories and sharing memories.

Needless to say, it was an incredible day and the Bridge Nine team is grateful for a few hundred of our supportive customers coming through and all our amazing vendors. We hope to do more events like this in the future, so be sure to join our email list if you haven’t already and follow us on social media!

Bridge Nine Records featured in Salem News

April 20, 2023 Bridge Nine

Vinyl roars back on Record Store Day

By Joel Barrett

“At Bridge Nine Records in Beverly, proprietors of the shop, which began as and continues to be a record label, are kicking out the jams for RSD 2023.

The day will feature the label’s release of a 40th anniversary expanded edition of legendary New York hardcore band Agnostic Front’s “United Blood” EP.

The extended version is a remaster of the original EP, as well as previously unreleased versions of the band’s earliest and classic recordings. Bridge Nine is also inviting other independent record labels to set up tables in its warehouse for a RSD market to sell vinyl and merchandise and network. It’s a way for these labels to gain extra exposure and new fans.” Click here to continue reading the article on Salem News…

Record Store Day LABEL MARKET At Bridge Nine / April 22nd

April 10, 2023 Bridge Nine

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!

New Found Glory helps open the B9 Warehouse Matinee Series

March 18, 2023 Bridge Nine

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 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 at Bridge Nine on 3/16/23. Photo by** Ana Massard

New Found Glory: LIVE! At Bridge Nine

March 10, 2023 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!)

Bridge Nine Records
282 Rantoul Street
Beverly, MA 01915

Don't Stand In Line Season 1 Episode 2 Now Streaming On Youtube

March 5, 2023 Bridge Nine

**Chris Wrenn spray painting test pressing jackets for Death Before Dishonor’s Unfinished Business LP in Episode 2 of *Don’t Stand In Line*, streaming now on Youtube**

We are excited to announce that Episode 2 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 two episodes, and then go to Codec Projects to see how you can help support Anthony as he works on season two!

Don't Stand In Line Series Episode 1 Now Streaming On Youtube

February 8, 2023 Bridge Nine

Scene from the old Bridge Nine vault in Episode 1 of *Don’t Stand In Line*, streaming now on Youtube

The first season of Anthony Moreschi’s (Ten Yard Fight, Stand & Fight) six-episode series Don’t Stand In Line is finally headed to Youtube. One episode a month will be added, so watch the first one HERE if you haven’t checked it out yet!

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