H2O and Candy Hearts appear on this year's Warped Tour 2015 Compilation CD, which is out today! It can be picked up exclusively through Best Buy. Check out the video below and visit its official website for more info.
Throwback Thursdays: Defeater, H2O, Have Heart, Polar Bear Club, more
Throwback Thursdays are now up! You may noticed we've doubled up this week. From here on out we'll be offering eight records, three at regular price and the rest at specially discounted prices. Grab 'em at B9Store.com.
B9R107 - Defeater - Travels - 3rd pressing - gray/red swirl/909
B9R092 - H2O - Nothing to Prove - 1st pressing - yellow/1,200
B9R075 - Have Heart - The Things We Carry - 9th pressing - yellow/1,000
B9R110 - Polar Bear Club - Sometimes Things Just Disappear - 1st pressing - dark red/400
B9R198 - New Found Glory - Kill It Live - 1st pressing - clear (Hot Topic exclusive)/800
B9R182 - Alcoa - Bone & Marrow - 1st pressing - clear w/ gray smoke/700
B9R193 - Alpha & Omega - No Rest, No Peace - 1st pressing - dark green w/ black spatter/700
B9R121 - Soul Control - Cycles - 1st pressing - blue/800
War On Women rejoin Propgandhi and RVIVR for some shows
War On Women will have a family reunion of sorts when they rejoin Propagandhi and fellow support act RVIVR for a weekend of shows later this month surrounding Amnesia Rockfest. Check out the dates below. The band continues to support their new self-titled album, which has received love from The New York Times, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Bitch Magazine among others.
WAR ON WOMEN w/ Propagandhi, RVIVR
June 18 Montebello, QC @ Rockfest
June 19 Clifton Park, NY @ Upstate Concert Hall
June 20 Portland, ME @ The Asylum
Terror and Bane to headline The Life & Death Tour 2015, Forced Order added
Terror and Bane have been unveiled as the headliners for the previously announced The Life & Death Tour 2015, which has also added Forced Order as an opener. They'll join Turnstile, B9ers Backtrack, and Heavy Chains on the bill. Check out the dates below:
THE LIFE & DEATH TOUR 2015: Terror / Bane / Turnstile / BACKTRACK / Forced Order / Heavy Chains
8/6 Rochester, NY @ The Harmony House
8/7 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
8/8 Howell, NJ @ Gamechanger World
8/9 Baltimore, MD @ Soundstage
8/10 Greensboro, NC @ Greene St
8/11 Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
8/12 Jacksonville, FL @ Underbelly
8/13 Atlanta, GA @ The Drunken Unicorn
8/14 Houston, TX @ Walter's
8/15 Dallas, TX @ Sons of Herman Hall
8/16 San Antonio, TX @ The Korova
8/17 Phoenix, AZ @ Club Red
8/18 San Diego, CA @ Epicenter
8/19 Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
8/20 Los Angeles, CA @ Jewel's Catch One
8/21 Oakland, CA @ Oakland Metro
8/22 Reno, NV @ Jub Jub's
8/23 Salt Lake City, UT @ Club Sound
8/24 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
8/25 Merriam, KS @ Aftershock Bar and Grill
8/26 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
8/27 Cincinnati, OH @ Legends
8/28 Detroit, MI @ Magestic Cafe
8/29 Toronto, ON @ The Rockpile
8/30 Montreal, QC @ Les Foufounes Electriques
8/31 Amityville, NY @ Revolution
H2O to support Rancid on Boston, New York City shows
H2O have been tapped by Rancid to open three of their upcoming east coast shows. There's one in Boston with the Interrupters, and two in New York City with as-yet-unannounced "special guests." Check out those dates below, as well as all of H2O's upcoming dates here.
The band's currently putting the finishing touches on their upcoming full-length, Use Your Voice.
H2O w/ Rancid
Sep 15 Boston, MA @ House of Blues w/ The Interrupters
Sep 17 New York, NY @ Terminal 5 w/ "special guests"
Sep 18 New York, NY @ Terminal 5 w/ "special guests"
New Found Glory, Gallows, more digital specials at Amazon for June
Check out these great digital discount specials we have going on at Amazon for the first half of June:
$6.99 RECENT HITS [until 6/8]
Gallows - Desolation Sounds
New Found Glory - Kill It Live
$5 ALBUMS [until 6/15]
The Trouble - Nobody Laughs Anymore
Underdog - Matchless
$3.99 ALBUMS [until 6/15]
Blue Monday - Rewritten
Some Kind of Hate - Undisputed
Throwback Thursdays: Terror, Alcoa, Ceremony, Strike Anywhere
Throwback Thursdays are up! Get 'em at B9Store.com/rare!
B9B001 - Terror - Live and Death EP - 1st and only pressing - black/500
B9R182 - Alcoa - Bone & Marrow - 1st pressing - translucent red w/ black smoke/200
B9R098 - Ceremony - Still Nothing Moves You - 3rd pressing - green/1,000
B9R174 - Strike Anywhere - In Defiance of Empty Times - 1st pressing - yellow/300
H2O 'Four Song 1995 Demo' tape reissue pre-orders up now
H2O's original four-track 1995 demo cassette was recorded just after Christmas 1994 with legendary engineer and producer Don Fury, who had previously sat at the helm of some of the best NYHC records of all time (Victim in Pain, New York Crew, Start Today, etc. al.). The demo would later be released as a 7" by Eyeball Records in 1996. Nonetheless, this tape started it all, and Bridge Nine is excited to remake it for H2O fans who weren't there to pick it up the first time around. This is a yellow cassette limited to 200 copies and hand-numbered on the J-card by frontman Toby Morse himself, and won't be remade when they're all gone. This also comes with an exclusive t-shirt that is only available in this package and will not be remade. Get yours at www.b9store.com/h2o.
Bent Life playing Resurrect Cali Fest with Bold, Blacklisted, more
Bent Life will be part of Resurrect Cali Fest, taking place at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California, this coming Labor Day weekend (September 4th-6th). They'll join the likes of Bold, Blacklisted, Breakdown, Coke Bust, and Destruction Unit among others. Weekend passes will go on sale June 8th. It seems more bands will be announced soon, but check out the full list unveiled so far in the meantime below. Fest updates can be found at their Facebook and Twitter.
ACxDC
Bad Times Crew
Bent Life
Blacklisted
Bold
Breakdown
Clarity
Coke Bust
The Coltranes
Culture Abuse
Destruction Unit
Downpresser
Drag Me Under
Drug Control
Fury
Gag
Happy Diving
Mizery
Mohicans
No Authority
No Limbs
Plead the Fifth
Pure
Reunion
Rise
Runamuk
Sabertooth Zombie
Seizures
Snakeway
Spinebreaker
Take Offense
Treacherouskin
Ultima Victima
Violence to Fade
Lemuria kick off UK/Europe tour, WOAHNOWS replace Dads
Lemuria have just kicked off a tour across the UK and Europe with WOAHNOWS (replacing Dads) and Personal Best in tow. These dates follow the full U.S. tour with Tigers Jaw that Lemuria did in April and May, as they continue to support their landmark release The Distance Is So Big (2013, Bridge Nine) and most recently, their appearance on the new volume of the Turnstile Comix 7". More exciting Lemuria news coming this year - for now, keep up with them on Facebook.
LEMURIA dates w/ WOAHNOWS, Personal Best
May 28 Glasgow, UK @ Audio (16+)
May 29 Leeds, UK @ Key Club
May 30 Nottingham, UK @ Stuck on Name Studios
May 31 Norwich, UK @ Epic Studios
June 01 Plymouth, UK @ Junction
June 02 Cardiff, UK @ Clwb Ifor Bach
June 03 Bristol, UK @ Exchange
June 04 Southampton, UK @ Joiners
June 05 London, UK @ The Dome
June 06 Kingston, UK @ Fighting Cocks
June 08 Tilburg, Netherlands @ Cafe Extase
June 09 Berlin, Germany @ Cassiopeia
June 10 Hamburg, Germany @ HafenKlang
June 11 Cologne, Germany @ Tsunami
June 12 Paris, France @ Espace B
June 13 Antwerp, Belgium @ JH Kavka
Throwback Thursdays: Champion, Death Before Dishonor
This week's Throwback Thursdays are now available. We're starting to clean ourselves out of stuff so we'll be scaling it back a bit for a while. Grab 'em at B9Store.com.
B9B04 - Champion - The Truth - black/500
B9R116 - Death Before Dishonor - Better Ways to Die - 1st pressing - black/200
Crown of Thornz to release new 7-inch on B9
Crown of Thornz were an NYHC mainstay during the mid-1990s alongside acts like Madball, H2O, and Vision of Disorder. Street-wise and charismatic graffiti artist Lord Ezec spearheaded the band in 1994 with high school friend (and future Shelter member) Franklin Rhi, recruiting future Breakdown member Mike Dijan. They would quickly become a live favorite on the scene with energetic and tight performances that ignited crowds with their musically and emotionally heavy style that drew inspiration from Cro-Mags and crossover-era Agnostic Front while ruminating about love and hate dichotomies, senseless violence, and contemplative introspection. Their recorded output was limited: There was only 1995's Train Yard Blues EP on then-hardcore pillar Equal Vision Records, and 1996's Mentally Vexedfull-length on local cornerstone Another Planet. But both releases found attention worldwide, and the band would tour all over on them until their demise in 1998.
Ezec would remain busy in the intervening years with various hardcore and hip-hop projects, but revived Crown of Thornz for 2009's Black N Blue Bowl and have been occasionally playing out live since.
Now, Bridge Nine is excited to present Crown of Thornz's first recorded output since a 1998 split single with Aggressive Dogs. Nothing But Tragedy features two new tracks: "The Kiss of Death", a somewhat more straightforward representation of the CoT sound that nonetheless moves their thudding, mid-tempo hardcore style forward. The B-side is "No Reason Why" (not to be confused with the Gorilla Biscuits classic), an epic, darkly affecting rock song, the likes of which CoT have never quite approached, with a booming, heady chorus to boot.
More info coming soon. Keep up with Crown of Thornz on Facebook.
War On Women playing three shows with Refused
War On Women have been tapped as direct support for three of Refused's upcoming shows next week. The band will be opening the Chicago, Boston (Cambridge), and New York City (Manhattan) shows. Check those out below. The band released their self-titled album earlier this year.
WAR ON WOMEN w/ Refused
May 31 Chicago, IL @ Double Door
June 1 Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
June 3 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Cross Me join the fold
Cross Me have joined the B9 roster. "With signing to Bridge Nine, we see the opportunity to push ourselves harder on every level," the band said about the partnership, "musically and with touring. And we couldn't be more excited for it."
Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Cross Me formed in early 2013, bonding over a mutual love of classic and modern NYHC (The Icemen, Madball, Backtrack). They placed a thrashy, dynamic emphasis on the style with memorable riffs and fills and have developed it across several releases since, including their 2014 EP, Paid in Full and, more recently, the Mind Prison / Content flexi 7", both released on Flatspot Records.
The Midwest Blood standouts are currently writing a new EP and will head back into Howl Street Recordings with Shane Hochstetler (Expire, Enabler), who's recorded the band's past work, later this year to track it. Artwork will be handled by illustrator/designer Jesse Schaller (Suburban Scum, Discourse).
The band just made an appearance at this past weekend's Rain Fest and will be doing shows in the Midwest on the way home (dates below). They've previously been seen on the road with bands like Take Offense, Bent Life, and Homewrecker, and at fests like Heart Fest and Southeast Beast. Pick upMind Prison / Content if you haven't already at B9Store.com. Keep up with the band on Facebook andTwitter.
CROSS ME tour dates:
May 26 Cheyenne, WY @ The Old Comm. House w/ Stoic, Violent Testimony
May 27 Kansas City, MO @ The Sandbox w/ Megawave, Worthless, Noisehead
May 28 Des Moines, IA @ Underground Rock Shop w/ Worthless, Submerged, Pipe Bomb, Cut the Tongue
http://www.facebook.com/CrossMeHC
http://www.twitter.com/crossmehc
http://www.instagram.com/crossmehc
http://crossme.bandcamp.com
Throwback Thursdays: Defeater, Polar Bear Club, Wrecking Crew, Gallows
This week's Throwback Thursdays are now available. We figured we'd throw up a few rare bonus 7"s this time around. Limited quantities as always. Get 'em at B9Store.com.
B9R144 - Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights - 2nd pressing - dark red/1,000
B9B010 - Polar Bear Club - Drifting Thing - clear w/ screenprint/500
B9B005 - Wrecking Crew - Why Must They & Live at CBGB - black/500
B9R175 - Gallows - S/T - cross/100