DS Record Radar: This Week in Punk Vinyl (New Strung Out album! Reissues from Rufio, Ten Foot Pole & some other shit)

Have you heard about Strung Out‘s new record? It’s called Dead Rebellion and it’s due out on April 5th. Naturally, Fat Wreck‘s US store has already sold through its mysterious color variant. However! You can still get that variant (whatever it ends up being) from their European and Aussie stores. The band also has an exclusive (not-so-mysterious) white color variant available on their own webstore. The first single “Cages” is pretty fuckin bad ass – it reminds me a lot of Agents of the Underground, which I thought was also a bad ass record. Perhaps this is a return to form for Strung Out? We shall see.

Last week we hosted the exclusive premiere of The Carmines‘ new record Work Harder Not Smarter. Who are The Carmines? I’m glad you asked! The Carmines are a Ramonescore band featuring Slick Shoes‘ Joe Nixon on drums and Greg Togawa (also from Slick Shoes) on guitar. The singer’s name is Nate Roberts – I’m not sure if he’s in any other bands of note; sorry Nate! Anyway, this record’s pretty sweet. You should listen to it & buy it sweet blue colored vinyl from Memorable But Not Honorable if you’re in the US and I Buy Records if you’re in Europe. Fuck yeah!

Rufio’s last record, 2010’s Anybody Out There, is getting released on vinyl for the first time ever thanks to Take This To Heart Records. There are three different color variants up for pre-order here. One of those fuckers already sold out so you might wanna act fast if this one’s on your bucket list!

The very pleasantly named Puke N Vomit Records has a bunch of GBH reissues up for pre-order; three, to be precise. They’ve got snazzy new variants of Leather, Bristles, No Survivors and Sick Boys…, City Baby Attacked By Rats, and City Baby’s Revenge. Each comes in a deluxe gatefold jacket with added liner notes, posters and a bunch of other shit. They also have a 3xLP box set with all three records on red wax with a shirt and stuff. Very cool!

We’re on a hot streak here with reissues and Ten Foot Pole’s gonna keep it going with a new pressing of Unleashed, which surprisingly is the first since its original release in 1997. La Agonia De Vivir (yes I copy + pasted that) is reissuing the record with 200 copies on transparent yellow wax & 300 copies on black wax. Get it here!

Codefendants continue their reign as kings of the $20 2-song 10″ with not one, but two new $20 2-song 10″s. Well, one of these technically has 3 songs kinda sorta, and that one’s only $18. Anyway! Here’s Living Las Vegas and Prison Camp. Eat it up.

Eccentric Pop Records comes comes out swinging with their first release of 2024, a new Groovie Ghoulies 7″ featuring never-before-released recordings from the World Contact Day era. They pressed 500 copies on “marbled burgundy” colored vinyl, which you can purchase with fungible currency here.

And because I’m a smartass, lets compare the economics of this release vs the Codefendants 10″: The Ghoulies 2-song 7″ is $8.00, or $1.14 per inch / $4.00 per song. The Codefendants 2-song 10″ is $20.00, or $2.00 per inch / $10.00 per song. The numbers don’t lie, folks!

And here comes Red Scare with the most economical 7″ of them all! A brand new 4-song 7″ from Broadway Calls, and it’s only $6? How will they ever financially recover from this? I thought it cost like 700 bagillion dollars to press records now! Grab the 7″ here and catch Broadway Calls on tour with Teenage Bottlerocket next month.

It seems Rad Girlfriend Records is gonna keep doing what they’ve been doing in the year of our lord 2024, and that’s putting out an assload of records. Up first is a new album from Chicago’s Heavy Seas. Distortion Days is due out on January 26th and you can pre-order it on translucent yellow, opaque maroon, or black vinyl here. Can’t decide which variant you want? Just buy all three you fucking dumbass.

Rad Girlfriend’s 2nd new release is from Acumen, a new band featuring The Copyrights frontman Adam Fletcher. Their debut album Mark VII consists of a bunch of covers of obscure 60’s rock songs which I will not attempt to pretend I know. Get it on “seaglass”, translucent blue, or black vinyl here. Or just buy all three variants of this one, too.

Jon Snodgrass is releasing a new album called Barge At Will, which features Bill Stevenson on drums and bass. This is being released on colorful polyvinyl chloride music discs by SBAM Records in March. They’ve got white and yellow color variants available on all their webstores. The friendly canucks at Thousand Islands Records have the album on blue vinyl and black wax. Here’s a live recording of one of the songs:

And because it just wouldn’t be the Record Radar without a new variant of Green Day’s new record Saviors, here’s a new variant of Green Day’s new record Saviors. Well, this isn’t really a new variant, but it also kinda is.

The UK Indie color variant was supposed to be the same as the US Indie color variant (pink/black split), but I guess record stores started receiving their shipments and they were completely different. So here ya have it, variant #23 – pink / black marble. Banquet Records has it up on their store, I’m sure if you live in the UK you can get this from pretty much any record store within spitting distance.

I’d also like to take this opportunity to remind you all we’re keeping track of all the variants of this record on this article here. Bookmark that page and stay tuned for variant #s 24, 25 & 26 coming soon!