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Esteemed Punk/Emo act Bayside has released The Red EP , this past Friday, via Hopeless Records. The three-song collection features latest singles, "Strangest Faces" and "Good Advice," as well as one new previosuly unreleased song, "Just Like Home." The Red EP marks Bayside's first new music since 2019 with their eighth full-length album, Interrobang‽ . The band—Anthony Raneri, Jack O'Shea, Nick Ghanbarian & Chris Guglielmo—shares: "we wanted to go out and do some places that are a little smaller than what we've been doing the last few years. We really cut our teeth in a lot of these venues and we can't wait to get back to some of them for the first time in ages." In addition to the new EP, Bayside have announced that they will be hitting the road this winter for The Just Like Home Tour. The line-up pays homage to the band's local scene with fellow New Yorkers, I Am The Avalanche & KOYO, providing support through...

In honor of Pride Month, renowned Punk act Bayside has today shared their softer side with a sweetly moving take on Kacey Musgraves' "Rainbow." Fans can listen to their new heart-felt cover, out now on Hopeless Records, here . With the new release, the band will be donating all proceeds from streaming and downloads to The Trevor Project, the premier organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ+ teens and young adults. For more information, please, visit The Trevor Project . The band shares: "as Pride Month comes to a close, we want everyone in the LGBTQ+ community to know that you have our love and support, not only this month, but every month. To celebrate and show our support, we recently recorded one of our favorite songs, "Rainbow" by Kacey Musgraves." "We are donating all royalties from downloads and streaming to The Trevor Project, which assists in suicide prevention and crisis intervention for T...

Renowned Punk band Bayside returned just a couple weeks ago to release their haunting new single, "Strangest Faces." The song premiered last month on SiriusXM Octane and is out now, via Hopeless Records. Bayside will be on tour starting next month with Thrice, along with dates supported by ANXIOUS, Can't Swim, Action/Adventure, Catalyst, pinkshift, and save face. Tickets and V.I.P. packages are now available right here . "Writing riffs and making heavy music is fun," shares frontman Anthony Raneri. "We've always had that kind of influence and we leaned into it a lot more with Interrobang‽. We wanted to see how far we could take injecting heaviness and riffs into Melodic Punk music. He continues, "I saw Thrice on a day off from tour in 2002 and I've loved them [ever] since. Can't wait to be on this tour and have a great band, like Thrice making us up our game every night." "Strangest Faces" marks the band's first new mus...

The Witzard and Don't Panic have a long strange relationship together. Well, maybe, not exactly "strange," but it's definitely one of my personal favorites I've forged over these past 10 years running this very site. It was quite a few years ago, maybe, about 2009 or so, on a complete whim, I saw Don't Panic at local now-defunct Vineland, New Jersey venue Hangar 84. I believe, Don't Panic were opening up for The Ataris and I vaguely recall talking to one of the members' (maybe, drummer Anthony Paesano) parents about it being his first show with the band. Their set was phenomenal and I ended up buying a CD copy of Don't Panic's then-new EP, My Fairweather Friend . One track in particular, "Caroline," quickly became a staple on CD-R mixtapes I was actively making for my then-girlfriend/now-wife. However, it appears as though by 2011-12, Don't Panic had broken up or, at least, gone on an indefinite hiatus. So, you could imagine...

Bayside are a Punk/Hardcore-adjacent Pop Punk/Emo band initially formed in Bayside, Queens, New York-based in 2000. Steadily approaching their 20th year playing together, Bayside 's current line-up consists of Anthony Raneri, Jack O'Shea, Nick Ghanbarian & Chris Guglielmo . Now, I in no way intend to unintentionally age myself here... but, "back in the day" (the early 2000's,) I was fortunate enough to catch Bayside live in support of, I believe, in support of both Senses Fail & Taking Back Sunday; somewhere, I still have a black-and-yellow "IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN BAYSIDE" concert T-shirt from one of said gigs. Just about two weeks ago, Bayside announced the sheer existence of their eighth studio album, Interrobang , which was released this past Friday, October 4, 2019. Interrobang is quite easily Bayside 's loudest, most riff-heavy album to date juxtaposed against extremely catchy, melodic hooks on nearly every single track. As crazy...