DS Record Radar: This Week in Punk Vinyl (Pinhead Gunpowder, Off With Their Heads, The Copyrights, Smoking Popes & More!)

Beloved Green Day side-project Pinhead Gunpowder is rising from the ashes with the announcement of their new full-length album Unt, due out October 18th on 1-2-3-4 Go! Records. This is the first new music the band has released since their 2008 West Side Highway 7″, but more notably its their first studio album since 1997’s Goodbye Ellston Avenue. Check out the album’s title track below and pre-order the record on one (or more) of five vinyl color variants at the following places:

– Retail Red – Get it here or check with your local store
– Translucent Yellow w/ Red & Teal Splatter – 1-2-3-4 Go! Exclusive (Sold out)
– Clear w/ Blue & Red Splatter(?) – Disk Union, Japan
– Yellow w/ Black Splatter – Footscray Records, Australia
– Transparent Blue w/ Black Splatter – Specialist Subject Records, UK

Also available on CD & cassette (two colors), and your local record store probably has free promotional flexi 7″s with the lead single (and posters!) to give away with pre-orders.

Off With Their Heads has a new record called Inhale. Exhale. Smile. coming out soon. It features cover songs they released digitally on Bandcamp over the past year, including their latest cover of Pretty Girls Make Graves’ “Speakers Push The Air”. The first pressing sold out already but you can get it on “Laguna Eco Blue” colored vinyl here.

The almighty Smoking Popes are celebrating their sophomore album Born to Quit‘s 30th birthday with Born To Quit (Live Session), a live-in-studio re-recording of the LP. Get it here on Eco Red (250 copies), Eco Blue (350 copies), Oxblood / Aqua Blue (400 copies), and Black Vinyl (500 copies).

The Copyrights‘ fan favorite(?) album Make Sound was repressed on this color variant in 2019, but only 100 copies made it out into the wild and were sold by the band at a few shows. Good news! It’s Alive Records is back from the grave and they threw the remaining 400 copies of this pressing up on their Bandcamp, where you can obtain it for $20! Fuck yeah.

Speaking of It’s Alive Records, they’ve got a new release out now as well! City Mouse’s new record So Far Out is now available on two stunning color variants – Blue & Orange Sunburst (206 copies) and Crystal Red Stripe Vinyl (200 copies) – on It’s Alive’s Bandcamp and from Brassneck Records in the UK. You can also get a band-exclusive red color variant on their webstore and from their merch table on tour this fall.

Hopeless Records is reviving its long-dormant Hopelessly Devoted To You compilation series with this 30th Anniversary edition featuring: The Wonder Years covering a Thrice song! Bayside Covering a Weakerthans song! A bunch of other bands you probably don’t know covering songs by bands you maybe do know! Get it on yellow w/ black splatter colored vinyl right here.

Philly punks The Bad Ups will be releasing their debut album Life of Sin on September 27th through Jump Start Records. The lead single “Ego Trip” is bad ass and reminds me a lot of early 2000’s Gob. Check that shit out below and go here to pre-order the record on yellow/black splatter (200 copies) and/or black vinyl (100 copies).

Not sure how I missed this one when it came out about a month ago, but better than late than never! Santa Cruz hardcore punk supergroup Seized Up (ft. members of Good Riddance, BL’AST!, The Distillers & more) have a new record out now on Pirates Press Records. Modify the Sacred is the band’s sophomore album, following their 2020 debut Brace Yourself. You can get it on a bunch of sweet color variants here, and it looks like Revelation Records has an exclusive variant(?) of their own that might be the prettiest of them all.

Austrian melodic punk band hatsnriver‘s new record Good for Nothing is out now and it’s available on two beautiful splatter color variants, limited to 50 copies each. Check out one of the tracks below and grab the record from their Bandcamp.

Former Bad Cop / Bad Cop guitarist / singer Jennie Cotterill’s new band Reckoner – also featuring members of Fireworks, Walking With Ghosts, etc. – will be releasing their debut 7″ next month on Double Helix Records. It features the band’s first two tracks “Short Stories” and “One Size Fits All”, and is available to pre-order now on Coke Bottle Clear (250x) and Transparent Magenta (250x) colored vinyl. Get it here.

Teen Idols guitarist Phillip Hill’s label Idol Time Records has released a new split 7″ from Nashville’s The Rip Taylors and Boston’s The Cretins. For the low, low, low price of $6, this is a no-brainer pickup for any and all self-respecting (or maybe non-self-respecting) Ramonescore appreciators. Buy buy buy!!!

And it’s a two for one special on old school pop-punk splits this week, as Punkerton Records has announced The Prozacs and The Downstrokes‘ new split LP Better Late Than Never. This is due out on December 13th and is available on seven (7) color variants!!!!!!!!!!!! You can pre-order that shit right here.

And to round out this week’s Record Radar, we’ve got Jacksonville, FL pop-punk band Knives with a fun update on their new record One Cut Away From Love. They’ve announced two new color variants (in addition to the six (6) I covered in the last Record Radar!). They’ll have a Jags-themed Duuuuuuvaaaaalllll variant available at their record release show in November (date TBD) and a half pink / half blue Fest Exclusive variant available at – you guessed it – The Fest! I’m dubbing that one the Alaaaaaaachuaaaaaaa color variant. Both are limited to 50 copies each. If you can’t make it to either show, you’ve still got those six other color variants to fall back on.