Junior Battles have released their latest album ‘Rally’ today via Paper + Plastick Records. To celebrate the release, the record is streaming in its entirety. Not only that but it’s only $5 for the digital download. What are you waiting for? Go and buy it!

Grab a copy here: http://paperplastick.limitedrun.com/products/527972-junior-battles-rally

And listen below!

Our fav Canadian punks Junior Battles have released a new video for their song ‘Bunk’. The video is made entirely on SnapChat! Check it out below:

The new LP, ‘ Rally,’ is out May 27 through Paper + Plastick and we are SUPER EXCITED for it.

Junior Battles have announced that their new album ‘Rally’ is out May 27 through Paper + Plastick. You can check out the new song over at Redbull: http://www.redbull.com/us/en/music/stories/1331646933050/junior-battles-announce-new-album-rafts-song-premiere

The band are set to play Pouzza Fest in May and also are heading out on tour with The Flatliners and Direct Hit! Check out the dates below:

MAY
18th – Sonny’s Tavern – Dover, NH
20th – The Smiling Moose – Pittsburgh, PA
21st – The Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH
22nd – The Bottom Lounge – Chicago, IL
23rd – Metal Grill – Milwaukee, WI

(NOTE: The dude on the far right isn’t in Junior Battles, just any excuse to use this picture!)

Junior Battles always put on a fantastic live show, so we had high expectations for the one they were about to put on at the Atlantic. We weren’t disappointed, huge sing-alongs, all of the people crowd-surfing and total mayhem. Our photographer Maryam would like to shout out a thank you to the guy who bought her a t-shirt at the merch table and then ran away, she really appreciated it!

A Wilhelm Scream and Junior Battles have been bashing out a tour around America for the last few weeks. For a reason unknown to anyone the show in Mojoes, Joliet last night got cancelled at the very last minute. Due to amazing luck it got moved to Township and the punks in Chicago got treated to an amazing show in a tiny venue. Can’t get much better than that right?

Team Punktastic sent out local Chicago photographer, Mat Stokes, to grab some photos of the action. He described the show as “easily one of the best shows I’d seen in a long time”.

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A large part of Sunday was spent saying goodbye to American friends who had long drives to start to get back home for work the next day and the large chunk of interviews booked in for around midday. After that, the first band I got a chance to see was THE FLATLINERS, who had one of the most horrifying clashes of the weekend.

I watched a few songs of theirs and left halfway through a Menzingers cover to arrive in time to see THE MENZINGERS playing the end of the same song one venue over. They’d been hotly tipped as the band to see at Fest and due to this they played a few different sets over the weekend. Their Sunday set was the first chance I had to see them, and as the band played a Flatliners cover in a seemingly returned favour, both crowds got the best out of a bad clash.

Next, DEAR LANDLORD stormed through an excellent set in The Theatre, and as they opened up with ‘I Live in Hell’, the crowd were excited from the start of the first vocal line. Thankfully The Theatre has no barriers at the front of the crowd as the security would have had trouble coping with the crowd surfing.

Rounding off the day, and with their album being a regular go to choice as the sound track for my commute each morning, one of the most anticipated sets of the weekend for me was JUNIOR BATTLES. With the band playing late in the day on the Sunday, you could tell they were feeling a little haggard from the sounds of their voices, but you could tell everyone was enjoying it and a guest appearance of a trombone player for the brass part of “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” rounded the set off nicely.

Such is the way of Fest that a there were a few bands I didn’t get to see that I’d have liked to, including NIGHTLIGHTS, who fit in with the melodic punk/lifetime sound revival of bands like Title Fight, RESTORATIONS, who are a Philadelphian band of “grown up punks” with an atmospheric and driving sound carrying elements of shoe-gaze and post-hardcore whilst still remaining in the punk spectrum, and finally Big Eyes, a female fronted punk/rock n roll band.

MARK PAVEY

Restorations

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