DS Record Radar: This Week in Punk Vinyl (NOFX, 88 Fingers Louie & an exclusive first look at the Manarovs’ new record “Callsign:Proton”)

This week’s Record Radar starts with a bang! We’re pleased to bring you this exclusive first look at Savannah, Georgia Ramonescore troupe the Manarovs‘ brand new record Callsign:Proton. Mom’s Basement Records is releasing the LP on two sweet color variants (just look at ’em!), as well as black vinyl, and Memorable But Not Honorable will be releasing the album cassette.

Pre-orders go live Friday, March 15th. Mom’s Basement will have an exclusive T-Shirt bundle available on their webstore. Stardumb Records will have copies in Europe and Brassneck Records has our British friends covered. Here’s a few tracks from Callsign:Proton to tide you over:

You probably already heard about the new NOFX EP, but in case you didn’t already hear about the new NOFX EP, I’m here to tell you about the new NOFX EP! Did I mention there’s a new NOFX EP? Half Album follows Single Album and Double Album, featuring 5 songs that didn’t make the cut for either of those albums (which doesn’t inspire much confidence if I’m being frank). fatwreck.com and Fat’s EU/UK store are sold out of colored vinyl, but their Australian store still has some copies in stock. Black wax is still available everywhere. The lead single “I’m a Rat” is a song Fat Mike wrote, Hi-Standard covered(?), and now can be heard as performed by NOFX:

Smartpunk Records has brand new exclusive variants of Chicago punk legends 88 Fingers Louie‘s Behind Bars and Back on the Streets up for pre-order. Both are limited to 300 hand numbered copies and should ship in mid-May. I suppose it’s also worth noting these are the 2019 remix/remastered versions of these records. Grab your copies here and use code SPMAILINGLIST for 10% off your order. Also if anyone with the means to repress Thank You For Being a Friend happens to be reading this, I’d like to take a moment to let you know you should do that! No clue why I didn’t buy that fucking record before Bird Attack kicked the bucket.

Belgian melodic punks For I Am will be releasing their fourth album The Righteous & The Wicked on April 19th. The color variants for this one are bad ass and we like bad ass variants here on the Record Radar. The spiral variant is exclusive to Pee Records down undah, the multi-color splatter and bone color variants are available from Double Helix in the US and SBAM in Europe, and the green marble colored wax is for sale on the For I Am Bandcamp.

Speaking of SBAM, they’ve got some other cool shit on their store, so let’s talk about that! New variants of Guttermouth‘s Covered With Ants have popped up, seemingly unannounced. Click here to get it on purple and/or teal colored vinyl. Or wait a few weeks for SBAM’s next 60% off fire sale! lol

And completing the SBAM Records triple play is Orange County pop-punk band Taken Days, who just released their brand new album Any Minute. Get it on “sun” and/or “moon” colored vinyl (limited to 150 copies each) riiiiight here.

Canadian skate punks Handheld are celebrating their 25th Anniversary with a new live album! Live At 25 was recorded last October at The Revive in Waterloo, Ontario and is due out on May 10th. Thousand Islands Records has the “Candyland” color variant up for pre-order on their store. If you want the “Sassy Salmon Slap” color variant, that one’s only gonna be available at shows.

Ink Bomb is a cool-ass punk band from the Netherlands and they’ve got a new record coming very soon! Saudade is due out on April 3rd and you can grab it on blue colored wax here. Check out the latest single “Pressure Cooker” and head over to Bandcamp for more. These guys (and girl) are great! Highly recommended listening for those who share my appreciation of No Fun At All.

Italy’s Hey Suburbia Records is releasing San Francisco hardcore punk band Spitboy’s 1994 compilation album on vinyl for the first time, with 500 copies on red colored wax. This one’s due out April 15th and you can pre-order it here. The Forced Exposure distro carries all of Hey Suburbia’s releases in the US, so if you wanna save on shipping wait til they get some copies in stock.

South Carolina hardcore veterans Stretch Arm Strong surprise-released a new EP this week. The Revealing is the band’s first new music since 2005. There’s a grand total of 9 variants for this one (not quite as many as the new Green Day record, but still a fuckload). Usually bands / labels make it easy to find all the places to buy retailer exclusive variants by setting up a Linktree or some shit, but they did not do that. Lucky for you, I like wasting my time on pointless shit, so I’ve collected links to where you can buy all these variants. Here ya go:

Available from Iodine Recordings / Deathwish Inc:
– Cornetto (400)
– Illuminating (200) – SOLD OUT
– Blood Red (500)

Misc. Retailer Exclusives:
– Green Cloudy (100) – Trustkill Records
– Orange (100) – Bridge Nine
– Cobalt Cloudy (100) – Thirty Something Records
– Rev Yellow (100) – Revelation Records
– Cloudy White w/ Green/Orange Splatter (250) – Revolver Magazine
– Half Green / Half Orange (200) – Evil Greed Records