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The end is nigh for New Jersey's Banquets, who are releasing one more album on Black Numbers this fall (October 9, 2015, to be exact). Recorded at the Barber Shop Studios with Brett Romnes (I Am The Avalanche, Extinction AD), their third and final outing continues their hooky and melodic punk-rock path last heard on 2013's self-titled […]

New York City's Pass Away have announced their debut EP, Hey Death, will see a vinyl release on Black Numbers on August 28, 2015. Vinyl pre-orders are available here, and you can stream it below and download at name-your-price on Bandcamp. The band was formed last year in Bushwick by Mike Ireland and Kellen Robson of […]

Canada's The Hunters are gearing up for Art Electric, their inaugural Black Numbers release. The forthcoming studio album was recorded by Matt Allison, known for his work with other accessible and anthemic punk-rock bands like Alkaline Trio, Lawrence Arms and the Menzingers.  Pre-orders are available now, and LPs will ship on/around May 13, 2014. Check out our exclusive […]

Nightmares For A Week/Banquets Split The days of split full-lengths between melodic punk bands seem like a lost relic since BYO Records closed their excellent series with Alkaline Trio and One Man Army in 2004. This long-player that features five tracks apiece from Nightmares For A Week and Banquets might be good enough to revive it […]

PJ Bond and Arliss Nancy, labelmates on Black Numbers, will tour together down to the Fest in Gainesville, Florida next month. Arliss Nancy will also serve as Bond's backing band for the entire tour. Both are supporting their latest releases, Bond's Ten Degrees And The Floor seven-inch and Arliss Nancy's forthcoming album, Wild American Runners […]

The Here And Now (Alan Day of Four Year Strong) have released their debut EP, Born To Make Believe Part 1 via Black Numbers. You can download it at a price of your choosing on the Black Numbers bandcamp page.  The EP is set for release on vinyl later this year.    <a data-cke-saved-href=”http://blacknumbers.bandcamp.com/album/born-to-make-believe-part-1″ href=”http://blacknumbers.bandcamp.com/album/born-to-make-believe-part-1″>Born to […]

Today's new track “Rambling Dudes Forever”  is from Allston, Mass's own Great Lakes USA. This furious new song is off of their upcoming record Live Fast, Die Whenver, recorded by Jay Maas (No Trigger, Defeater, Energy, The Stereo State). It's scheduled to drop Nov. 6 (Election Day, dudes) on three vinyl variants (brown, transparent red […]

Check out a brand new music video from Homelife for their song “Unsteady Hands” above. The track comes from their recently released album, Translation, which came out back in May on Black Numbers. Pick up the album digitally here at  a pay-what-you-want price (head here for physical purchases) and let us know what you think of the video in […]

Go Rydell (Black Numbers) and Protagonist (Paper + Plastick) will be touring the east coast next month. Dates are as follows: June 1st Philadelphia, PA- The Cracker Factory W/ Nona June 2nd Queens, NY-The Kicking Corpse w/Up For Nothing, Candy Hearts, Departures and more June 3rd Allston, MA- O’Brien’s Pub (Sunday Matinee 2pm) w/ The […]

The singer-songwriter, currently in Europe, has added a slew of new dates to his itinerary. Check them out below. Mon/ Apr-09 – Angers, FR – Cafe Latin – 7 pm Tue/ Apr-10 – San Sebastian, SP – Atabal – 7 pm Wed/ Apr-11 – Madrid, SP – La Leyenda – 9 pm Thu/ Apr-12 – […]

No Motiv Winterlong EP No Motiv have been criminally overlooked ever since emerging from the Nardcore punk scene in Oxnard, California, in the mid-’90s. While their early releases were a bit of a second-rate, emo NOFX, they released a trio of impressively consistent albums on Vagrant Records around the turn of the century (which, nonetheless, […]

Black Numbers has added West Paterson, New Jersey's The Sun The Moon The Stars to their roster. The label will be released a new EP from the band titled Mind Reader on March 6. The group's previous EP We Are The Swine is available for free download here; it's also streaming below. We are the […]

Grey Area/The Reveling/The Copyrights/Luther 4-Way Split Black Numbers' four-way split acts as a primer in underappreciated melodic punk, and it spans from long-running veterans Grey Area to newcomers Luther. Each get a pair of songs to make their mark. Grey Area's recent split with Go Rydell provided hungry fans an idea of what the band […]

Philadelphia's Luther are streaming a new song titled “Sixty-One” from their four-way split with the Copyrights, Grey Area and the Reveling for Black Numbers. Check it out below. You might recall Altpress.com recently streaming songs from this release by the Copyrights and Grey Area as well—links to those can be seen below, too. Grey Area […]

Check out this premiere of Grey Area's “Lucky.” The song appears on the band's 4-way split with the Copyrights, Luther and the Reveling, available here via Black Numbers.

Check out this premiere of the Copyrights' “The New Frontier.” The song appears on a new four-way split with Grey Area, the Reveling and Luther, which is available for pre-order now from Black Numbers. We'll have another song from the split streaming tomorrow morning, so check back for that!

Check out this premiere of Banquets' new video for “Sometimes A Wolf.” The song is culled from the band's new album Top Button, Bottom Shelf, which is out now via Black Numbers.

Check out this premiere of PJ Bond's new video for “Nevermind.” Over the past three weeks, we've premiered videos and songs from PJ, as well as published his thoughts and lyrics for each. “Nevermind” is the third and final installment. The first and second pieces—”I'm In A Bad Way” and “Reasons”—can be seen here and here, […]