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Smoking Popes have announced they are reissuing their 1995 album, Born To Quit, on October 23 via SideOneDummy and will be performing the entire album this fall. The remastered album comes with new artwork, a memorabilia collage, new liner notes and a track-by-track by frontman Josh Caterer and will be available on SideOneDummy.com or at the following dates. […]

You think it’s hard to write an original song? Try finding a cover song that hasn’t been done before—it’s harder than you think. That’s why we bring you Under The Covers: Each week, we’ll pit two bands who have covered the same source material against one another, and it’s up to you to decide who comes out on […]

Smoking Popes Complete Control Sessions EP The Complete Control Sessions series fills a void that’s gone unfilled in the scene for years now. Namely, rock bands are intended to be heard live, warts and all, and not on a canned studio recording in which it’s difficult to tell where the talent ends and the trickery […]

The Smoking Popes will be supporting Matt Skiba And The Sekrets on select dates of their upcoming tour. The dates in question can be found below. June 7, 2012 Chicago, IL Metro  June 8, 2012 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop  June 9, 2012 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of the Living Arts  June 10, 2012 Washington, DC Black […]

Smoking Popes will be releasing their Complete Control Sessions EP on May 1 via SideOneDummy Records. As with past itterations of the sessions (from Scream and Bouncing Souls), the EP will be composed of songs recorded live during the Complete Control Radio show, hosted by S1D founder Joe Sib. The Popes' chapter will feature two […]

Smoking Popes This Is Only A Test On This Is Only A Test, Smoking Popes’ new full-length (and second since their triumphant reunion five years ago), the band wanted to try something different. Vocalist Josh Caterer had never written songs from the perspective of a teenager, and with the band’s legacy largely intact, why not […]

Check out this exclusive stream of “Punk Band” off Smoking Popes' new album, This Is Only A Test, out March 15 on Asian Man Records. (Photo: Katie Hovland)

This past August, the music world lost one of its most talented and innovative rock producers in Jerry Finn, who suffered a massive brain hemorrhage and was hospitalized for more than a month before being taken off life support. Finn’s list of production credits is extensive, to say the least, and he had a hand […]