the copyrights

From Arctic Monkeys’ Favourite Worst Nightmare to Fall Out Boy’s Infinity On High, these are the best punk albums of 2007.

These 18 artists prove that not only is punk NOT Dead in 2018, it’s very much alive and ready to fill your head with four chords and the truth. From the legendary Against Me! to the power drill of a punk band, PEARS, this list has the sweetest of sweet punk-pop and the dirtiest, noisiest […]

The Copyrights Report This sixth record from Illinois-based misfits the Copyrights blasts through 14 pithy gems in just under 28 minutes. Mixing both the sloppy, slacker pop-punk of, say, early Green Day with the slightly more polished sheen of Teenage Bottlerocket or recent Bouncing Souls, songs like “The World Is Such A Drag” and “No […]

The Copyrights No Knocks EP Writing catchy music that sticks can be a real task, but it’s one that Illinois pop-punk four-piece the Copyrights have mastered throughout the past decade since their humble beginnings. Now several albums in, the band are back with No Knocks, a three-song EP on Fat Wreck Chords, which could be the start […]

Various Artists The Thing That Ate Larry Livermore Larry Livermore has long been King Midas in the world of pop-punk. Despite leaving Lookout! Records, the influential label he founded, in 1997, he’s always kept a keen eye on upstart U.S. punk bands. On the 16-song compilation The Thing That Ate Larry Livermore, Livermore joins forces […]

The Heat Tape The Heat Tape EP The Heat Tape's members come from a variety of bands, but the two you'll most likely recognize are the Copyrights and Dear Landlord. (Those would be frontman Brett Hunter's other bands.) The roughshod pop-punk those bands employ have little to do with the Heat Tape, however—this is super-lo-fi […]

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!

(Photo by: Ryan Holloway) Drummer LUKE MCNEILL takes us track by track through the COPYRIGHTS’ new CD, North Sentinel Island. It's out today via Red Scare Industries. First, I'm going to preemptively say that I don't like to write songs pertaining to a specific personal situation. There is always a personal reason I write songs, […]

Check out the premiere of the Heat Tape's “Rich Man” video. Raccoon Valley Recordings is out now via Red Scare Industries.