DS Record Radar: This Week in Punk Vinyl (Less Than Jake, Rise Against, Slick Shoes & More!)

Less Than Jake bats leadoff this week with their brand new EP Uncharted, due out November 15th on Pure Noise. The EP features 7 new songs and is (coincidentally?) available on 7 different color variants. Every variant comes with a printed compass design on the B-Side. Here’s the full list of colors on offer:

– Blue, Yellow & White w/ Orange & Black Splatter (250 Copies) – SOLD OUT

– Yellow in Clear w/ Blue, Bone & Green Splatter (500 Copies) – BUY

– Easter Yellow / Blue / Bone Tri-Stripe (500 Copies, Retail Variant) – Buy w/ Autographed Postcard / Buy w/o Postcard

– Electric Blue Glitter (250 Copies) – BUY

– Half Red / Half Bone w/ Black Splatter (250 Copies) – BUY

– Sapphire Marble (1,550 Copies) – BUY

– Sea Blue & Electric Blue Pinwheel w/ Bone Splatter (500 Copies, Band Variant) – On sale now at LTJ shows

Edmonton melodic punk band King Thief’s self-titled debut LP is out now! You can get it on red and white cornetto colored vinyl and/or black wax from Thousand Islands Records. Meanwhile, Disconnect Disconnect has their own exclusive translucent tan color variant limited to 100 copies. This band’s lineup boasts members of This Is A Standoff, Teenage Bottlerocket, Choke & more. Highly recommended pickup for you discerning melodic punk collectors.

Orange County ska-punks Bite Me Bambi’s new album Eat This is due out next month and you can pre-order it now on two color variants: Hot Pink w/ Black Splatter and Pink Marble, limited to 250 copies each. Check out the latest single “Do the Damned”!

Rise Against’s Appeal to Reason is back in print for the first time in 5 years with a new pressing on orange colored vinyl, which is supposedly limited – exactly how limited it is, I don’t know! What I do know is you can get this for $29.99 instead of the $85+ previous pressings are going for on Discogs. Get it here.

Another Rise Against record back in print for the first time in a long time is The Black Market. It looks like this has actually never been repressed since its original release in 2014. This isn’t a fancy 10th Anniversary reissue or anything, just a new pressing on black wax, but I figured it’s noteworthy since this, too, fetches a pretty penny on the resale market currently. Get the new pressing for $27.98 right here.

Tooth & Nail Records has released three deep cuts from their catalog on vinyl for the first time ever! These include As Cities Burn’s 2009 album Hell Or High Water, Slick Shoes’ 2002 self-titled record, and Dogwood’s Building A Better Me from Y2K. These were available exclusively at Furnace Fest 2024 but it sounds like Tooth & Nail will be putting leftover copies up on their webstore at 9am pacific / noon eastern on Halloween.

Speaking of Halloween, Black Russians have a new record coming out this Halloween and you can get it on black wax from our friends at Memorable But Not Honorable Records here in the states, and or mates at Punk Rock Vinyl in the UK. There are just 100 copies total (50 per label) so you’ll wanna act fast on this one.

The only (cover) band that matters Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are hot on the heels of their new album ¡Blow it…at Madison’s Quinceanera! and they’re continuing to have a ball with this 7″ single featuring a new cover of Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs’ “Most People I Know (Think That I’m Crazy)”. I’d never heard the original before, but I guess it’s considered somewhat of an Aussie classic, so it’s fitting the band will have an exclusive variant of this on their Australian tour with the Dwarves in a few weeks. For now you can get the 7″ from Fat Wreck on (non-Australian tour exclusive) colored and/or black vinyl.