It’s a new year and that means an entire new year of new music. Here’s what you should look for this year.

Imora - Happily Never After - Release: Available now

Purchase on iTunes

Carousel Kings - A Slice of Heaven - Release: March 13th

“Well they can expect some older songs remixed and remastered as well as 5 brand new songs. The only way I can describe the newer songs is pop punk polarized. The poppy parts are poppier, and the heavy parts are heavier. haha. Also mention our signing to CI and what not, we gotta hype that.” - Brad Herr, Guitarist

Giants at Large and Major League - Cities and States - Release: February 1st

“You should expect awesomeness. Our side is a little different then what we’ve written in the past but still has the ‘Major League’ feel and Giants at Large wrote some of the best stuff I’ve ever heard, in my opinion. All around this split is a solid record.” Nick Trask, Vocalist

Giants at Large - Doubt - Release: Spring

“This CD’s more mature than our other releases. It reflects how we’ve grown as a band. The EP was recorded like 2 weeks into being a band, this one’s after over a year and a few tours, so we really grew together through everything.” - Brian Thomann, Bassist

Sudden Ascent - Untitled EP - Release TBA

Free the Empire - Untitled - Release: March-April

“We’re recording at Atrium Audio (in Lancaster), it’s a little more ‘poppy’ than what we have done before. It’s gonna be digitally released with limited pressings and it’s gonna have tits on the cover, I mean it won’t.” -Josh Nichols, Vocalist

One Year Later - The Sound of a Broken World - Release: March 13th

The band has announced that they have signed with CI Records.

A Seamless Getaway - Untitled EP - Release: Spring/Summer

“We are recording it now but it sounds fantastic” - Ben Shelly, Bassist

Shotgun No Blitz - Untitled - Release TBA

Knee Deep and Sinking - Something Seasonal - Release TBA

“I wouldn’t say it’s a concept album but each song has a theme tied back into one of the four seasons.” - Charles Bernard, Vocalist

The Show and Tells - Bird Pants: the Musical - Release: Late February 

“The album will consist of 11 tracks and will be sold digitally on Bandcamp and physical copies will be sold at shows.” - Dalton Rhone, Guitarist

Seek to Thrill - Forget Me Not - Release: February 4th

Release show info

Vegas Under Lights - EP - Release: Summer

“We’re going in march/April to record a brand new 6 song ep that we will offer in digital and hard copy . It’s 6 new songs no repeats from our debut 3 song.” - Josh Krizan, Guitarist

Make sure to keep an eye out for these guys at your local venues and records stores. This year is promising.

Also we liked to personally congratulate Carousel Kings and One Year Later on getting signed to CI Records. You deserve this dudes.

Love,
Jacob P. Overholt 

Knee Deep and Sinking
Philadelphia, PA
Pop-Punk 
Status - Unsigned 
EP

Woah! I’m Blogging again! Down to business then.

Knee Deep and Sinking is a band thrown into the ever growing battle for relevancy that is the Philadelphia Pop-punk scene. Brace yourself kiddies because I’m about to explain why this band should be on the top of the heap or the atop to the world if you’re offering.

KDAS is as pure to that classic Pop-punk sound that emerged to the forefront of musical culture in 2000. We talking about the early Drive-Thru era of Warped, the NFGs, the Blinks, the Sum 41s. Honest, Realist, and Passionate KDAS have proved time and time again they can write the anthems to your summer, your life, that movie that Aaron Sorkin in inevitably writing about your life. Not relying on any sort of gimmick the band plays the music they truly believe in leading to a truly organic listening experience.

The Band took to the stages, basements, some random ass bench thing I saw them play on one time in 2009 (to the best of my knowledge) devouring small children and Philly kids with their passion drenched pop-punk. There are dudes in bands and then there are a bands of dudes. KDAS is the latter. 

What do I mean by Band of dudes? Well its very simple, some people do it for the idea of being in a band while others do it because they believe in something. For Knee Deep its the idea of quality pop-punk that they can call their own. While listening to their recent effort the If Ignorance is Bliss, Tis Foley to be Wise EP you may say that this band is heavily influenced by New Found Glory, Sum 41, and even Philly locals such as the The Wonder Years but you will also noticed a sound that can’t be defined by comparison to anyone band or genre. 

What Knee Deep and Sinking bring to the pop-punk table is a devastatingly wide range of influences, backgrounds and personal experiences not to mention the tenacity of five 20 somethings getting by on music. 

I promise you KDAS will hold a very special place in your music library once you have spent any amount of time listening to their music.  When it comes to the future of this band, they’ll leave the streets to their contemporaries while they take the skyline.

-Jake

Photos by Wass Photography

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Knee Deep And Sinking

From Philadelphia! If you like Hit The Lights, New Found Glory, and pretty traditional pop-punk, you’ll be into Knee Deep and Sinking. Check them out on Facebook and Bandcamp, where they have their EP, If Ignorance Is Bliss, ‘Tis Folly To Be Wise, available for a free download.

Woah, Knee Deep and Sinking making moves.

Love Shown Kevin Iovine

(Source: fuckyeahpop-punk)