OFF! - s/t lp and tour dates

OFF! is back to kick you in the teeth with some of the best old school hardcore punk rock you'll ever hear..... both live and in vinyl form......  VICE records is set to release their second lp or self titled debut record, depending on how you look it at, MAY 8TH......(their first 12 inch was entitled FIRST FOUR EPS, a comp of their 7 inch releases.  so this is their first proper LP, but ya know who the fuck cares, cause you need to buy it.)

LED BY KEITH MORRIS off CIRCLE JERKS and BLACK FLAG, anything OFF! releases is pretty much an instant classic.  highly recommended to everyone........


LISTEN TO THE FIRST SINGLE OFF THE NEW S/T ALBUM, ENTITLED KING KONG BRIGADE........ and fucking rock out....



and check out OFF!'s live dates ( * dates are with REFUSED......)

05-08 Los Angeles, CA - Whiskey a Go Go
05-11 San Francisco, CA - Slim’s
05-14 San Diego, CA - The Casbah
05-15 San Diego, CA - Che Cafe
05-29 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
06-02 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival
07-15 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade Music Park *
07-16 Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore *
07-18 Brooklyn, NY - Williamsburg Summer Garden *
07-19 Philadelphia, PA - Penn’s Landing (Riot Fest) *
07-20 Boston, MA - House of Blues *
07-21 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis *
07-22-23 Toronto, Ontario - The Sound Academy *
07-25 Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theater *
07-26 Chicago, IL - Congress Theatre *

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OFF- the first four eps.

click here to grab OFF!'s lp the first four eps....

keith morris of circle jerks and black flag fame has formed a little hardcore punk supergroup......OFF! these four eps compiled by vice records would've made my list had i found the album a week or two earlier......

to quote a rare time i agree with pitchfork these days......"First Four EPs crams 16 tracks into just over 17 minutes; the thing's packed so tightly, an extra second here or there could feel like one too many. This is lean, propulsive hardcore, played just as it would've been in L.A. circa 1981. The live-in-a-room recording lets you all but hear the sweat drip on the mic...."

or in other words, it's like henry rollins never joined black flag or the circle jerks kept up the good fight.......

it's early 80s hardcore that sounds relevant and fresh now....... unlike the dated cliches most of the punker kids are playing nowadays.....

but i guess if you were there at the outset, when punk was the new thing, it wasn't so hard to think outside the box...... keith morris pulled off one of the years most addicting records, not by reforming his old band and recording a lame new lp.......but by writing catchy fast classic punk songs......

i wish there were more keiths in the music industry.........

you need this album if you like punk. i promise