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Ferocious X photo by @yasuhiro_1623

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State newsletter! I’m totally exhausted from traveling to Pittsburgh and back this weekend for Skull Fest and working way too many hours so far this week, so I’ll keep this preamble brief. As usual, we have a whole bunch of new and old punk rock from around the world to tell you about. We don’t often highlight super poppy releases as our Record of the Week, but this new Plastic Tones album has really been doing it for me. However, if you’re looking for something a little grittier, you know we have plenty of options for you. So let’s get into what’s new this week…

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Hello and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State Records newsletter! It’s funny, you may have noticed last week’s newsletter was a little light on staff picks. I cracked the whip oh so very gently at our weekly staff meeting yesterday and the crew turned out for you… this week we have a full slate including a VERY long one from me about an interesting house call I went on today. Of course there’s plenty more to tell you about too. All three of our featured releases this week are killer… I had a lot of trouble deciding which to name Record of the Week. There’s also a bursting New Arrivals section with loads of killer new international punk, a couple of very cool reissues, and the usual stuff we fill your inboxes with every week. So, let’s get to the nitty gritty…

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Photo of the high-flyin' Invertebrates by the legend Chris Boarts-Larson.

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Sorry State Records newsletter! It’s been a busy week of driving around and catching gigs for me, all of which I detail in my staff pick below. You might think all this traveling would make things slow down at SSR, but instead I’ve chosen to deprive myself of sleep and rest in order to keep bringing y’all the latest and greatest in international punk. And we have some pretty cool stuff in this week, including a very cool 80s US hardcore reissue as our Record of the Week, two totally killer featured releases, and new arrivals from all over the world and all throughout punk’s history. We get into it all below, so keep reading!

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Hello and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State Records newsletter! After last week’s abbreviated edition, we’re back in full force with a fresh round of staff picks alongside the featured releases and new arrivals. As usual, there’s a ton of great international punk and other cool music to tell you about, so let’s get to business.

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Rat Cage photo by @vogonlaundromat

Hello folks and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State Records newsletter! We just have a short one for you this week as I’m supposed on vacation, but there are a bunch of new arrivals that you probably want to know about, including two new pre-orders on La Vida Es Un Mus and a big ‘ol heaping helping of the 80s punk reissues we all love. We’ll be back with all our regular newsletter features next week, but in the meantime let’s get into what I have for you this week.

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Hello and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State Records newsletter! Oh man, we have a heaaaaavy batch of new releases for you this week. First up, we have a brand new release on Sorry State: the self-titled debut LP from Richmond’s Dream World. We teased this one a few weeks ago, but it’s officially out now and you can listen to the whole thing on our Bandcamp and order the vinyl now, which will ship right away. On the distro front, we have new releases this week from Destruct, Absolut, Kinetic Orbital Strike, and Alienator… it’s like Christmas, but with way more distortion! That’s not all either, as we also have excellent new releases from Gimic, No Stayer, Chrome Cell Torture, a very cool 80s zine and cassette combo reissued, and plenty more. So let’s jump in…

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Hello and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State Records newsletter! It’s been a busy week for me. I’ve been putting a lot of miles on the old Subaru between going out to look at used collections and heading down to Charlotte yesterday to catch the first date of the big Invertebrates / Public Acid tour. They were amazing, of course, and if you have the opportunity to see them, you definitely should not miss it. I’m planning on hitting the Richmond show in a few weeks too, so hopefully I’ll catch the first and last dates of the tour. It’ll be interesting to see how they develop over that time, though both bands are already so blistering that it’s hard to fathom them getting better.

As for news in Sorry State land, of course we have plenty for you this week. We have some ripping metal from LA’s Paranoiac as our Record of the Week and a heap of new arrivals from across the globe as usual. And we have a fresh round of staff picks for you, with Usman making his much-anticipated return to the fold. So let's get into it!

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Hello and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State Records newsletter! Another week, another big stack of records to tell you about… I decided to focus on some hardcore rippers in our featured section, so if you’re craving something heavy and intense be sure to check out those recommendations. We also have a soft announcement for the next Sorry State release, a boatload of new titles in the distro, and a fresh round of staff picks. Plenty to keep your eyeballs occupied.

I also wanted to mention that last week we officially completed the purchase of the shop from our landlord! I wanted to mention it in the newsletter since so many of you contributed to our down payment by buying records and (in some extremely generous cases) donating money to us. It was not an easy process and (as I documented in my staff picks throughout April and May) it basically caused me to have a nervous breakdown, but now it’s officially done and I’m excited to turn a big chunk of my attention back to running Sorry State to the best of my ability.

Thanks again everyone! Now let’s get down to business…

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Skitkids photo by @xmoroccox

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State newsletter! I hadn’t planned on taking last week off from the newsletter, but I guess I underestimated how much traveling back from Copenhagen would wear me out. We’re back on track this week, though, and even better we have the long-awaited return of staff picks! I’m sure you’re all curious what the SSR staff has been up to and listening to.

The other big news is that the new Zorn album, Return to Castle Death, is officially out today! That means you can listen to the whole thing on Sorry State’s Bandcamp and/or your favorite streaming service.

As usual when we skip a week of the newsletter, we have a HEAVY new arrivals section for you chock full of new and reissued punk from all over the world. I go through them pretty quickly below, but hopefully I’ll find to talk about some of them at a greater length in the Featured Releases section in the coming weeks.

Other than that, it’s all systems go here at Sorry State. So buckle in, enjoy the read, and treat yourself to some new music.

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Zorn photo by @hi__d

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State newsletter! Sorry to clog your inboxes twice in one week, but as usual we try to make it worth your while to open our emails. The new Zorn album going up for pre-order on Monday was pretty big news, and now we have a pretty solid edition of the newsletter to get you over this week’s hump day. As I mentioned last week, we’re still ramping back up after a little time off, so mine is the only staff pick this week, but it’s a LOOONG one where I tell you all about my travels since last week. I hope you enjoy it!

We also have plenty of new arrivals to tell you about. Roachleg just dropped a killer new record from “Italo-American” punk band Mirage, we just got in a cool shipment from Europe with the new DHK album, we have a very important hardcore punk reissue as our Record of the Week, a couple of rippers in the Featured Releases section, and even more than that to tell you about. So, on with the show…

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Hello and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State Records newsletter! As I mentioned last week, we’re kind of easing back up to speed with the newsletter after taking a couple of weeks off. This week I’m actually putting together the newsletter from the road (more on that in my staff pick) and rather than try to coordinate everyone’s staff picks internationally, this is a very heavily Daniel newsletter. I hope that’s OK! It’ll be the same next week, and then we should be able to get totally back to normal the following week.

As usual, there’s plenty to tell you about on the record front! This new Meanwhile record is a scorcher. It arrived just before I left for my trip, so I was able to get it downloaded to my phone, where it has been on constant repeat. I can’t get enough! We also have two very different (but equally cool!) releases from Itchy & the Nits and Demonstrate in the Featured Releases section, and a ton of new arrivals to tell you about from labels like Neon Taste, Ugly Pop, Iron Lung, Goodbye Boozy, the brilliant Station Model Violence LP from earlier this year back in stock, and plenty more.

So what are you waiting for? Read on!

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Hello friends! Apologies to those of you who have been checking your inboxes, impatiently anticipating a new issue of the Sorry State newsletter for the past few weeks. I’ve been struggling with some health issues that put me out of commission for a while. If you’ve been reading my (Daniel’s) staff picks lately, it’s the same mental health troubles I’ve been talking about there. Unfortunately things got worse before they got better, but I’m hopeful I’m now now moving in the right direction. Also, I feel like I’m always apologizing for not getting back to people, but if you’ve contacted me over the past several weeks, you probably haven’t gotten a reply. I’m working on getting caught up, but it’s going to take a while.

As for the newsletter, I’m easing back into it with a somewhat abbreviated version this week. No staff picks, but I managed to write up a Record of the Week for you… hopefully you’re wise enough to have checked out Indikator B already (and, if you were lucky, catch them on their recent US tour), but if you were waiting for Sorry State’s ringing endorsement, here it is.

Most of what you’ll read below are updates on new stock to hit the distro, which (along with the shop) has been plugging along at full steam while I’ve been gone. There are a TON of excellent new and reissued records to tell you about… there are at least half a dozen records there that fully deserve a Record of the Week nod. So read through and find some new music to treat yourself to. It would help us out a lot.

I’m about to head out to do some traveling, and the plan is to keep sending out these abbreviated newsletters from the road, maybe telling you a bit about my journey. That’s the plan, anyway. It feels strange to be leaving for a trip so shortly after being out for a while, but this was planned months ago and everything is non-refundable. I think a change of scenery will do me some good, though.

Oh, and if you’re reading this from in or near Raleigh, come see Fentanyl, Steramines, Sunyata, and Besitos Wednesday night at RUMAH! It’s gonna be a good time.

Now, on to the goods…

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