More than 20 years after recording their last record, Cough, Black Eyes returns with Hostile Design. The album is comprised of six all-new songs, written directly in the wake of the band’s April 2023 reunion shows.

Hostile Design was recorded at Tonal Park studios over three days, with Ian MacKaye resuming his role as producer and Don Godwin engineering. The instrumentation returns to Cough’s two drums, bass, guitar and sax lineup, but adds some fresh elements. Live multichannel dubbing, now a standard of their shows, has been integrated into the performances, as have electronic drum triggers and samples as well as the occasional bass clarinet passage. In the years since their initial dissolution, each member has pursued their own creative paths, including drone rock, avant techno, ambient, sonic collage, visual art, video work and more. In coming back together, the breadth of their collective practices are all integrated into the music.

The record is now available for pre-order on our website and Bandcamp page.

Today, you can listen to the new song "Pestilence" on Bandcamp. 

Please note that if you order any additional items along with this, the entire order will be shipped together on the release date.

Light Beams’ new two-song 7" is out now, released as a co-release between Dischord Records and Lovitt Records. The record features tracks recorded by Zach Goldstein at Kawari Sound in Wyncote, PA, and by Justin Moyer at the band’s own Solar Power Station in Washington, D.C. Light Beams continue to carve out their own space in the post-punk landscape. The band will be playing select shows throughout the remainder of the year in support of the release.

This month, Washington, D.C.'s Faraquet will reunite for its first shows in 17 years. The trio – Jeff Boswell, Devin Ocampo, and Chad Molter – will perform in D.C., Philadelphia, New York, and Los Angeles followed by a run of dates in Japan. Find a complete itinerary below.

This month, Washington, D.C.'s Faraquet will reunite for its first shows in 17 years. The trio – Jeff Boswell, Devin Ocampo, and Chad Molter – will perform in D.C., Philadelphia, New York, and Los Angeles followed by a run of dates in Japan.

Find a complete itinerary below.

July 25 - Washington, D.C. @ Black Cat # 
July 26 - Philadelphia, PA @ Phila MOCA (Early Show) # SOLD OUT
July 26 - Philadelphia, PA @ Phila MOCA (Late Show) # SOLD OUT
July 27 - Ridgewood, NY @ TV Eye # SOLD OUT
Sept. 7 - Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon % 

Sept 11 - Tokyo, JP @ Nine Spices

Sept 12 - Nara, JP @ Neverland

Sept 13 - Osaka, JP @ Conpass

Sept 14 - Nagoya, JP @ Stiff Slack

Sept 15 - Tokyo, JP @ Fever

Sept 16 - Tokyo, JP @ Fever

# w/ Savak

% w/ Light Beams

DIAMINE’s debut full-length album is being released through Superbad Records in collaboration with Dischord Records and BCore (Barcelona).

Members of DIAMINE have previously played in The Capitol City Dusters, Discount, Severin, Jury Rig, and Routineers. Recorded and mixed in the summer of 2024 by Ben Green at Ivakota Studios in Washington DC.

Mastered by TJ Lipple. Available on red vinyl.

This 3xLP box collects the complete discography of Washington, D.C.'s Swiz. The limited edition set is a joint effort between Dischord and the band's original labels, Sammich and Hellfire Records. It features the quartet's two full-lengths (S/T and Hell Yes I Cheated) plus a compilation of three 7" singles (Rejects, Down, With Dave) all remastered from the original analog tapes, plus a 34-page 12x12 photo book with rare and unseen images. 

This collection will be a one-time pressing manufactured to order and will be available via pre-order only. Pre-orders begin today with the window closing on May 30th. Delivery is expected late this summer. The music will be available for streaming on all platforms around the physical ship date. 

Pre-order the box now via Bandcamp or our site. 

Swiz was a Washington, D.C-based hardcore punk band that existed from April of 1987 through August of 1990, cutting their teeth and carving their place in the scene that birthed trailblazers and contemporaries like Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Dag Nasty, and Fugazi. Featuring original Dag Nasty singer Shawn Brown, Swiz’s faster, darker, and more aggressive take on the D.C. sound ran counter to the melodic, experimental, and poppy direction the scene had been leaning toward in the years before punk broke into the mainstream during the early '90s.

In the thirty-five years since the group's demise, Swiz’s popularity and infamy have only grown. Their short, sharp, sonic blasts still resonate and continue to inspire musicians, artists, and fans alike.

Swiz was Shawn Brown (vocals), Jason Farrell (guitar), Nathan Larson (bass 1987-1989), Alex Daniels (drums), and Dave Stern (bass 1989-1990).

Since 2011, Fugazi has maintained an online archive of all the band’s 1000+ performances that provides data, photos and ephemera from all their shows and makes available close to 900 concert recordings captured by both the band and their audience. 

On May 2nd, Dischord will begin to make a selection of these recordings available on streaming services and Bandcamp for the first time.

Two shows will be posted on May 2nd – the band’s first concert (9/3/87 - Washington, DC) and their to-date final performance (11/4/02 - London, UK). Further recordings will be added monthly through the end of the year.

The Fugazi Live Series website will remain online and will continue to host the complete archive.

 After Slowdime Records releasing all this material as The Mercury CD in 1998 and BCore on vinyl in Spain in 2017, this is the first domestic US vinyl version on Solid Brass Records. On color vinyl.

FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS uniquely features almost every single Glen E. Friedman photograph of the Bad Brains, considered by many music fans to be the greatest and most influential American punk rock band of all time. The photographs are from 1981 and 1982, when the band was at its most fiery musical heights. The book also includes an introduction by Friedman, a preface by HR , and an afterword by Zack de la Rocha . Some of these photographs will be recognized as iconic shots that have graced album, book, and magazine covers, while most of them have never been seen before. 

Born out of two years of free playing. Four friends (Kamyar Arsani, Jeff Barsky, Dug Birdzell and Jerry Busher) turned the language they created into songs and performances over the summer of 2024. Their first 7" is now available. 

Sensor Ghost is a no-wave art-punk trio from Washington, DC, featuring Mike Andre (bass/vocals), Amanda Huron (guitar), and Sam Lavine (drums). The band’s spiky songs have been known to leave listeners in a discombobulated trance. Former/current projects include Puff Pieces, Antelope, Weed Tree, Light Beams, Vertebrates, and Stigmatics. Like the aforementioned groups, Sensor Ghost owes a debt to the freaked-out sonics and iconoclastic creativity of the storied DC punk scene.

The band’s first LP, “Irritation on Demand,” was recorded with Ian MacKaye and Don Zientara at Inner Ear Studios over a few feverish days in March of 2024.







Today, you can listen to the new song "Irritation on Demand" on Bandcamp.  

The record is now available for pre-order on our website and Bandcamp page.

Please note that if you order any additional items along with this, the entire order will be shipped together on the release date.

Punk And Other 4 Letter Words is a collection of some of Linda Aronow favorite punk, goth, and rock photos from this period Agnostic Front, Alice Bag, Angelic Upstarts, Bad Religion, Black Flag, Channel 3, Christian Death, DOA, Gang of Four, GBH, Gwar, Kommunity FK, Lords of The New Church, MDC, Meat Puppets, Minor Threat, Nervous Gender, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Redd Kross, Rigor Mortis, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Social Distortion, Super Heroines, TSOL, The Vandals and more.

ESCAPE-ISM — the found-sound dreamdrama— are back in action & out in front. And this time, they’re leading a “Charge of the Love Brigade.”This “charge” isn’t the traditional scramble across a muddy, bloody field though, like in the days of yore. This one is a furtive insinuation into the senses of the tuned-in listener.

ESCAPE-ISM — the found-sound dreamdrama— are back in action & out in front. And this time, they’re leading a “Charge of the Love Brigade.”This “charge” isn’t the traditional scramble across a muddy, bloody field though, like in the days of yore. This one is a furtive insinuation into the senses of the tuned-in listener.

Their fifth record, and fourth “sound” record — (the third one was “A Protest Against Sound”- an entirely silent LP) — “Charge of the Love Brigade” is revolutionary in its own right. Besides being packed with tunes — super-hits such as “Black Gold,” “Last Of The Sellouts,” “The Rebel Outlaw,” & “Fire in Malibu,” for example, Charge of the Love Brigade proposes a reformation of the traditional notes and scales; an entire new sound alphabet!

That’s right, ESCAPE-ISM —the “act of musical vandalism”— famous for their development of new prototypes for stomping & smashing, are reforming the scales, chords, & notes (e.g. A, B, F#, etc) that comprise musical literacy to achieve the group’s primary aim: the repurposing of music as we know it. Though many musicians of note have operated their instruments with "alternative tunings," up until now no one has obliterated tuning absolutely or abolished letter-notes for the destruction of bourgeois society.

According to ESCAPE-ISM, this will have a very profound effect: “Music will no longer be cordoned off from the rest of experience as a commodified, specialty freak show, but instead be a pastime which can be practiced and enjoyed –not only by non-musicians and amateurs– but also by plant life, wild animals, and even inanimate objects such as rocks.

“The violent overthrow of musical conventions will lead to the reintegration of humanity into the natural order, the reordering of life itself into a cosmic congruity. This means the convention of time itself will be ended.” Like so-called nature itself, the ESCAPE-ISM group is also on a “loop.”

Play “Charge of the Love Brigade” and listen as ESCAPE-ISM go “over the top” against the note-letters of accepted musicality in a world premiere of a new upside-down antiscale.

Evan Keeling, in partnership with Lost Origins, has published 9 hand-bound blank journals featuring original artwork. Each cover is part of a series of paintings inspired by Evan's deep dive into the history of the DC punk scene.

Designed in the style of vintage paperback book covers, the illustrations imitate various retro cover aesthetics, each paired with a quote on the back drawn from Evan's interviews that informed the art.

Click here to purchase.

Han-shan’s music was psychopathic, with blood-curdling vocals, and messy but powerful, in the vein of Void, Siege or Septic Death. The band

played to the absolute limits of their physical ability and then some, with a sound that complemented their West Coast contemporaries – bands like Heroin, Mohinder, Second Story Window, Antioch Arrow and Angel Hair. 8 Song EP is out now on L.G. Records.

The Dream Dreaming seamlessly fuses different facets of Craig’s (Shudder To Think) musical output, from experimental Art-Pop to jagged post-Punk to film music, all anchored by his distinct vocal style, and unique, surreal lyrics.