Pissed Jeans newsletter - King of Jeans repressed!

Hi Pissed Jeans friends, fans and well-wishers! As Staind likes to say, it’s been a while, but in 2024 we’ve been as busy as we ever get with this little band of ours. For a bunch of guys who get nervous on highways and sweaty on airplanes, we’ve managed to get to Los Angeles, Glasgow, and a bunch of places in-between already this year. More to come, too! Keep your eyes peeled to our well-meaning Instagram page and smash the follow button if you’re feeling particularly bold! It’s a sad fact that it’s probably the best place to keep up with our merch drops, show announcements and ice bucket challenges these days, plus we’re extremely satisfying guys to look at. I do it all the time and the magic is still there.

Really hope you’ve gotten to spend some time with our latest (and greatest?) album, Half Divorced, which came out in March and of course is streaming on all those big ugly conglomerates, and also STILL available for purchase on beautiful Spotify-colored vinyl over at the Sub Pop Mega Mart. We made a couple videos too, for the tracks “Moving On” and “Cling To A Poisoned Dream”, if you’re curious whether we rock out or not. (Spoiler alert: we most certainly do!) I realize that it’s quite an ask for fans of loud rock music to get excited about any band’s sixth album, but I swear this one is full of our best material yet. I’m pretty sure that Generator isn’t anyone’s favorite Bad Religion album, same goes for Slayer’s Decade Of Aggression Live, but Half Divorced could be the exception to the rule if you open your heart just a little.

Now that you’ve opened your heart… how about your wallet, too! It seems like a lot of people rank King Of Jeans as our best, and it’s certainly a favorite of ours as well. Things just really clicked into place for us there, recorded by Alex Newport before he realized it was the black mold in his apartment that was making him unbearably ill. If he hadn’t produced this album for us, would he have died?? I don’t want to make any big claims either way, but I don’t think it can be ruled out that we saved his life. Anyway, this album has been out of print for a good number of years now, but in celebration of the record’s fifteenth anniversary, they printed up a limited bunch on clear vinyl, just like in that picture above. Fifteen! King Of Jeans is finally old enough to underage drink, which is ironic because Brad is still straight-edge, of course, and he makes the rest of us feel terrible about it on a daily basis. Enough jibber jabber - go ahead and pick up this sparkling new edition at the Sub Pop Mega Mart! There’s enough room in your digital shopping cart for all our shit, I guarantee.

That’s plenty of news, but before I depart your inbox, I should also mention we have some shows coming up! This Friday August 23rd we’ll be in Baltimore at the Metro Gallery (tickets here), then Saturday August 24th in Atlantic City at the Anchor Rock Club (tickets here). Fun weekend! Come September, we’re heading west to Columbus at Ace of Cups on the 26th, Detroit at the Lager House on the 27th (with the great Timmy’s Organism!), then two nights at the Empty Bottle on the 28th and 29th! The 28th is sold out, so snag a ticket for the 29th if you please. The following day, it’s the long humbling drive home for us, though the memories of your friendly faces will power us through the substandard rest-stop food and awkward silences.

XOXO

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