On the eve of their 30th anniversary full-length album, Vows, which is slated to arrive tonight at midnight, Hot Water Music has unleashed their out-of-this-world, 1980s-inspired new single and accompanying video for “After The Impossible,” featuring City And Colour. “When we started trying to figure out the concept for this video, the one thing we wanted to avoid was ‘man misses woman/woman misses man,’” the band shares of the accompanying music video. “That’s been done enough, right? One of the earlier concepts was two friends trying to reconnect. That fairly simple concept went through a few wild iterations: are the… Read more »
Your favorite massive DIY music celebration, THE FEST, is returning for FEST 22. The festival just announced its thrilling lineup for the event taking place on October 25-27 in Gainesville, FL. Headliners include Hot Water Music and The Bouncing Souls, as well as performances from Matt And Kim, Joyce Manor, Streetlight Manifesto, and more. Hot Water Music fans must get down to Florida to celebrate 30 years of the band. Plus, admirers of The Bouncing Souls will be able to see the band play through Hopeless Romantic, The Gold Record, How I Spent My Summer Vacation, and Anchors Aweigh in… Read more »
Ahead of their forthcoming record VOWS, legendary punks Hot Water Music have shared their double-single, “Remnants” and “Fences” via Equal Vision Records. Both tracks feature exquisite collabs including Turnstile‘s Brendan Yates and Daniel Fang on “Remnants” and Thrice on “Fences.” “I grew up playing drums every day to all of these records,” Yates said in an Instagram story. “Thank you @hotwatermusicofficial for having @danielfang and I on your new song. Full circle moment, endless love.” Fun fact, Turnstile got its band name from Hot Water Music’s 1997 song of the same name. Read more: Turnstile Announces Latin American Tour With… Read more »
Hot Water Music will be going on a short, 5-date tour this December, with support from Torche and O’Brother
Gainesville, FL punk rock veterans Hot Water Music and their supporting cast, La Dispute and The Menzingers, gave audiences a reason to stay on their feet when they visited Toronto last week on their winter tour.
Hot Water Music have released a music video for “Drag My Body” off the album Exister. The video was directed by Josh Hegard and shot in Silverlake, California.
Hot Water Music has announced their first headline tour in eight years. The tour is set to run in January and February of 2013. Support for the tour will come from La Dispute and The Menzingers.
Hot Water Music haven’t released a full length album since 2004, but that is about to change. On May 15th the band will deliver Exister onto the world through Rise Records.
Music festival season is officially upon us. Coachella kicked off the start of massive summer concert events on April 11-13 and April 18-20, and Columbus’ Sonic Temple Festival closely followed up on May 8-11. Some attendee accounts from these fests have stirred up major controversy, which forces the question, “Are festivals getting worse?” For starters, Coachella opened their weekends with cars stuck in traffic for 12+ hours, as reported by ABC7 Chicago. “I’ve seen people pass out from heat exhaustion,” one interviewee said. Some cars even ran out of gas and needed to be pushed onto the grounds. This past… Read more »
