The California based festival announced Thursday morning that the legendary pop-punk trio would be performing this year. News broke out when Coachella posted the set times for weekend one, starting April 14. Blink-182 will be playing Friday, April 14, at 6:45 PM PST on the Sahara Stage alongside Metro Boomin, Two Friends, and Vintage Culture. No word yet if Blink-182 are attending weekend two. Other acts performing weekend one include YUNGBLUD, Snail Mail, boygenius, Knocked Loose, The Chemical Brothers, and many more.
Coachella 2023 was announced back in early January, with Bad Bunny, BLACKPINK, and Frank Ocean headlining with Gorillaz, TV Girl, Soul Glo, The Comet Is Coming, $uicideboy$, Yung Lean, The Linda Lindas, Hot Since 82, Björk, GloRilla, Latto, Rae Sremmurd, and many more attending.
Tickets for weekend one are sold out, but a waitlist for it is available.
Blink-182 reunited with Tom DeLonge last October — who quit the band back in 2015 and was replaced by Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba — and announced a new album coming later this year, as well as a massive world tour lasting until 2024. Rise Against, Turnstile, The Story So Far, and Wallows will be appearing on selected dates of the tour. The tour will also take them to When We Were Young in Las Vegas this October with Green Day, 5 Seconds Of Summer, All Time Low, Tigers Jaw, and EKKSTACY.
This is part four of four. If you haven’t read part three yet, check it out here.
In 2023, we’re getting several great albums some several great bands and artists, but out of all the albums that are coming out this year, these are the ones you need to keep your eyes on. Here are the most anticipated albums of 2023, in no particular order.
The Acacia Strain
Album: Step Into The Light (Rise)
Release Date: 5/12
Bostonian heavy gods The Acacia Strain are bringing the brutality to 2023. Coming mid-May, Step Into The Light is composed of ten songs produced by Randy Leboeuf (Chamber, Every Time I Die, Left Behind) that’ll be sure to kick you on your ass. And if you’re wondering how heavy this record is, check out the song “Fresh Bones,” which Metal Injection bluntly says, it “rips.” Fuck us up, TAS.
nothing,nowhere.
Album: VOID EXTERNAL (Fueled By Ramen)
Release Date:3/31
Vermont sadboy nothing,nowhere.’s follow-up to 2021’s Trauma Factory is so close, you can almost feel it. Containing various guests like Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz, Underoath, Static Dress, Lorna Shore’s Will Ramos, and SeeYouSpaceCowboy, VOID EXTERNAL is destined to be n,n.’s busiest (and most aggressive) album to date. Working with producer Taylor Morgan (guardin, Sickboyrari, Wicca Phase Springs Eternal,) and inviting only a few people into the studio like ex-Counterparts guitarist Blake Hartman, engineer Brody McKeegan, and some personal friends, nothing,nowhere. aka Joe Mulherin wanted this to be an inspirational album. “I want to be what bands like Linkin Park were to me,” Mulherin said. “I want to provide that level of inspiration and comfort and I want to be a safe haven to a kid who is struggling. I made it exactly how I wanted to with zero outside influence. This is the purest expression I could put down in audio form. This is the music that made me, and I want to return the favor.”
Jesus Piece
Album: …So Unknown (Century Media)
Release Date:4/14
Philly metalcore outfit Jesus Piece are reaching new heights in their career. After spending the first half of their career with LA label Southern Lord (All Pigs Must Die, High Command, Xibalba,) Jesus Piece signed with Century Media Records (3Teeth, Electric Callboy, Lamb Of God) in December, kicking off not only the next chapter of the band’s career, but also their new album cycle. Coming out next month is their long-awaited second LP …So Unknown. Drummer Luis Aponte told BrooklynVegan, “The making of the record was nothing short of all-consuming. It was an intense and challenging process. The record reflects a lot of confusion, but also, evolution. There was a lot of uncertainty and emotion during the pandemic– we all changed and grew so much. So if there is a single thought or concept to the record, it’s constant metamorphosis. That’s also how we operated as a band on this LP– spending a lot of time songwriting and fleshing things out as a unit, and then upping our game from there. It’s definitely a reflection of us as more mature, playing the best we’ve ever played and feeling like a real band for the first time. A big goal on …So Unknown, outside of songwriting and technical goals, was to capture the same energy on record that we have live – for people to get that sense of urgency and danger.”
The Used
Album: Toxic Positivity (Big Noise)
Release Date: 5/19
Just days before taking the stage at last year’s When We Were Young, influential post-hardcore outfit The Used dropped a fiery new track called “Fuck You,” which will appear on their ninth album Toxic Positivity coming out mid-May via Big Noise Music Group (BOXBOY, Escape The Fate, The Veronicas). Months later, they dropped another banger, “People Are Vomit.” Alternative Presshad a first look on the new track, calling it “venomous” and that The Used were returning “to their heavier roots in full force, offering a timely critique of the state of the world and the divisive times we are living in.” The album was produced by longtime collaborator John Feldmann (Avril Lavigne, Jasiah, The Word Alive.)
Closure In Moscow
Album: Soft Hell (Self-Released)
Release Date: 5/30
I have had a massive soft spot for Closure In Moscow for many years at this point. The Australian progressive rock act have been keeping themselves kinda quiet since dropping their second album Pink Lemonade in 2014. But now, a new album is on the horizon. Their third album Soft Hell drops May 30. The album has “the last 9 years distilled down to 50 minutes.” CIM says in a statement, “Getting comfortable with chronic discomfort caused by the choices that fears and trauma lead you to make. This is life in a soft hell. There are enough distractions to stave off facing up to it, you can keep yourself in denial to avoid it, and things can just keep ticking along. Life becomes a fever dream of creature comforts and time killers, floating further into a lake of fire. People come along to pull you out, but they too get burned when you feel too stuck to climb with them.”
The Maine
Album: TBA (Photo Finish/8123)
Release Date: TBA
While nothing has been confirmed yet, Arizona’s finest The Maine have been busy putting stuff out. Last year, they dropped the massive collab with Taking Back Sunday and Charlotte Sands “Loved You A Little” and an acoustic ballad called “Box In A Heart” with Canadian bedroom pop artist renforshort. Could these songs appear on a new album? Possibly. Their last record was 2021’s XOXO: From Love And Anxiety In Real Time, which I put as one of the most anticipated albums of 2021.
Sarah And The Safe Word
Album:The Book Of Broken Glass(Take This To Heart)
Release Date: 4/7
One of Atlanta’s most fascinating acts is putting out new material next month. The goth cabaret sextet Sarah And The Safe Word recently announced their next album The Book Of Broken Glass, scheduled to come out April 7 via Take This To Heart (The Higher, Marigold, Thanks! I Hate It.) The album is a story (or a book, per se) dealing with a family’s secret and the ghosts who are willing to do whatever it takes to make sure it stays one. Produced by Jim Wirt (Hoobastank, Jack’s Mannequin, The Rocket Summer,) the album is packed with features, starring rapper Jamee Cornelia, queercore act Dog Park Dissidents, and Danbert Nobacon of Chumbawamba. According to Chorus.fm, Sarah And The Safe Word “embrace the strange and the quirky head on an album that is filled with several twists and turns. Much like the title implies, this book is sure to keep your interest as much as it challenges you to grow with the band.” Also check out the video for “Ruby Off The Rails” which features actual furries.
Avenged Sevenfold
Album: TBA (Warner)
Release Date: TBA
Oh it’s happening people. A7X will drop their long awaited eighth album sometime this year. The album which they began working on in 2018 is finished, according to drummer Brooks Wackerman on his Instagram last September. They have been teasing fans about the record, even telling them to “touch grass” and launched a cryptic scavenger hunt online courtesy of an entity named Libad5343. Guess we can only wait for an official announcement. Time to go outside, I suppose.
Code Orange
Album: TBA (Blue Grape)
Release Date: TBA
While no word has been made on a new record, Pittsburgh industrial metalcore troupe Code Orange have been seen in the studio working with Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins. While we wait for that work to come out, the band did drop What Is Really Underneath?, a remixed/re-imagined take on their last record, 2020’s Underneath, along with a 14-minute short film of the same name and an alternate reality game on whatisreallyunderneath.com. An MTV Unplugged-style record called Under The Skin, was released in 2020. This was their final release with Roadrunner Records (Angel Du$t, Motionless In White, Turnstile) before signing with Blue Grape Music, a new label created by Roadrunner founder Cees Wessels and Roadrunner’s former head of A&R David Rath.
Mayday Parade
Album: TBA (Rise)
Release Date: TBA
Late 2000’s pop-punk icons Mayday Parade are currently in the studio right now working on new material. The band posted on social media last month that “new tunes” are being created with longtime producers Zack Odom and Kenneth Mount (Chapel, Go Radio, The Ready Set.) Two songs came out last year, “Thunder” and “Losing My Mind.” Mayday Parade have a busy summer this year, touring alongside All Time Low and Yellowcard, as well as playing the Hawaii Is For Lovers festival with Hawthorne Heights, Emery and Saosin.
The first month of 2023 is almost over. We should probably get cracking on this list.
In 2023, we’re getting several great albums some several great bands and artists, but out of all the albums that are coming out this year, these are the ones you need to keep your eyes on. Here are the most anticipated albums of 2023, in no particular order.
Fucked Up
Album: One Day (Merge)
Release Date: 1/27
Fucked Up’s sixth studio album One Day has a very literal title. Written and recorded in one day, One Day is the Canadian indie/hardcore legends’ shortest record to date, clocking in at 40 minutes. “Twenty-four hours can feel like a long time, but you can get a lot done then, too,” guitarist Matt Haliechuk said in a press release. “It can feel like forever and one minute at the same time. If you work on something for one day, it can end up being really special.” The record is also special with frontman Damian Abraham contributing lyrics for the first time since 2014’s Glass Boys. Even with its small length, One Day will show you how much you can get done in one day, and maybe you’ll fall in love with it in one day.
Tennis
Album: Pollen (Mutually Detrimental)
Release Date: 2/10
I was introduced to husband-wife/indie pop duo Tennis over a decade ago by my older sister. She showed me one of their songs “Marathon”, which to this day is still lingering in my brain. If you put your ears to my head, you can faintly hear “Coconut Grove / Is a very small cove / Separated from the sea / By a shifting shoal”. It’s been years since I thought about Tennis and wanted to see if they were active. Not only are they still around, but they’re dropping their sixth album Pollen next month on their own label Mutally Detrimental. “We wanted to write a big album,” Alaina Moore said in a press release. “…something suited for radio, but our songs don’t follow conventional pop structures. Instead of choruses with universal themes, I write with a specificity that is new to me, narrowing in on the smallest details of our lives. The more we try to broaden our scope, the more we turn inward.” Pollen drops February 10.
White Reaper
Album: Asking For A Ride (Elektra)
Release Date: 1/27
On their second outing with major label Elektra Records (Avril Lavigne, Fitz And The Tantrums, Tones And I), Kentucky garage punks White Reaper decided to switch things up while also sticking to their guns. Produced by the band themselves, along with help from friend and Grammy Award winning engineer Jeremy Ferguson (Cage The Elephant, Lambchop, Turbo Fruits), White Reaper “directly channeled the energy of their live show” into each of the album’s 10 songs. From the kick-ass Cheap Trick-esque “Fog Machine” to the closing number “Pages”, Asking For A Ride is definitely something that you should be looking forward to this Friday. Maybe this will be the record that’ll launch the band into the mainstream. Only time will tell.
Narrow Head
Album: Moments Of Clarity (Run For Cover)
Release Date: 2/10
Houston, we got a banger. Texan grunge act Narrow Head added a third guitarist Kora Puckett and it hasn’t changed the band’s sound drastically. Their third album — Moments Of Clarity — which is their second with Bostonian label Run For Cover Records (Anxious, glass beach, Portrayal Of Guilt), will contain the same core themes found in their prior records: desolation, loss, and self-medicating. But, as stated by Rough Trade, the new album “rises above the darkness with a sense of elegant repose, like a butterfly-winged figure-skater skimming the hardened rim of a freezing black lake.” Narrow Head will be touring next month with White Reaper and Taipei Houston, and they’ll be attending the inaugural nu-metal festival Sick New World in Las Vegas on May 13 with System Of A Down, Papa Roach, Turnstile, Death Grips, Failure, and many more.
Paramore
Album: This Is Why (Atlantic)
Release Date: 2/10
Rejoice! Paramore is back! After vanishing for nearly six years, the Franklin, Tenn., the pop-punk turned post-punk trio have returned with an album that sounds like nothing they’ve done before. Heavily influenced by Bloc Party, Foals, and Wolf Alice, their sixth album, produced by Carlos de la Garza (Bad Religion, The Linda Lindas, M83) and last with major label Atlantic Records (GAYLE, Matchbox Twenty, Royal & The Serpent) marks the closing of one chapter of their career and the beginning of another. “We’ve been really lucky,” frontwoman Hayley Williams told Billboard about leaving Atlantic. “We always will have gripes — it’s an industry — but we know that we’ve been really lucky. It’s more just the fact that it’s time to fucking finish something. And it’s time to know that we’re not doing the same shit that we’ve been on since we were teenagers. It’s just going to feel so nice to start a new book. You know, like no more chapters of this one. Whole new book. And I’m excited.” If you were hoping for an After Laughter Part II, your dreams are gonna be dashed. But know this, it is still a Paramore record. Even if you were praying for songs to sound like “Pressure”, “Misery Business”, “Now”, “Still Into You”, or “Rose-Colored Boy”, they won’t sound like them. Yet tracks like the title track and “C’est Comme Ça” should be the soundtracks to your 2023.
100 gecs
Album: 10000 gecs (Atlantic/Dog Show)
Release Date: 3/17
OK, I was off by a year. In 2022’s list, I put 10000 gecs as one of my most anticipated albums alongside Tears For Fears, Dashboard Confessional, and †††. But the only thing hyperpop duo 100 gecs gave us was an EP in December called Snake Eyes. And on the same day Snake Eyes dropped, 100 gecs finally gave us the release date for their highly anticipated second album, that date being March 17. Rejoice gec nation, it’s almost here.
Pierce The Veil
Album: The Jaws Of Life (Fearless)
Release Date: 2/10
Another one I was off by a year. Featured in last year’s most anticipated list alongside Joyce Manor, Dance Gavin Dance, and Counterparts, Pierce The Veil’s long-awaited fifth album originally had no name nor any real information, except that longtime drummer Mike Fuentes was removed from the group due to sexual allegations made public in 2017 and that the album will be produced by Mutemath frontman Paul Meany (The Blue Stones,half•alive, twenty one pilots) and mixed by Adam Hawkins (Avenged Sevenfold, Machine Gun Kelly, Switchfoot). As time went on, we finally got the album’s name, that being The Jaws Of Life. Three singles were released, “Pass The Nirvana”, “Emergency Contact”, and “Even When I’m Not With You”. Collaborations with Fueled By Ramen (Fall Out Boy, Lights, Quinton Griggs) artist chloe moriondo and Third Eye Blind’s drummer Brad Hargreaves were also announced. It better be worth the wait.
Fall Out Boy
Album: So Much (For) Stardust (Fueled By Ramen/DCD2)
Release Date: 3/24
If it weren’t for how amazing “Love From The Other Side” sounded, So Much(For) Stardust wouldn’t be on this list. No longer sounding like the band who gave us Mania, Chicago’s Fall Out Boy are (technically) going back to basics, working with mentor and producer Neal Avron (New Found Glory, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Yellowcard) to help bring the band back to the top. During a secret show at the Metro on Wednesday night, bassist Pete Wentz said that the album will sound like a combination of all of their albums (even Fall Out Boy’s Night Out With Your Girlfriend?). If the best parts of all prior albums makes So Much(For) Stardust the best Fall Out Boy record since Folie à Deux (fight me), then this will be so worth the wait.
Enter Shikari
Album: A Kiss For The Whole World (Ambush Reality/SO Recordings)
Release Date: 4/21
2020’s Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible helped reignite my love for Enter Shikari. The St Albans electronicore act have been unstoppable since their formation 24 years ago. And on their upcoming seventh studio album, A Kiss For The Whole World, the band are about to enter a whole new era. Vocalist Roy Reynolds told Rock Sound, “Back to basics. This band – my best friends – bundled into an old farmhouse, miles away from anywhere. Off-grid, and ready to rediscover ourselves. This album is powered by the sun, the most powerful object in our solar system. And I think you can tell. It’s a collection of songs that represent an explosive reconnection with what Enter Shikari is. The beginning of our second act.” I’m excited for this second act.
All Time Low
Album: Tell Me I’m Alive (FueledBy Ramen)
Release Date: 3/17
Just a few weeks ago, Baltimorean pop-punk quartet All Time Low began teasing what would be the second (we didn’t know that then. The album’s first single “Sleepwalking” came out in 2022) single for their upcoming ninth studio album Tell Me I’m Alive. Frontman Alex Gaskarth was inspired by Paul McCartney and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band when working on the track. “Jack [Barakat] and I had plans to go see Paul McCartney that night so naturally I’d been listening to Sgt. Pepper’s all week…” Gaskarth wrote on Instagram. “Theatre. Concept. A bit of cheek coupled perfectly with weight and consequence. Its sensibilities were bleeding into our creative process for the day and suddenly I was picturing this fumbling, stumbling mess, a caricature of a person hell bent on burning down everything around them for the laughs and the memories.” While not a lot of info has been revealed yet, all we do know is that the record will have 13 songs.
Wait, this year’s festival hasn’t started yet, and we’re already focusing on next year’s?
To everyone’s surprise, Live Nation shocked everyone when they dropped the entire lineup for next year’s When We Were Young festival, eleven days before WWWY 2022 starts. Taking place Saturday, October 21, 2023, at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds in Las Vegas, Nev., WWWY 2023 will feature a scene kid’s wet dream of a lineup, with Green Day and Blink-182 headlining. This news came after the shocking return of Blink’s guitarist/co-vocalist Tom DeLonge, who quit the band back in 2015 and was replaced by Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba, Tuesday morning.
Co-headlining 2023’s festival include Good Charlotte, Rise Against, Yellowcard, Sum 41, and New Found Glory. Others performing include 5 Seconds Of Summer, All Time Low, Michelle Branch, Waterparks, Joyce Manor, The Movieline, Games We Play, Lit, The Academy Is…, Saves The Day, and many more. Check out the full lineup below.
You can register presale tickets right now on their website. All tickets start at $19.99 down. Presale starts this Friday at 10 am PST (1 pm EST).
When We Were Young 2022 takes place Saturday, October 22, Sunday, October 23, and Saturday, October 29. My Chemical Romance and Paramore are headlining. Others performing include Avril Lavigne, Car Seat Headrest, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Dance Gavin Dance, Bayside, Neck Deep, The Story So Far, 3OH!3, Bright Eyes, Dashboard Confessional, and more.
Punk Goes Prenatt 