Mania was officially released January 19, 2018 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 , making it the band’s third consecutive and fourth chart-topping debut overall.
On January 11, 2018, the band announced that the Chicago stop during their 2014/15 Past Live Tour (all eight studio albums performed in four nights) will be released in its entirety on Blu-ray , and as an eight- LP box set.
In 2018 RDF released their latest work, Daydream Dystopia , produced by Youth Sounds.
Jawbreaker was one of the headliners of the Upstream Music Festival in Seattle on June 2, 2018 where they played “Shield Your Eyes”, the first song the band ever wrote with Schwarzenbach on vocals and the opening song on Bivouac , for the first time in 22 years. The band…
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In January 2018, Dalle shared a teaser video from The Distillers’ Instagram and a newly opened Twitter account to confirm the return of the band. Initially, it was believed the four Twitter accounts that The Distillers’ Twitter was following, would make up the 2018 line-up of the band: Dalle, Bradley,…
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In 2018, after the tour supporting California , Hoppus formed the spin-off project Simple Creatures with All Time Low frontman Alex Gaskarth .
Interest in the band started to grow around 2018 with a resurgence in ska. The band started to achieve national presence due to promoters like Jeremy Hunter of Skatune Network and Mike Sosinski of Bad Time Records. Bad Time Records started specifically to promote ska artists. Catbite was one of…
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In 2018 drummer Dick Slexia (real name Richard Adland), died of lung cancer.
On November 30, 2018, they released a cover of ” Santa Baby “.
On February 19, 2018, the band announced on their Facebook page that Jordan Burns is no longer the drummer. Soon after it was revealed that RJ Shankle of the band Runaway Kids was selected to be the new drummer of Strung Out. Daniel Blume was tapped to fill in for…
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