The Bay State is known for producing many of today’s best punk and ska bands, and now Boston’s HAVE NOTS can be added to the list. Today, Paper + Plastick Records announces the physical release of the Have Nots’ latest full length, Serf City USA, which is also available for free download from the label.
Fans can download the album here http://tinyurl.com/HaveNotsP-P, and pick up the record on black, half black and red, or black and red splatter vinyl beginning Monday, June 7th from the P+P webstore.
In support the release, Have Nots have announced a number of tour dates, including shows with friends and fellow Bostonians, Dropkick Murphys, as well as a Fourth of July hometown show with Star Fucking Hipsters. The band recently opened for Dropkick Murphys at one of their infamous St. Patrick’s Day shows in Boston this past March.
Formed from the ashes of two of Boston’s punk mainstays Stray Bullets and Chicago Typewriter, 2009 saw the quartet playing over 150 shows, which included gigs alongside two of the city's most notable bands, Dropkick Murphys and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Subjects from the band’s twelve-track album range broadly from the plights of the true Have Nots in our society (migrant workers, disabled veterans, prisoners held with neither charge nor evidence, can collectors scraping by off five cent deposits) to examinations of interpersonal relations.
The band’s upbeat blend of ska and punk is being hailed as "A sound that’s likely to make most would-be ska bands nervously upchuck their breakfasts...sonically charged ska-punk brilliancy...as strong as a heroine kick. Have Nots actually do the genre some justice and come out sounding fresh and new,” according to Punknews.org, and left the band’s hometown paper, The Boston Phoenix, to claim Serf City USA is “a rock solid mix of gruff alleyway punk that hasn't been done this well since Rancid reinvented it on Let's Go.”
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