Knuckle Puck streaming new album on Red Bull Music
Music News | Jul 23rd, 2015
Pop-punk band Knuckle Puck have teamed up with Red Bull Music to exclusively stream their new album Copacetic in its entirety. You can listen to that over here.
Copacetic is Knuckle Puck’s debut full length, and will be available everywhere on July 31st (next Friday) via Rise Records.
On Copacetic (named one of the Most Anticipated Albums of 2015 by Alternative Press), the band set out to flip the script on what’s expected from Knuckle Puck without losing sight of the foundation that’s converted thousands of devoted fans around the world: rough-around-the-edges urgency buoyed by vocalist Joe Taylor’s explosive, gritty vocals.
The name, Copacetic, was plucked from a lyric on the album’s sprawling 7-minute closing track, “Untitled.” Copacetic is a title that might sound vaguely beatnik, but it’s entirely applicable to the charge set forth on the album’s 11 songs.
“When we thought of the album title, we thought it was a way to say, ‘OK, here’s an album of things I’m upset about and hurt over,'” says guitarist Nick Casasanto. “But at the end of the day, everything’s fine, everything’s copacetic, because you have to look at what you do have. I think it’s important, especially in this scene, not to magnify depression and wear it like a badge. You should use music to feel better.”
It’s this refreshing sense of perspective, along with a fire-charged pop-punk sound, that has helped set Knuckle Puck on a rapid trajectory over the past few years. Breaking from Chicago’s southern suburbs in 2011, the band – Taylor, guitarists Casasanto and Kevin Maida, bassist Ryan Rumchaks and drummer John Siorek – are regarded as one of the genre’s hottest up-and-coming acts, as seen on tour with the likes of The Maine, Real Friends, Modern Baseball, and Senses Fail.
The band is currently on The Vans Warped Tour and will be playing Riot Fest as well.
Vans Warped Tour
Jul. 23 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
Jul. 24 Detroit, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills
Jul. 25 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheater
Jul. 26 Shakopee, MN Canterbury Park
Jul. 27 Maryland Heights, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Jul. 28 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheatre
Jul. 29 Noblesville, IN Klipsch Music Center
Jul. 30 Bonner Springs, KS Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
Aug. 1 Salt Lake City, UT Utah State Fairpark
Aug. 2 Denver, CO The Pepsi Center
Aug. 5 San Diego, CA Qualcomm Stadium
Aug. 7 Portland, OR Portland Expo Center
Aug. 8 Auburn, WA White River AmphitheaterSept. 13 Chicago, IL Douglas Park*
*Riot Fest
