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This year The Bouncing Souls are celebrating their 30th year as a band, a tremendous milestone by any measure, and one that's even more impressive for a band as consistently active and crowd pleasing as the New Jersey punk legends. In honor of the anniversary, the band has announced the release of Crucial Moments, a brand new six-song EP and accompanying book, due out March 15th from Rise Records. Today The Bouncing Souls are sharing the title track and its music video, an anthemic ode to three decades of great music and great friendships — proof that the band shows no signs of slowing down.
Recorded by Will Yip, Crucial Moments captures the sound of a band who are still completely in love with what they do after all these years. The four-piece — vocalist Greg Attonito, guitarist Pete Steinkopf and bassist Bryan Kienlen, who started the band in 1989, and were joined by drummer George Rebelo in 2013 — aren't ones to rest on their laurels, as Crucial Moments is a wholehearted, fully-realized addition to The Bouncing Souls canon. The EP offers the winning familiarity of the band’s most defining traits bolstered by a long career’s worth of songwriting expertise.
If the Crucial Moments EP shows where The Bouncing Souls are now, the book is a look back at where they've been. The collection contains photos, memorabilia, and stories from friends and fans to trace the band's incredible career and its impact on the people around them. As Attonio puts it, "We’ve made bonds with people around the world that you’d never imagine or dream of when you’re a 17 year old kid from New Jersey in the ’80s. I’m so grateful that I’ve been through that journey and for what I’ve learned, and what I’ve been able to get for my heart and to give, too. I don’t know how I can imagine my life being more gratifying than that.”
Tour Dates:
03/16 Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall +
04/04 Austin, TX @ Mohawk *
04/05 Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey *
04/06 Houston, TX @ White Oak *
04/07 New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues *
04/09 Nashville, TN @ Exit/In *
04/10 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade *
04/11 Orlando, FL @ Beachum Theater *
04/12 Tampa, FL @ Orpheum *
04/13 Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution *
05/02 Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater #
05/03 Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater #
05/04 Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall #
05/06 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon #
05/07 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater #
05/09 Oakland, CA @ The UC Theatre #
05/10 San Diego, CA @ Northpark #
05/11 Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre #
05/12 Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory #
08/09 Montreal, QC @ Fou Founes ^
08/10 Toronto, ON @ The Phoenix ^
08/11 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre ^
08/13 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop ^
08/14 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall ^
08/16 St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall ^
08/17 Chicago, IL @ The Metro ^
08/18 Minneapolis, MN @ The Varsity Theatre ^
10/22 Bristol, UK @ The Fleece
10/24 Glasgow, UK @ St Lukes
10/25 Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
10/26 London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
10/27 Cologne, DE @ Essigfabrik
10/29 Hamburg, DE @ Markthalle
10/30 Berlin, DE @ SO36
10/31 Munich, DE @ Backstage Halle
11/02 Eindhoven, NL @ South of Revolution Festival
12/12 Boston, MA @ Royale %
12/16 Charlotte, NC @ Amos Southend %
12/17 Richmond, VA @ Broadberry %
12/18 Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore %
+ w/ Strike Anywhere
* w/ The Bronx, The Casualties & Crazy And The Brains
# w/ The Bronx, Skinny Lister & Sharp Shock
^ w/ The Bronx, Swingin' Utters & Bar Stool Preachers
% w/ The Bronx, Off With Their Heads & Bar Stool Preachers
