
Various Press teamed up with Joyce Manor for an unique vinyl of I Used To Go To This Bar, restricted to 300 copies. Head to the AP Store to seize yours.
Joyce Manor have launched “I Know The place Mark Chen Lives” forward of their upcoming album, I Used To Go To This Bar, out Jan. 30 by way of Epitaph Data. The monitor represents a time within the band’s life the place they’d spend time hanging out, ingesting, and smoking collectively.
“Lyrically, the track was impressed by Chase and I hanging out, ingesting and smoking weed, and laughing about stuff, and we have been speaking about how when weed golf equipment first began, they’d provide you with a free dab, and the budtender would do a dab with you,” guitarist Barry Johnson says. “Dabs are insanely gnarly. I used to be cracking myself up imagining some 19-year-old lady who simply did her third dab of the hour earlier than getting robbed at gunpoint, as a result of they’d at all times get robbed as money companies. That’s the imagery of the track: These early days when weed was nonetheless not tremendous totally authorized. It was just like the Wild West, a bit of bit. That simply gave me a chuckle as a result of it’s actually darkish and brutal.”
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The track is known as after Mark Chen, a singer and songwriter for bands Summer season Trip and Winter Break, which Johnson felt “didn’t get fairly as common as they deserved to.” The black-and-white video, directed by Jason Hyperlink and Rowan Daly, options the band performing in shut quarters.
In help of I Used To Go To This Bar, Joyce Manor will hit the street with Militarie Gun, Teen Mortgage, and Fight. Try the video for “I Know The place Mark Chen Lives” and the upcoming 2026 tour dates under.
Joyce Manor 2026 tour dates
03/09 – Phoenix, AZ, US @ The Van Buren
03/11 – Austin, TX, US @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
03/12 – Houston, TX, US @ Home of Blues Houston
03/13 – Dallas, TX, US @ Home of Blues Dallas
03/14 – New Orleans, LA, US @ Home of Blues New Orleans
03/16 – Orlando, FL, US @ Home of Blues Orlando
03/17 – Atlanta, GA, US @ Buckhead Theatre
03/18 – North Myrtle Seashore, SC, US @ Home of Blues Myrtle Seashore
03/20 – Baltimore, MD, US @ Nevermore Corridor
03/21 – Boston, MA, US @ Residents Home of Blues Boston
03/22 – Philadelphia, PA, US @ The Fillmore Philadelphia
03/24 – Brooklyn, NY, US @ Brooklyn Paramount
03/25 – Buffalo, NY, US @ Asbury Corridor
03/26 – Toronto, ON, CA @ The Danforth Music Corridor
03/27 – Detroit, MI, US @ Majestic Theatre
03/28 – Chicago, IL, US @ The Salt Shed
04/10 – Indio, CA, US @ Coachella Valley Music & Arts Competition
04/17 – Indio, CA, US @ Coachella Valley Music & Arts Competition
04/26 – Madison, WI, US @ The Sylvee
04/27 – Minneapolis, MN, US @ Varsity Theater
04/30 – Des Moines, IA, US @ Wooly’s
05/01 – St. Louis, MO, US @ Delmar Corridor
05/02 – Lawrence, KS, US @ Liberty Corridor
05/04 – Denver, CO, US @ Fillmore Auditorium
05/05 – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT, US @ The Depot
05/07 – Nice Falls, MT, US @ The Newberry
05/08 – Calgary, AB, CA @ The Palace Theatre
05/09 – Edmonton, AB, CA @ Halfway Music Corridor
05/11 – Vancouver, BC, CA @ Commodore Ballroom
05/12 – Seattle, WA, US @ The Showbox
05/13 – Portland, OR, US @ Roseland Theater
05/15 – San Francisco, CA, US @ The Fillmore