News / Records
Dead Bars to release first full-length

Posted by Loren on February 18, 2017

Dead Bars to release first full-length
Dead Bars - Dream Gig

Seattle's Dead Bars will release their debut full-length later this spring on No Idea Records. Titled Dream Gig, it will release digitally on March 10 with a vinyl offering coming soon after.

The band, formed in 2013 with the intention to play a single Seattle show and a short tour of Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, has now released five EPs and the upcoming LP.

In addition to the new record, they have a short Pacific Northwest tour scheduled in March and will be a featured Studio Session on KEXP on Saturday March 18th at 10pm on the radio at 90.3 FM / KEXP.ORG worldwide. They released a split 7" last year with Tampa's The Tim Version.

 

Track listing:


1. Overture

2. Earplug Girl

3. Always Bet On Clark

4. Emergency

5. D Line to the Streamline

6. Face the Music

7. Tear Shaped Bruise

8. Dream Gig

TOUR DATES:


March 16th - Bellingham, WA @ The Swillery

March 17th - Vancouver, BC @ Astoria

March 18th - Victoria, BC @ Logan's Pub

March 19th - Seattle, WA @ Vera Project **All Ages**

Dead Bars to release first full-length
Dead Bars - Dream Gig

Related news stories

Off With Their Heads, Home, & Dead Bars

Posted in Tours on May 30, 2023

Experience the Dead Bars Universe

Posted in Bands on March 9, 2023

Related album reviews

Dead Bars

Regulars
A-F (2019)

Dead Bars are one of those bands that’s somehow both fun and super depressing. The lyricism is what you’ll normally read about with this band – and for good reason – but it’s all around fun-yet-meaningful punk that fits different moods and brings out different emotions depending on when you listen to it.The band released a few 7”s before 2017’s … Read more

Dead Bars

Dream Gig
No Idea Records (2017)

Reading that Dead Bars never meant to be a band explains a lot of things. They started as a one-off project to go on a tour rather than to share their art. It turned out to be fun and they stuck with it. After a series of 7”s, the Seattle now-band finally releases their first full-length in 2017, titled Dream … Read more

Related features

The Fest 20: Dead Bars, Catbite and more

Music / Fest 20 • October 17, 2022

Scene Point Blank has covered The Fest thoroughly since its inception in 2002. The site has personally sent attendees to Fests 6-13, then 17-18 in varied capacity, and we’ve back for The Fest 20. Oh, and we shared some remote memories when shutdowns kept it from happening in 2020, too. … Read more

Dead Bars

One Question Interviews • September 10, 2015

John (Dead Bars) SPB: What does your name mean? John: It comes from a long history of drinking by myself at bars with no one in them. Read more

Careeners

One Question Interviews • March 16, 2014

PJ Fancher (The Fest ticketmaster, Grabass Charlestons/The Careeners, I worked at No Idea Records for 10 years) Fancher: I've never seen any direct numbers proving so but I imagine that the whole download code thing has only helped vinyl sales. I actually get a bit bummed if I buy a new … Read more