San Francisco art punk trio Rip Room has announced summer dates with Boston's Kal Marks. The 14-city trek kicks off with a record release show on July 14th in Oakland, CA, and runs through August 13th. The band will be out in support of its critically-acclaimed debut LP Alight and Resound which is available everywhere now!
7/14 - Oakland, CA - Thee Stork Club (Record Release Show)
7/28 - Tacoma, WA - Real Art
7/29 - Seattle, WA - Victory Lounge7/30 - Portland, OR - Shanghai Tunnel7/31 - Oregon - Secret Location8/4 - Providence, RI - News Cafe8/5 - Somerville, MA - The...

Rip Room’s debut album Alight and Resound is out everywhere tomorrow! We’re cranking up the heat with the premiere of the band’s new music video for “Complication.” Head over to No Echo to check out the video and finally answer the age-old question: What If Devo jammed with Fugazi? Smash that ❤ and tell all your friends.

Great songs don’t usually come out of thin air, so it’s fascinating how the process goes from idea to a finished song. Rip Room’s guitarist/vocalist John Reed shares how the band’s “Complication” from the forthcoming Alight and Resound came about. How did this song come together? “Complication" was the second-to-last song written for Alight and Resound. I remember I wrote the song very quickly, one of the rare cases where I sat down and all the parts just sorta came out. But when I started to demo, I realized it needed some sort of intro. So I played the main...

Rip Room’s debut album Alight and Resound comes out in just over two weeks! We’re stoked to team up with Post Trash to premiere the new song “Dead When It Started.” Some highlights:• Rip Room trade between muscle and melody, dexterity and wonkiness• Rip Room play post-hardcore music with an air of art pop exuberance• Rip Room’s songs are tightly wound and serrated at the edges• The new single bounces with a circular post-punk guitar groove reminiscent of the Devo classic “Girl U Want”If that’s not enough, the song also features drummer Gracie Malley pounding away on a car fender...

We're excited to premiere Rip Room's new music video for "Worth Repeating" off the band's forthcoming debut album Alight and Resound out May 27th. Vocalist/guitarist John Reed says, "Shot in the midst of the pandemic, we found ourselves in a clandestine location with a rough plan and more than a few worries. The song is about the world falling apart, so it felt right to shoot in the woods — ominous and sinister, but maybe the safest place to be. By the end of a long evening, our director (and dear friend Josh Johnson) had captured the weird energy that...