Moncton’s Diner Drugs keep the pedal to the metal with a new single and fall dates in Germany.
Matt Carter
So far, 2023 has been a fruitful year for Moncton’s Diner Drugs. They started the year off playing a few shows with Johnny Deathwish, The Merci Buckets, Single Mothers, Chastity, Butcher, and Cell Press; announced a partnership with Bat Skull Records; toured the Maritimes with Thousand Knives, and Cancer Bats; released the single This War with accompanying video; played their first show in Newfoundland, and played even more shows with Nicotine Heartthrob, Baited, Wickerbone, Knull, Skunk Hotel, Fear and Filth, Like a Motorcycle, and Conductor. They’ve been busy.
In advance of their forthcoming release, the EP 42, the band have shared the new single, Hollowed Bones, via Cancer Bats’ Bat Skull Records and She Said Feck.
To cap off a busy spring/summer season, the band will be heading to Germany to play some shows in September. Their first date, announced this week, will take place at the Reeperbahn Festival & Conference, Germany’s largest platform for the music and digital creative industries, where they will join 27 other Canadian acts is a special showcase organized by the Canadian Independent Music Association with support from Music NB.
Have a listen to Hollowed Bones and watch for more dates announcing soon.
42 will be released August 19.
