In just under a week Junkyard will release their brand new album album, ‘High Water‘, on Acetate Records. This is Junkyard‘s first official album in 26 years. The band have shared the song ‘Styrofoam Cup‘, ahead of the release on April 21st.
Tracklisting:
Walk Away
Faded
Cut From The Same Cloth
Styrofoam Cup
Hellbound
W.F.L.W.F.
Don’t Give a Damn
Hell or High Water
Wallet
Til The Wheels Fall Off
Kindness to the Dead
Bonus tracks:
The River
Rome Is Burning
Don’t Give A Damn (acoustic)
Styrofoam Cup (acoustic)
Wallet (live)
Lineup:
David Roach – Vocals
Tim Mosher – Guitar
Todd Muscat – Bass
Patrick Muzingo – Drums
Jimmy James – Guitar
The band will be appearing at Hair Metal Heaven, on August 26th in Hull, UK
Interview with Junkyard vocalist David Roach about their upcoming new album ‘High Water’, their appearance at Hair Metal Heaven and the band’s future plans.
Junkyard are all set to release a brand new album on April 21st on Acetate Records.
“We maybe could have gone to some of the 1980s revival labels, and I think there was some interest from some of those labels. But we wanted someone who really understood what Junkyard did,” says Tim Mosher. “It just felt like a natural fit. Honestly, how it happened was I sent an email to Rick Ballard and said, ‘Hi, this is Tim from Junkyard, would you be interested in doing a Junkyard record?’ That was the level of pursuing a record deal for us. Junkyard doesn’t do the big, grand plan thing very well––I can say that. We don’t really know what we’re expected to sell or how we sell,” he says. “The requirements are for us to do a certain amount of shows within the year cycle of the record. 2017 will be more shows than we’ve done in the previous eight or 10 years, probably. We’re going to be out there playing and promoting it.”
“That’s always been our stigma––that we were lumped in with the long hair bands of that era, but musically we didn’t really have that much in common with them,” says David Roach. “There was another scene going on simultaneously to the West Hollywood, Sunset Strip scene that people think about when they consider that period of rock & roll in L.A. A more alternative, garage rock scene including the Nymphs and Jane’s Addiction, that we were a part of.”
Junkyard will be making a welcome visit to the UK as part of the Hair Metal Heaven festival in Hull, which takes place on 25 August–27 August.
I cannot believe how quick the year is going, a cliché I know, but oh so true!
Anyways, enough of my chatter, here’s the playlist for the first show of Rocktober –
I’ll be kicking off with a band appropriately called Roulette, the three play is Burn, Ten & Black Country Communion and finishing off with a little bit of Junkyard.
Tune in on either (or both) KQLZ (@11am PST /7pm GMT) & KCOR (@ 8am CST / 2pm GMT)
