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Popular ska punk band to release first new album in 12 years

A popular ska punk band is releasing new music after 12 years.

Streetlight Manifesto’s new album “The Place Behind The Stars” will be released on June 24, the band wrote on Facebook Wednesday.

“We recorded it ourselves, as usual, and hope you will enjoy placing it inside your ears,” the band wrote. “Thank you, that is all for now.”

Lead singer Tomas Kalnoky first teased the album last April as being “85% finished,” noting that recording had actually begun back in 2019.

Kalnoky said the process was delayed by band members’ active lives including “regular jobs and careers, babies and toddlers, and all of the triumphs and catastrophes that define all of our humble existences. Add to that the fact that we try to fill all of the slivers of leftover time with Streetlight travel and shows, and things move slowly.”

Fans have been waiting a long time for new music, partly related to a dispute with the band’s former record label, Victory Records, that was settled in 2017.

“The Place Behind The Stars” will be Streetlight Manifesto’s first album since 2013’s “The Hands That Thieve.”

The New Jersey band, which rose to fame for its brand of third wave ska, has released five studio albums to date, starting with “Everything Goes Numb” in 2003.

Some of Streetlight Manifesto’s most popular songs are “Keasbey Nights,” “Everything Went Numb,” “We Will Fall Together,” “The Three Of Us” and “9mm and a Three Piece Suit.”

Streetlight Manifesto played a handful of shows in 2024, and is scheduled to play the Vans Warped Tour 30th anniversary concert this year.

It is unclear if more tour dates will come with the album.

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