Philadelphia-based punk band The Menzingers have released a new song called ‘The Freaks.’ The Halloween-themed video for ‘The Freaks’ is also out now. Produced and mixed by Will Yip (Title Fight, Quicksand, Pianos Become the Teeth), ‘The Freaks’ is a dreamy midtempo track driven The Menzingers’ bittersweet melodies and full-hearted vocals. In the accompanying video, director Adam Peditto captures a freaks-only Halloween party, attended by devils and bumblebees, aliens and handmaids, vampires and wigged dogs. ‘The Freaks’ video also includes a variation of spin-the-bottle, in which a spun dagger determines the kiss recipient.
The Menzingers are about to embark on a headline tour of the US. With the band also playing THE FEST in Gainesville on Friday, the tour features Tiny Moving Parts and Daddy Issues as support.
Tour dates for The Menzingers:
Oct 25 Tampa, FL – The Orpheum (Pre-FEST show)
Oct 26 Gainesville, FL (FEST)
Oct 27 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
Oct 28 Nashville, TN – Basement East
Oct 30 Dallas, TX – Trees
Oct 31 Austin, TX – Mohawk
Nov 02 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
Nov 03 Los Angeles, CA – Regent Theater
Nov 04 San Diego, CA – The Music Box
Nov 05 San Francisco, CA – Slims
Nov 07 Seattle, WA – El Corazon
Nov 08 Portland, OR – Hawthorne
Nov 10 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
Nov 13 Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theater
Nov 14 Chicago, IL – Concord
Nov 16 Detroit, MI – Crofoot Ballroom
Nov 17 Toronto, ON – Phoenix Theatre
Nov 18 Pittsburgh, PA – Mr Smalls
Nov 20 Washington, DC – Black Cat
Nov 23 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
Nov 24 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
Nov 25 Boston, MA – House of Blues
Featuring singer/guitarists Greg Barnett and Tom May, bassist Eric Keen, and drummer Joe Godino, The Menzingers formed as teenagers in their hometown of Scranton in 2006, then later relocated to Philadelphia. The band made their Epitaph debut with 2012’s critically acclaimed ‘On The Impossible Past’. Arriving in 2014, their fourth album ‘Rented World’ was praised as “packed with clever songwriting” by The New York Times and “a colossal fist-pumper” by Stereogum. In February 2017, The Menzingers released their fifth and most recent album ‘After the Party’, hailed by Pop Matters as “a superlative set of authentic punk songs that stand as their finest achievement to date.”