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You Don’t Have to Surrender, but You Have to Listen to the Smith Street Band’s New Song, “Surrender”

Everyone's favorite Aussie pub punks are back.

You know when you’re in a really shitty place in life and you’re making terrible decisions and just generally sucking? Well, if you’re some sort of superhuman, you can do the altruistic thing and bottle up your problems until you develop some sort of heart condition. But if you’re a normal person, you probably can’t help but drag those around you down with you. That’s sort of the gist of the Smith Street Band’s new song, “Surrender”—but it's not meant in a bummer way, more of a triumphant, let’s-all-sort-our-fucking-lives-out-together kinda way, all backed by the band's shake-your-first style of Aussie pub-punk.

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The Smith Street Band live in Melbourne but they feel like local boys wherever you live. Over the last few years, the four-piece has toured the US, Europe, Asia, and basically the world with acts like Frank Turner, Bomb the Music Industry!, and the Menzingers. Somewhere in between their travels, they’ve managed to record their third full-length, Throw Me in the River which will be released via their new home at SideOneDummy Records on October 28. (Keep checking back every single hour on the hour until they open up pre-orders.) And if you're headed down to Fest, catch these guys in between PBR cannonballs.

Listen to "Surrender" below…

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