{"id":97948,"date":"2025-01-23T19:58:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=97948"},"modified":"2025-01-23T19:58:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:58:59","slug":"knuckle-pucks-nice-to-know-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/knuckle-pucks-nice-to-know-ya\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Knuckle Puck’s New Single – ‘Nice To Know Ya’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago pop-punk band,\u00a0Knuckle Puck<\/strong>, are currently preparing to celebrate the 10th anniversary of ‘Copacetic’<\/em>. However, that’s not stopped the quintet from releasing new music. Today sees them releasing a track titled\u00a0‘Nice To Know Ya’<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The three-minute number thrives on its gritty rhythm and\u00a0Knuckle Puck<\/strong>‘s assured brand of anthemic pop-punk. However, as the band explained, it also sees them somewhat stepping out of their comfort zone.<\/p>\n

“When writing Nice to Know Ya, we tried to take an older approach by keeping it as out-of-the-box as we could. This includes uglier chords, a spoken verse, and push-pull lyrics to match the juxtaposition of the verse and chorus. One of our goals for this band originally was to keep the listener guessing with our songwriting, something we are excited to bring back with this song.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

It follows last November’s standalone track,\u00a0‘On All Cylinders’<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Knuckle Puck<\/strong>‘s last record,\u00a0\u2018Losing What We<\/em> Love\u2019,<\/a> was released in October 2023. In my review at the time, it saw them continue to the trend of adding to their pop-punk arsenal of songs, rarely straying away from the genre.<\/p>\n

Although\u00a0‘Nice to Know Ya’<\/em> comfortably maintains style,\u00a0hearing new music from\u00a0Knuckle Puck<\/strong> is always welcome<\/span>. Nevertheless, 2025 sees them (partially) looking back with a series of shows performing their debut full-length,\u00a0‘Copacetic’<\/em>, in full.<\/p>\n

Although many of those dates are Stateside,\u00a0Knuckle Puck<\/strong> will be returning to the Slam Dunk Festival<\/strong><\/a> in May where it is expected they will be playing the album in its entirety.<\/p>\n

May
\n24th Slam Dunk Festival South – Hatfield Park, Hatfield
\n25th Slam Dunk Festival North – Temple Newsam, Leeds<\/p>\n