O-D-EX “Breaker” and The Sleeveens “s/t” both out now!

O-D-EX “Back To Form” Video

Surprise video premiere from O-D-EX!

Debut LP out 1/26, preorder the mailorder-exclusive white vinyl edition HERE

Sleeveens Tour Dates

Excited to announce the initial round of tour dates for The Sleeveens 2024 world takeover! More in the works!


Introducing…..The Sleeveens

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, please give a warm Dirtnap welcome to The Sleeveens!

We here at Dirtnap were IMMEDIATELY bowled over when this unknown-to-us band sent in their album to us for consideration! We dispatched our crack A&R team to Tennessee, and following a high level summit meeting, we’re ecstatic to announce that The Sleeveens have joined the illustrious ranks of the Dirtnap family of bands!

The Sleeveens (an informal Irish term for someone who is underhanded, sly or a bit of a trickster) hit exactly at the intersection of high energy pub rock and classic ’77 punk (with some modern flourishes sprinkled in), with hooks for MILES, and great lyrics that are more thoughtful and original than many in this style of music.

Existing for less than a year, this Nashville/Dublin band has hit the ground running, releasing a 7″ and going on an extensive tour within a few months of forming, recording a full length, getting picked up for Dirtnap, and booking ANOTHER big tour for early 2024!

February 9th will see the release of their debut, self titled LP on Dirtnap. The first 200 will be on yellow vinyl (black vinyl also available), and will only be available via mailorder through Green Noise Records.

Preorder your copy HERE.

We’ll have music from the album to share soon, in the meantime, check out their debut 7″ (released as Stef And The Sleeveens on Sweet Time Records) HERE.

Keep your eyes open for track premieres, tour dates, and lots more! 2024 will be the year of The Sleeveens!

O-D-EX “Breaker”

Fort Worth’s O-D-EX has joined the Dirtnap roster, and we are happy to announce that their debut LP, “Breaker” will be released on January 26th!

This will be a one time only pressing of 500, with 300 on black vinyl and 200 on white. White vinyl will be exclusively available through our friends at Green Noise Records.

Preorder your copy here! By preordering, you’ll automatically be entered to win a copy of a test pressing of the LP! (edition of 5)

Direct Hit / Decent Criminal Split 7″ and Beacon Comic #1

OUT NOW! ORDER HERE: https://bit.ly/3FDGfZT

On April 28th, Dirtnap Records will publish the first installment of Beacon Comics, packaged with a 7″ record featuring a taste of Direct Hit‘s (Milwaukee, Fat Wreck Chords) dubiously-forthcoming album (“Wasteland”), and new Decent Criminal (Santa Rosa, Diised/Gunner Records) songs “Time” and “Dream” – each an alternate take, and a B-side off their forthcoming album, respectively.

At some point during quarantine – with an album of new material shelved, and a month-long European tour all but canceled – Direct Hit singer/songwriter Nick Woods found himself working on a story about the future.

‘I’d get on video calls with my friends Dylan [Brown] and Jenny [Lapham], and we’d joke about being locked up with nothing to do – just like everyone else was,’ he says. ‘At some point, I got it into my head that this was all training for some kind of future where virtual reality would be the only way to experience the universe. And since I had nothing else to do at the time, I figured I’d start writing some of that stuff down.’

Together, Nick, Dylan, and Jenny – along with long-time Direct Hit collaborator and illustrator Walker Dubois – pieced together the first half of BEACON from Woods’s notes, producing a science fiction comic about a person named Doro, and their robot caretaker Partner, as civilization is reborn from apocalypse.

“Wasteland” was a tune I wrote and recorded by myself in a couple hours in June of 2020, a couple months after we canceled all our scheduled shows, and right around when I admitted to myself that I wasn’t gonna be able to be in a full-time band for a while,’ Woods says. ‘This was also right after when George Floyd was killed by the Minneapolis police. So I was angry, and depressed, and embarrassed, and felt like I had to do something to express that mindset, and show some solidarity. The original version is really nasty-sounding – this one is too, but a lot more listenable. And Dylan, Jenny, Walker and I had the first part of this book lying around. So we figured it was good a time as any to try something far-out, with a label that wasn’t scared to experiment.”

This lavishly packaged comic/7” combo is a one time only pressing of 500 (300 on black, 100 on red, 100 on blue) and will only be available for a limited time. Get yours today! 

Listen To Direct Hit’s “Wasteland” HERE