Alt/rock trio, Joyce Manor, release “I Know Where Mark Chen Lives,” the opening track and new single from their anticipated new album, I Used To Go To This Bar, out January 30th via Epitaph Records.
The explosive track arrives with a black and white performance video directed by Jason Link and Rowan Daly.
Of the song, singer/guitarist Barry Johnson says:
Mark Chen was a singer and songwriter for the bands Summer Vacation and Winter Break, which didn’t get quite as popular as they deserved to. I just love Mark’s songwriting and voice. Lyrically, the song was inspired by Chase and I hanging out, drinking and smoking weed and laughing about stuff, and we were talking about how when weed clubs first started, they’d give you a free dab and the budtender would do a dab with you. Dabs are insanely gnarly. I was cracking myself up imagining some 19-year-old girl that just did her third dab of the hour before getting robbed at gunpoint, because they’d always get robbed as cash businesses. That’s the imagery of the song: Those early days when weed was still not super fully legal. It was like the Wild West, a little bit. And yeah, that just gave me a chuckle because it’s really dark and brutal.
I Used To Go To This Bar was produced by SoCal punk legend Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion, Epitaph Records CEO). The production finds the epochal band operating at the top of their game.