Premiere: New Single From City Limits. Homebodies Out Tomorrow. Tour.

"This Is the Last Time, I Swear"

New Brunswick four-piece, City Limits, are releasing an EP tomorrow and heading out on tour at the end of this week. Today, they give a sneak peek at their upcoming Homebodies with the second single and lead-off track to the record.

"This Is the Last Time, I Swear" combines the jagged guitars of melodic hardcore with the shout along vocals of pop punk. It's a short burst of a song on the difficulty of getting over someone. It's also an all-out effort for the duration of its 2-minute running time, which makes me think that City Limits probably put on a pretty animated live show.

You can make that determination for yourself as City Limits set out on a 10-day tour this Friday that takes them from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic and back home to Bruns.

Check out "This Is the Last Time, I Swear" and all of the tour dates below. Head over to City Limits' Bandcamp tomorrow to download your free copy of Homebodies, which comes out via Death To False Hopes Records.



City Limits on tour:

7/31 Kent, OH
8/1 Chicago, IL w/ The Tiny Ugly Germs
8/3 Minneapolis, MN w/ Typesetter and The Howl
8/4 Madison WI w/ Nato Coles
8/5 Bloomington, IL
8/6 Pittsburgh, PA w/ The Tiny Ugly Germs
8/7 Morgantown, WV
8/8 Baltimore, MD w/ Oklahoma Car Crash
8/9 New Brunswick, NJ  w/ Oklahoma Car Crash and Teenage Halloween

Not The Bees! / City Limits Split 7". Playing Asbury Lanes TONIGHT.

EP Review / Show Preview

Tonight, Asbury Lanes will be hosting an evening of pop punk headlined by Oklahoma City's Red City Radio and Milwaukee's DIRECT HIT! Also on the bill are a couple of New Jersey bands who recently released a split 7".

Union County's Not The Bees! and New Brunswick's City Limits digitally released a 4-song 7" over the summer via Death To False Hopes Records. The pairing is a good one as both bands pair aggressive vocals and big guitar riffs with a pop sensibility that makes for some definite "sing along songs" (h/t Scotch LaRock).

Not The Bees! get things started with "Robert Jordan" and its big, melodic Fucked Up-like guitars. The second Not The Bees! entry, "The Future Ain't What It Used to Be," is a frenetic rocker peppered with "whoa-ohhs" and a fist-pumping refrain of "If you ever need me, I'll be there for you!"

The tracks from City Limits, a little more aggressive from the vocal standpoint, form kind of a mini concept album. "Murder Diner" deals with the struggles of succeeding as a band, repeating "Goddammit! I can't do it on my own!" "Writing Fiction" gives us the other side of that coin with "I'm going nowhere. I'll do it on my own."

You can download the split for free over at the Death To False Hopes website. Physical copies will be available, for the first time, at tonight's show at Asbury Lanes. Doors for tonight's show, which also features New Brunswick's Feeny, open at 7pm. Tickets are 15 bucks at the door.