The last Vegan Mini Market that we hosted here at B9 back in March was such a hit, that we’re doing it again in May! Saturday, May 18th make sure to stop by the B9HQ between 11am and 3pm to check out a warehouse full of amazing vegan food vendors! More info on the event can be found HERE!
HEAVYHEX Announce "True To You" Record Release Shows for Long Island & B9 Warehouse
Flyer by @dxvidesigns
HEAVYHEX will be celebrating their debut album “True To You” with two record release shows this May:
HEAVYHEX Record Release Show (Long Island)
with Spite House, Dead Last, Last Laugh, High Reach
Saturday, May 25th
Doors: 6 pm / Show: 7pm
Massapequa VFW
Massapequa, NY
Tickets Available Here
HEAVYHEX Record Release Show (Beverly, MA)
with Spite House, The Promised End
Sunday, May 26th
Doors: 6 pm / Show: 7pm
Bridge Nine Records Warehouse
Beverly, MA (about 35 min north of Boston. Easily accessible by public transportation MBTA)
Tickets Available Here
If you haven’t already, make sure to pre-order “True To You”, out everywhere May 3rd!
Ceremony on the 24 Question Party People Podcast LIVE with Yasi Salek
In celebration of performing ‘Rohnert Park’ at The Hollywood Palladium late this month, CEREMONY will be part of a live episode of the 24 Question Party People podcast with Yasi Salek. For those who don’t know, each episode a guest is asked the same set of 23 questions (with one wild card) to wildly different results. This live event will take place at Brain Dead Studios in Fairfax at 7:30 pm on Thursday, February 22nd. Tickets are available here! There are also still a few tickets available for the Ceremony show at The Hollywood Palladium on Saturday, February 24th - click here.
Ray Cappo (Shelter, Youth of Today) Book Signing at Bridge Nine on RSD / April 20th, 2024 (2-4 PM)
We are excited to announce that Ray Cappo (Shelter, Youth of Today) will be visiting Bridge Nine (282 Rantoul Street, Beverly, MA, 01915) on Saturday, April 20th to promote his new memoir, From Punk To Monk. Books will be available for sale and we will be hosting a Q&A moderated by Drew Stone (Incendiary Device, Antidote, The New York Hardcore Chronicles) from 2-4 PM, so get there early!
Note: This is Ray’s Boston-area appearance and it is also Record Store Day, so make sure it’s on your calendar!
Bridge Nine to host a Vegan Mini-Market on March 23rd!
Bridge Nine is proud to host a Vegan Mini Market on March 23rd! Stop by between 11am and 3pm to try a variety of snacks, baked goods, food & apothecary goods from a dozen different vendors in the large warehouse behind our store at 282 Rantoul Street. For more info, go HERE!
DYS Celebrating 40 Years of Brotherhood: Boston & NYC Shows: Tickets Available Now
DYS returns to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of their classic LP Brotherhood in November. Catch them in NYC on Thursday, November 9th, and Boston on Friday, November 10th! B9 label-mates ROLL CALL will be joining them on both shows.
Grab tickets for Boston HERE
Grab tickets for New York City HERE
H2O & Incendiary Device LIVE At The Bridge Nine Warehouse! ***Update: SOLD OUT***
***UPDATE: this show is officially SOLD OUT***
This September marks the one-year anniversary of the opening of our record store in Beverly, MA. We thought the best way to celebrate would be to invite H2O to be the 4th band to play in our warehouse show series alongside Incendiary Device, fronted by NYHC legend Drew Stone!
Tickets go on sale right now. We will have a portion available online, as well as at our Beverly store (avoid service fees by coming in if you're local). Admission is $20, and all tickets are will call. As usual, attendance is very limited, so make sure to act fast! We look forward to seeing you there.
40 Years of United Blood: Agnostic Front on tour in September
As Agnostic Front continues celebrating 40 Years of United Blood, they are excited to announce this mini North East run with their life long NYHC brothers Murphy’s Law and the UK’s Grade 2! Tickets go on sale this Friday! Spread the word and stay tuned for more info!!!
Sept. 8th - Syracuse, NY @ The Song & Dance
Sept. 9th - Stroudsburg, PA @ Sherman Theater
Sept. 10th - Morgantown, WV @ 123 Pleasant Street
Sept. 12th - Mechanicsburg, PA @ Lovedraft's Brewing
Sept. 13th - Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Lanes
Sept. 14th - Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk
Sept. 15th - Albany, NY @ Empire Underground
Sept. 16th - Montreal, QUE @ Envol et Macadam (AF only)
Sept. 17th - Burlington, VT @ Showcase Lounge
Sept. 18th - Boston, MA @ House of Blues (AF and Grade 2 only)
CAVE IN Performed live at Bridge Nine (Recap)
CAVE IN performed the most intimate of sets live in the Bridge Nine warehouse on Friday, July 7th, 2023.
I’ve been a fan of Cave In since their inception. Both Cave In and Bridge Nine got started in 1995. In 2000, I began working for Lumberjack Distribution assisting Big Wheel Recreation and Cave In’s label at the time, Hydra Head Records, right as Jupiter was being released, and I had a chance to see them navigate a very transitional time for the band.
In 2022, I was asked if Cave In could record a music video in our yet-to-be renovated warehouse space, here at the new B9HQ. It was for the song “Reckoning” on their new album, Heavy Pendulum on Relapse Records. Check out that video HERE!
When the warehouse was finished and we were ready to start asking bands to perform in it, Cave In was one of the first bands that we asked. Artist Thomas Hooper contributed a great illustration for our show posters, and I hand numbered them before the show.
Jason Zucco, who directed the music video for “Reckoning” returned to Bridge Nine and with the assistance of Ian McFarland (The Godfathers of Hardcore) helped capture Cave In’s live performance. We’ll let you know when the video is ready!
I want to thank everyone involved with making this evening happen, and everyone who came out and spent it with us.
- Chris Wrenn
CAVE IN set list / live at Bridge Nine / July 7th, 2023
CAVE IN photo gallery courtesy of Chris Padgett:
CAVE IN photo gallery courtesy of Dominic DiNardo:
SLAPSHOT: EUROPEAN TOUR 2023
SLAPSHOT is headed to Europe this summer, so click the above image for ticket info!
SPINE East Coast Shows
Cave In LIVE at Bridge Nine Warehouse on Friday, July 7th
Flyer designed by Thomas Hooper (@thomas__hooper)
Cave In is a band close to our hearts here in Boston. Not only did they get their start in Methuen, MA, but they were originally signed to Hydra Head, one of the labels that Bridge Nine shared a space with at the original 'Initech' office near Fenway Park!
Just over a year ago, Cave In used our then-unfinished warehouse space to record the music video for the song "Reckoning" off their album Heavy Pendulum, released on Relapse Records.
Next Friday (7/7), they're bringing things full circle and doing us the honor of performing for the third event in our B9 warehouse series! We're excited to welcome you to come and share this experience with us.
ATTENDANCE IS FREE, BUT LIMITED. You will be able to reserve your spot starting today by coming to our storefront in Beverly, MA during normal hours while supplies last. Tickets are non-transferrable.
Doors are at 7 PM, performance starts at 8 PM.
American Nightmare LIVE at Bridge Nine on June 9th (recap)
American Nightmare live at Bridge Nine on June 9th, 2023. Photo by Chris Wrenn
It was an honor and a privilege to invite American Nightmare to perform live in the Bridge Nine warehouse on Friday, June 9th, 2023.
Our label would not have been the same had we not once shared an apartment with members of American Nightmare as they wrote the songs that became the band’s debut EP in the fall of 1999.
American Nightmare set list photo, courtesy of Jameile Cawley
To have the band return and be a part of the community we are trying to build here in Beverly was nothing short of one of the most memorable evenings we’ve experienced as a label, and we are thankful to have been able to share it with those who were able to make it.
A special thank you to Wes, Josh, Brian, Alex, and Jim for performing. Thank you to Linas Garsys for the fantastic imagery, to Chris Padgett for running sound, to Larry Kelley for helping everything run smoothly, to Anthony Moreschi, Bill Fulkerson, Chris Padgett, Todd Pollock, Adam Tanner, Aaron Pepelis, Dom Dinardo, Johna Jo, Pats Polaroidz, Al Quint, and others for helping to document the evening. And thank you to Liquid Death for murdering our guests’ thirst!
Performance #3 is in the works; details soon…
American Nightmare photo image courtesy of Linas Garsys
American Nightmare photo gallery courtesy of Chris Padgett:
American Nightmare photo gallery courtesy of Dominic DiNardo:
American Nightmare photo gallery courtesy of Todd Pollock:
Bridge Nine's First Official Record Store Day & Indie Label Market A Success
Chris Wrenn (L) with Chris Foley (Drummer, SSD), Al Barile (Vocalist, SSD), and Jaime Sciarappa (Bass, SSD). Photo by Nancy Barile.
Bridge Nine Records celebrated its first ever Record Store Day as an actual record store this past Saturday, April 22nd, and also with the label’s first ever official Record Store Day release. Agnostic Front released “United Blood (The Extended Sessions)”, a 19-song LP version of their original 10-song EP from 1983. We pressed 3,000 copies on clear vinyl and it was amazing to hear from so many other stores that this record was the only other record that sold out that day besides Taylor Swift. This was a great way to commemorate 40 years of United Blood.
The Bridge Nine store opened early at 10 am to a line of RSD supporters and the store quickly filled with excited shoppers. An indie label market, featuring local labels from the New England area, also took place in the store’s back warehouse. Participating labels were X-Claim! Records, Counter Intuitive Records, Crimewave Records, Tor Johnson Records, Sound Investment Records, Hellhound Publishing, and Iodine Recordings.
Al Barile was onsite with X-Claim! along with his wife, Nancy Barile, author of the book “I’m Not Holding Your Coat”. Photo by Nancy Barile
The market featured lots of other vendors and organizations from the punk community. Al Quint of Suburban Voice, an avid record collector and seller, set up shop with some awesome titles for sale. Women Of The Pit, a charity based organization established to highlight and promote bands and fans of the hardcore music scene, was also in attendance promoting their first compilation, Stronger Together Vol. 1, featuring various female led punk and hardcore bands. The team behind Hope Fest, a yearly benefit music festival that takes place in Salem each year, was also onsite to promote their September 2nd festival in support of nAGLY. Larry Kelley displayed items from the late Lexa Vonn, an activist, fashion designer and music memorabilia collector. Local educator and author Nancy Barile was onsite with her awesome book, I’m Not Holding Your Coat. And Al Barile, Jaime Sciarappa, and Chris Foley of SSD hung out for a few hours, telling stories and sharing memories.
Needless to say, it was an incredible day and the Bridge Nine team is grateful for a few hundred of our supportive customers coming through and all our amazing vendors. We hope to do more events like this in the future, so be sure to join our email list if you haven’t already and follow us on social media!
Bridge Nine Records featured in Salem News
Vinyl roars back on Record Store Day
By Joel Barrett
“At Bridge Nine Records in Beverly, proprietors of the shop, which began as and continues to be a record label, are kicking out the jams for RSD 2023.
The day will feature the label’s release of a 40th anniversary expanded edition of legendary New York hardcore band Agnostic Front’s “United Blood” EP.
The extended version is a remaster of the original EP, as well as previously unreleased versions of the band’s earliest and classic recordings. Bridge Nine is also inviting other independent record labels to set up tables in its warehouse for a RSD market to sell vinyl and merchandise and network. It’s a way for these labels to gain extra exposure and new fans.” Click here to continue reading the article on Salem News…