Joe Sib pictured with The Clash's Joe Strummer and The Ramones' Johnny Ramone at The Whiskey A Go-Go, year unknown (SOURCE: Facebook) When we last spoke to Joe Sib, he was gearing up to release a 30-minute special coming out on Dry Bar Comedy . Well, that was back in April of 2022 for one of our sister publications, The Punk Site . It seems like whatever Sib was planning with Dry Bar Comedy never, actually, came to fruition; so, he just decided to drop it himself! Sib's now calling it You Don't Even Know: A Stand-up Comedy Special and it's a side-splitting 22-minute mini-special recorded live at Denver Comedy Works. So, walking it back a little bit here... Joe Sib is one of the co-founders of iconic Punk label SideOneDummy Records and helped sign everyone from Flogging Molly to KILL YOUR IDOLS. Sib was the frontman for Front Line/Frontline, Lifeline, WAX with Loomis Fall (Jack*ss, CKY, Wildboyz,) and 22 Jacks along with members of The Adolescents, The Breeders,
New Found Glory Share New Acoustic/Live Unplugged Album Make The Most of It Amidst Chad Gilbert's Cancer Diagnoses (Revelation Records)
New Found Glory while recording Make The Most of It (CREDIT: Stevie Lowstein) New Found Glory have learned, with all their success, that everything can, also, get upended in the blink of an eye. In December 2021, fresh off the celebratory Pop-punk's Still Not Dead Tour in support of their tenth album, Forever + Ever x Infinity , guitarist and founding member Chad Gilbert was found unresponsive in his bed at home, rushed to a local hospital, and diagnosed with an eight-inch cancerous tumor. Hospital stays, surgery, and a long road to recovery followed—but, in typical New Found Glory fashion, so did the songs. The band's new album, Make The Most of It —their twelfth overall, first acoustic, and first for Revelation Records—tackles the last year head-on with their most emotional and cathartic collection of songs to date. Written in the wake of Gilbert's cancer diagnosis and mixed by Mark Trombino (blink-182, Jimmy Eat World, Midtown,) Make The Most of It is a rumination on w