Queens rockers Bayside released their excellent 6th LP ‘Cult’ last February. A year later on March-3, the quartet add to the original 11 tunes with the 15 track ‘White Edition’ of the album.

While the first of the four new songs to be heard – ‘Dancing Like An Idiot’ – is nothing more than a decent B-Side that was rightfully kept off the album proper, it hasn’t wasted any time in drumming up some publicity for this under-rated band.

Coming complete with a lyric video (spelling mistake and all), lead vocalist Anthony Raneri lets loose on some of the young bands who proliferate the Warped Tour scene. “That’s where I get to see what the kids are doing”, Raneri tells Billboard. “At Bayside shows, I wouldn’t know what the trends are with young kids, same in my home life. Warped Tour is where you see all kinds of different people. These bands are just writing giant curses on t-shirts and selling it to a kid because they know the kid is stupid enough to buy it”, Raneri goes on to state. “You’re telling them it’s cool to buy a t-shirt to piss their parents off. There’s nothing cool about that… That’s mall rebellion… That’s not real rebellion. I grew up liking The Smiths & Nirvana… I fucking hated Guns N’ Roses. It was bullshit, misogynistic and fake rebellion – nothing is more corporate and commercialized’.

Headlined by the lyric “You’re basically One Direction if they all had throat tattoos”, Raneri and his band-mates don’t specifically name names on the lyric video, but their targets will be known to the detectives among us all. “We thought that it was just too obvious and not smart enough to put pictures of the bands we’re talking about and want to make fun of. So the middle ground is that we used all their fonts to write the words… In the background it’s all clips from movies – clips from ‘Idiocracy’, ‘Wizards’, from the ‘70s, The Three Stooges, clips that sort of told the story from the song”.

In response to some critics pointing out that a handful of Bayside’s (predominantly earlier) tracks also contained violent and misogynistic lyrics, Raneri did not deny that fact in a further blog post on the band’s facebook page… But he also did not soften his stance on the original criticism. “I wrote some songs when I was younger in which I was venting at the time… I am obviously a smarter, more mature and most importantly, more stable person these days”.