OUT NOW: VIC BONDI AND HIS ISSUES
Officially out today!!! Vic Bondi & His Issues is now officially out!
Alternative Tentacles is proud to present the new solo album from the hardcore legend! In stores everywhere this Friday, May 29th. You can now stream the EP anywhere you listen to music! 
The title of Vic Bondi’s 27th release, Vic Bondi And His Issues might come off as self-deprecation but in reality, it’s closer to diagnosis. Nearly four decades after helping define politically literate American hardcore, Bondi is less interested in nostalgia than in accountability: personal, historical, and national. Asked what keeps him making music, Bondi kicks it straight: “A beating heart, a tin ear, and raw stubbornness.” That might sound like a joke, but there’s a truth to it. Stubbornness, in Bondi’s case, has always meant refusing to let power go unexamined.
Written in Seattle and recorded over two days at Soundhouse Recording Studio, both the sound and the lineup are lean and deliberate. Immediate, enthralling, and crafted with razor precision, its name (bestowed by Jello Biafra) winks at confession while pointing squarely at the culture.
Following the 1985 breakup of Articles of Faith, Bondi spent time in Jones Very and Alloy, and later fronted both Report Suspicious Activity (feat. J Robbins of Jawbox), Dead Ending (with Derek Grant of Alkaline Trio and Joe Principe of Rise Against), and Tom Morello’s Weatherman project. In 2019 Bondi formed "surf band for the apocalypse" Redshift, who’s most recent release, Chaos As Planned, came out 2025.
After 27 releases, Bondi is not revisiting old battlegrounds; he’s responding to new emergencies. When asked what he hopes listeners take away from the album, he points to the bridge of a song titled “Sun God”:
This is a moment
For firmness of purpose
Manifest kindness
And absolute justice.
Turns out, Bondi’s “issues” are neither neuroses nor indulgences. In an era that often mistakes outrage for action and irony for critique, Vic Bondi And His Issues argues for something rarer: the stubborn belief that music can still intervene in history, rather than merely providing the soundtrack.
Catch Vic Bondi And His Issues in Seattle, WA at the Kraken Bar & Lounge on June 6th to celebrate the new album! 
If you are in the Bay Area, you can catch Vic Bondi And His Issues at TentacleFEST in San Francisco at The Great American Music Hall on Saturday, June 27th! Tickets on Sale now! 