Joyce Manor Share New Single 'I Used To Go To This Bar'

Joyce Manor share 'I Used To Go To This Bar,' the infectious title track from their anticipated new album ahead of its release this Friday via Epitaph. Additionally, the band is expanding their previously announced North America tour in support of the album, adding a string of June dates with Hot Mulligan. All dates below.

Of the song Barry Johnson says “The lyrics are a nostalgic look at a really unremarkable bar you used to go to when you were broke—the simplicity of your life when you had nothing going on, nothing to lose, and nothing fucking happening. I’m really proud of the lyrics, because they tell a really ordinary story, but with details that are heartbreaking.”

I Used To Go To This Bar, which was named one of the Most Anticipated Albums of 2026 by Vulture, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, and more was produced by SoCal punk legend Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion, Epitaph Records CEO), and finds the epochal band operating at the top of their game.

The Torrance, CA trio of Barry Johnson, Chase Knobbe, and Matt Ebert continue to find rich new veins to tap in their short-and-sweet songcraft without losing an ounce of bite that gained them such repute in the first place. I Used To Go To This Bar further situates Joyce Manor in the lineage of their influences and inspirations. Think AFI’s rapid-fire burn, Weezer’s indelible power-pop acumen, and the dusky emotionalism of The Smiths while further establishing them as leading lights in the current rock landscape.

I Used To Go To This Bar feels like a true culmination of everything Joyce Manor’s achieved thus far, further cementing their current legacy as California pop-punk royalty as well as a truly generational punk band at large. “Joyce Manor are a quintessential South Bay punk band,”Gurewitz says while talking about the band’s importance to the landscape as large. “But unlike their peers they're writing timeless songs for the American Songbook. If Barry was a novelist, he'd be Ernest Hemingway. To me, they’re among the most important bands of the last two decades.” And the fresh burst of inspiration that fuels I Used To Go To This Bar proves that Joyce Manor are far from content to rest on such laurels, moving forward with their sound and style in a way that reminds you of how they got to this point in the first place. 

I Used To Go To This Bar retains the band’s penchant for punchy hooks while sounding fuller, more in-your-face, and all-around bigger than ever, with an all-star crew of collaborators along for this wild ride. Along with mixing pro Tony Hoffer (M83, Beck), behind-the-boards legend Tom Lord-Alge lent his Enema of the State engineer magic to several I Used To Go To This Bar cuts, including the first single 'All My Friends Are So Depressed.' The album also features a rotating cast of drummers, including touring drummer Jared Shavelson, Social Distortion’s David Hildago, Jr., and Joey Waronker—the latter of whom is currently hitting the skins for Oasis’ reunion tour. “Over the last 16 years, it’s very much felt like the three of us have this chemistry of playing music together,” Ebert explains, “and we have this pattern of drummers not staying around for too long. It made sense to forge forward as the three of us and figure out the drummer situation as we go.” 

Joyce Manor - I Used To Go To This Bar Tracklisting

1. I Know Where Mark Chen Lives 
2. Falling Into It 
3. All My Friends Are So Depressed 
4. Well, Whatever It Was 
5. I Used To Go To This Bar 
6. After All You Put Me Through 
7. The Opossum 
8. Well, Don’t It Seem Like You’ve Been Here Before? 
9. Grey Guitar 

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