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LIES THEY TELL OUR CHILDREN

Lies They Tell Our Children

ON TOUR: EUROPEAN SUMMER ’23 FESTIVALS AND HEADLINE SHOWS

April 4, 2023

EU/UK festival and headline shows for this summer have been announced, and tickets are ON SALE NOW! All headliner ticket links below.

28.5 Hatfield, UK @ Hatfield House w/ NOFX & friends
29.5 Bristol, UK @ The Fleece – TICKETS
30.5 Brighton, UK @ Patterns – TICKETS

2.6 Rimini, IT @ Slam Dunk Italy
3.6 Linz, AT – SBÄM Festival
4.6 Trenčín, SK @ Piano Club – TICKETS
5.6 Budapest, HU @ Dürer Kert w/ Less Than Jake – TICKETS
7.6 Nova Gorica, SI @ Mostovna – TICKETS
8.6 Hradec Kralove, CZ @ Rock For People Festival
9.6 Röthis, AT @ Alpen Rock – TICKETS
10.6 Interlaken, CH @ Greenfield Festival
12.6 Krakow, PL @ Kwadrat Klub Studencki – TICKETS
13.6 Warsaw, PL @ Hydrozagadka – TICKETS
14.6 Gdańsk, PL @ Drizzly Grizzly – TICKETS
16.6 Scheessel, DE @ Hurrican Festival
17.6 Neuhausen ob eck, DE @ Southside Festival
18.6 Boeretangsedreef, BE @ Graspop Metal Meeting
21.6 Strasbourg, FR @ La Maison Bleue – TICKETS
22.6 Ysselsteyn, NL – Jera On Air Festival
23.6 Vitry Sur Seine, FR @ Le Kilowatt – TICKETS
24.6 Muenster, DE @ Vainstream Rockfest

ON TOUR: New 2023 US Tour Dates with The Bouncing Souls!

January 20, 2023

Tickets for NEW tour dates with The Bouncing Souls are now on sale! We’ll be hitting select cities in April, October, and December 2023 with The Souls and more! All dates and ticket links can be found below.

APRIL ’23 w/ The Bouncing Souls / A Wilhelm Scream / The Venomous Pinks

04.07 – Minneapolis, MN – The Varsity Theater – TICKETS
04.08 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave / Eagles Club – TICKETS
04.09 – Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue – TICKETS
04.10 – Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s – TICKETS
04.12 – Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom – TICKETS
04.13 – Cleveland, OH – The Grog Shop – SOLD OUT!!!
04.14 – Cleveland, OH – The Grog Shop (Night 2) – SOLD OUT!!!
04.15 – Toronto, ON – The Phoenix Concert Theatre – SOLD OUT!!!
04.16 – Detroit, MI – Saint Andrews Hall – TICKETS

OCT. ’23 w/ The Bouncing Souls / urethane / Catbite

10.12 – San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park TICKETS
10.13 – Los Angeles, CA – The Belasco – TICKETS
10.14 – Santa Ana, CA – Observatory – TICKETS
10.15 – San Francisco, CA – The Regency Ballroom – TICKETS
10.17 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall – TICKETS
10.18 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile – TICKETS
10.19 – Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theatre – TICKETS
10.21 – Edmonton, AB – Union Hall – TICKETS
10.22 – Calgary, AB – Palace Theater – TICKETS

DEC. ’23 w/ The Bouncing Souls / Catbite / Blind Adam and The Federal League

12.07 – Baltimore, MD – Ram’s Head Live! – TICKETS
12.08 – Norfolk, VA – The NorVa – TICKETS
12.09 – Charlotte, NC – The Underground – TICKETS
12.10 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl – TICKETS
12.11 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel – TICKETS
12.13 – Boston, MA – Royale – TICKETS

“LIES THEY TELL OUR CHILDREN” OUT NOW + NEW VIDEO!

January 6, 2023

2023— 30 years of Anti-Flag. If we’re being completely honest, this mile marker of longevity is both unbelievable to us and at the same time not a shock at all.

The four of us have committed our lives to these songs, shows, and records. We have placed precedence on this work and believe it to be intrinsically tied to our value as people on this planet. If you would have asked the kids who started this band if we would still be Anti-Flag 30 years later, we would have probably thought we wouldn’t make it this long. But we would have collectively resounded that as long as we’re alive, we would be making music with the goal of unifying people and communities, positioning empathy over apathy, and using everything at our disposal to be agitators and disruptors of status quo, exploitative, capitalist politics.

LIES THEY TELL OUR CHILDREN is us still working on our craft, we challenged ourselves to be better song writers, leave familiarity and comfort zones. Perhaps it’s too ambitious to make your 13th full length album a concept record, but if we have learned anything through our privileged lenses of longevity it’s to be true to ourselves. This was our plan. A record that is fulfilling emotionally and spiritually, we basically said “fuck it”, this is the record we wanted to make, the people we wanted to collaborate with, the type of song we want to play live and share across the globe.

It’s a shot of optimism and inspiration to carry on, stay the course, created because it’s what we have to do. We hope that people like it, listen to it, stream it, or whatever… but truthfully we would be doing all of this with or without an audience, it’s all we have known as Anti-Flag for 30 years and I don’t see that changing any time soon.

GET THE ALBUM HERE: https://antiflag.lnk.to/LIESTHEYTELLOURCHILDREN

NEW VIDEO:

SOLD EVERYTHING – directed by INDECLINE

ON TOUR: Feb/Mar 2023 with Flogging Molly & Skinny Lister

January 19, 2023

The first tour dates since the release of album 13, LIES THEY TELL OUR CHILDREN kick off in Austin, TX alongside Flogging Molly, with special guests, Skinny Lister! All dates/ticket links below:

02.02 – Austin, TX – ACL Live At The Moody Theater – TICKETS
02.03 – New Orleans, LA – The Fillmore – TICKETS
02.04 – Huntsville, AL – Mars Music Hall – TICKETS
02.05 – Columbia, SC – The Senate – TICKETS
02.07 – Knoxville, TN – The Mill & Mine – TICKETS
02.08 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium – TICKETS
02.10 – Chattanooga, TN – The Signal – TICKETS
02.11 – Louisville, KY – Old Forester’s Paristown Hall – TICKETS
02.14 – Norfolk, VA – The Norva – TICKETS
02.15 – Richmond, VA – The National – TICKETS
02.17 – Rochester, NY – Main Street Armory – TICKETS
02.18 – Montclair, NJ – The Wellmont Theater – TICKETS
02.19 – Hanover, MD – The Hall at Live! – TICKETS
02.21 – Charleston, SC – Charleston Music Hall – TICKETS
02.22 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel – TICKETS
02.24 – Atlantic City, NJ – Sound Waves at Hard Rock – TICKETS
02.25 – Bethlehem, PA – Wind Creek Event Center – TICKETS
02.26 – Huntington, NY – The Paramount – TICKETS
02.28 – Worcester, MA – The Palladium – TICKETS

03.01 – Syracuse, NY – Landmark Theatre – TICKETS
03.03 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee – TICKETS
03.04 – Grand Rapids, MI – 20 Monroe Live – TICKETS
03.05 – Fort Wayne, IN – The Clyde Theatre – TICKETS
03.07 – Fayetteville, AR – JJ’s Live – TICKETS
03.08 – Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom – TICKETS
03.10 – North Kansas City, MO – Harrah’s Voodoo Lounge – TICKETS
03.11 – Omaha, NE – The Admiral – TICKETS
03.12 – Boulder, CO – Boulder Theatre – TICKETS
03.14 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre – TICKETS
03.16 – Las Vegas, NV – The Cosmopolitan at Chelsea Theatre – TICKETS
03.17 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium – TICKETS
03.18 – Riverside, CA – Riverside Municipal Auditorium – TICKETS
03.19 – Reno, NV – Grand Sierra – TICKETS

“LIES THEY TELL OUR CHILDREN” NEW ALBUM ANNOUNCE + Single & Video!

July 29, 2022

Look, this is our 13th album. There’s no other way to put it; LIES THEY TELL OUR CHILDREN is the best fucking version of Anti-Flag we have ever been. We haven’t been afforded the privilege and ability to spend every day together writing and focusing on every detail of an album in well over a decade and I think you can feel that collaboration and collectiveness in these songs more than any other record of ours. That collaboration was only extrapolated on with the inclusion of the 8 guests who are featured on the album, spanning genres, years of friendship, and a vast array of perspectives.

The album itself is the first conceptual album the band has ever done, spawned out of a compulsive need to not just comment on the dystopian corporate wasteland we all face but to trace it back to the origin of this fate; the political policies, laws, cultural shifts, and lineage of injustice that have lead us to the world we live in today.

Like the band itself, of course the album is an anti-war statement both in the literal and figurative sense. This is an important moment in history and demands an urgent response, but we thought it was also important that we retrace our footsteps to the beginning of these issues.  In order to better understand how to eradicate climate devastation, imperialism, war based economics, systems predicated upon racism, and the increasing belief that these things do not even exist, you have got to take people to the source.

This idea is the crux of LIES THEY TELL OUR CHILDREN; put this wretched history in their face and demand their empathy.

“LIES THEY TELL OUR CHILDREN” OUT JANUARY 6th, 2023. PRE-ORDER NOW: https://antiflag.lnk.to/LIESTHEYTELLOURCHILDREN

Tracklist:

1. SOLD EVERYTHING
2. MODERN META MEDICINE Ft. Jesse Leach of Killswitch Engage
3. LAUGH. CRY. SMILE. DIE. Ft. Shane Told of Silverstein
4. THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES Ft. Tim McIlrath of Rise Against + Brian Baker of Bad Religion
5. IMPERIALISM Ft. Ashrita Kumar of Pinkshift
6. VICTORY OR DEATH (WE GAVE ‘EM HELL) Ft. Campino of Die Toten Hosen
7. THE HAZARDOUS
8. SHALLOW GRAVES Ft. Tré Burt
9. WORK & STRUGGLE
10. NVREVR Ft. Stacey Dee of Bad Cop/Bad Cop
11. ONLY IN MY HEAD

Lies They Tell Our Children was recorded, produced and mixed by Jon Lundin.

 LAUGH. CRY. SMILE. DIE. Ft. Shane Told of Silverstein, Video by INDECLINE

EUROPE/UK TOUR 2022 STARTS THIS WEEKEND!

June 17, 2022

ANTI-FLAG IN EUROPE/UK 2022!

This weekend, ANTI-FLAG returns to Europe and parts of the UK for the first time in 2 years! Find all announced dates + ticket links below!

18.6 Clisson, FR – Hellfest – SOLD OUT!
19.6 Pratteln, CH – Z7 Wild Dayz Festival – TICKETS
21.6 Milan, IT – Milano Carroponte – TICKETS
(With The Offspring, The Distillers, Lagwagon)
22.6 Padova, IT – Sherwood Fest – TICKETS
(With Lagwagon, The Offspring)
24.6 Ysselsteyn, NL – Jera On Air Festival – TICKETS
25.6 Rottershausen, DE – Lutzi Fest – TICKETS
26.6 City Of Iron, DE – Full Force – TICKETS
28.6 Copenhagen, DK – VEGA Jr – TICKETS
30.6 Seinajoki, FI – Provinssi Festival – TICKETS

3.7 Hunxe, DE – Ruhrpott Rodeo – TICKETS
5.7 Bucharest, RO – Quantic Club – TICKETS
7.7 Cheltenham, UK – 2000Trees Festival – TICKETS
9.7 Tabor City, CZ – Mighty Sounds Festival – TICKETS
10.7 Budapest, HU – A38 – TICKETS
12.7 Bratislava, SK – Majestic Club – TICKETS
14.7 Salzburg, AT – Rockhouse – TICKETS
15.7 Töging am Inn, DE – Silo1 – TICKETS
16.7 Dieburg, DE – Traffic Jam Open Air – TICKETS
18.7 Kraków, PL – Klub Kwadrat – TICKETS
19.7 Warsaw, PL – Proxima – TICKETS
21.7 Berlin, DE – Cassiopeia – TICKETS
22.7 Glaubitz, DE – Back To Future Festival – TICKETS
23.7 Cuxhaven, DE – Deichbrand – TICKETS
24.7 Luxembourg, LUX – KUFA – TICKETS
29.7 Le Garric, FR – Xtreme Fest – TICKETS
30.7 Gijon, ES – Tsunami Xixon – TICKETS

2.8 Paris, FR – Petit Bain – TICKETS
(With The Flatliners, Grade 2, The Decline)
3.8 Southampton, UK – Engine Rooms – TICKETS
(With The Bouncing Souls)
4.8 Blackpool, UK – Rebellion Fest – TICKETS
5.8 Nottingham, UK – Rescue Room – TICKETS
6.8 London, UK – Garage – TICKETS
8.8 Lokeren, BE – Lokerse Festival – TICKETS
9.8 Tours, FR – Guinguette Open Air – FREE
12.8 Tolmin, SI – Punk Rock Holiday – TICKETS
13.8 Bildein, AT – Picture On Fest – TICKETS
14.8 Bellaria (Rimini), IT – Bayfest – TICKETS
16.8 Steyr, AT – Roda – TICKETS
17.8 Dornbirn, AT – Conrad Sohm – TICKETS
19.8 Schorndorf, DE – Manufaktur – TICKETS
20.8 Kassel, DE – Messe – SOLD OUT!

ANTIfest 2022! Anti-Flag Fall Tour Dates Announced!

ANTIfest is hitting the road for the first time in North America!

We’ll be playing a handful of special shows around the dates. Full schedule here! Get your tickets now, links below!

ANTI-FLAG – FALL ’22 + ANTIfest!

9/16 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground – TICKETS
(With Brendan Kelly, Mint Green)
9/17 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall – ANTIfestTICKETS
(With Rebuilder, Brendan Kelly, Mint Green, and Froggy)
9/18 – Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom – TICKETS
(With Brendan Kelly, Mint Green)
9/23 – Birmingham, AL – Furnace Fest – TICKETS
9/24 – Charleston, SC – Music Farm – TICKETS
(With Doll Skin, Teens in Trouble)
9/25 – Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life Festival – TICKETS
9/30 – Washington, DC – Black Cat – TICKETS (With Suicide Machines, Catbite, Celebration Summer)
10/1 – Pittsburgh, PA – Roxian Theatre – ANTIfestTICKETS
(With Four Year Strong, Microwave, Catbite, Dissidente)
10/6 – Boise, ID – The Shredder – TICKETS
(With Bad Cop / Bad Cop, The Last Gang)
10/7 – Seattle, WA – El Corazon – TICKETS
(With Bad Cop / Bad Cop, The Last Gang)
10/8 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom – ANTIfestTICKETS
(With Good Riddance, Bad Cop/ Bad Cop, The Last Gang, Alien Boy, The Macks)
10/13 – Richmond, VA – Canal Club – TICKETS
10/14 – Virginia Beach, VA – Elevation 27 – TICKETS
10/15 – Sayreville, NJ —Starland Ballroom—ANTIfest (With Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Anti-Flag, Surfboart, The Black Tones, Catbite)
10/29 – Gainesville, FL – FEST 20 – TICKETS
10/30 – Gainesville, FL – FEST 20 – TICKETS
11/4 – Chicago, IL – The Metro – ANTIfestTICKETS
(With We Are The Union, Suicide Machines, Gully Boys, Blind Adam, and the Federal League)
11/5 – Detroit, MI – The Sanctuary – TICKETS
(With We Are The Union, Blind Adam and the Federal League)
11/6 – Silverado, CA – Punk In The Park – TICKETS

WITH VULGAIRES MACHINS AND MUDIE:
11/12 – Sherbrooke, QC – Granada Theater – TICKETS
11/13 – Quebec City, QC – Imperial Bell – TICKETS
11/15 – Joliette, QC – Salle Rolland-Brunelle – TICKETS
11/16 – Ville de Saguenay, QC – Théâtre du Palais Municipal – TICKETS
11/18 – Trois-Rivières, QC – Cabaret de l’Amphithéâtre Cogeco – TICKETS
11/19 – Montreal, QC – MTELUS – TICKETS

12/4 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom – TICKETS
(With Doll Skin and We Are The Union)
12/9 – Buffalo, NY – Rec Room – TICKETS
(With Cancer Bats and Plasmid)
12/10 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall – ANTIfestTICKETS
(With Cancer Bats, Dilly Dally, Dead Tired, Indian Giver)

CANADA 2022!

February 18, 2022

We’re very excited to be returning to Canada this year. We’ll be touring western Canada with Billy Talent April 29th to May 6th, and we’ll be touring the province of Quebec with Vulgaires Machins in November!

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW!

WESTERN CANADA WITH BILLY TALENT AND NOBRO:

04/29 – Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre

04/30 – Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre

05/02 – Calgary, AB – Grey Eagle Event Center

05/03 – Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Convention Centre

05/06 – Vancouver, BC – Pacific Coliseum

QUEBEC WITH VULGAIRES MACHINS AND MUDIE:

11/12 – Sherbrooke, QC – Théâtre Granada

11/13 – Québec, QC – Impérial Bell

11/15 – Joliette, QC – Salle Rolland-Brunelle

11/16 – La Baie, QC – Théâtre du Palais

11/18 – Trois-Rivières, QC – Cabaret de l’Amphithéâtre Cogeco

11/19 – Montréal, QC – MTELUS

North America Tour 2021!

June 4, 2021

The last time Anti-Flag embarked on a North American tour it lasted two days before Covid 19 brought it to an end. After more than a year of challenges, hardships and misfortune for many the world over we are pleased to announce that we are hitting the road again. In the grand scheme of current events this announcement is small but we also take it as an optimistic sign that life is slowly inching out of the pandemic and that gives us a cause to celebrate. 

These shows will be a celebration of the fact that we have all come through a very hard time and pay respects to those lost over the past year. They will also be a gathering place for all who believe in and support equality, human rights and those who stand against authoritarianism and fascism. In the wake of the past year these issues are front and center which makes our desire to connect with friends allies, and accomplices even greater. There is power in connectivity and knowing that you are not alone. We want everyone who believes that Black Lives Matter, that neo-fascism has no place in this society, that LGBTQ+ people are free to be who they are, that war and war profiteering is morally reprehensible and that capitalism is fucked, to walk away from these shows feeling re-energized for the struggles ahead and to know that they are, indeed, not alone and to keep up the good fight.

with DOG PARTY, GRUMPSTER, OXYMORRONS

9/14 Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme – TICKETS
9/15 Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop – TICKETS
9/17 Chicago, IL – Riot Fest^ – SOLD OUT!
9/18 St. Louis, MO – Red Flag – TICKETS
9/19 St. Paul, MN – Amsterdam Bar and Hall – TICKETS
9/21 Denver, CO – Gothic Theatre – TICKETS
9/22 Salt Lake City, UT – The Grand at The Complex – TICKETS
9/23 Phoenix, AZ – The Rebel Lounge – TICKETS
9/24 Las Vegas, NV – Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival^ – TICKETS
9/26 Orlando, FL – Rebel Rock Festival^ – TICKETS
9/29 Dallas, TX – The Loft – TICKETS
9/30 Austin, TX – Come and Take it Live – TICKETS
10/1 El Paso, TX – Raves Club – TICKETS
10/2 Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad – TICKETS
10/4 San Diego, CA – Casbah – TICKETS
10/5 Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room – TICKETS
10/7 Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room -w/o Oxymorrons – TICKETS
10/8 Berkeley, CA – Cornerstone – TICKETS
10/9 Sacramento, CA – Aftershock Festival^ – SOLD OUT
10/10 Santa Cruz, CA – The Atrium @ The Catalyst – TICKETS
10/12 Seattle, WA – El Corazon – TICKETS
10/13 Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theatre – TICKETS

^ no Dog Party, Grumpster, or Oxymorrons, except Oxymorrons are playing Riot Fest and Aftershock

with BAD COP/BAD COP, DOLL SKIN

11/3 Toronto, ON – Velvet Underground – TICKETS
11/4 Ottawa, ON – Club SAW – TICKETS
11/5 Montreal, QC – MTELUS – TICKETS
11/6 Burlington, VT – Higher Ground – TICKETS
11/7 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall – TICKETS
11/9 Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom – TICKETS
11/10 Asbury Park, NJ – House of Independents – TICKETS
11/11 New York, NY – Gramercy Theatre – TICKETS
11/12 Philadelphia, PA – The Foundry @ The Fillmore – TICKETS
11/13 Washington, DC – Black Cat – TICKETS
11/14 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle – TICKETS
11/16 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade – Purgatory – TICKETS
11/17 Nashville, TN – Exit / In – TICKETS
11/18 Chicago, IL – Reggie’s – TICKETS
11/19 Columbus, OH – A&R Bar – TICKETS
11/20 Pittsburgh, PA – Roxian Theatre – ANTIfest* w/ Suicide Machines,
Punchline, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, Doll Skin, Swiss Army – TICKETS

11/21 Buffalo, NY – Rec Room – TICKETS

If you have a previously purchased ticket from a 2020 show that didn’t happen, the ticket will be valid for the 2021 show.

Europe – We’ll see you in 2022!

April 26, 2021

Due to the ongoing challenges and restrictions posed by the pandemic, we’re going to look to reschedule all of our confirmed 2021 European shows into 2022. In case you do not want to wait for the reschedule date results, we understand and refunds will be made available at point of purchase. We hope to have rescheduled dates announced soon.