Alkaline Trio & Rise Against Release Split Single

Ahead of their joint tour where they’ll share stages across the country, Alkaline Trio and Rise Against have released a split 7″ with each band covering the other. Alkaline Trio tackles the Rise Against hit Re-Education (Through Labor) and Rise Against covers Alkaline Trio’s Private Eye.

“It’s so much fun and such an honor to be swapping cover tunes with a band we’ve known personally and loved since we both formed and came up from our shows at the Fireside Bowl in Chicago,” says Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba. “To see Rise Against become the band they are today has been a blast to track and to be a small part of through the years. To reconnect with this band and these people once again the way are via tour and this release feels the way it did when we first started: it’s almost completely for the love of each other and each other’s band. It feels like a tradition we started decades ago that naturally comes back to us, we are grateful to say.”

Rise Against echoes the same sentiment.“The connection between Alkaline Trio and Rise Against actually pre-dates both bands’ inceptions, so we’ve all been there for both the awkward first steps and the flashes of promise. We have an understanding and appreciation of each other’s bands that could only come from being from the same scene,” shares McIlrath. “To still be standing this many years later is a testament to the fertile Chicago musical soil we come from and are proud to represent. We had so much fun sinking our teeth into their legendary song ‘Private Eye’.”

Alkaline Trio and Rise Against’s tour will stop in Boston October 1st at MGM Music Hall at Fenway.
To order the new split 7″ visit https://alkalinetrio.lnk.to/Split