SPILL NEW MUSIC: MOCK MEDIA SHARE NEW SINGLE “MOCK CITY ROCK” | FORTHCOMING ALBUM ‘RAT BASTARD’ DUE JULY 17 VIA MAC’S RECORD LABEL

MOCK MEDIA SHARE NEW SINGLE “MOCK CITY ROCK”

FORTHCOMING ALBUM RAT BASTARD DUE JULY 17 VIA MAC’S RECORD LABEL

The art-punk quartet Mock Media – hailing from North Okanagan, British Columbia – has increasingly become a welcome reprieve from the self-seriousness of contemporary indie rock. The band recently detailed the release of their excellent forthcoming album Rat Bastard due July 17 2026 on Mac DeMarco’s Mac’s Record Label in North and South America, and shared the title track, which has been praised as being “…chock full of the stickiest phrases, ones that arrive hammed-up with a Rick Springfield-meets-The Clash, ‘80s power pop sheen.” Earlier this month, Mock Media supported Mac Demarco for a run of sold-out shows across the U.S.

Now, the band return with their forthcoming album’s opening salve, “Mock City Rock,” which guitarist-vocalist Evan Aasen, while speaking on the song, calls an “…anthemic rock song that defines the whole band, with our full power, inviting the audience to ‘come alive.’”

Rat Bastard laces Mock Media’s renegade punk hijinks with disparate styles such as Brazilian baile funk, The Beatles, Eurodance, Afrobeats, dub, Aboriginal folk, and heavy metal – a restless experimental drive solely overridden by the sweaty embrace of their correlative brotherhood. Syncopated rhythms etch into soil like glyphs of glory; a squall of voices shakes the pillars of heaven in matrimonial defiance; guitars blaze gasoline trails over smoldering asphalt roads.

Mock City
Rat Bastard
(Mac’s Record Label)
Release Date: July 17, 2026

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