Vancouver’s original Motorcychos, The Vicious Cycles, are revving the engines again. To celebrate the one-year anniversary of their latest LP, Get Wrecked, the band has just unleashed a brand new music video for “Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em” — one of the standout cuts from a record that’s been soundtracking garages, gas stations, and gravel-strewn highways since it dropped.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/t3efUufNUlU

“Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em” finds VCMC head honcho Billy Bones in full crooner mode, and a sublime fuzz-guitar solo midway through tips the song over the edge into full-on garage punk balladry. It’s the kind of tune built for a late-summer night ride to the beach — windows down, cigarette smoldering, taillights smearing across the wet pavement.

Produced by the band’s pal Ty McLeod and filmed at Palm Street Studios in Vancouver, BC, the clip is the third visual offering from Get Wrecked, following previously released videos for “Hold On Tight” and “Daddy Was a Gambler.”

Get Wrecked is exactly the kind of record its cover promises — a tuff-looking scrub on a minibike, courtesy of cover model Shakey Deal, says everything you need to know. “We play garage/punk rock and roll songs about motorcycles,” Billy explains. “We like to have a good time.” Song titles like “Naked On a Beach” and “On Fire in the Hot Tub” back up the claim, and the album rips through danceable party anthems with plenty of bike-enthusiast inside baseball baked in.

But scratch the chrome and there’s depth here. “Naked On A Beach” plays like a party but, per Billy, is actually “a critique of capitalism and the tiny lives we’re expected — and sometimes content — to live.” The title track itself is a message from Billy to his son about brushing off the conformist naysayers of the world. Elsewhere, the band brings in strings and saxophone for a 60s Wall of Sound-inspired production on “Black Boots, Black Leather Jacket,” takes a stab at their first murder ballad on “Pretty Hands,” tosses in an instrumental (“Blowing Smoke”), and even covers Stewart Copeland’s “Trouble Again” — yes, the theme song from the 80s Star Wars animated series Droids. Deep cut energy only.

Recorded with Jesse Gander (Territories, Comeback Kid) and Mariessa McLeod at Rain City Recorders, Get Wrecked never loses sight of the mission: sing-along choruses, handclaps, and short songs that get in, get the job done, and get out. “I didn’t want us to write a record that you could dance to,” Billy quips. “I wanted us to write a record that you couldn’t not dance to.”

Get Wrecked is available on 12″ Bleach Marble Vinyl and 12″ Black Ice & Orange Crush Pinwheel Vinyl with Neon Orange Splatter via Pirates Press Records, at your local indie retailer, and on all major streaming platforms including Bandcamp.

THE VICIOUS CYCLES LIVE:
05/22/2026 — Penticton, BC — LUSO Hall
05/23/2026 — Cache Creek, BC — Oasis Hotel
06/13/2026 — Victoria, BC — Wheelies Motorcycles
07/24/2026 — Cumberland, BC — Masonic Hall
07/25/2026 — Ucluelet, BC — ANAF Hall

Hit play, light one up, and take the long way home.