Most of “Tijuana“‘s two minutes and forty-one seconds is the same line coming back at you – “Do you wanna meet in Tijuana? You know I got ya.” That’s the design. It’s a singalong before it’s a song, built to be screamed back from the floor.
The Metuchen, NJ pop-punk trio behind it, Get The Net, drop the track and its video on May 4 as the lead single from “Til House Lights,” their debut full-length, out June 26 via Bright & Barrow Records. Pre-orders go live the same day at getthenet.bandcamp.com — 200 copies on vinyl total, 100 on translucent yellow with pink splatter and 100 on seaglass.
Singer/guitarist Ryan Raichilson produced the record himself. Steve Sopchak (Ice Nine Kills, Motionless in White) handled mix and master. Cover art is by Torrie Rathjen.
The band only really exists in its current form because of one live booking. Raichilson started Get The Net solo back in college, recording on his own.
After he and drummer Kyle Burnett put out “Not The Way” in January 2025, an invitation to play a show pushed them to flesh things out — they pulled in Brian O’Halloran on bass, and the band officially formed in March 2025. The reference points Raichilson lists — MXPX, Teenage Bottlerocket, the Copyrights — track with what they actually sound like. Since forming, they’ve recorded an LP, put out singles, and shared stages with The Lawrence Arms and A Wilhelm Scream. Flemington DIY in NJ comes next, May 29, with Retrograde, Brunsy, and Oliver Stone.
“Tijuana” started life as a setlist closer. Raichilson is direct about why it’s the lead single: the chorus is the whole band compressed into one line.
“When I read about the world, I start unraveling,” he says about the opening line. The escape valve sits in the chorus. “As darkness continues to consume the news and the world, it’s too easy to doom scroll and get sucked into the constant negativity that awaits us online. We’ve grown accustomed to the steady stream of awful headlines. But we have a choice. We can either continue to allow ourselves to be tethered to the darkness, or we can make a move.”
The move, per the song, is to meet up. Start a band. Go to a show. Head to Tijuana, literally or otherwise.
“‘You know I got ya’ — this phrase is the heartbeat of the song, our band, and encapsulates what I love most about the DIY punk scene,” Raichilson says. “We’re in it together and we have each other’s backs. If I see a stranger walking down the street wearing a Bouncing Souls shirt, I give them a nod and we know that we’re in the same club. We’ve got each other.”
The video matches the same hand-built ethos. No production, no effects. Shot at 10pm on a Thursday at their practice space, with one videographer they hired and a few takes of the song. Raichilson cut the whole thing in iMovie. As he puts it: “three suburban dads making loud music together on a weekday night after working a long day and putting our kids to bed.”
That’s roughly the album in miniature too — written and tracked between day jobs and bedtimes, then pressed onto 200 records and aimed straight at the kind of person who’d nod back at a Bouncing Souls shirt across the street.
Photos by Sydney Sugrue.
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