- Been awhile since I posted anything including a mohawk…
Since Bullet Tooth launched a little more than a year ago, I’ve been waiting for the label to find its first signature hardcore band. Sure – the label had FIRST BLOOD and MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD as holdovers from the Trustkill days, but I’m talking about new blood (so much blood…); a young, hungry band looking [...]
- FFO: INTEGRITY, RINGWORM, PALE CREATION, etc…
From the inbox:
Reformed “Kings of Boston Hardcore” – DYS – launch their new digital single, “Unloaded”, today with an exclusive stream on BrooklynVegan.com. Fans can listen to the whole track and read an interview with vocalist Dave Smalley – check it out here.
“Unloaded” is available for 99 cents on iTunes, Amazon.com and the B9Store.com.
DYS is vocalist Dave Smalley (ex- Dag Nasty, All, Down by Law), bass player Jonathan Anastas (ex-Slapshot), guitar player Franz Stahl (Scream, ex-Foo Fighters), drummer Al Pahanish Jr. (ex- Powerman 5000) and guitar player Adam Porris (ex-Far From Finished).
The track was produced by Andrew “Mudrock” Murdock (Godsmack, Avenged Sevenfold, Riverboat Gamblers), recorded at his Hobby Shop Studio, West in Los Angeles, and mastered by Dave Shultz at D2.
“Unloaded” is the third single in the band’s series of Digital releases on Bridge Nine Records. It follows “Sound of our Town,” featuring Mighty Mighty Bosstone Dicky Barrett and “Wild Card,” inspired by Boston boxing legend Freddie Roach. Their 2010 reunion was documented live and released as More than Fashion: Live From The Gallery East Reunion, also via Bridge Nine.
- If there was a Hardcore Hall of Fame, this video would be the kind of thing the museum would make you watch after taking your admission ticket and before allowing you to view the exhibits. Seriously great video…
From the inbox:
ERIN PASSMORE has a voice that will drop kick your heart. She is perhaps best known for her work in the Regina indie-rock band RAH RAH, where she’s a multi-instrumentalist, contributing drums, keys, bass and her crowd-rousing vocals. Erin’s voice is not brash, booming, or overdone. It’s honest, warm and real. It’s one of those gifts you’re born with. And you can’t help but take notice when she takes the mic.
The collection of Erin’s demos, beautiful in their own right for their sparseness and jolts of Erin’s personality between takes, took her to Montreal in the summer of 2011 and into the studio under the production of Matt Lederman (Holy Fuck, Patrick Watson, The Besnard Lakes). The songs began to bloom. Friends Lowell Campbell (Wintersleep), Mara Pellerin (Gramercy Riffs) joined in alongside a chain of local Montreal-based talent in Tim D’eon (Wintersleep), Dagan Harding, Mishka Stein (Patrick Watson), Andy King, Jason Sharp, Pat Sayers (Young Galaxy) and Vid Cousins (Amon Tobin) to take the demos from charming ideas to an inspired, complete album she’s called (the) Downtown EP.
- Grab your download of Sexy But Not Happy here. As we wrote last week about the band, their mix of indie-rock, pop-punk and new wave blooms with redeeming qualities.
