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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Latterman and more,more...


Five Days Late

 "Five Days Late consisted of future Latterman members Matt Canino (bass/vocals), Phil Douglas (guitar/vocals) and Dan Sposato (guitar), with George Dehaven playing drums. A Few Words for Thought isn't too far off from what early Latterman sounded like with a heavy influence coming from bands like No Use For a Name and Face to Face. Even lyrically it touches on some of the same things that Latterman did in those early years"

Five Days Late - ... A Few Words For Though (1999)


Latterman


Latterman was a four-piece punk rock band from Huntington, New York. They played a style of melodic punk rock with shouted dual-vocals by Phil Douglas and Matt Canino, and their songs often contain political and/or socially-conscious lyrics.

On October 18, 2007, music website Punknews.org reported that the band has officially broken up. The band issued a statement which indicated a number of reasons for the split, including turmoil with their label and misinterpretation of the band's message and intentions.

Bassist Matt Canino sent the following to Punknews.org:

We were a band for 7 years and it was time to not be a band anymore. I was in New York less and less and there was some record label stress and things were just getting too weird with the shows we were getting asked to play, the things we were getting asked to do, and the way we felt the band was being perceived. 

Personally, I don't give a shit about "being positive" or whatever that meant when we were all 18, and the most people seemed to be getting out of the band was "how important friendships are." Well how fucking boring is that? No shit friendships are important, but I think that was far away from the messages we were trying to convey with Latterman. 

I Felt like a broken record going on tour and talking about sexism in punk rock every night and then some fucking bro-dudes coming up to me and saying some fucked up shit. I even got to a point where I stopped calling them out on it, and that just felt wrong. I was tired. Basically, it just stopped making sense for everyone in the band to keep on doing the band.



Latterman-Demo cassette
 (Ruckus Records/1999)

Latterman- Tour Demo
(self released/2001)

None of These Songs Are About Girls 
(self-released, 2000)

Split 7" with Nakatomi Plaza
 (Rok Lok Records / BD Records / Sot Records, 2000)

Turn Up The Punk, We'll Be Singing
 (Traffic Violation Records, 2002; reissued on Deep Elm Records, 2005. LP vinyl pressing on Yo-Yo Records 2006)

No Matter Where We Go!
(Deep Elm Records, 2005 LP vinyl pressing on Yo-Yo Records 2006)

We Are Still Alive
 (Deep Elm Records, 2006 LP vinyl pressing on No Idea Records 2007)


In late July 2011, Punknews.org confirmed with the band that they would be playing four shows in early December. 
As of July 31, 2012 Latterman has also been confirmed to do a reunion appearance at Gainesville, Florida's 11th annual Fest at the end of October + eurotour.



This is the last song that Latterman ever recorded pressed onto a one sided single 7 inch.

Latterman - Our Better Halves



RVIVR

It is difficult to deny the magnitude of Latterman’s fragmentation, but in retrospect the disbanding has resulted in several solid groups such as RVIVR. With that said however, RVIVR has cultivated its own signature sound with their self-titled release and uncovers some serious potential for the future. The tandem of Matt Canino and Erica Freas could already be one of the more formidable male-female vocalist combinations in modern music, with RVIVR demonstrating this in its entirety. While not showcasing anything groundbreaking or overly remarkable, RVIVR’s self-titled release is one of the more enjoyable records of 2010, one to shout along with like we did with Latterman.


RVIVR - Life Moves 7' (2008)





RVIVR-Dirty Water(2010)

RVIVR-RVIVR(2010)


RVIVR-Life Moves(2009)

RVIVR-Derailer(2009)



Iron Chic
Iron Chic is melodic in the same way Latterman are but, add Lubrano's dynamic-as-shit vocals, and you've got an unstoppable force on your hands. Complete with "whoa-oh"s and songs about parking lots, Iron Chic is sometimes unabashedly nostalgic while other times, they're more apt to say "fuck that: let's do something cool today." Similar to "A Flight and A Crash"-era Hot Water Music, I'm hoping this EP is the first of many returns for Iron Chic. - Mike Campbell


Iron Chic - Split N' Shit(2011)
Iron Chic-Not Like This(2010)
Iron Chic - Shitty Rambo EP(2009)
Iron Chic-Demo(2008)



Bridge and Tunnel
Bridge and Tunnel play epic punk rock with an eclectic mix of post-rock and indie thrown in. Their lyrics deal mostly with social issues from a personal perspective. They feature ex and current members of such bands as Latterman, Slingshot Dakota and The Solidarity Pact.


                  
Bridge And Tunnel -Demo(2007)

Bridge And Tunnel - East West(2008)

Bridge and Tunnel-Loss Leaders(2009)

Bridge and Tunnel - Indoor Voices(2010)

Bridge and Tunnel-Young Livers split(2008)





Life Rocks!(Matt Canino)acoustic

Life Rocks "Ours Minds Are Made Up-There's Going to Be Trouble" CD (Burn It Down Rebuild/2004)


You can download this album and read more information from this awesome blog



Shorebirds

See, Shorebirds aren’t just ex-Latterman; they’re ex-Jawbreaker. Jawbreaker was well-known for having awesome bass lines (see “Big” from Bivouac, “Accident Prone” from Dear You), courtesy of Chris Bauermeister.

Shorebirds - It's Gonna Get Ugly

Split Shorebirds & Something's Wrong

Shorebirds - st 7''

Shorebirds - The Movie Is Almost Over

Shorebirds - Bubz Song


Hooky
From summer 2007 to spring 2008 Matt Canino and Erica Freas (both rvivr members) recorded a few songs and played a few shows.

Hooky-You Missed It! Demo (2008)


The Brass
Matt Mesic - Jason Rosenthal - Mike Campbell - Jon Ellis
These guys sort of fit into the whole DIY punk scene, but their music could
be best described as a more processsive form of hard rock. A little bit of
screaming, a little bit of agression. They have a little more typical rock
sound, but they really play it well.


The Brass-Homosapien-(EP)-2009

The Brass-Demo(2008)


Bottle Rocket
Before Brian Crozier was in Latterman, he sang and played guitar in this band. You might notice some similarities in how they sound, but they grew up in the same area, so it's bound to happen. 
Ryan-Drums, Terence-Guitar, Ciara-Bass, Brian-Guitar

Bottle Rocket-Demo+1(2005)

Laura Stevenson and the Cans

Initially, Laura Stevenson and The Cans, or simply "The Cans", consisted primarily of members of BTMI!. In the summer of 2007, Laura took a position as a counselor at Power Chord Academy Music Camp, where she recruited Mike Campbell of the Long Island punk band Latterman to play bass for The Cans.Alex Billig of The Best Thing Ever was added on trumpet later that fall, and a year later Laura began working on her first studio recording.
Shortly after releasing her debut record, entitled "A Record", on Jeff Rosenstock's label Quote Unquote Records, in October 2008, Laura Stevenson & the Cans played at the Plan-It-X stage at The Fest in Gainesville, FL.
Stevenson added Chris Parker and Wen-Jay Ying as drummer and violinist, respectively, the following winter. This lineup of Laura Stevenson, Alex Billig, Mike Campbell, Wen-Jay Ying and Chris Parker became the classic, "full-Cans" lineup and they began writing for future releases.


Laura Stevenson and the Cans-A Record(2010)

Laura Stevenson and the Cans-Holy Ghost(2009)

Bomb The Music Industry/Laura Stevenson & The Cans - Split(2009)



Kudrow
The Brooklyn trio - Jeff Rosenstock (Bomb the Music Industry!, Pegasuses-XL) on baritone guitar and vocals, Mike Campbell (The Brass, Laura Stevenson and the Cans, Latterman) on bass, and Dave Garwacke (Thousandaires, Halo Fauna) on drums.

Kudrow-Lando(2009)



Stolen Parts

In the blue corner you have Ryan Seagrist, member of Florida's Monikers, who brings his own brand of mid-tempo pop punk to the table. His vocals on "Anonymous" and and "You Don't Know" help push the song, while keeping your head bobbing. In the red corner we have Josh Jordan of Off With Their Heads fame. Jordan's vocals on "Wonder" and "Between Planets" are slower and more anthemic in nature, perfectly balancing out this great record. 
Despite the vocal pains they will be in, we are lucky enough to have them come together on this 7inch/download. Pat Schramm of Bridge & Tunnel steps behind the drums on this, along with Rob Sunderman on bass. Phil Douglass recorded it.


Stolen Parts-Stolen Prts(ep)2009



Mutoid Men
"Particle-Accelerated. Moog Synthesizer. Scientific Rock'n'Roll. Fuck You Guitar Riffs. "
Featuring:
Chris Bauermeister:
Shorebirds, Jawbreaker
Jeff Doyle: Chin Up, Meriwether!, Hail Seizures
The Joester: Doomhawk, The Pharmacy
Mutoid Matt: Shorebirds, Latterman


Mutoid Men-Mutoid World



The Solidarity Pact



The Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay Boners!

The Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay Boners - The Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay Boners [2009]


Air Raid Barcelona
ARB is/was ex and current members of Splurge, Latterman, Halo Fauna, Beardlift, The Exelar, He's a Cop?!, and Long Distance Runner

mike campbell, eric ayotte, jonah ellis, dave garwacke!

Air Raid Barcelona-Self-Titled




Grid Iron

Grid Iron "Demo" cd-r (Diner's Club Records/2001)


Grid Iron "Songs" cd-r (self released/2001)




Daytrader
Daytrader, a new band featuring current and ex-members of Crime in Stereo, Latterman/Bridge and Tunnel/Monikers, the Motorcycle Industry and Divider.

Daytrader-Demo(2010)

Daytrader-Last Days of Rome(2011)ep



Fuck Cops

Fuck Cops "Demo" cd-r (Burn It Down Rebuild/2003)



 Beardlift, Behavior,Contra is missing ... so If somebody knows how I can get it, please let me know!
thank you!

Friday, January 21, 2011

The Riot Before!

http://www.myspace.com/theriotbefore
http://theriotbefore.tumblr.com/
http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/qur014.htm

Record Label:

Paper + Plastick



Members:

Brett Adams - Lead Vocals in lynyrd skynryd/Guitar
Jon Greeley - Lead Guitar/Vocals
Cory Manning - Bass/Vocals
Freddy Clark - Drums

The Riot Before-Это панк группа из Ричмонда,Вирджиния.На данный момент выпустили 3 полноценных альбома и 3 Ер.Группа образовалась в конце 2003 года,Брэтт на тот момент был единственным участником и сочинил несколько акустических песен,разместив осенью 2004 года их для бесплатного скачивания.Позже он пригласил друзей из предыдущей своей группы(Fly By Night)для записи первого альбома "Horseshoes and Hand Grenades",который уже был выпущен осенью 2005 года.Так же осенью 2005 года после окончания колледжа Брэтт переезжает в Ричмонд.Восемь месяцев он искал людей,чтобы сделать вместе группу.В апреле 2008 года в состав вошли Garrett Berneche(гитара),Cory Manning(бас) и Freddy Clark(ударные).

Летом 2007 года они выпускают Ер "So Long the Lighthouse" и сплит с Broadway Calls.После тура в 2008 году группу покидает гитарист Garrett.На май уже было забронировано время в студии на запись второго альбома.Оставалось совсем мало времени,чтобы найти нового гитариста и разучить с ним материал к записи.Сразу же Cory пригласил своего старого друга Jon Greeley,которого знал больше 10 лет и вместе играли в группе "Your Fellow Rebels"!Jon сразу влился в группу и 8 мая был записан второй альбом.(First Buried in Pockets)


В 2010 году группа подписала контракт с лэйблом Paper+Plastick Records и выпустила свой третий по счёту альбом "Rebellion".Для меня это один из лучших альбомов 2010 года.
Кто ещё не успел послушать их,то вы должны обязательно это сделать!


Интервью с Брэттом Адамсом:



1. Hello Brett! How are you?What are you listening to right now? 

-Hey Vanya, I’m doing well.  Right now I’m sitting at a coffee shop by my house and I’m listening to Tom Waits.  


2. Please tell me briefly the history of your band and about present members of the band.
Tell me some words about the previous music projects that you and other members in your band had before.

-The Riot Before started sometime in late 2003 but really didn’t get going until a couple years later when I moved from Southern California to Richmond, Virginia.  It was then that the band acquired full-time members and began touring heavily.  Cory and Freddy were a part of that original group, while Jon, our current guitarist, joined a few months before Fists Buried in Pockets was recorded.  He replaced Garrett, who quit when our old van’s transmission broke on the very last night of an otherwise successful tour.  Jon and Cory used to be in a pretty good stoner rock band called Your Fellow Rebels, which I actually saw live a few times before I met those guys.  I’m not sure what Freddy’s old band was called, but I am pretty sure it was some sort of bad pop-punk.  I sang for a brief time in a band called Fly By Night, but wasn’t really involved in that band beyond my duties at the microphone.  The Riot Before is really the only band I’ve been in where I was the songwriter.   


3.I think the most important question for every peoples interested in The Riot Before is when you are going to release a new record(ep,may be new album)?

I have only now begun the very long process of writing for a new record and that probably won’t be finished for another year.  We’d like to release something short like an EP or a split this year, but there probably won’t be another full-length until sometime in 2012. 

4.I know all the bandmembers of the riot before are working in restaurants.Why restaurants?

We do indeed all work in restaurants.  We have never made any money in this band and when we’re home we have to work a lot to support it and ourselves.  In general, restaurant work tends to be the most flexible and allow us our jobs back after a number of weeks or months of touring.  I personally really enjoy working in restaurants and probably will continue to do so when I stop touring one of these days. 


5.there have been 2 years between the last lp and "rebellion". what happened for the band in this 2 years?

We just played a whole bunch of shows.  That’s pretty much it.  


6.Why did you name the album "Rebellion"?

-The title comes from a line in Dostoyevsky’s novel, The Brothers Karamazov, which when translated into English is: One can hardly live in Rebellion, and I want to live.  That line sums up how I’ve felt over the last few years.  I have found rebellion to be a valuable part of a life, but incredibly empty when pursued as a lifestyle.  Rebellion, after all, is simply disassembling something you or someone else has built.  It’s saying no.  And a life of only tearing down things and saying no is a really empty life.  The title was designed to be understood alongside the album artwork.  On the front there’s word rebellion in orange above a very cliché riot scene.  I wanted it to look really typical punk.  But then when you open the record up it reveals the entire quote and you see the aftermath of the riot, a destroyed city.  In the corner is one person kneeling down and slowly rebuilding alone.  Then when you pull out the lyrics they are on blueprints.  And that’s what this record is about.  Its focus is on the long and difficult process of deciding who you actually are after you’ve decided what you aren’t.  It’s about learning to be vulnerable and open instead of calloused and angry.  


6.I know recently you had a tour of Europe.What is your most memorable?
Do you try to go out and see things when you are in different cities?

It’s impossible to pick out one particular moment in Europe as the most memorable.  I think it’s safe to say that our last trip over in November was my favorite tour we’ve ever done.  I had an incredible time.  As for sightseeing, we don’t really get a chance to do much of it.  Touring is a great way to meet wonderful people all over the world, but it’s a really bad way to see the sights.  There is such limited free time and it’s really difficult to split up or get everyone organized and to various tourist destinations.  If we have a few free hours before the show I always try to wander around a bit and see what’s in the neighborhood.  Sometimes I stumble across some really cool stuff.  One of these days I’d like to head back to the places we played and just hang out.  


7.How do you determine what songs off of the newer album "rebellion" you are going to play? 

We normally pick our favorite songs to play.  If someone makes a request we’ll play that, and if one particular song gets requested a lot we end up adding it to the set on a more regular basis.  That’s what happened with the song Tinitus.  We didn’t really plan on playing it much but so many people requested it that now we play it nearly every show.  


8.For a lot of kids, punkrock is associated with a vegetarian lifestyle or the fight for animal rights. You often celebrate on shows that you love to eat a whole pork/pig on one day and you hates cats etc. its that a kind of provocation/game with a scene-cliche or just a way to make fun and not take everything seriously?

I think it’s both.  I mean, punk rock is supposed to be about thwarting authority and celebrating individualism and whatnot, and over the years I think we in the band have had a good time thwarting the authority of punk rock itself.  Sometimes the scene takes itself way too seriously and is disturbingly concerned with everyone acting, looking, and thinking the same.  
I was a vegetarian for a time there but I eventually gave it up because I was getting really into cooking and I didn’t want to limit myself, and I began to believe that abstinence wasn’t the only way to forward animal rights.  The dire conditions found in most factory farms are the way they are because it allows the operators of that business to make the most money.  If you quit eating meat it doesn’t give those business owners any incentive to change their practices, there will always be meat eaters out there.  But if you begin purchasing meat and eggs raised ethically and environmentally, and if enough people do this, then you’ve created a financial incentive for those previous unethical farmers to change their practices.  Right now there are dairies in America switching to organic because those farmers can actually make more money by doing so.  This change is happening (slowly and on a small scale, but it’s there) because consumers chose to spend extra money on organic milk.  I doubt these changes would have occurred if those same consumers started drinking soy.  When I’m not on tour I do my best to purchase local and ethically raised meat.  I’m lucky in that there are a whole host of farms around Richmond that have incredibly high standards.  
As for cats, they’re fine and all but not so great that I want my house to smell like their shit all the time.  Which pretty much every house with cats smells like.  Cat shit.  

9.What is a song you never get sick of hearing?why?

My Favorite Chords by The Weakerthans.  I think it is one of the best songs ever written.  I love how it manages to be incredibly intelligent without being pretentious.  It’s so simple and sympathetic and human that it resonates with me in a very deep way every single time I hear it.  Each line is deceptively dense too.  I mean, you could write a book, literally an entire book, based solely on the line “it’s such an enormous thing, to walk, to listen.”  Musically it builds when it needs to build but is secure enough that it allows itself to be simple.  Just when the same three chords could possibly get a little tiresome it changes just enough to keep it interesting but not too much as to overcomplicate anything.  



10.What do you usually try and do when you have a couple of days off back home?

First and foremost I try to get as many shifts working as I possibly can.  Next, I spend pretty much the rest of my free time cooking food and then reading about cooking food.  Yesterday I cooked for like 8 hours.  I loved it.  


11.What is something you have always wanted to do but have not done yet?

Learn to speak Spanish.  I desperately need to do this.  


12.Do you like reading printed fanzines? 

I don’t think any of us read fanzines actually.  I’ll thumb through an issue of Razorcake or AMP, especially if my friend’s bands are featured, but generally I get enough punk rock in my diet that I don’t read about it.  If I’m reading it’s normally novels or cookbooks.


13.Could you also tell me of your local scene in Richmond and recommend me some new/young local bands?

The scene in Richmond is strange.  It’s almost too full of good bands and most of those bands break up after like 5 shows, so it’s really hard to keep track of what’s happening, especially since I’m out of town pretty much half of the year.  Most of the bands I know about are bands we play with on tour.  For example, if you haven’t listened to Red City Radio, you should.  Same with The Great Explainer.  There’s a cool band called Sundials from Richmond.  Also the Catalyst is great and they tour Europe at least once a year.  Oh, and we played with a band called Flechette that was really good.  


14.Which punk releases in 2010 did you like best?

I really liked records by The Flatliners and The Menzingers.  


15.What are your plans for the 2011?

Tour and write.  Eat and drink.


16.Do you know anything about Russian music scene (maybe some bands).?Do you want to visit our country?

I honestly don’t know a thing about the Russian music scene.  I have heard playing shows there is incredible.  We’d love to tour Russia and hopefully we’ll get the opportunity to one of these days.  


17.What would you like to wish to russian punks?

I guess just thanks for listening!  It’s incredible to me that we have fans anywhere let alone Russia!  So thank you!