Maple Stave Long Player One

Durham, North Carolina’ Maple Stave are an enigmatic bunch. Their instrumentals are filled with lush beauty and melodic overtones, while their vocal tracks are filled with angst, a fierce delivery, and a technical expertise that could out math most bands of their genre.

Maple Stave’s first full length release, Long Player One (Like Rain Freezing And Thawing Between Bricks Year After Year, This House Will Come Down.) was released last year after a series of EP’s that were released in the 2000’s. The album is available as a digital download, and in CD Format is one of the nicest hand printed silk screened packages that I have ever seen. Both are $10, so I heartily recommend ordering one of the 200 limited edition CD’s while you still can.

For more info on the band, please visit them at Maple Stave Bandcamp and Maple Stave Facebook.

She Ripped

Methodist Live at PRFBBQNYC2011

Methodist performs live at the Secret Project Robot in NYC as part of the first NYC BBQ, the PRFBBQNYC2011. Recordings and Live Sound by the impeccable Ryan Denmark Steele, Justin Foley, Evan Rowe, and Boombats.

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MP3 Downloads

  1. Methodist – PRFBBQNYC2011 – 01
  2. Methodist – PRFBBQNYC2011 – 02
  3. Methodist – PRFBBQNYC2011 – 03
  4. Methodist – PRFBBQNYC2011 – 04
  5. Methodist – PRFBBQNYC2011 – 05
  6. Methodist – PRFBBQNYC2011 – 06
  7. Methodist – PRFBBQNYC2011 – 07
  8. Methodist – PRFBBQNYC2011 – 08
  9. Methodist – PRFBBQNYC2011 – 09

For more information on the band, please visit https://methodist.bandcamp.com/.

The United Sons of Toil When The Revolution Comes, Everything Will Be Beautiful

Imagine a dusty old library with floor to ceiling Walnut bookshelves spanning as far as the eye can see. Dimly lit table lamps illuminate the faded words on ancient pages of lesson after lesson of human existence. It’s not your average setting for a rock band, but it’s what comes to mind when I think of The United Sons of Toil.

If your favorite history professors from college were into noise rock, they would be into The United Sons of Toil. With songs like “Alcoholism in the Former Soviet Republics”, “The Forced March of Manifest Destiny”, and “Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act”, these are not your average rockers. USoT’s music is hard, and often brutal, like the subjects they choose to write about. For fans of the Touch and Go, AmRep, and Dischord record labels, you will at home listening to this band.

The band’s latest release, When The Revolution Comes, Everything Will Be Beautiful, is available in digital form (name your price), compact disc ($8), and for a lucky few, on translucent red vinyl ($10 – At the time of posting this article, there were only 35 still available).

A little background on The Hype!

I made a post sometime in early 2009, around the time of the initial talks of this basement BBQ in the works, suggesting that we should include live karaoke. I didn’t expect anyone to care enough to respond, but within a few hours had been contacted by MF Nightmen (guitar), Ruy Lopez (drums), hench (keys, though more on that), and kerble as the MC. I offered to fill the open bass role, though MF thought we’d be better served by 2 guitars and asked the other bassist in his band (-o-), Erik, to join. Wow, we had a karaoke band!

Colonel Panic at The Hype perform Live at PRFBBQ2010

Months later, we’d kind of forgotten about it and realized we needed to get our shit together. The show was about a month away and people we’re actually anticipating my half-assed karaoke concept. Oh boy. Around that time, hench told me he was too busy to do it, then got seriously ill, then moved to LA, so we we’re SOL in the keys dept. Uh oh, no one on EA plays fuckin’ keys (as far as I knew at the time). I even contacted a professional keyboardist through craigslist to fill in as over half of the requests had pianos or synths. Luckily, the dude didn’t write me back (he seemed a little too into Ben Folds anyway) and Noise&Light contacted me 3 weeks before showtime. Saved! We had our first practice about 2 weeks before the BBQ and after some shaky run throughs, we managed to get 19 songs down in 4 or 5 practices @ MF’s Ravenswood Manor bungalow (which is like playing in a 1960s basement, in the best way imaginable).

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