May Issue of Inkwell Press

MAY 2009

ISSUE #3

Andrew McKinnon

MAY TABLE OF CONTENTS

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86 MIDI AND THE MODERN DANCE

7 FIRE FIRST

20 DIY BANDITS BLACK HEART REBELLION

24 may to-do list

A benefit show for

Larry Dubey

Sidewalk Dave Releases new

Record

2ELISE GRANATA | INKWELL PRESS | [email protected]


16Hot Air Press

22REMAINS

I N K -W E L L PRESS M A Y


PAT THE BUNNY: I tour for three to six months out of the year. So far I have toured for three months this year. I will spend spring and summer in my hometown of Brattleboro, VT. While there I will help in starting a new community and performance space to replace one that got evicted on January 1st when the building we rented out got sold to a real estate investor; to continue raising money to purchase a bus for the purpose of founding a collectively run transportation service for performers and individuals in the DIY punk rock community; to help organize our third annual punk rock circus tour; to put out more issues of a newspaper I have started with my friends to report on inflammatory opinion about current events in the anarchist & DIY punk scene and broader world; to begin a mail order distro for cheap visual art produced by my friends in the hopes of beginning to strengthen networks of distributing creative expression on a DIY level that extend beyond the current norms of music and zines; to hold a one day festival of music and redefinition of public space through street games and parades in Brattleboro; to organize resistance in my hometown against a proposal to replace the current system of trash removal payed out of property taxes with one wherein individuals pay per bag they throw away (thus shifting the financial burden for the service from landlords to tenants); and to swim every day, spend as much time with the people I love as I can, and stop getting stressed out by how many things I try to do at once.

FOR LAST MONTH’S APRIL ISSUE, I INTERVIEWED PAT THE BUNNY FROM WINGNUT DISHWASHERS UNION. HIS ANSWERS WERE PASSIONATE AND SURE-FOOTED, AND STUCK WITH ME FOR A WHILE AFTER HE RESPONDED. IN PARTICULAR, HIS ANSWER TO THE QUESTION ‘WHAT’RE YOUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE?’ STAYED WITH ME THE MOST. DO WHAT YOU WILL WITH HIS RESPONSE: USE IT FOR INSPIRATION, USE IT FOR A HEADS UP WHEN THIS STUFF COMES THROUGH YOUR TOWN.


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Depending on how you feel about Pokemon theme songs, you may or may not be disappointed that MIDI AND THE MODERN DANCE is not actually constructed of MIDI tones. Though it does share the high melodic concentration that both the 90’s ringtones and the Vermilion City theme have. Each song found on Twilight, How Sweet You Are is what their label [Birthquake Records] founder, Max Lysobey describes to be the musical equivalent of “pale blue, or MAYBE seafoam green.” Twilight’s roster of songs renders the same effect of deja vu, every charmingly melodic piece reaching into the perimeters of the mind’s musical landscape, grasping at that one song you must have heard years ago. Perhaps this is because of Midi’s antique presentation, one that’s not ashamed of the criminally catchy and the neatly composed. ‘A Door By The Pond’ is straight out of a waltz class loudspeaker, composed in 3/4 time. In spite of the sometimes kitschy rhythm and guitar, the material on Twilight always seems to give consent to remaining within traditional bounds, emanating a suspense that they’ll nudge them a little further. Teeming instrumentals in ‘Baby, Don’t Deprave Me’ combined with Omeed Goodarzi’s volatile half-cries create a feeling of desperation. Goodarzi’s voice is of a resonating pitch, teetering on a wail. Like in Grizzly Bear or Beirut, he employs a vocal technique which holds haphazard office over Midi’s precise instrumentation. There’s a track titled ‘-,’ which is just above a minute full of screaming and keyboard banter. It just about illustrates the total thread in Twilight: just because you have musical composure doesn’t mean you have to be totally composed.

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FIRE FIRST joined Connecticut’s musical corps in 2008, with members hailing from Incorporate This! and A+ Ninjas. Even though it meets the standard EP length of 25 minutes, Tell Me I’m Right packs a much shorter punch. There isn’t any fluidity between songs like in most pop punk, and that lends itself to six cleanly packaged tracks for the release that came out in March. Lyrically, the material takes shape as a gigantic finger pointing at someone else. It’s full of accusation- ‘You follow your gut you take up every opportunity/and of all the new “just friends” you’ve made you’ve forgotten about me,’ from ‘Cheap Motels’- and realization: ‘I feel like I’m a scientist, overanalyzing everything in my whole life,” from ‘Pillars.’ But whatever had to happen in order for the word ‘you’ to be mentioned 79 times in a single EP also makes for lyrical prizes such as “I’m not full of shit/because I’ve never felt more empty than this,” also from ‘Pillars.’ They’re highly charged lyrics with token poppyguitar riffs backed by violent, seizure-like drumming. This simplicity houses the lyrical content rather than acting as a pillow held down at both ends. Structure like this makes personal disaster catchy. The most outstanding track is ‘Cheap Motels,’ where their style is bucked in exchange for an instrumental force just as severe as the lyrical story: “The truth it finally slips out and wraps itself around my neck/but when

my skull it hits the floor its your reality check.” Here, their spirited composure flirts with a darker, more hardcore element. With plans for playing shows, a potential short tour and working on new material, Fire First’s outlook remains as noncommittal as their music. Like Mike Nagy said, “I don’t think we’re really looking any further ahead

than that.”



Songs for Cowards rolls the film in the mind’s eye to project scenes of unfettered traveling, frail wallets and substituting guitar for gospel. Howling a nostalgic lament over a broken down organ. Unabashedly proclaiming your lot in life to whoever’s around to hear, even if it makes you a bastard. After a first listen, it seems like an archive of personal anthems championing the rowdy, the rugged, and the raw. And it is, to a certain level. Frontman Dave Van Witt even attributes the band’s three main influences to be “Brothers and whiskey. Whiskey counts as two- bourbon and scotch.” But the devil’s in the details. From the path of Sidewalk Dave’s style of dirty, Americana/folk ballad strays a commentary on the vulnerability of cowardice. ‘Cowards at the Alter’ and ‘War at the Alter’ sandwich the bulk of the seven tracks on the record, and would fit seamlessly together if consecutively arranged. ‘Cowards at the Alter’ doesn’t seem to take place in a chapel so much as it would in front of a mirror. Van Witt darkly coos, “I’m a coward/whispered it before and I hoped you could hear.” It’s a weak admission. But it’s a calculated choice with which to introduce the album, and redeems itself throughout the middle tracks. Culminating in the venomous conclusion of ‘War at the Alter,’ Van Witt’s half-growl grinds over the lines: “And when I get to shore, I’ll say what I did before/I’m no coward.” Cowards holds the dynamic of a lyrical journey, but is also a testament to the labor of a physical one. Referencing the period of the intended album release two years ago, Van Witt said, “We had the songs but we were still trying to find our sound.” The years to follow witnessed the band resorting to self-production, the growth of a five-song EP into a nine song CD, and the addition of Noah Goldman of Aeroplane 1929 on lead guitar. The resulting product is two records’ worth of extra material and an upcoming local tour. Van Witt recalls the process with a brand of humored peace, saying “The difference between us and the clinically insane is that we can adapt, evolve, and learn from our insanity. So yeah, it’s changing.” The material heard on Cowards is evidence of this, a record that sounds like it’s permanently in transit. ‘Chord Organ Blues’ is a Daniel Johnston cover, chosen for its message of impermanent expression, what Van Witt simplifies to “moving to Texas and making tapes of music in your garage.” Both Johnston and Van Witt sap courage from their ability to allow their music to settle them, while they might not be physically settled. The record’s melodies sound like samples of canned folk you’d hear through the open window of a jalopy you’re sitting next to in traffic on the interstate. Attach flighty drumming, lazy bass and Dave’s scarred, rich vocals and you’ve got Sidewalk Dave: a musical collective who sprawls across their map of style just far enough to embrace their complete creative process.

SIDEWALK DAVE SONGS FOR COWARDS

RELEASE DATE: MAY 22ND

TOUR DATES: May 22 @ The Space [RELEASE] (w/ East India Company)

Jun 5 @ Parkside Lounge [RELEASE]Jun 12 @ Toquet Hall (w/ Midi & the Modern Dance)

Jun 13 @ Boston CommonJun 19 @ Heirloom Arts Theatre [RELEASE]

Jun 22 @ The Blue Sky Ranch Jul 11 @ Fontana’s (w/ Pale Horse Company)

Jul 22 @ Cafe 9 (w/ Aeroplane, 1929)

A BENEFIT SHOW FOR LARRY DUBEYFT: THE FLAMING TSUNAMISWHAT IS A DAY IN THE LIFE OF YOUR FATHER LIKE?

So right now, my dad is at a rehab hospital in Denver, Colorado called Craig Hospital. It’s like boot camp for traumatic spinal cord and brain injuries. Mornings are pretty much like anyone else’s morn-ing. He gets woken up by a nurse or my mom and gets some medica-tion and some treatments. He lays in bed until about 9am or so doing arm, shoulder, and neck exercises. It takes at least one person to get my dad dressed and out of bed. He wears regular clothes, it just takes some assistance getting dressed. With the use of a special mechani-cal lift, he gets put in his wheelchair. He sits up and eats breakfast and goes to some sort of therapy, whether it be physical therapy, occu-pational therapy, adaptive sports and driving lessons, and classes de-signed to get him to feel comfortable being immersed back into soci-ety as a quad. Classes go on until the afternoon with a break for lunch and treatments around noon. After the busy day, he winds down mak-ing some phone calls to family and friends, or watches tv. Nothing too out of the ordinary.

HOW IS HIS CONDITION NOW, AND HOW FAR HAS HE COME SINCE JANUARY’S ACCIDENT?

It’s been a total roller coaster. He is classified as a “C5 complete quadriplegic” meaning the spinal cord was completely severed at the C5 vertebrae. No use of your extremities (arms and legs) but certainly every case is different. A few days after his accident he had lots of arm movement, but after a month and half of being immobile, he lost a lot of muscle strength and had almost none. In the intensive care unit, he was on a breathing machine for 24 hours a day, tube fed, on about 8 different medications and pain killers. Hoses spilled out of my dad like a bowl of noodles. Now, my dad has graduated from tube feeding to eating whatever he wants through his mouth. He no longer wears a neck brace and we are hoping that his tracheostemy gets removed in the next few days.

After a traumatic snowboarding accident in January of 2009, Mitch Dubey’s father suffered severe spinal injuries rendering him a C5 quadriplegic. In order to raise funds for the staggering medical costs totaling over one million dollars, Mitch has relied on the support of his friends and family to produce benefit shows for the cause.

This is an interview with Mitch.



WHAT ARE THE FINANCIAL NEEDS FOR SUPPORTING HIS CONDITION?

There is an endless list of things that are needed to support a quadriplegic. Certainly the bills for the hospital stays in two separate hospitals, the ambulance rides and plane rides aren’t free, all of the medications, the adaptive equipment, the lodging for my mother and sister, outpatient therapy when he finally gets to go home to California, getting a vehicle that my father can fit in, retrofitting our home to make it handicap accessible, adding ramps and widening hallways. For every possible situation my dad will encounter in the rest of his life, there is more than likely a price tag of some sort.

WHERE HAVE YOU FOUND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT WHILE THIS IS ALL HAPPENING?

Comadre (myspace.com/comadre) was playing in Reno, Nevada down the street from the hospital while I was there visiting my dad. I had called every friend and family member and cried my eyes out. I tried to be positive, but I just felt so lonely, as if I was the only one in the world dealing with this problem. I was sitting in their van before the show started and I think Wes reached from the back seat and hugged me and they all kinda came in and it felt really awesome. Then they played, and if you haven’t listened to that band, you are making a huge mistake. Best hardcore punk band right now. They started playing and I forgot all about how sad I felt inside and I realized I have the best friends and family in the whole world, that stretches far beyond the borders of California and Connecticut. It was almost as if everyone was waiting with, “What can I do to help?” I remember sitting in the airport and Doyle from The Fad called me spouting out different ideas he had for benefits, zines, everything creative in the punk community. A benefit show was definitely in order with all of my friends that my parents have helped out along their way.

HOW HAS THE PROCESS FOR BOOKING THE BENEFIT CONCERTS BEEN GOING FOR YOU?

At first, things seemed to inch along due to a whole bunch of different reasons, but we finally found a great hall that will accommodate a large crowd, has a stage for stage diving, and had to get together all the bands. Stuck Lucky and Rock N Roll Hooligans were passing through and those guys were the first band to offer a night on their East Coast tour to play to help out my family. The Flaming Tsunamis who have been as big of a part of my family as anyone signed up as soon as I mentioned to Andy (TFT) I wanted to do a benefit, he was already out asking bands. My Heart To Joy have been some of my closest friends since I moved out to CT two years ago and they wanted to kick off their first full US tour as a huge rager with killer bands. Hostage Calm jumped on wanting to help as well before their singer goes away for the whole summer. The event is quickly becoming larger than any of us had thought it would. There is a zine/compliation CD-R being compiled by myself and Alan (MHTJ) featuring the best CT bands. New/unreleased songs by Cold Snap, Make Do and Mend, My Heart to Joy, The Flaming Tsunamis, Hostage Calm, as well as songs by Brava Spectre, Book Slave, Iron Hand, and Jettison. Silk screened posters, shirts, vegan potluck and kickball? It’s starting to be giant! Oh, and my band Swear Jar is playing and I can’t wait to play a show with so many incredible bands! [cont.]



The Long Island, NY benefit show on May 31st sorta got pieced together when Doyle from The Fad called me up saying that The Fad was doing a reunion show in honor of my dad. The Fad broke up in November and I was unable to attend their last show ever, but their second to last show took place in Connecticut on Halloween last year, and I apologize to anyone I injured during their set. By far, the most fun punk rock band. When I heard they were getting back together, I was shocked. When I heard that Bomb the Music Industry! was playing, I thought my jaw fell off. Barnaby Jones and We are the Union are also some of my close friends and favorite bands, and it turned into another situation where I will get to see all of my friends from all over the country helping out my family.

DESCRIBE YOUR HOPES FOR WHAT THESE SHOWS AND THE FUTURE MIGHT BRING FOR YOUR DAD AND YOU.

The goal of the benefit shows is to unite my punk rock family with my dad. Most of the people involved are my personal friends from the last few years of touring and living on the east coast. The reality of the situation is that no matter how much money we raise, it’s still just a drop in the bucket. Nearly one million dollars is what’s needed for my dad, but every cent counts.

THE FLAMING TSUNAMIS | HOSTAGE CALM | MY HEART TO JOY | STUCK LUCKY | SWEAR JAR

ROCK N ROLL HOOLIGANS @ WALLINGFORD HUNGARIAN CLUB

MINIMUM DONATION OF $10, MORE IS ENCOURAGED 5PM | 147 WARD ST, WALLINGFORD

MAY 23RD

PHOTO: DIANNA JENKINS15

ELISE GRANATA | INKWELL PRESS | [email protected]


THE FLAMING TSUNAMIS are Dissociative Identity Disorder in musical form, pummeling you with chilling screams and brutal breakdowns one minute before abruptly becoming upbeat with an assortment of trumpets and other instruments in the ska arsenal.HOSTAGE CALM is hard-hitting, straight-up punk that is apparently, best described using hyphenated adjectives. MY HEART TO JOY (tour kickoff)Melodic post-hardcore with a past drenched in screamo. Don’t be fooled by the singing, they still unleash their inner Orchid every now and again…and it’s wonderful.STUCK LUCKY Abrasive and thrashyska hailing from Tennessee.ROCK n ROLL HOOLIGANS Listening to this other TN band conjures thoughts of what it would sound like to listen to chuck berry while being accosted by a Tibetan mountain fox.

NEXT BENEFIT FOR LARRY DUBEY: SUNDAY, MAY 31THE FAD / Bomb The Music Industry! / Barnaby Jones / Let Me Crazy

/ Swear Jar @ Sinclair’s Pub -West Babylon, NY

MATT LOBO



AN INTERVIEW WITH LUC RIOUAL

“I had lost my mind, quit my job and school and with nothing to do, eventually rediscovered a love for reading and writing.” This is Luc Rioual, who began HOT AIR PRESS as a vessel for his connection with creative expres-sion. Rioual explains, “Hot Air Press is a vehicle for the release of anything and everything that myself and the other people I’m working with, love.” The people that he’s working with- Benjamin Levesque and the recent addition Kevin Zakszewski- happen to have close ties with the CT mu-sical community. Music and writing aren’t two creative entities that re-main separate but equal, here. Under the banner of Hot Air Press, they’re intertwined. Levesque’s involved in staples like Mammoth Hunter, Cold Snap and Poison Fingerz while Zakszewski was formerly of Rapscallion Records. For the last seven years, Rioual’s life has run a parallel circuit alongside music. So when Hot Air Press began pressing records, he viewed it as more

of a “natural progression” than a jump into an alien pool of media. “I don’t play any musical instruments (just yet) so I can’t put out my own records,” Rioual says, “so I might as well put out records from people whose music and company I love.” Rioual’s multimedia jumbalaya includes his poetry [below: defec[n]ation published in the zine ‘Forget Not the Night’], short stories, cassettes, records, t-shirts and pocket haiku. It’s expression un-fettered by the expectations of his audience, who he identifies simply as “people who like to read and listen to music.” Rioual distributes out of a toolbox. He also ships his product hundreds of miles: “Someone from Norway bought a Mammoth Hunter 7” from us.” So if you see a guy at the back of a show, box in hand filled with the stuff of his life and his love for sale, go say hello. Chances are, you’ll like it. The box is the only part of Hot Air Press that has bounds.

DEFEC(N)ATION

Luc Rioual

Sometimes when I’m on the toilet

I aim my cock at the floating

excrement and laugh as the shit

falls apart and how its a reminder

of what it feels like walking

in the rain.

YOUR WRITTEN WORK IS PRETTY DIVERSE, BUT DO YOU DRAW FROM ANY COMMON INSPIRATION?

Understanding the extreme difference between liking someone and respecting them. The terror or tomorrow. 6am loneliness. The inability

for one to cry. The entire human emotional spectrum when faced

with the fact that life is too long and too short at the same time. Watching your friends be completely destroyed by anything and everything. Holding their hands as they walk through the flames and

sometimes pushing them face first into it. Fear. A general

distaste for my humans coupled with an extreme amount of compassion and

understanding making it difficult to do anything. Things I find on the streets. Things said to me in passing. Participating in peer pressure. Violent thoughts. Circumstance. Timing. Good manners. Dorchester, MA. Farmington, Hartford, New Britain, Wallingford, West Harford, CT. The Hostage Calm Van and its one red door. My grand desire to live by myself in a cabin in the woods. Richard Brautigan. Cormac McCarthy. Charles Bukowski. Raymond Carver. Georges Bataille. Truman Capote. John Steinbeck. Sylvia Plath. Flannery O’Connor. JD Salinger. James Joyce. Ernest Hemingway. Norman Mailer. WS Burroughts. Denis Johnson. Philip Roth. Henry Miller. Joseph Sulier and Get Born out of St. Louis. Dan and Palm Publications out of SF. Wesley Eisold and the Heartworm Press out of Philly. The We Da Best Tribe. YL’s. Cardboard City. All of my friends, near and far, old and new. In reality, anything and everything has an extremely large impact on me. I am simultaneously completely fascinated and terrified of the extreme grandiosity of life and the fact that I do exist. Its a lot of pressure but I’m getting used to it.


ANY PLANS IN THE NEAR FUTURE? We’re awaiting the arrival of the florida=DEATH records. We’re working on a little surprise from our favorite Connecticut US Black Metal band which should be out VERY soon as well. We’re sitting on some cassettes from Baby Grand, a folk/acoustic project featuring for-mer/current/future members of Hostage Calm, Jettison and Make Do And Mend. That should hopefully be in the hands of the public very soon. Once Torche gets home from tour, our friends in Homestretch will be able to finish up mixing and mastering their 7” and we’ll be put-ting that out. I’ve lis-tened to some rough mixes, and it’s safe to say that it’s go-ing to be my favorite hardcore 7” of this year - and that’s not just because they’re my friends. It’s that good. We’re going to do a split label release 7” in the future with Asbestos records fea-turing Make Do And Mend and My Heart To Joy doing covers of The Smiths songs. Expect stuff from Birth of Flower, Poi-son Fingerz, Hostage Calm, Jettison, and more as well. I just finished up releasing a mini-zine entitled “Randy.” It’s one short story. I’m also working on a collaborative zine with friends Alan Huck and Mitchell Dubey. I’m very excited about that. Christopher Zizza-mia should also have a zine out very soon as well which I’m excited for people to get to read. He’s a great friend and a terrific writer.


After publishing her photography online for its perks of accessibil-ity, EMILY BYRAM chose to act on an idea in her head that had been developing for years. In her words, it is “A message from you to us. A message from you to the world.” She hands her subject a chunk of cardboard, a sharpie, and points and shoots. While she’s aiming to eventually publish a complete photo book filled with these photographs, Byram is currently compiling them in her travels. At shows, in parks, at protests, Emily’s approached people to participate in her project. “I went to a protest in DC, and I was plan-ning on getting a lot of people with different convictions, ethnicity, and religions to write signs for this,” Emily said, “Unfortunately, most of the adults I talked to acted as if I was trying to sell them something, and were totally uninterested...I want this to be a diverse project, but its not coming together that way.” Ultimately, Byram has hopes for the book to foster an emotional re-sponse in her readers, to “smile, think, laugh, agree, disagree.” It’ll be her endurance that will end up publishing the book, something that’s translated in one of her own signs: “Nothing got done today, lets make something happen tomorrow.”

Remember that beautiful weekend a couple of weeks ago? It’s no coincidence that SUNS recorded their new EP then.* Expect the new EP, Abandon Yourself For Everyone, to be released by the summer in time for their local set of shows of light-footed, lyrically substantial material.

*It was actually complete coincidence.



BLACK HEART REBELLIONPRESENT:

From Cupcakez Records and DIY Bandits, BLACK HEART REBELLION is among some of the greatest makeshift punk chugs in the area. Ben Flippo is the permanent member with his acoustic guitar and the revolving instrumental spokes of violin, piano and harmonica. He’s the only constant, a dynamic he exploits in I’ll Write to You in Better Days to achieve the effect of an intensified heart-to-heart, allowing you into the dually romanticized and politically volatile contents of his skull. In the album’s liner notes, Justy Cakez writes, “...when I listen to them, I can’t help but feel like I’ve known him my whole life. They help remind me that I’m not alone. That people all across the country are as fed up and heart broken as I am.” It’s difficult to reconcile between the shabby recording quality and catchy guitar strums, a formula that would usually amount to a collection of pure anti-bureaucratic balladry. But it’s a different metric, one that makes for wounded tracks like ‘Song for Her’, a song which touches on the innocent and low moments of pining in a long distance relationship: Flippo pleads, “and babe, please come home/it’s not the same, I’m dining alone/in a dumpster filled with donut holes/ they will never fill my heart like you would only know.” The album still catches on a sharp corner in tenacious songs like ‘May Your Blood Bring Bliss’ and ‘Hey Mr. President.’ ‘President’ is written from the perspective of a widowed father maintaining a small business with three children.

Flippo sings in his address to the commander-in-chief, “And I was just wondering if you would let your only son go to some far off land and play with tanks and guns.” Lyrically, there’s no place for Black Heart Rebellion to fit in. The only constant is Flippo’s complete entanglement with his subject, whether it be the Bush regime or a long-distance girlo. Maybe the perfect place for Flippo’s dynamic emotionalism to rest is in his utopian sights of ‘Big Rock Candy Mountain!’ the last track on the record. It’s an awesome idealist spin-off of the children’s song, where he imagines a place where “All the cops have wooden legs, all the bulldogs have rubber teeth,” where you’d “never change your socks/and little streams of alcohol come trickling down the rocks...and the lake is stew and whiskey too and y’can paddle all around in a big canoe on Big Rock Candy Mountain!” Better Days is powerful and nostalgic, definitive and lingering. Strings and keys act as accessories to his central style that soften the edge of his tense guitar strum. Also from the liner notes, DIY Bandits pinpoint the musical essence of BHR, writing, “It leaves us wondering if Black Heart Rebellion ever shared a room with Bob Dylan in a punk house that was haunted by the ghost of Woody Guthrie.” Nailed it.



Andrew McKinnon

From the same Nick Balzano that brings you the up-beat punk of northern CTs Jettison comes a new project so brutal, it makes Jettison sound like The Wiggles. No worries, Jettison is still alive and well but the sludgy tempos and throat-ravaging vocals of REMAINS demonstrate a completely new hardcore edge while still maintaining melodic integrity. It’s difficult to try and pigeonhole Remains’ style but if you’re into some screamo and enjoy dynamic depth but have a weak spot for some palm-muted power chords here and there, Remains would hit the spot. Recorded just at the beginning of May at Dexter’s Lab, these demos already exude a strong sense of cohesion and balance for such a new band. Missing out on this absolutely free demo would be a silly mistake.

MATT LOBO

JETTISON’S NICK BALZANO IN REMAINS

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SUN MAY 10 - CAW CAW / Math the Band / Yesplease @ Home for Lost Boys

MON MAY 11 - We Are The Union / Fireworks / A Loss For Words @ El ‘N Gee

FRI MAY 15 - Hardcore Fest @ Wallingford American Legion

SUN MAY 17 - Fugue @ Chef’s Table

MON MAY 18 - Play It Faster / Angleworm / Tough Luck @ Home for Lost Boys

TUE MAY 19 - Dead Uncles / Play It Faster @ Whitney House

FRI MAY 22 - RELEASE - Sidewalk Dave / East India Company @ The Space

SAT MAY 23 - BENEFIT - TFT / My Heart to Joy / Tough Lucky / Hostage Calm

/ Swear Jar @ Wallingford Hungarian Club

SUN MAY 24 - CT DIY FEST - NYR / Mutiny Amongst Friends & More @ Byram Haus

SAT MAY 30 - HKPOE!/We Are The Union/Alton Bay/Fire First@96 CHAPEL, Stfrd

SUN MAY 31 - BENEFIT - The Fad/BTMI!/Swear Jar/BBQ Jones@ Sinclair’s (NY)

WED JUNE 10 - Maps & Atlases / Fang Island / So Many Dynamos @ The Space

SUN JUNE 14 - Algernon Cadwallader/Book Slave/@ Wallingford American Legion

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