The Break-Up Came
Way
Too
Soon
by Jason Sitek
Why is it that so many of the good
bands have the shortest runs? I have
Carry On in my headphones right now,
and I can’t help but sigh at how they
should still be a band. Yeah, Ryan
broke Edge, but what if he hadn’t?
What if Carry On was still touring?
The list goes on, with bands like
Mental, Blue Monday, Turning Point,
and even Champion filling in the
ranks. Recently, the new band to
add to the list is none other than
Betrayed, ironically made up of
Champion and Carry On members.
Besides Guns Up, and Have Heart,
Betrayed is hardcore’s biggest new
act. They put out an EP, a split with
Champion, and had just released
their full length, “Substance,” in July.
Their set at Sound and Fury Festival
in Ventura, CA has been hailed as
one of the best shows in recent
hardcore history. It seemed as though
Betrayed could do no wrong. Their
fanbase was growing every day,
thanks in part to the amazing distro
powers of Equal Vision records and
the old fashioned DIY word of mouth.
And then, in a flash, it was gone.
Rumors flew of their demise, and
Lambgoat.com was one of the first
to announce it in their headlines.
Soon enough, there was an official
announcement made on the Betrayed
Myspace confirming the rumors.
Betrayed has broken up, playing final
shows on October 20 and 21, 2006
in Ventura and Anaheim. No names
were given, only a short paragraph
citing that a band member felt that the
band’s integrity was being breached.
Though most unfortunate to
the
hardcore
community
the
world over, we can only hope
that the patches will be mended
and Betrayed will be restored.
Henry Rollins Jokes (Continued)
from page 5
When things started to go
wrong in Reservoir Dogs, it’s
because Henry Rollins showed up.
Unlike
Kevin
Costner,
Henry
Rollins does not need to filter
his
urine
in
Waterworld.
Slayer
wrote
“Raining
Blood”
about the time they took a
shower at Henry Rollins’ house.
In the extended version of “Snakes On
a Plane”, Henry Rollins eats the python.
88 mph is the speed that
makes Henry Rollins possible.
Henry Rollins was supposed to
appear as a villain on “Walker
Texas Ranger”, only the plan was
scrapped because they didn’t want
Walker to find death so swiftly.
Featuring:
CEREMONY
DOWN TO NOTHING
SINKING SHIPS
Plus Reviews and more of: New Found Glory, Cursive, Hatebreed,
Misery Signals, Bracewar, Descendents, Trash Talk, and Time’s Up
East Bay Communique
Writers:
Jordan Mills, Max Montez, Kyle Shapiro, Melissa Simpson, Jason Sitek and
Randy Staat
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Cover design by Dustin Cox
News
by Max Montez
Brief
Texas is the Reason Upcoming
Shows
announce reunion September 22: Comadre, Gather, In
Disgust, and more @ The Long Haul
show in New York September 22: Red Handed,
Texas is the Reason recently announced they will be playing a reunion
show on November 25th in New York,
NY at Irving Plaza. The show is in
celebration of ten years since the release of their full-length effort Do You
Know Who You Are? As of now that
is the only show they have planned.
Punk art exhibit to
be shown in London
The Barbican Gallery in London,
England has announced that they
will be doing an exhibit called, “Panic
Attack: Art in the Punk Years” in
honor of the 30th anniversary of the
summer of 1977 when “punk became
an international phenomenon.” The
exhibit will run all of June, July, and
August. The gallery stated that the
exhibit will have aret from punk in both
Europe and North America, as well as
punk art from other parts of the world.
Dcoi, SkullStomp, New Sense,
and more @ Colorblind Studios
Septemeber 22: American Cancer
Society Benefit Weekend Day 1 with:
Allegiance, Ceremony, Cross the Line,
Modern Eyes, and more @ Gilman
September 23: American Cancer
Society Benefit Weekend Day 2
with: Look Back and Laugh, Lights
Out, Life Long Tragedy, Trash Talk,
and more @ The Phoenix Theater
September 25 & 26: Mastodon,
Converge, and The Bronx @ Slim’s
September 30: Red Handed,
War
Crime,
On
the
Spot,
and more @ The Red House
October 13: Samiam, Chuck
Ragan, more @ Bottom of the Hill
October 14: First Blood, Alcatraz,
Arturo Gatti, and more @ The Niche
October 17: Brand New and
Dashboard Confessional @ SJSU
October 17: Less Than Jake, Catch 22,
The Loved Ones, Set Your Goals @ Slim’s
October 18: Strike Anywhere, Bane, A
Global Threat, This is Hell @ The Pound
Coming Home
This
long
awaited
follow
up to 2004’s
Catalyst, shows a
more mature and
different side of
New Found Glory.
It was definitely not what I expected
to hear from them but this record
is definately not a let-down. After I
heard the first single “It’s Not Your
Fault” I wasn’t sure if the rest of the
album was going to be the same. New
Found Glory still gives us the same
catchy lyrics, sing-a-long choruses
and hooks like previous albums it’s
just a little slower. Complete with
acoustic guitars, keyboards and
additional vocal help from the girls of
Eisley on the song “Boulders” it ties
the sound of this album all together.
Stand out tracks include “It’s Not
Your Fault”, “Oxygen”, and the title
track “Coming Home.” For some
people this album might take some
getting used to but I think this album
is amazing and it’s good to know that
New Found Glory can do
something a little different
with every album they do. MS
Supremacy
Hatebreed
fans, be excited,
b e c a u s e
Supremacy
pumps.
NonBreed fans, just
stop reading now,
because you aren’t going to like this
record anyways. This record is exactly
the follow-up to “Rise…” that you
hoped for. Stand-out tracks include
“Immortal Enemies”, “Horrors of Self”,
and “Spitting Venom”, with excellent
riffage on “To the Threshold” and
“Supremacy of Self”. Tracks to stay
away from are “Never Let it Die” and
“Destroy Everything”, because they
get very repetitive. Other than that,
this is a solid record from a band that
has made heavy hardcore for over ten
years. This gets an 8 and although in
the last issue, Mutiny got an
8, that deserved a 6, becaue
this is a better record.***
JS
Bracewar
Bracewar’s
first release is a
breathe of fresh
air, and perfectly
picks up the
slack of what
many hardcore
bands have been lacking now a days.
Richmond, VA seems to be the new
breeding ground for hardcore these
days, playing host to Strike Anywhere,
Down To Nothing, and now, Bracewar.
This CD packs a punch; with nine
songs (seven from the self-titled 7”)
it barely tops eight minutes, once the
after the aftershock of a Hurricane
hitting your ears subsides, you will be
able to appreciate the phrase “short,
but sweet” on a completely different
level. Bracewar’s release leaves you
with just a taste of what the band
actually has to offer. This band has
endless potential; and leaves a lot of
promise for their upcoming
full-length. Hopefully it’s
more than eight minutes. JM
9
8
9
***No hard feelings, Melissa. I don’t mean to discount your skills at reviewing. - C-tech
Reviews
Happy Hollow
Over the many
years of their
career, Cursive
has proven to
be a band with
a lot of talent,
but their latest
release, Happy Hollow, is an album
that presents them in a different light.
After Cursive’s near perfect release,
The Ugly Organ, this just doesn’t work.
Their cellist is gone, and with that
they now have declined pigeonholing
themselves to an indie/folk sound.
Cursive has always had some kind
of folk sound to their music, but now
it is the leading force of the album.
Folk is one genre that Cursive did
not even come close to mastering.
In fact I wonder if Cursive even knew
Mirrors
M i s e r y
Signals’
new
record Mirrors is
their second full
length and their
first release in
two years. Misery
Signals, which has ex-members
of metal-core legends 7 Angels 7
Plagues, play brutal yet very melodic
metal-core that’s as close as you can
get to anything 7 Angels 7 Plagues
ever recorded. On Mirrors, Misery
Signals doesn’t really change their
sound much, and this is a good thing
considering their previous release
Of Malice and The Magnum Heart
still is one of my favorite metal-core
Classic Corner
what direction they wanted to take
with the album. A superb example is
the song “Big Bang.” It sounds like a
hardcore song played with blaring,
out of tune trumpets, but then it
turns into a slow melodic indie song
that Cursive is known for. It is just
horrible. However, amongst this
album of crap there is one song that
sticks out. The single from the record,
“Dorothy at Forty” draws from all
other Cursive albums, takes the best
parts from them, and throws them
together into one phenomenal song.
It is unfortunate that this song got
packaged with such a terrible record.
This album is by far the worst of any
Cursive’s releases and I
recommend you stay as
KS
far away from it as you can.
6
albums. When news was released
that singer Jesse Zaraska was
leaving the band, I was a bit worried
who would replace him, but their new
singer Karl Schubach does just as
good for the band as Zaraska did.
The songs on Mirrors are all great
songs, and a lot of them bring even
more melody than their previous
work, but the only downfall are songs
like “One Day I’ll Come Home” that
have some singing parts that don’t
really flow well with the rest of the
song. Overall, Misery Signals satisfies
fans with their new album, and they
still hold their place as one
of my favorite metal-core
bands around right now.
RS
7
Descendents - Milo Goes to College
SST 1982
by Jason Sitek
So I’m sitting at my desk, and Max
tells me that it’s my ups for the Classic
Corner. A few records went through
my head, but I came decided that the
only real choice was Milo Goes to College by The Descendents. This is a
record that anyone can put on and
have a good time to, hardcore kid or
gutter punk. From my middle school
years to now, this record has been in
my rotation. I can say that I got into
trouble at least five times because
this record influenced me. They
wrote
about
parents, suburbia, not fitting
in, girls, and just
about everything else someone can
relate to. “I’m Not a Loser” will always
be my favorite Descendents song, as
will “Suburban Home.” I don’t care
how many Travis Barker look-alikes
try to jock this band, I will always wear
my Descendents Vans with pride.
LOCALS
ONLY
Trash Talk
Trash Talk 7”
by Max Montez
If you live in Northern California
and have been to a hardcore show
within the past few months, there’s
almost no way you haven’t at least
heard someone mention Trash Talk.
The band’s been rapidly gaining support throughout the state and their
popularity’s quickly spreading across
the United States. Their latest release,
oddly enough, released on Spanish label Sell Our Souls Records, is 12-song
7”, which in itself is a great feat; not to
mention it’s got one of the best combinations of thrash, punk, and hardcore out of Northern California. The
cover says it’s for fans of “Outbreak,
Ceremony, and Negative Approach.“
That’s a fair an accurate statement.
Time’s Up
Pay Day
by Randy Staat
Time’s Up is a hardcore band from
the Peninsula that’s been gaining
popularity and has been playing many
shows in the Bay Area. Their EP
entitled Payday is fast paced hardcore
that can easily be compared to bands
such as Internal Affairs or Allegiance.
Although their style sounds similar
to many other acts of the genre,
Time’s Up brings cleaner vocals at
times as well as some good mosh
parts. The Payday EP features six
solid, fast and pissed-off songs that
are great to listen to over and over
again. Time’s Up is one of the most
promising new hardcore bands of
the area, so make sure to check
them out next time they hit your city.
Down to
Nothing
by Max Montez
Did
you
really
up
by
20
Yeah…
What
Actually
exactly
it
get
Interview with DTN
vocalist David Wood
Paul: well we did cover their swim
trunks in Slim Fast… so fuck ‘em
beat
hippies?
was
happens and all these tissues come
and fly in front of us and I just about
lost control of the van. In summation,
Down to Nothing are dicks.
Danny:
wiped
35.
And
shit
on
we
their
also
van.
Roger:
and
I
definitely
peed on their door handle.
Andy: he threw a shake threw their…
other than getting fucked with everyday
by fucking dicks. Yeah, that’s about it.
What are you guys doing after
the tour with Down to Nothing?
Danny: In September/October we’re
going to Europe with Shook Ones.
Andy: Mid-August we’re doing a West
Coast tour with Force of Change
Danny: That’s probably it for the
rest of the year, maybe another.
happened?
Roger:
into
We went swimming at Barton
Springs in Austin, TX. We stole
this hippy’s frisbee and I ran off
with it, and 35 of them jumped me.
Yeah we saw Joe Dirt on tour at
the Grand Canyon. He was on a
ledge, a cliff, or whatever, probably
a couple hundred yards away
from us and we were yelling at
him, heckling him. He was a pretty
big dude; he’s bigger in real life.
a
You guys have the song Skate
and Annoy Volume 2 (Sk8 or
Die), do any of you guys skate?
Yeah, we’re writing a new record
after this tour and probably
recording in late fall or early winter
this year. Do an LP through Rev.
DTN just put out a 7” on
Revelation, are you gonna do
threw
their
a milkshake
van,
yeah
Danny: Pretty much the war
between us and Down to Nothing’s
van, probably the most interesting
thing to happen on this tour.
Anything else? Besides getting
broke down in Herkimer, New York?
And you saw Joe Dirt on tour too?
Yeah, actually I think I’m the only
one in the band that skates. Well,
our bass player kinda skates two.
But I guess it’s just the two of us.
I
Paul: not much, it’s been pretty tame,
Paul: Maybe a West Coast weekend
somewhere, but pretty much that’s
all we have lined up and set in stone.
I think after we’ve been on the road
pretty consistently for awhile now, so
we’re gonna peace out for a second.
We’re gonna peace for a sec and
hang out with our girlfriends and shit.
Danny:
yeah,
girlfriends
we
at
all
have
home.
photo by Marisa Greenberg
full-length
any
time
soon?
How did everything work out with
releasing the 7” on Revelation?
Yeah, it worked out pretty well. I’m
super stoked. They wanted us to do
an LP for this summer, but there’s
no way that we could so that’s why
photo by Marisa Greenberg
Sinking
Ships
we did the 7”. It’s just like two new
songs and a cover. I’m pretty stoked
‘cus they have such good distro and
I’m stoked to be on a good label.
so we figured recording that song and
doing it with Rev would be pretty cool
‘cus it would give them more exposure
and let more kids know about them.
What’s the cover on the new 7”?
Future
“Burn
We’re probably not heading out till
Winter when the LP’s done we’re
gonna go to England in the fall in
October and play NinjaFest… Kinda
like the Straight Edge Ninja thing.
Yeah so we’ll probably do like a week
at the most out there, and that will
probably it after this tour until after
this year when the record’s out;
then we’ll probably be touring a lot.
by Max Montez
bang out a bunch of songs and have
a record, we were like, “cool, let’s go
write a record.” This one, we were like,
“Shit, we have to write a record we’re
gonna like.” So we wrote a shitload of
songs; we wrote about 20 songs and
weaseled it down to the 13 or 14
we really liked and then cut it down
to what we finally ended up with. So
that’s pretty much it. We definitely
took a lot more time with it. We wrote
a lot more songs and we put a lot
more into making sure that it was
the record that we wanted to make.
Besides hippies beating up Dave
from Down to Nothing and Joe Dirt,
photo by Marisa Greenberg any other stories from the last tour?
So the band just put out a new record
on Revelation how’d that work out? Andy: I think Down to Nothing
probably left out all of their antics; like
Paul: They did the Generations smearing shit on our van windows,
comp so we met all the guys there throwing fireworks, stinkbombs in
when we did a song for that, then our van, tasers in the middle of the
we just talked to them a bunch night while people are trying to sleep.
and that’s how we hooked up with
them. That was really pretty simple, Collin: I got tased, it felt great
they started talking to us after that
and that’s how it all worked out. Danny: I was impressed with the
vortex. They called the little ditch right
Did you guys take different in the running board where the doors
approach
this
time
when of the van open up in the back, they
writing
the
new
record? called the ditch in there the vortex,
they’d fill it up with trash. One time
Paul: Yeah, we took a different when we were driving the van at the
approach. With the last record, we Grand Canyon, they took an entire
wrote songs pretty much the day box of tissues and filled it up and while
before we recorded, some of them driving 60 down the freeway, they
the day before we wrote them like opened it right in front of us. So I’m
on the fly. We were just trying to driving, and all of a sudden the vortex
It”
by
4
Walls
Falling.
What made you guys
to
choose
that
decide
song?
Because 4 Walls was like one of the
first hardcore bands from Richmond,
VA. They influenced us, so we thought
it would be cool to like pay respects to
them. That song was on a very rare 7”
touring
plans?
Henry Rollins Jokes
In light of the Chuck Norris joke phenomenon, it’s about
time to step things up a notch, the hardcore/punk scene
needs its own version... who better than Henry Rollins?
by Jason Sitek
“Dead Rising” is a video game
loosely based off of Henry Rollins’
last experience with Christmas
shopping.
Only for Henry, the
zombies had rocket launchers.
Henry Rollins was supposed to be cast
as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, but
they chose Mark Hamil because they
needed a pussier character so the
movie would last beyond ten minutes.
Henry Rollins recently stole the record
from Jack Bauer for how fast he saves
the world. Henry does it in 23 hours.
Henry Rollins is a name alone
that could eat your parents.
If you wear a Henry Rollins
mask
on
Halloween,
babies
start to cry without ceasing.
Black Flag was supposed to be the
band used for expert mode in Guitar
Hero, including a rumble pack that
involved Henry Rollins punching
you in the head with a microphone.
Last time someone argued with Henry
Rollins, that person got torn down. That
person’s name was the Berlin Wall.
The only thing worse than Sauron
getting his ring back is telling Henry
Rollins that the TV party is NOT tonight.
The jokes are continued on the
back page, below the editorial.
Ceremony
by Max Montez
How was the tour with Lights Out?
It was pretty good, the dudes from
Lights Out we’ve known for awhile so
it was pretty familiar, being out on the
road with them, hangin’ out and shit.
We had some run-ins; we had to deal
with some legal problems and stuff.
One of our friends got in trouble for
shop-lifting and a bunch of people were
drunk so we all had to go to the county
jail in Virginia. But, besides that it was
pretty much chill. Just like normal
tour stuff, like people fucking around
and stuff, but being on tour with
Lights Out is just really familiar ‘cus
we know all the guys so it was pretty
easy. Everyone was pretty easygoing.
Interview with
Ceremony
vocalist, Ross
period of time and then I moved to
the suburbs like 40 minutes North
in Sonoma County. Pretty much
like waster cities, like just a bunch
of suburban kids. If you’re from the
suburbs, you pretty much know what
it’s about. Kids don’t really have
anything to do, so they get in trouble,
they get into things that maybe other
kids don’t really get into: drugs,
vandalism, sex, violence, whatever
it is, anything to keep their mind off
being bored. For the most part, also
lyrics came from that, being pissed in
the suburbs ‘cus you live there. Most
of the lyrics that I wrote were written
in Sonoma County Jail because I got
in trouble for vandalism and I was
You
guys
are
gonna
be
touring with Go It Alone too?
The tour with Go It Alone is gonna be
pretty cool because we haven’t gone
to Canada, so that’s like a new place
for us to go and meet new people and
see Canada, which is cool. I think we’re
gonna go to five different cities, so
playing shows there, and the guys in
Go It Alone are really rad too so we’re
psyched to be on your with them.
Your lyrics are pretty angry,
is there a main source or
inspiration
in
the
lyrcs?
Well, for the most part, I was born in
San Francisco, and I grew up in the
North Bay, North of San Francisco. I
only lived in San Francisco for a short
photo by Toni Okamoto
there for a couple week, 14 days or
so. I wrote most of the demo in jail.
I was going out with this girl and I
was totally in love with her and so
some of the songs that might seem
a little emotional are coming from
that because I was with a girl at the
time so all my emotion and shit came
from that, just like thinking about her.
normal hardcore band. Anthony was
in Duck Hunt, which was like a straight
edge hardcore joke band and Toast
was in Scissorhands and Jealous
Again. Jake was in Jump Street
Were
bands
There were a few songs we wanted
to cover, but that one was just a song
that I really identified with growing up,
everybody pretty much had those. I
was really into the whole Dischord,
Flex Your Head thing and that song
was just a great song. We considered
doing “Police Brutality” by Urban
Waste, but Toast’s dad is a cop, so he
didn’t think that would go over too well.
you
guys
before
in
any
Ceremony?
I was doing Hammertime, that was
the band before Ceremony that
I did. It was straight up hardcore
like “Fuck you, you’re not one of us,
get out of our scene, we hate you,
I’ll punch you in the face,” type shit.
J.D. was in These Days, just like a
What made you decide to
cover
the
song
“Pressure’s
On”
on
Violence
Violence?