(The Advantage of) Temporary Baldness

Hurl
A Place Called Today
1996

Hurl had the best drummer of any band ever associated with emo.

A Place Called Today

Science and Trucking

Textbook
A Garden to Tear Apart
unreleased

Shameless self promotion alert!

Textbook started back in 2003 or so, with an original lineup featuring three former members of Flux Capacitor (Jeremy Spake, Shane Secor, and Brian Crow) and some other dude on drums. Eventually that other dude was replaced by Gregory Case. Around this time, Brian was playing with me in a band called Atlantic (with another former member of Flux Capacitor, incidentally). He jumped ship to focus on Textbook exclusively, and eventually Atlantic folded. Fast-forward a year or so and Shane and Textbook decided to part ways amicably, and lo and behold, I get called up as his replacement.

I was in Textbook for roughly 1 year before we went on hiatus due to a great career opportunity for Jeremy. That 8-month hiatus turned into a year-long hiatus, then a year-and-a-half, and long story short, we never reformed. So here is our never-released full-length debut. Being in the band for only a short time, I'm in a bit of a unique position. I play on 2 of these 9 songs; the rest were recorded with Shane before I joined. So I'm really coming to you as a fan of this record, not just a dude promoting his own shit. If you like heavy post-punk, somewhere between Jawbox and Deadguy, then I think you'll dig this record. I do, anyway.

Oh, and btw, Shane Secor is in a pretty good newer style punk band called 40 Hells, which initially featured both Brian Crow and Gregory Case in its ranks. And yes, I'm aware of the humor in my band going on hiatus and two of the guys making a new band with an old-member and not me. It's really funny. Ha ha.

A Garden to Tear Apart

Let's Spend Some Time Together

hose.got.cable
hose.got.cable
1995

Richmond, Virginia has a long history of producing kick-ass bands, and few were as kick-ass as hose.got.cable. Their name might not make any sense to me, but I certainly understand the raucous post-punk/hardcore assault contained in these 5 songs. They influenced a ton of emo, screamo, post-punk, math rock, post-hardcore, spazz-core, junk rock, wiggle-core, post-emo, physics-core, and itch rock bands. Ok I made up one or two of those. I mean, obviously math rock isn't a real genre.

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