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Live Music: Converge, Trap Them, Burning Love, TFT, Cold Snap – 5/26/11 Milford, CT

Live Music: Converge, Trap Them, Burning Love, The Flaming Tsunamis, Cold Snap
5/26/11 Milford, CT
Converge is a 4-piece band, formed in February of 1990 in Salem, Massachusetts. Playing a blend of extreme metal and hardcore punk, this pioneer outfit helped define a lot of the rudiments of the fast-burgeoning metalcore and mathcore genres.
They first started by playing covers of hardcore, punk and heavy metal songs, being self-confessed “hardcore kids with leftover Slayer riffs”. The band soon graduated to playing live performances in 1991 after recording some demos on a 4-track recorder.

In their latter years, Converge have enjoyed relatively high levels of popularity despite the esoteric feel of their music and the substantial lack of media attention they receive. The extreme nature of their music, particularly the atonal vocals and often complicated finger-work of the guitar riffs make it difficult for some to appreciate this brand of metal. Later records have gradually become more extensively produced largely due to the maturation of their sound.

Converge’s influences range from hardcore punk bands, such as Black Flag, Negative Approach, The Accüsed, and Born Against; metal bands like Black Sabbath, Godflesh, Slayer, and Entombed; and proto-mathcore bands Starkweather and Rorschach. Jacob Bannon has also discussed an appreciation for and inspiration from grindcore on Earache Records, post-hardcore on Dischord Records; thrash metal, such as Suicidal Tendencies, Vio-Lence, and Death Angel, and post-punk groups, such as Depeche Mode and The Cure.
Deathwish Inc.

Trap Them
Trap Them is a band from Salem, New Hampshire, formed in 2001. They began as a side project for vocalist Ryan Mckenney (Backstabbers Inc.) and guitarist Brian Izzi (December Wolves). Since forming they have released three albums, Sleepwell Deconstructer, Seizures in Barren Praise and Darker Handcraft, as well as three EPs, Cunt Heir to the Throne, Séance Prime and Split with Extreme Noise Terror. Anyone digging the 90’s swedish deathsound from the Sunlight studio should have a go at this.
Prosthetic Records

Burning Love
Members of Toronto’s Burning Love play Hot Snakes-influenced punk rock with Chris Colohan (ex-Cursed) providing vocals. To date they have released a demo 7”, a single 7”, ‘Jack the Ripper’ and an LP entitled ‘Songs for Burning Lovers’

The Flaming Tsunamis
The Flaming Tsunamis are an experimental hardcore/punk band that incorporates a diverse range of eclectic musical styles further accentuated by their inclusion of a horn section, keyboards, samples and auxiliary percussion. Based out of New Haven, CT the fiercely DIY and relentlessly touring six piece has put out releases on Kill Normal, a label that members of the band founded. Since their formation in 1999 the band has released 2 EPs and 2 full-length albums. In 2011 the band announced “Externalities”, their latest and potentially final album.

Cold Snap

For fans of Into Another, Nirvana, Ink & Dagger, and UNSANE.  New stuff is really all about being similar to Unsane.

$15 / All Ages

Intern

Intern at Redscroll Records!

Intern at Redscroll Records!
Don’t even think twice about this.  Just do it.  We don’t really care what your major is.  You’re a music major with a minor in communications?  Perfect.  You’re an ecology major with a minor in politics?  Not quite perfect, but we’ll try (start a recycling program?). And most music comes from Earth (that we know of).  We’ll make anything work.  There is a place for you here.  
We are continuously growing.  We are continuously looking for ways to expand and having new voices is great.  There is one minor catch, these are unpaid internships (like most you’ll find).  We’ve had one great intern so far and we’re definitely looking forward to more like that.  
College credit seems to be the reward/payment for most internships.  We can work with you and your advisors to make this happen.  We realize that most of you are done with school for now so this isn’t the ideal time to ask, but if you can ask and are really interested we’ll make this work.  If not, keep it in mind for the future.

Send inquiries to redscroll@gmail.com (attaching a resume is a definite plus)

Music Review, Reviews, Update

Friday the 13th Of May 2011 Update + Review

Friday the 13th of May 2011 Update of New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s
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Beach Fossils    “What A Pleasure (+ D/L)”
Blau, Karl    “Max”
Brown Angel    “Brown Angel”
Cold World / Sean Price    “How The Gods Chill”
Contrepoison    “… Until Next Morning”
Cramps    “Memphis Poseurs: The 1977 Demos”
Cure    “Pillbox Tales 1977-1979”
Daytrader    “Last Days Of Rome”
Dead Moon    “Dead Ahead”
Dead Moon    “Destination X”
Dead Moon    “Trash & Burn”
Deafheaven    “Roads To Judah”
Demdike Stare    “Forest Of Evil / Liberation Through Hearing / Voices Of Dust (3xLP Set)”
Eno, Brian    “The BBC Sessions”
Forma    “Forma”
Foundation    “When The Smoke Clears”
Fucked Up    “David’s Town”
Gateway District    “Perfect’s Gonna Fail”
Girls Names    “Dead To Me”
Gnaw Their Tongues    “L’Arrivee De La Terne Mort Triomphante”
Graveyards    “Cinders”
Hatred Surge / Mammoth Grinder    “Hatred Surge / Mammoth Grinder”
His Name Is Alive    “King Of Sweet”
Hypochristians    “Terror During Prayer”
Kid Liberty    “Fight With Your Fists”
Kubisova, Marta    “Ne! The Soul Of Marta Kubisova: 1966-1970 With The Golden Kids, Mefisto And Other Fine Czech Orchestras”
Laner, Brad / Joensuu 1685    “Brad Laner / Joensu 1685”
Light Bearer    “Lapsus”
Lucero    “1372 Overton Park (+ D/L)”
Lust For Youth    “Solar Flare”
Mia Doi Todd    “Cosmic Ocean Ship”
Mist    “House”
MovieLife, The    “This Time Next Year”
MT Bearington    “Love Buttons”
Nachtmystium    “Live At Roadburn 2010 “
Ninja Gun    “Roman Nose (+ D/L)”
Oh Sees, Thee    “Castlemania”
Okkervil River    “I Am Very Far (Embossed Cover + D/L)”
Painted Palms    “Canopy”
Peterlicker    “Nicht”
Psychedelic Horseshit    “Laced (+ D/L)”
Pure X    “You’re In It Now”
Purple Rhinestone Eagle    “Amorum Tali”
Replacements    “The Early Mats”
Rother, Michael    “Esperanza”
Shades Apart    “Save It”
Sissy Spacek    “Dash”
Small Brown Bike    “Fell & Found (+ D/L)”
Smiths    “The Old Guard: BBC Tapes 1983-1986”
Stott, Andy    “Passed Me By”
Supertouch    “Live On WNYU 1988”
Talking Heads    “The 1975 CBS Demo Session”
This Will Destroy You    “Tunnel Blanket (/1000 2xLP + D/L)”
Total Fucking Destruction    “Hater”
Trap Them     “Séance Prime”
Tyler, The Creator    “Goblin (Odd Future WGKTA)”
Vangaalen, Chad    “Diaper Island (+ D/L)”
Various Artists    “Wuxtry Record (Elf Power, R.E.M., Incediaries, Marshmallow Coast, The Goons, Grape Soda…)”
Various Artists    “Delta Swamp Rock Volume One: Sounds From the South: At The Crossroads Of Rock, Country And Soul”
Various Artists    “Delta Swamp Rock Volume Two: Sounds From the South: At The Crossroads Of Rock, Country And Soul”
Various Artists    “The Funky Way Of Emil Viklicky: 1975-1987 With Energit, SHQ, Eva Svobodova, Bill Frisell And A Studio Big Band”
Zombi    “Escape Velocity”

Electronic 12″s
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2AMFM    “Desolate (10″)”
Baths    “Cerulean (/1000 3rd Pressing)”
Black Devil Disco Club    “Circus (+ D/L)”
Daft Punk    “Tron Legacy Soundtrack”
Invisible Conga People    “In A Hole”
Moby    “Destroyed (+ CD + Poster)”
Tourettes, Al / Applebim    “Lipsmacker EP”

10″s
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Jaar, Nicolas    “Love You Gotta Lose Again EP”
Magruder Grind     “Crusher”
Roberts, Matana    “Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libron (+ CD + Poster)”
Tense    “Consume”

7″s
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13th Floor Elevators “Wait… (RSD2011)”
Baths “Nothing / Nightly, Daily”
Black God
Brain Killer “Demo”
Brain Killer
Crystal Stilts / Comet Gain
Electricutions “Forgotten City”
Kill Life / 33
Get Rad “Choose Your Own”
Maybe, Baby “All I’ve Got”
Segall, Ty “I Can’t Feel It”
Umberto “Freeze!”
You & Me & Everyone We Know “Things…”

CDs
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Beastie Boys “Hot Sauce Committee … Two”
Boxcutter “Dissolve”
Church Of Misery “Live At Roadburn 2009”
Deafheaven “Roads…”
Gates Of Slumber “The Wretch”
Jesu “Ascension”
Krallice “Diotima”
Novembers Doom “Aphotic”
Oh Sees, Thee “Castlemania”
Tyler, The Creator “Goblin (Deluxe Edition)”
Weekend Nachos “Worthless”
Wolves In The Throne Room “Live At Roadburn 2008 (CD+DVD)”
Wormrot “Dirge”

Book
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Taking Punk To The Masses: From Nowehere To Nevermind

Review
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Brown Angel Brown Angel LP
(Thunderhaus LTD /150)
Some things you know you’ll like from reading the write up (or at least you know that you will if the write up is actually being honest).  This was the case with this record.  It was compared to a bunch of ’90s dirge/sludge rock.  Right on.  Godflesh, Helmet, Unsane, and Slab! (when not getting funky) come to mind. Thunderous bass fuzz booming.  It’s got a couple drawn out jammers that almost bring to mind more current purveyors of dirge like Angellic Process, but with less introspection (more in-your-face yelling).  It’s hand-numbered out of 150 so I’m guessing they won’t be around too long.  I at least hope that.  I also hope it then gets picked up for wider release.  These Pittsburgh guys deserve it.
[Reviewer: Rick]

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