christie front drive

Christie Front Drive- After The Parade

"If I remember the story correctly, they got together in Colorado in 1993, when Eric had been playing with both Jason and Ron. One day Kerry accidentally showed up during their practice, and in brief: things happened, the band formed, and Christie Front Drive created some of the most amazing music I've heard. They released two LPs, and appeared on a variety of 7"s and compilations. The first LP and most of the 7"s were compiled onto a CD by Caulfield Records, and you might say the music lives on today not only from their body of work, but even through the countless bands who they influenced. CFD toured North America and recorded until they disbanded in 1996."



"After Christie Front Drive broke up, the members continued their musical pursuits in other bands. Jason and Ron formed The Blue Ontario who put out an awesome EP with two orginal songs and a few remixes. It came out on a clear vinyl 12" and CD, and I dunno where to get it now other than maybe eBay. Unfortunately, The Blue Ontatio also split up.

Since then, Ron became involved in a bunch of projects, including playing shows with Go Big Casino (Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World's side project), recording for a variety of musicians, and recently playing drums for a band by the name of ...and guppies eat their young.

Eric went on to Antarctica, an electronic-infused band who Pitchfork Media pretty keenly compared to The Cure and New Order. They went seperate ways, but left behind an EP and full-length, both put out on CD by File-13. Those albums can still be had in music stores.

Kerry took some time off, played briefly in a band called Esperanto, and in 2002 released an album under the name The Mighty Rime. The album almost sounds to me like a sparse Built to Spill (read: wow.) This one came out on Caulfield Records and can be found in a bunch of places, some of which you can find on the links page of this site. The link to The Mighty Rime's website can be found to the right.

Most recently, Eric has formed an awesome power-pop-post-something band called The 101. After a couple of line-up changes, their long awaited first EP was put out by the Self-Starter Foundation in 2003. See the link to the right to visit the band's website, for tour dates, mp3's and more."

-www.christiefrontdrive.com

These guys in this band went on to be in bands featured in Pitchfork Media and had contracts with File-13 records. This means that these guys rule. I am blown away that I didn't find them sooner, considering they were on the same label as some of my favorite 90's emo bands, like Mineral.

Speaking of emo, all are required to read the entirity of the new side link Define:Emo. This is the most accurate page on the entire internet on the subject so read up so you don't look like an ignorant child when you use the e word. This is common knowledge to me, and it good to know if you are reading the site. I dont want to see any person be like:

"Like OMG these guys are emo? But theyre not like Fall Out Boy/Panic At The Disco/ Insert Mall Emo Band Here"

Because your should know damn better than that.

Speaking of new things..

You guys should check out the new banner, and more importanly, the flash player- For Nekst Song on the go. Listen to the music, with out all the downloads.

Streaming Content, Email Subscriptions, Feed Subscriptions/Podcasting- It cant get any easier! So automate and tell your friends.

Girls Against Boys

Here's a quickie:

I've been listening to alot of GVSB recently. They started of as a side project of Fugazi's drummer. Here's is what rose from the ashes of the legendary 90s DC hardcore scene.

Girls Against Boys- Kill The Sexplayer

Possibly a full update later?

The Jade Shader

The Jade Shader- Eraser


So No Knife is a Combination of No Knife and Boilermaker for the most part.

The Members of No Knife were:
Mitch Wilson on Vox/ Guitar
Brian Desjean on Bass
Ryan Furguson on Gutair/ Vox
And Chris Prescott on Drums from the band Tanner

Boilermaker consisted of:
Terrin Dufrey for Bass and Vox
Rich Sanderson on Guitar
and Timothly James Semple on drums.

And the culmination of all this goodness:
Terrin Durfey - Vocals, Bass
Chris Prescott - Guitar, Rhodes Piano, Vocals
Gabe Feenberg - Rhodes Piano, Guitar
Matt Lynott - Drums

So really if you think about it, it's a quarter No Knife, a quarter Boilermaker and half new.

Right now they have 7 song EP out called "Curse of the Tuatara". As of now they are working on a full length. These guys are getting very good coverege because they have teamed up with San Diego-ites from a band called Pinback. Pinback rules the school and I pretty much have to write about them next. I have heard alot of their stuff and it is really awesome. Their original record label was a japenese one, and I'm probably assuming correctly that it was the same as their buddies Nine Days Wonder. These guys were really tight with NK and were formerly featured on the blog. They also toured with Jimmy Eat World. Not a personal favorite of mine by anymeans, but Jimmy Eat World, sometimes abbreviated as JEW (lawl) lists boilermaker as one of their biggest influences.. Funny how bad bands list greats ones as their influences. So the least they could do is let terrin tour with them.

Little known fact: Christ Prescott made the webpages by himself for all the bands.

Lets say.. Next time is Pinback or Get Your Death On! Or .. This Moon Life..

Whatever I can get you tunes for.
Peace.
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