NEW The Bronx!!

icon1 Posted by Admin in Music on 10 29th, 2008 | no responses

The Bronx is releasing a new album (Nov. 11, 2008) which, like their previous albums, doesn’t have a distinct name. Each are simply known as “First album, second album..’” and so on. They are distinguishable by their different album covers.

A mini bio, courtesy of punknews.org:
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The Bronx formed in Southern California in 2002 and signed to major label Island after less than twelve live shows. If that alone didn’t guarantee controversy, the band includes James Tweedy and Joby J. Ford, both former employees of large indie Vagrant Records.

For their debut, the band worked with indie Ferret and enlisted former Guns ‘n’ Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke as producer.

Rather than quickly release their major label debut, the band spent a few years touring and their Island debut is due out a full four years after they signed to Island and spent the intervening time working on a number of projects including the Social Club 7-inch series, their own White Drugs label and side projects like the Drips.
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The newest band member, Brad Magers, happens to be from Louisville. I also was just hired on to help promote this new album, so I will not only have an abundance of Vagrant posters/stickers, but now I will have lots of Bronx crap too! Weee!! Ya just gotta love that. So, if you’re really into them, feel free to contact me and I can send you some stuff.

Also- I have some video from this year’s Warped Tour of The Bronx, so check out my YouTube page if you wanna take a look at them.
www.youtube.com/enjoydenise

Check out their official site, www.thebronxxx.com
…and of course, find them at www.myspace.com/thebronx

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Two

Three- 11/11/2008

Bats!, although released separately [and a month earlier] than the band’s full-length, feels like more of a companion piece than a “teaser EP” which are all so common in the industry today. The title track kicks things off, and has an absolutely killer guitar riff and the now-signature screams of singer Matt Caughthran. It’s, in technical terms, a jam and a half. Next is “You Want To See Us Burn,” which reminds me of a more straightforward, punkier Hot Water Music [but strangely, not Leatherface]. It also is a jam and a half, and it comes close to approaching the coveted “double jam” mark. The EP closes out with “Private Affair,” a huge departure from the band’s sound. It’s much more ’77 based, and the vocals are – shock of shocks – actually intelligible. Why is this? Well, as I peruse the liner notes, I discover that this song is actually by an old punk band called The Saints. So that explains that.
(courtesy of punknews.org)
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