KILLER "PUNK RAWK" SHOW TOMORROW

REVIVER CD RELEASE SHOW TONIGHT!

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And I don't need drink or drugs. That's straight edge life. Obviously I'm not straight edge - a true, hardcore straight edge has never had any of it in her or her whole life. But I'm a reborn straight edge...

Looks like he beamed that thing up from 1997... "STR8" and all. Get the scoop at Double Cross!

BIG WEEK OF SHOWS, GET INTO IT...

Tuesday May 25th,
Foundation
Harms Way
Backtrack
One Clean Life
Ghouls gold
$10 @ Mojos (Ogden)





Wednesday May 26th,
Soul Control
Caulfield
Like Wolves
TBA
$8 @ The Basement (Ogden)






Friday May 28th,
Reviver
Caravels
Despite Despair
Lionelle
Damir Har
$6 @ Kilby Court (Salt Lake City)

STREAM REVIVER'S NEW EP RIGHT HERE ON GCA... NOW!

Reviver is releasing their new EP Potential Wasteland this week through State of Mind Recordings. You'll be able to pick it up Friday at their Kilby Court release show, but we'll be streaming the record all week long here at GCA.

Listen above and enjoy some color commentary on each track from Reviver frontman Matt Mascarenas below. Hit play and read on:

IX

One of the many members that used to be in our band called this the ‘Marilyn Manson riff.’ Now every time we play it, the music video for “The Dope Show” where Marilyn Manson is wearing the boob suit pops in my head. Great.

LEGACY

This is actually the third song we ever wrote. Like many of the other songs on ‘Versificator,’ the guitar riffs in Legacy were meant for a slow, down-tempo side project, Fortunes. We sped it up, but we were never happy with it. When we were deciding which songs to put on ‘Versificator,’ we had to choose between Legacy and Anthem; Anthem won. We ended up rewriting Legacy and now we’re happy with it.

NEW LOWS

This was the last song to be written for this record. We were home for a couple weeks in February of 2009 and Jeff and I were unemployed and Brian didn’t work until 10:00 am, so the three of us would go jam from 8-9:30am. The early morning jams didn’t last long, but we were able to knock out the basic outline for this song. I had a hard time finalizing lyrics that I was happy with. I already knew what I was going to write about, but I just couldn’t get it out. After months of getting nowhere with it, I decided to open my notebook and write whatever came to mind and just go with it. “I give up. I’ve been trying for several months now to get it all into words.” Looking back on it now, I probably over thought it, but I’m happy with the way it turned out.

Get the scoop on the rest of the tracks after the jump... 

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