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Indie-hardcore Heroes’ Influential albums Revisited and Re-issued
Like Never Before
October 20, 2009 – Los Angeles, CA. – Epitaph Records announces plans to re-issue The Blood Brothers’ classic albums “Burn, Piano Island, Burn,” “Crimes,” “Young Machetes” and “March On Electric Children” on November 17. The CD and digital re-issues will include rare previously unavailable live tracks and videos, music videos and B-sides for the ultimate collectors’ edition.
From 1997 to 2007, The Blood Brothers’ “molotov mixture of suburb surrealism and sonic extremity” (Alternative Press, 2003) rocked and riveted critics and fans around the world. Formed in the suburbs of Seattle, the dueling singers Johnny Whitney and Jordan Blilie along with Cody Votolato (guitar), Morgan Henderson (bass) and Mark Gajadhar (drums) crafted a unique style of convulsive, ground breaking hardcore that was quickly embraced by critics and fans of punk, hardcore and indie rock.
Over their ten years in existence the quintet released five critically acclaimed studio albums (four of which Epitaph is re-issuing), including Burn, Piano Island, Burn, “the most prolific, beautiful, and vital statement of rock since the Stooges’ Raw Power” (PopMatters, 2003), Crimes, the sturdiest bridge between the hardcore underground and indie-rock elitists” (Alternative Press, 2004) and “one of the best of 2006” (PopMatters, 2006), Young Machetes.
Having moved on to other projects, Whitney and Votolato with indie-rockers Jaguar Love and Blilie, Gajadhar and Henderson with post-punk outfit Past Lives, The Blood Brothers called it quits at their creative peak, leaving behind a catalog the helped define a genre and continues to influence bands around the world.
Burn, Piano Island, Burn Tracklisting:
Disc 1:
1. Guitarmy – 0:39
2. Fucking’s Greatest Hits – 2:59
3. Burn, Piano Island, Burn – 3:48
4. Every Breath is a Bomb – 4:45
5. Ambulance vs. Ambulance – 2:55
6. USA Nails – 5:14
7. Cecilia and the Silhouette Saloon – 4:52
8. Six Nightmares at the Pinball Masquerade – 4:16
9. The Salesman, Denver Max – 4:32
10. I Know Where the Canaries and the Crows Go – 3:24
11. God Bless You, Blood Thirsty Zeppelins – 4:50
12. The Shame – 5:36
13. Cecilia and the Silhouette Saloon – Live (Reading Festival 2005) – 5:02
14. Pink Tarantulas (off the Ambulance vs. Ambulance single) – 3:40
Ambulance vs. Ambulance – video (enhanced CD portion)
Disc 2
1. Jungle Rules Live – DVD
Crimes Tracklisting:
Disc 1
1. Feed Me to the Forest – 2:24
2. Trash Flavored Trash – 2:38
3. Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck – 3:15
4. Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers – 4:31
5. Teen Heat – 2:08
6. Rats and Rats and Rats for Candy – 3:52
7. Crimes – 4:00
8. My First Kiss at the Public Execution – 2:49
9. Live at the Apocalypse Cabaret – 3:12
10. Beautiful Horses – 1:47
11. Wolf Party – 3:28
12. Celebrator – 2:16
13. Devastator – 2:45
Disc 2
1. Ladies and Gentlemen (off the Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck single) – 2:46
2. Metronomes (off the Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck single) – 4:55
3. Crimes (alt. version) (off the Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck ep) – 3:55
4. Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers (alt. version) (off the Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck ep) – 3:30
5. Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck (live) (off the Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck ep) – 3:21
6. Trash Flavored Trash – Live (Reading Festival 2005) – 2:44
7. Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers – Live (Reading Festival 2005) – 4:39
8. My First Kiss at the Public Execution – Live (Reading Festival 2005) – 2:35
9. Live at the Apocalypse Cabaret – Live (Reading Festival 2005) – 3:45
10. Rats and Rats and Rats for Candy – Live (Reading Festival 2005) – 4:04
11. Teen Heat – Live (Reading Festival 2005) – 2:02
Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck – video (enhanced portion)
Young Machetes Tracklisting:
Disc 1
1. Set Fire to the Face on Fire – 2:20
2. We Ride Skeletal Lightning – 3:23
3. Laser Life – 2:45
4. Camouflage, Camouflage – 4:54
5. You’re the Dream Unicorn! – 2:19
6. Vital Beach – 2:35
7. Spit Shine Your Black Clouds – 4:20
8. 1, 2, 3, 4 Guitars – 3:36
9. Lift the Veil, Kiss the Tank – 4:05
10. Nausea Shreds Yr Head – 2:11
11. Rat Rider – 2:03
12. Johnny Ripper – 2:39
13. Huge Gold AK-47 – 2:31
14. Street Wars/Exotic Foxholes – 5:32
15. Giant Swan – 5:51
Disc 2
1. Laser Life – Nick Zinner Remix (off the Set Fire To The Face On Fire single) – 2:49
2. Nausea Shreds Yr Head – Gajamagic remix (off the Set Fire To The Face On Fire single) – 2:47
3. Street Wars/Exotic Foxholes – Gajamagic remix (off the Laser Life single) – 3:45
4. We Ride Skeletal Lightning – Live (KXLU 2006) – 3:31
5. Laser Life – Live (KXLU 2006) – 2:43
6. Camouflage, Camouflage – Live (KXLU 2006) – 4:59
7. Lift the Veil, Kiss the Tank – Live (KXLU 2006) – 4:04
8. Vital Beach – Live (KXLU 2006) – 2:34
9. You’re the Dream Unicorn! – Live (KXLU 2006) – 2:11
10. Giant Swan – Live (KXLU 2006) – 5:48
Laser Life – video (enhanced portion)
Set Fire To The Face On Fire – video (enhanced portion)
March On Electric Children Tracklisting: (Standard Re-Issue)
1. Birth Skin/Death Leather – 1:41
2. Meet Me at the Water Front After the Social – 2:44
3. March on Electric Children! – 3:01
4. New York Slave – 2:42
5. Kiss of the Octopus – 2:37
6. Siamese Gun – 3:19
7. Mr. Electric Ocean – 2:14
8. Junkyard J. vs. The Skin Army Girlz/High Fives, LA Hives – 2:55
9. American Vultures – 3:27
For More Information:
www.epitaph.com
www.myspace.com/thebloodbrothersband
www.myspace.com/jaguarloveband
www.myspace.com/pastlivesmusic