- Are a rock and roll band from New York and New Jersey
- Play fast and loud and rather unconrollably
- Have three releases to their name: "No Authority, Direction, or Control" (2008), "Them Letdowns" (2008), "Yule Tide" (2007)
- Will be releasing yet another EP in 2008
- Will play your house party, basement, kitchen, laundromat, taqueria, or proper venue
- Will play anywhere for gas money or single-barrel bourbon
- Write songs about man's pseudo-modern condition
- Are into dancing and having a good time to forget pain and heartache
- Come highly recommended if you like Les Savy Fav, Minutemen, Gang of Four, At The Drive-In, Michael Jackson, Fugazi and the Rolling Stones
- Subsist solely on the sweat of other human beings
- Are finding themselves in need of a proper publicist
Listen
Contact
- General: band@themeltdowns.com
- Booking: billy@tankcrash.com
- MySpace, your space, our space
- Beware the blog
Press
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"...closer to the anarchic spirit of Gang Of Four than any of the recent spate of dance-rock imitators."
- Tris McCall, Jersey Beat, March 2008 -
"It sounds like demon dance party dogs tearing through a sweaty basement club and nipping at the heels of rad chicks with ugly-ass haircuts."
- Spencer @ Synthesis Blog, May 27, 2008 -
"...they were terrific. The bassist plays a 6-string bass and does some amazing runs, and Billy's a maniac on lead guitar. The band plays funky stretched-out rock jams with a lot of humor..."
- Jim Testa, Jersey Beat Blog, March 22nd, 2008 - We also made Jim Testa's top 10 bands at Wilmington Exchange Festival 2008, May 27th.
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"Though they really don't sound much like them, these guys remind me a lot of the sorely missed Minutemen -- it's obvious from the first couple of notes that they love their jazz and their funk. Their rhythm section is taut and tense, and they ain't apprehensive in the least to use their lyrics to convey something a bit more substantive..."
- Jimmy Alvarado, Razorcake, date unknown
Photo
Photograph by Colleen Gutwein, © 2007