Knapsack

I'm not even really sure how I stumbled across Knapsack. I've been really into 90's hardcore, emo, and screamo for the past few years, a decade a friend referred to last night as "the worst era for punk". Obviously I disagree, and amazingly, Knapsack stayed around for almost the entirety of the 1990's. They formed in 1993 in Davis, California, and broke up three records later, in 2000.

Sergie Loobkoff of Solea and Samiam joined on bass in 1997, shortly before the release of their second album, Day Three Of My New Life. The last record, This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now, was put out the next year, in 1998; and, personally, is still one of my favorite album titles of all time. Katherine The Grateful (sometimes spelled "Catherine", kinda like the Lifetime Katrina vs. Catrine thing...) is the first track, starting the album out perfectly and setting it up to be a quintessential 90's release.



Two things that are interestingly enough for me to mention here:
1. Blair Shehan, the singer, went on to form The Jealous Sound, who, in 2003, put out a record with the same name as the Cop Hugger tape I posted a few days ago.
2. MTV has a video for Effortless from Silver Sweepstakes and a bunch of streaming songs up on their site, for one reason or another.


Silver Sweepstakes (1995): http://www.zshare.net/download/78664707acca84bb/


Day Three Of My New Life (1997): http://www.zshare.net/download/7866465468b47368/


This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now (1998): http://www.zshare.net/download/78664313966fbfd4/

- Rugrat

Who Posts When

So far, there are eight people who will be posting on this blog. Eventually, we're going to each have our own days, but not everyone has decided when they want to post, so there will probably be a bunch of filler posts until we have a cohesive structure. As it is, these are the days people have committed to:

Tuesday - Matt Tard
Thursday - Ian & Kelsey
Saturday - Scotty
Sunday - Dave

Two Albums

The first album up is "Kill Them With Kindness" by Cop Hugger from Athens, Ohio. This is a band with Max Wheeler from Gnarly As I Wanna Be on vocals. Kinda dance-y, kinda angry, this is up for sale on both tape and cd on the GAIWB site. They played Berea Fest this year and are booking a ton of shows in the near future in Athens and Columbus sans bassist because he moved home for the summer.

Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/7866386667dd34ea/
Order: http://gnarlyasiwannabe.com/artwork/1418910_Cop_Hugger.html



Hot Cross was from Philly and broke up in 2007, but they're still one of my favorite bands. This is their first full-length and probably the best stuff they put out. Cryonics is melodic, scream-y, technical, and sorta cheesy at some points. Hot Cross definitely lives up to having members from Saetia and Off Minor, but still refrains from being just another screamo band.

Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/786640791d5ee984/

- Rugrat