NEWS! ~Red Collar will be playing the 2008 Johnstown Folk Festival over labor day weekend. The Hands Up EP is available for download via the majority of digital download sites. You can also purchase the CD online via Power Team Records. The EP is also available in these fine music stores local to NC: Offbeat Records, Schoolkids Records, Chaz's Bull City Records and CD Alley.
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Red Collar in the Studio
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Tools, live at the Cats Cradle and the Duke Coffeehouse
Some nice things some nice people have said about our relatively nice band: From Ryan Muldoon of InRich.com (Nov. 2007): "Think of the great artists whose reputations have been based in large part on live performances: James Brown, The E Street Band, Milli Vanilli. No one is putting Red Collar in such esteemed company just yet, but since forming two years ago the band has managed to stand out as a live entity in the always-crowded performance market of its Raleigh-Durham home base. Hearing Red Collar's debut EP, "The Hands Up," shows the band members to be no slouches in the studio, either. The EP is a vivid and angular mix of punk, passion and proto-Pylon rhythms, with standout track "Used Guitars" threatening to be burned onto a thousand CD-R mixes." A recent review from Delusions of Adequacy (Oct. 2007):"The frontman can make or break a record, and singer Jason Kutchma provides great, scruffy (actual) singing. A tune forms here and the band know how to work with it and around it, complete with "Buh-baaddaa-bahh" backing vocals. "Stay" opens more like indie rock then punk, but in a good way. This is the track that stands out the most and shows the band able to develop further than the typical punk sound. It's a catchy, hooky song, that, if all were right with the world, would be on your radio right now. "Witching Hour" opens with a rush and marks another nice twist. With the loud/soft dynamic working to the band's benefit, this track finishes with a crash, rather than a thud. This record is incredibly exciting and makes the anticipation for their debut album very high. Let's hope they can live up to the what the Hands Up EP has laid out forus." From Josh Spilker of Southeast Performer Magazine: “Red Collar channels the angst of the workingman in a way that hasn’t been seen in rock in a long time. Thankfully, Red Collar has enough experience and well-chosen punk-rock influences to create an energetic and convincing modern rock anthem that anyone frustrated with The Man should be proud to own.... From Grayson Currin of the Independent Weekly: “Somehow, they fuse several great strains of punk—like the power plod of early ‘80s Boston band Mission of Burma and the scabrous edge of D.C.’s Fugazi—with a wide-open sense of pop... From Blake Gillespie of Impose Magazine: "The first two songs are the Fugazi-esque standards. They rock fast, fuzzy and shout the chorus. But the final two songs are reasons to check for Red Collar. “Stay” invites everyone to give up on those higher aspirations for the great wide world and realize they are meant for their small towns. “Used Guitars” is like getting advice from some poor broken sap at a bar who tells you “we were made to fail everyday” and you take it even more nonchalantly as a chorus of bar flies affirms it with slurry “ba ba baduhs.” It is a fair warning that luck was lost at birth, meant to be taken unconscientiously, because there is a good chance it will not spark until it is too late and you are at the stool next to that sap muttering about broken hearts and used guitars to the next generation of young cocks." From Here Comes the Flood Blog: Punk equals dumb if we are talking about the music, right? Basic chords, brain dead rhythms. Wrong. Red Collar is a quintet from Durham, NC, who have just put out an EP called Hands Up. They know how to turn around the beat. It's raw, it's powerful and it's smart. If you are tired of Green Day and such, Red Collar is your ticket to advanced DIY punk music. From The Glorius Hum Blog: Used Guitars [highly rec'd!]-The song is a solid rock number, but I’ve been listening to it the way some of my friends read Tarot cards. Each meaning of every card is enumerated, its implications discussed in detail, thought about for days afterwards until what overwhelms you is no longer the singular combination of cards, but the full meaning of the message they convey. |
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Red Collar's first record, THE HANDS UP EP hit stores February 20th, 2007. Booking info-please contact Beth at beth@redcollarmusic.com |
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