Greetings. Welcome to Aggravated Music.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
about this site:
Welcome to the NEWS page, where you will find information pertaining to our catalog and possible and eventual upcoming events. The MUSIC page is where your ears can sample a slice of our albums before making an intellegent purchase. The MERCH page is where to buy everything Aggravated. The LINKS page higlights our good friends, and the CONTACT page is where to write us if you have a question or if you are lonely. Thank you for stopping by.
We currently have around 12 titles under our belt. Here's a few words about some of the bands:
The Dean Malenkos- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
This power trio hails from the city of Halifax, a larger Nova Scotian city in Canada, and were originally called the Carmines. A few short years, some starring roles in dinner theater (no kidding) and a name change later, a demo shows up in Southern California called 7 Minute Abs. From one look at the cover (a pale, stout young man doing sit-ups in a bathroom with a cigarette hanging from his lips), we knew we had something special. Hearing their funny, technical, explosive songwriting ability only solidified the fact that these boys aren't just kidding around; they have talent and they know how to use it. Just listening to the super tight, technical, drumming and stop-on-a-dime guitar and bass changes would make most bands want to go home and practice their chops a little more.
AM 1004 Arse Capades, AM 1009 Do You Smell Gas? (split cd)
Fastlane- Watertown, MA
If you try looking up Watertown, Massachusetts on most maps, the chances you would come up empty handed are pretty good. Watertown may be small, but is home to a band whose talent and heart would be hard to fit inside the entire state of Texas. Fastlane was conceived in 1998 met their demise in 2001, but not before blending unique, heartfelt vocals with powerful, tight musicianship in what was to be their only full length album. That’s what Fastlane was all about. More cerebral than most of their punk contemporaries and more catchy than the “emo” hybrid bands, Fastlane had definitely found a great niche in a genre full of unoriginal material.
AM 1001 Hold Your Breath
Fingers Cut, Megamachine!-Echo Park, CA
Fingers Cut, Megamachine! is a product of Devon Williams' and David Benitez's (Epitaph's Osker, Aggravated Music's Roscoe) expeditious maturity from brat-punk to folkesque punk inspired acoustic rock and will easily appease fans of his previous two ands that have been left clamoring for more. FCMM plays against the grain with honest and intimate lyrics that tell all too personal stories of love, heartbreak and regret. Songs that are at once catchy and strange from a voice that croons with unsettling seduction, Williams wears his heart on his sleeve right under the chip on his shoulder.
AM 1013 Color Tub, AM 1008 The Green Record
McFaddens- Halifax, Novia Scotia, Canada
The McFaddens are the musical equivalent of a kick in the teeth; a sneering uninvited dinner guest who ogles your daughter and eats the last piece of meat you were saving for your grandmother. They are a raw, energetic sonic punch in to the head with their 'nothing to lose' stage presence and infectiously catchy old school riff style of punk. It became clearly apparent that there was something about these guys when Aggravated first saw these boys play back in February 2001, opening up for the Dean Malenkos. AM President "Country" Neal said about the McFaddens: "Their music stuck inside my head--I would try to go to sleep after seeing them but I couldn't--songs like "Your Dog's Dead", "Family Therapy" and "Invited to Dinner" had me singing over and over". Aggravated is sure that one listen to "Here We Go!" will be your musical equivalent to 9000 cups of coffee.
AM 1007 Here We Go!
Roscoe- Highland Park, CA
Most musicians are influenced by other bands that have come before them. In our opinion, an experimental noise/punk group like Roscoe has been immune to such influences. There really aren't one or two bands that you can pinpoint their exact roots to. Rather, they are about addiction, pain, paranoia, mind control through television, and the strange rituals our ancestors took to get us here--wherever "here" is. Roscoe raises those feelings you have to keep hidden away at your 9 to 5 or at that family picnic you are forced to attend every few years. It exudes the memories and feelings you have long since swept under the carpet and force you to contend with them while still bringing the maximum amount of rock.
AM 1003 Rock N Roll Takes Its Toll
Running Late- Alhambra, CA
Formed in 1998, Running Late (later renamed Light the Sky), evolved from their aggressive pop-punk roots into something big enough to fit Hex's emotionally blunt but beautiful writing style. Your New Addiction, their only full length as Running Late, is an album of 10 straight ahead, angst ridden, phenomenally powerful rock songs that showed their decisive talent and musicianship.
AM 1006 Your New Addiction
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
about this site:
Welcome to the NEWS page, where you will find information pertaining to our catalog and possible and eventual upcoming events. The MUSIC page is where your ears can sample a slice of our albums before making an intellegent purchase. The MERCH page is where to buy everything Aggravated. The LINKS page higlights our good friends, and the CONTACT page is where to write us if you have a question or if you are lonely. Thank you for stopping by.
We currently have around 12 titles under our belt. Here's a few words about some of the bands:
The Dean Malenkos- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
This power trio hails from the city of Halifax, a larger Nova Scotian city in Canada, and were originally called the Carmines. A few short years, some starring roles in dinner theater (no kidding) and a name change later, a demo shows up in Southern California called 7 Minute Abs. From one look at the cover (a pale, stout young man doing sit-ups in a bathroom with a cigarette hanging from his lips), we knew we had something special. Hearing their funny, technical, explosive songwriting ability only solidified the fact that these boys aren't just kidding around; they have talent and they know how to use it. Just listening to the super tight, technical, drumming and stop-on-a-dime guitar and bass changes would make most bands want to go home and practice their chops a little more.
AM 1004 Arse Capades, AM 1009 Do You Smell Gas? (split cd)
Fastlane- Watertown, MA
If you try looking up Watertown, Massachusetts on most maps, the chances you would come up empty handed are pretty good. Watertown may be small, but is home to a band whose talent and heart would be hard to fit inside the entire state of Texas. Fastlane was conceived in 1998 met their demise in 2001, but not before blending unique, heartfelt vocals with powerful, tight musicianship in what was to be their only full length album. That’s what Fastlane was all about. More cerebral than most of their punk contemporaries and more catchy than the “emo” hybrid bands, Fastlane had definitely found a great niche in a genre full of unoriginal material.
AM 1001 Hold Your Breath
Fingers Cut, Megamachine!-Echo Park, CA
Fingers Cut, Megamachine! is a product of Devon Williams' and David Benitez's (Epitaph's Osker, Aggravated Music's Roscoe) expeditious maturity from brat-punk to folkesque punk inspired acoustic rock and will easily appease fans of his previous two ands that have been left clamoring for more. FCMM plays against the grain with honest and intimate lyrics that tell all too personal stories of love, heartbreak and regret. Songs that are at once catchy and strange from a voice that croons with unsettling seduction, Williams wears his heart on his sleeve right under the chip on his shoulder.
AM 1013 Color Tub, AM 1008 The Green Record
McFaddens- Halifax, Novia Scotia, Canada
The McFaddens are the musical equivalent of a kick in the teeth; a sneering uninvited dinner guest who ogles your daughter and eats the last piece of meat you were saving for your grandmother. They are a raw, energetic sonic punch in to the head with their 'nothing to lose' stage presence and infectiously catchy old school riff style of punk. It became clearly apparent that there was something about these guys when Aggravated first saw these boys play back in February 2001, opening up for the Dean Malenkos. AM President "Country" Neal said about the McFaddens: "Their music stuck inside my head--I would try to go to sleep after seeing them but I couldn't--songs like "Your Dog's Dead", "Family Therapy" and "Invited to Dinner" had me singing over and over". Aggravated is sure that one listen to "Here We Go!" will be your musical equivalent to 9000 cups of coffee.
AM 1007 Here We Go!
Roscoe- Highland Park, CA
Most musicians are influenced by other bands that have come before them. In our opinion, an experimental noise/punk group like Roscoe has been immune to such influences. There really aren't one or two bands that you can pinpoint their exact roots to. Rather, they are about addiction, pain, paranoia, mind control through television, and the strange rituals our ancestors took to get us here--wherever "here" is. Roscoe raises those feelings you have to keep hidden away at your 9 to 5 or at that family picnic you are forced to attend every few years. It exudes the memories and feelings you have long since swept under the carpet and force you to contend with them while still bringing the maximum amount of rock.
AM 1003 Rock N Roll Takes Its Toll
Running Late- Alhambra, CA
Formed in 1998, Running Late (later renamed Light the Sky), evolved from their aggressive pop-punk roots into something big enough to fit Hex's emotionally blunt but beautiful writing style. Your New Addiction, their only full length as Running Late, is an album of 10 straight ahead, angst ridden, phenomenally powerful rock songs that showed their decisive talent and musicianship.
AM 1006 Your New Addiction