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		<title>The Gaslight Anthem announce tour dates with Hot Water Music and Rise Against</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 19:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Kaye</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massive fall leg kicks off in September.]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Just last week, <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/the-gaslight-anthem/" target="_blank">The Gaslight Anthem</a> announced a string of summer tour dates in support of their upcoming album, <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/05/the-gaslight-anthem-details-handwritten-announces-summer-tour-dates/" target="_blank"><em>Handwritten</em></a>. Now, the Jersey punk rockers have revealed a new set of shows for September and October alongside Chi-town punks <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/rise-against/" target="_blank">Rise Against</a> and the reunited <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/hot-water-music/" target="_blank">Hot Water Music</a>. Check out The Gaslight Anthem&#8217;s complete schedule below, followed by performance footage of new cut &#8220;Biloxi Parish&#8221;, taken from a recent Brooklyn show which you can check out in full <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/05/webcast-the-gaslight-anthem-at-nycs-music-hall-of-williamsburg/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Handwritten</em> arrives July 24th via Mercury Records.</p>
<p><strong>The Gaslight Anthem 2012 Tour Dates:</strong><br />
05/29 – Paris, FR @ Le Zenith<br />
05/31 – Berlin, DE @ Zitadelle Spandau *<br />
06/01 – Bremen, DE @ Aladin<br />
06/02 – Ulmer, DE @ Zelt<br />
06/04 – Milan, IT @ Arena Concerti Fiera *<br />
06/05 – Zurich, CH @ Albart<br />
06/08 – Nickelsdorf, AT @ <a href="http://festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net/fests/view/770/nova-rock" target="_blank">Nova Rock</a><br />
06/09 – Munster, DE @ Vainstream Rockfest<br />
06/11 – London, UK @ Koko’s<br />
06/13 – Keil, DE @ Max<br />
06/14 – Hultsfred, SE @ <a href="http://festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net/fests/view/780/hultsfred-festival" target="_blank">Hultsfred Festival</a><br />
06/15 – Arhus, DK @ <a href="http://festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net/fests/view/781/northside-festival-denmark" target="_blank">Northside Festival</a><br />
06/16 – Oslo, NO @ Norwegian Wood<br />
06/17 – Seinajoki, FI @ Provinssirock<br />
06/23 – Atlantic City, NJ @ <a href="http://festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net/fests/view/841/orion-music-more" target="_blank">Orion Music + More</a><br />
07/05 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent<br />
07/07 – Portland, OR @ Hawthrone Theater<br />
07/08 – Seattle, WA @ Crocodile<br />
07/11 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fineline<br />
07/12 – Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck<br />
07/13 – St. Louis, MO @ Firebird<br />
07/14 – Cincinnati, OH @ <a href="http://festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net/fests/view/856/bunbury-music-festival" target="_blank">Bunbury Music Festival</a><br />
07/16 – Toronto, ON @ Opera House<br />
07/18 – Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge<br />
07/19 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Cat’s Cradle<br />
07/20 – Washington, DC @ U Street<br />
07/22 – Boston, MA @ Middle East<br />
07/24 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall<br />
08/05 – Chicago, IL @ <a href="http://festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net/fests/view/677/lollapalooza" target="_blank">Lollapalooza</a><br />
08/16-17 – Kiewit, BE @ <a href="http://festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net/fests/view/720/pukkelpop" target="_blank">Pukkelpop</a><br />
08/18 – Ludinghausen, DE @ Area 4<br />
08/19 – Leipzig, DE @ Highfield Festival<br />
08/24 – Leeds, UK @ <a href="http://festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net/fests/view/760/reading-and-leeds-music-festivals" target="_blank">Leeds Festival</a><br />
08/26 – Reading, UK @ <a href="http://festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net/fests/view/760/reading-and-leeds-music-festivals" target="_blank">Reading Festival</a><br />
<em>09/11 &#8211; Quebec City, QC @ Agora</em> #<br />
<em>09/12 &#8211; Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre</em> #<br />
<em>09/13 &#8211; Ottawa, ON @ CE Centre #</em><br />
<em>09/15 &#8211; Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest #</em><br />
<em>09/16 &#8211; Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom</em> #<br />
<em>09/17 &#8211; Grand Rapids, MI @ Deltaplex #</em><br />
<em>09/20 &#8211; Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center #</em><br />
09/21 – Pensacola Beach, FL @ <a href="http://festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net/fests/view/846/deluna-fest" target="_blank">DeLuna Fest </a><br />
<em>09/22 &#8211; Dallas, TX @ Gexa Energy Pavilion</em> #<br />
<em>09/24 &#8211; Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium</em> #<br />
<em>09/25 &#8211; Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium</em> #<br />
<em>09/28 &#8211; Tempe, AZ @ Tempe Beach Park #</em><br />
<em>09/29 &#8211; Anaheim, CA @ Honda Center #</em><br />
<em>10/1 &#8211; Las Vegas, NV @ Hard Rock Cafe #</em><br />
<em>10/2 &#8211; Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Theatre #</em><br />
<em>10/4 &#8211; Victoria, BC @ Save On Foods Memorial Centre</em> #<br />
<em>10/ 6 &#8211; Calgary, AB @ Stampede Park BMO Centre #</em><br />
<em>10/7 &#8211; Edmonton, AB @ Edmonton Expo Centre #</em></p>
<p>* = w/ Soundgarden<br />
# = w/ Rise Against and Hot Water Music</p>
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Just last week, The Gaslight Anthem announced a string of summer tour dates in support of their upcoming album, <em>Handwritten</em>. Now, the Jersey punk rockers have revealed a new set of shows for September and October alongside Chi-town punks Rise Against and the reunited Hot Water Music. Check out The Gaslight Anthem's complete schedule below, followed by performance footage of new cut "Biloxi Parish", taken from a recent Brooklyn show which you can check out in full here.
<em>Handwritten</em> arrives July 24th via Mercury Records.
<strong>The Gaslight Anthem 2012 Tour Dates:</strong>
05/29 – Paris, FR @ Le Zenith
05/31 – Berlin, DE @ Zitadelle Spandau *
06/01 – Bremen, DE @ Aladin
06/02 – Ulmer, DE @ Zelt
06/04 – Milan, IT @ Arena Concerti Fiera *
06/05 – Zurich, CH @ Albart
06/08 – Nickelsdorf, AT @ Nova Rock
06/09 – Munster, DE @ Vainstream Rockfest
06/11 – London, UK @ Koko’s
06/13 – Keil, DE @ Max
06/14 – Hultsfred, SE @ Hultsfred Festival
06/15 – Arhus, DK @ Northside Festival
06/16 – Oslo, NO @ Norwegian Wood
06/17 – Seinajoki, FI @ Provinssirock
06/23 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Orion Music + More
07/05 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
07/07 – Portland, OR @ Hawthrone Theater
07/08 – Seattle, WA @ Crocodile
07/11 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fineline
07/12 – Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck
07/13 – St. Louis, MO @ Firebird
07/14 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bunbury Music Festival
07/16 – Toronto, ON @ Opera House
07/18 – Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge
07/19 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
07/20 – Washington, DC @ U Street
07/22 – Boston, MA @ Middle East
07/24 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
08/05 – Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
08/16-17 – Kiewit, BE @ Pukkelpop
08/18 – Ludinghausen, DE @ Area 4
08/19 – Leipzig, DE @ Highfield Festival
08/24 – Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
08/26 – Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
<em>09/11 - Quebec City, QC @ Agora</em> #
<em>09/12 - Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre</em> #
<em>09/13 - Ottawa, ON @ CE Centre #</em>
<em>09/15 - Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest #</em>
<em>09/16 - Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom</em> #
<em>09/17 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Deltaplex #</em>
<em>09/20 - Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center #</em>
09/21 – Pensacola Beach, FL @ DeLuna Fest 
<em>09/22 - Dallas, TX @ Gexa Energy Pavilion</em> #
<em>09/24 - Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium</em> #
<em>09/25 - Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium</em> #
<em>09/28 - Tempe, AZ @ Tempe Beach Park #</em>
<em>09/29 - Anaheim, CA @ Honda Center #</em>
<em>10/1 - Las Vegas, NV @ Hard Rock Cafe #</em>
<em>10/2 - Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Theatre #</em>
<em>10/4 - Victoria, BC @ Save On Foods Memorial Centre</em> #
<em>10/ 6 - Calgary, AB @ Stampede Park BMO Centre #</em>
<em>10/7 - Edmonton, AB @ Edmonton Expo Centre #</em>

* = w/ Soundgarden
# = w/ Rise Against and Hot Water Music
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		<title>Album Review: Hot Water Music &#8211; Exister</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Ferguson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The return of Gainesville, FL&#8217;s <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/hot-water-music/">Hot Water Music</a> with <em>Exister</em> after an eight-year-hiatus presents an interesting perspective on the &#8220;reunion of beloved band&#8221; algebra. Yes, it&#8217;s &#8220;only&#8221; been eight years since the band&#8217;s last album, but as math tells us, eight years is the difference between being a 16-year-old kid and being a 24-year-old college graduate, between being a 27-year-old finding your bearings in the &#8220;real world&#8221; and being a 35-year-old with a family and the weight of the &#8220;real world&#8221; suddenly resting on your now-slouching shoulders. And then there&#8217;s the fact that HWM was never your typical punk band, but rather a beefy rock band with a spittle-flecked anger that reflected their roots in Gainesville&#8217;s vibrant punk scene. They were a rock act that punk kids liked, but the group&#8217;s devotion to the scene, allegiance to punk ethics, and, of course, a long run of incendiary live shows ensured Hot Water Music a permanent place in the hearts of Punks of a Certain Age.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s most notable here is what&#8217;s happened in the eight years since Hot Water Music last released an album. Yeah, Chuck Ragan embarked on a solo roots-rock endeavor that added even more whiskey-grizzle to his already rough-hewn voice; the other band members briefly worked as The Draft, playing some very Hot Water-esque sounds before also working on solo material. But more importantly, this &#8220;reunion&#8221; has actually been going on for more than four years, with the band playing dozens of shows every year, further tightening their classic material and laying the groundwork for <em>Exister</em>, an album that not only succeeds as a worthwhile addition to their catalog, but also as a new direction, one that takes into account the fact that the band–and their audience–has grown up quite a bit since the early &#8217;90s.</p>
<p>In general, <em>Exister</em> loudly emphasizes HWM&#8217;s strengths as a no-bullshit rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll band, and &#8220;Mainline&#8221; opens the album as a blistering statement of intent that both evokes their earlier sound and leaves it completely behind. Likewise, the title track and &#8220;Drown in It&#8221; are classic, fast-paced rockers, with burly choruses and a locomotive&#8217;s worth of rhythmic thrust. But one of the strongest cuts here–&#8221;Pledge Wore Thin&#8221;–sounds the least like the old days, and instead augments its anthemic chorus with a mature, melodic approach. While not all of the fist-pumping numbers here are equally successful (&#8220;Drag My Body&#8221; nearly deflates the middle portion of the record by sounding like The Smithereens), they do show a reunited band that&#8217;s interested in charting a path forward instead of simply reflecting their past glories.</p>
<p><strong>Essential Tracks:</strong> &#8220;Pledge Wore Thin&#8221;, &#8220;Mainline&#8221;</p>
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		<content:mobile><![CDATA[The return of Gainesville, FL's Hot Water Music with <em>Exister</em> after an eight-year-hiatus presents an interesting perspective on the "reunion of beloved band" algebra. Yes, it's "only" been eight years since the band's last album, but as math tells us, eight years is the difference between being a 16-year-old kid and being a 24-year-old college graduate, between being a 27-year-old finding your bearings in the "real world" and being a 35-year-old with a family and the weight of the "real world" suddenly resting on your now-slouching shoulders. And then there's the fact that HWM was never your typical punk band, but rather a beefy rock band with a spittle-flecked anger that reflected their roots in Gainesville's vibrant punk scene. They were a rock act that punk kids liked, but the group's devotion to the scene, allegiance to punk ethics, and, of course, a long run of incendiary live shows ensured Hot Water Music a permanent place in the hearts of Punks of a Certain Age.

What's most notable here is what's happened in the eight years since Hot Water Music last released an album. Yeah, Chuck Ragan embarked on a solo roots-rock endeavor that added even more whiskey-grizzle to his already rough-hewn voice; the other band members briefly worked as The Draft, playing some very Hot Water-esque sounds before also working on solo material. But more importantly, this "reunion" has actually been going on for more than four years, with the band playing dozens of shows every year, further tightening their classic material and laying the groundwork for <em>Exister</em>, an album that not only succeeds as a worthwhile addition to their catalog, but also as a new direction, one that takes into account the fact that the band–and their audience–has grown up quite a bit since the early '90s.

In general, <em>Exister</em> loudly emphasizes HWM's strengths as a no-bullshit rock 'n' roll band, and "Mainline" opens the album as a blistering statement of intent that both evokes their earlier sound and leaves it completely behind. Likewise, the title track and "Drown in It" are classic, fast-paced rockers, with burly choruses and a locomotive's worth of rhythmic thrust. But one of the strongest cuts here–"Pledge Wore Thin"–sounds the least like the old days, and instead augments its anthemic chorus with a mature, melodic approach. While not all of the fist-pumping numbers here are equally successful ("Drag My Body" nearly deflates the middle portion of the record by sounding like The Smithereens), they do show a reunited band that's interested in charting a path forward instead of simply reflecting their past glories.

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		<title>Stream: Hot Water Music &#8211;  Exister</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 15:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CoS Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida post-hardcore outfit's first album in eight years.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/hot-water-music/" target="_blank">Hot Water Music&#8217;</a>s first album in eight years, <em>Exister</em>, is now streaming at <a href="http://www.spin.com/articles/hot-water-music-break-down-exister-full-album-stream" target="_blank">SPIN.com</a>. The 13-track effort was recorded at The Blasting Room studio in Ft. Collins, CO alongside producer/Descendents drummer Bill Stevenson. It will be formally released on May 15th via Rise Records.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Exister</em> Tracklist:</strong><br />
01. Mainline<br />
02. Boy, You’re Gonna Hurt Someone<br />
03. State of Grace<br />
04. Drown In It<br />
05. Drag My Body<br />
06. Safety<br />
07. Exister<br />
08. Wrong Way<br />
09. Take No Prisoners<br />
10. Pledge Wore Thin<br />
11. No End Left In Sight<br />
12. The Traps<br />
13. Paid In Full</p>
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Hot Water Music's first album in eight years, <em>Exister</em>, is now streaming at SPIN.com. The 13-track effort was recorded at The Blasting Room studio in Ft. Collins, CO alongside producer/Descendents drummer Bill Stevenson. It will be formally released on May 15th via Rise Records.


<strong><em>Exister</em> Tracklist:</strong>
01. Mainline
02. Boy, You’re Gonna Hurt Someone
03. State of Grace
04. Drown In It
05. Drag My Body
06. Safety
07. Exister
08. Wrong Way
09. Take No Prisoners
10. Pledge Wore Thin
11. No End Left In Sight
12. The Traps
13. Paid In Full



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		<title>Check Out: Hot Water Music &#8211; &#8220;Exister&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 13:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Coplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A third track off the eponymous LP. ]]></description>
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<p>Florida post-hardcore outfit <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/hot-water-music" target="_blank">Hot Water Music</a> has released the title track to <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/02/hot-water-music-details-new-album-exister/" target="_blank"><em>Exister</em></a>, their first album in eight years. The third song off the LP to surface (following <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/03/check-out-hot-water-music-drag-my-body/" target="_blank">&#8220;Drag My Body&#8221;</a> and <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/04/check-out-hot-water-music-state-of-grace/" target="_blank">&#8220;State of Grace&#8221;</a>), it&#8217;s an unrelenting shot of sonic angst, personified by screaming vocals, pounding drums, and a driving guitar line that&#8217;s as dense and speedy as a semi. Stream it below (via <a href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2012/05/hot_water_music_3.html" target="_blank">BrooklynVegan</a>).</p>
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<p><em>Exister</em> hits stores on May 15th via Rise Records.</p>
<p><strong><em>Exister</em> Tracklist:</strong><br />
01. Mainline<br />
02. Boy, You’re Gonna Hurt Someone<br />
03. State of Grace<br />
04. Drown In It<br />
05. Drag My Body<br />
06. Safety<br />
07. Exister<br />
08. Wrong Way<br />
09. Take No Prisoners<br />
10. Pledge Wore Thin<br />
11. No End Left In Sight<br />
12. The Traps<br />
13. Paid In Full</p>
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Florida post-hardcore outfit Hot Water Music has released the title track to <em>Exister</em>, their first album in eight years. The third song off the LP to surface (following "Drag My Body" and "State of Grace"), it's an unrelenting shot of sonic angst, personified by screaming vocals, pounding drums, and a driving guitar line that's as dense and speedy as a semi. Stream it below (via BrooklynVegan).

[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/45209464" iframe="true" /]



<em>Exister</em> hits stores on May 15th via Rise Records.

<strong><em>Exister</em> Tracklist:</strong>
01. Mainline
02. Boy, You’re Gonna Hurt Someone
03. State of Grace
04. Drown In It
05. Drag My Body
06. Safety
07. Exister
08. Wrong Way
09. Take No Prisoners
10. Pledge Wore Thin
11. No End Left In Sight
12. The Traps
13. Paid In Full]]></content:mobile>
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		<title>Check Out: Hot Water Music &#8211; &#8220;State of Grace&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Coplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lead single off <i>Exister</i>. ]]></description>
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<p>Florida post-hardcore outfit <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/hot-water-music/" target="_blank">Hot Water Music</a> first previewed <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/02/hot-water-music-details-new-album-exister/" target="_blank"><em>Exister</em></a>, their first album in eight years, with the moody <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/03/check-out-hot-water-music-drag-my-body/" target="_blank">&#8220;Drag My Body&#8221;</a>. Now, they&#8217;ve released the record&#8217;s lead single, &#8220;State of Grace&#8221;, a blistering cut of rock-revival condemning the shoddy state of the human condition, likening the world&#8217;s hate and ineptitude to a bad cold. Stream it below (via <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ragogna/state-of-grace-and-with-g_b_1438106.html" target="_blank">The Huffington Post</a>).</p>
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<p><em>Exister</em> hits stores May 15th via Rise Records.</p>
<p><strong><em>Exister</em> Tracklist:</strong><br />
01. Mainline<br />
02. Boy, You&#8217;re Gonna Hurt Someone<br />
03. State of Grace<br />
04. Drown In It<br />
05. Drag My Body<br />
06. Safety<br />
07. Exister<br />
08. Wrong Way<br />
09. Take No Prisoners<br />
10. Pledge Wore Thin<br />
11. No End Left In Sight<br />
12. The Traps<br />
13. Paid In Full</p>
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Florida post-hardcore outfit Hot Water Music first previewed <em>Exister</em>, their first album in eight years, with the moody "Drag My Body". Now, they've released the record's lead single, "State of Grace", a blistering cut of rock-revival condemning the shoddy state of the human condition, likening the world's hate and ineptitude to a bad cold. Stream it below (via The Huffington Post).

[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/42896264" iframe="true" /]



<em>Exister</em> hits stores May 15th via Rise Records.

<strong><em>Exister</em> Tracklist:</strong>
01. Mainline
02. Boy, You're Gonna Hurt Someone
03. State of Grace
04. Drown In It
05. Drag My Body
06. Safety
07. Exister
08. Wrong Way
09. Take No Prisoners
10. Pledge Wore Thin
11. No End Left In Sight
12. The Traps
13. Paid In Full]]></content:mobile>
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		<title>Check Out: Hot Water Music &#8211; &#8220;Drag My Body&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first track from <i>Exister</i>.]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/02/hot-water-music-details-new-album-exister/" target="_blank">As previously reported</a>, Florida post-hardcore outfit <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/hot-water-music/" target="_blank">Hot Water Music</a> return with its first album in eight years, <em>Exister</em>, on May 15th via Rise. As a first listen, stream &#8220;Drag My Body&#8221; below (via <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-download-hot-water-music-return-with-volatile-drag-my-body-20120328" target="_blank">RollingStone.com</a>).</p>
<p><a href="http://c438342.r42.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/5DragMyBody.mp3">Hot Water Music &#8211; &#8220;Drag My Body&#8217;</a></p>
<p><strong><em>Exister</em> Tracklist:</strong><br />
01. Mainline<br />
02. Boy, You’re Gonna Hurt Someone<br />
03. State of Grace<br />
04. Drown In It<br />
05. Drag My Body<br />
06. Safety<br />
07. Exister<br />
08. Wrong Way<br />
09. Take No Prisoners<br />
10. Pledge Wore Thin<br />
11. No End Left In Sight<br />
12. The Traps<br />
13. Paid In Full</p>
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<em>Photo courtesy of Marco Kreen</em>
As previously reported, Florida post-hardcore outfit Hot Water Music return with its first album in eight years, <em>Exister</em>, on May 15th via Rise. As a first listen, stream "Drag My Body" below (via RollingStone.com).
Hot Water Music - "Drag My Body'

<strong><em>Exister</em> Tracklist:</strong>
01. Mainline
02. Boy, You’re Gonna Hurt Someone
03. State of Grace
04. Drown In It
05. Drag My Body
06. Safety
07. Exister
08. Wrong Way
09. Take No Prisoners
10. Pledge Wore Thin
11. No End Left In Sight
12. The Traps
13. Paid In Full]]></content:mobile>
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		<title>Hot Water Music details new album: Exister</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Coplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Their first full-length since 2004. ]]></description>
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<p>Florida post-hardcore outfit <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/hot-water-music/" target="_blank">Hot Water Music</a> will return with its eighth studio album, and first in eight years, on May 15th via Rise. Entitled <em>Exister</em>, the 13-track effort was recorded at The Blasting Room studio in Ft. Collins, CO alongside producer/Descendents drummer Bill Stevenson. Check out the tracklist below, along with the non-album single &#8220;Up To Nothing&#8221;, which was released last summer.</p>
<p>In support of the release, the band will soon announce a U.S. tour. They&#8217;re also set to appear at <a href="http://festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net/fests/view/675/south-by-southwest" target="_blank">South by Southwest </a>and <a href="http://festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net/fests/view/798/the-bamboozle" target="_blank">The Bamboozle</a>.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Up To Nothing&#8221;:</strong><br />
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<p><strong><em>Exister</em> Tracklist:</strong><br />
01. Mainline<br />
02. Boy, You&#8217;re Gonna Hurt Someone<br />
03. State of Grace<br />
04. Drown In It<br />
05. Drag My Body<br />
06. Safety<br />
07. Exister<br />
08. Wrong Way<br />
09. Take No Prisoners<br />
10. Pledge Wore Thin<br />
11. No End Left In Sight<br />
12. The Traps<br />
13. Paid In Full</p>
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Florida post-hardcore outfit Hot Water Music will return with its eighth studio album, and first in eight years, on May 15th via Rise. Entitled <em>Exister</em>, the 13-track effort was recorded at The Blasting Room studio in Ft. Collins, CO alongside producer/Descendents drummer Bill Stevenson. Check out the tracklist below, along with the non-album single "Up To Nothing", which was released last summer.

In support of the release, the band will soon announce a U.S. tour. They're also set to appear at South by Southwest and The Bamboozle.

<strong>"Up To Nothing":</strong>
[youtube mpN9QPvSlaQ 500 25]

<strong><em>Exister</em> Tracklist:</strong>
01. Mainline
02. Boy, You're Gonna Hurt Someone
03. State of Grace
04. Drown In It
05. Drag My Body
06. Safety
07. Exister
08. Wrong Way
09. Take No Prisoners
10. Pledge Wore Thin
11. No End Left In Sight
12. The Traps
13. Paid In Full]]></content:mobile>
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		<title>Check Out: Hot Water Music &#8211; &#8220;Up To Nothing&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Coplan</dc:creator>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Last Thursday, <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/hot-water-music/ " target="_blank">Hot Water Music</a> dropped <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/07/check-out-hot-water-music-the-fire-the-steel-the-tread/ " target="_blank">&#8220;The Fire, The Steel, The Tread&#8221;</a> as a treat for the weekend. Now, the Floridian punk rockers have made the B-side to their <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/07/hot-water-music-readies-first-new-release-in-seven-years/ " target="_blank">upcoming single</a>, &#8220;Up To Nothing&#8221;, available for consumption. Like its accompanying A-side, &#8220;Up To Nothing&#8221; is as hard-edged and rootsy without giving up the group&#8217;s traditional punk sound.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The two-track single is available digitally August 2nd and on vinyl August 29th.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">And for those who missed it, here&#8217;s &#8220;The Fire, The Steel, The Tread&#8221;:</p>
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Last Thursday, Hot Water Music dropped "The Fire, The Steel, The Tread" as a treat for the weekend. Now, the Floridian punk rockers have made the B-side to their upcoming single, "Up To Nothing", available for consumption. Like its accompanying A-side, "Up To Nothing" is as hard-edged and rootsy without giving up the group's traditional punk sound.
The two-track single is available digitally August 2nd and on vinyl August 29th.
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Coplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before the 7" drops this August. ]]></description>
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<p>Less than a week after announcing plans to <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/07/hot-water-music-readies-first-new-release-in-seven-years/" target="_blank">release their first new material in  some seven years</a>, Floridian punk rockers <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/hot-water-music/" target="_blank">Hot Water Music</a> are streaming the A-side of their  two-song single, &#8220;The Fire, The Steel, The Tread” at <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ragogna/chatting-with-rickie-lee_b_904120.html" target="_blank">Huffington Post </a>(scroll to the bottom of the piece). Along with this  John Mellencamp-esque barnburner, HWM have plans to drop their next  single, the B-side &#8220;Adds Up To Nothing&#8221;, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/hwmFL" target="_blank">via Facebook</a> this Monday, July 25th. The two-track single is  available digitally August 2nd and on vinyl August 29th.</p>
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		<title>Hot Water Music readies first new release in seven years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Coplan</dc:creator>
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<p>Floridian punk rockers <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/hot-water-music/" target="_blank">Hot Water Music</a> last released music back in 2004.  And while their core audience are no longer the young hooligans the  band undoubtedly remembers, the <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/06/hot-water-music-set-to-work-on-new-album/" target="_blank">group recently started writing again</a> to  spark some of that old post-hardcore magic. The resulting effort from their  reconvening is a two-track single comprised of &#8220;The Fire, The Steel, The Tread&#8221; and &#8220;Adds Up To Nothing&#8221;. <strong>Update:</strong> Frontman Chuck Ragan previewed a version of &#8220;The Fire, The Steel, The Tread&#8221; in a trailer for for Scott Toepfer&#8217;s project <em>It&#8217;s Better In The Wind</em>. Check it out below.</p>
<p>Despite being an HWM release, the band have yet to actually enter the  studio <em>together</em>, as both tracks were done in stages in Gainesville, FL  and Grass Valley, CA respectively. As for why the band  waited to drop new material after <a href="http://www.epitaph.com/news/news/2981/2981" target="_blank">reuniting back in 2007</a>, frontman Chuck  Ragan said it all boiled down to &#8220;timing. We&#8217;ve wanted to get it together but have all been full steam ahead in our own directions that it&#8217;s taken this long to do it.&#8221;</p>
<p>The single will first be available digitally on August 2nd. Along with the standard vinyl treatment, HWM&#8217;s own <a href="http://www.hotwatermusic.com/index.html" target="_blank">webstore</a> and labels <a href="http://www.chunksaah.com/" target="_blank">Chunksaah</a> and <a href="http://www.noidearecords.com/" target="_blank">No Idea</a> will offer special edition colored vinyl available on August 29th, with pre-sale kicking off August 15th. The band also have plans to record a full-length this winter, so stay tuned for more on that.</p>
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Floridian punk rockers Hot Water Music last released music back in 2004.  And while their core audience are no longer the young hooligans the  band undoubtedly remembers, the group recently started writing again to  spark some of that old post-hardcore magic. The resulting effort from their  reconvening is a two-track single comprised of "The Fire, The Steel, The Tread" and "Adds Up To Nothing". <strong>Update:</strong> Frontman Chuck Ragan previewed a version of "The Fire, The Steel, The Tread" in a trailer for for Scott Toepfer's project <em>It's Better In The Wind</em>. Check it out below.

Despite being an HWM release, the band have yet to actually enter the  studio <em>together</em>, as both tracks were done in stages in Gainesville, FL  and Grass Valley, CA respectively. As for why the band  waited to drop new material after reuniting back in 2007, frontman Chuck  Ragan said it all boiled down to "timing. We've wanted to get it together but have all been full steam ahead in our own directions that it's taken this long to do it."

The single will first be available digitally on August 2nd. Along with the standard vinyl treatment, HWM's own webstore and labels Chunksaah and No Idea will offer special edition colored vinyl available on August 29th, with pre-sale kicking off August 15th. The band also have plans to record a full-length this winter, so stay tuned for more on that.
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		<title>Weezer, Descendents, Social Distortion head Riot Fest 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Riot Fest East lineup also announced.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chicago&#8217;s <a href="http://festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net/fests/view/566/riot-fest" target="_blank">Riot Fest</a> returns for its sixth installment with another formidable lineup headed by punk&#8217;s most elite. Oh, and Rivers Cuomo, too. Set to take over Chi-City&#8217;s various venues between October 5th and 9th, this year&#8217;s edition will be headlined by Weezer, Social Distortion, and the recently reunited Descendents.</p>
<p>Other notable acts include X, who will be performing their album <em>Los Angeles</em> in its entirety, Youth of Today, Suicide Machines, ALL (featuring Scott Reynolds, Chad Price and Dave Smalley), and Helmet. In addition, the festival plans to announce another headliner, which festival founder Mike Petryshyn says &#8220;deserves its very own separate announcement,&#8221; on Friday, June 24th at 9AM CDT. <strong>Update:</strong> It&#8217;s Danzig. The band will perform &#8220;a career spanning show featuring sets of Danzig, Samhain, and Misfits songs with none other than [former Misfits guitarist] Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein joining on guitar for the Misfits set.&#8221;</p>
<p>Also announced today was the Riot Fest&#8217;s latest off-shoot, <a href="http://festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net/fests/view/651/riot-fest-east" target="_blank">Riot Fest East</a>. Set for September 24th at Penn&#8217;s Landing in Philadelphia, PA, the festival will feature Descendents, Dead Milkmen, X performing <em>Los Angeles</em>, How Water Music, Naked Raygun, and more.</p>
<p>You can find the full lineups for both Riot Fest and Riot Fest East at our <a href="http://festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net/" target="_blank">Festival Outlook</a>. Tickets for Riot Fest cost $135 for a Congress Pass and $145 for a Festival Pass, while tickets for Riot Fest East are priced at $34.50. Both are on-sale beginning Friday, June 24th. Visit the festival&#8217;s <a href="http://riotfest.org/" target="_blank">website</a> for complete details.</p>
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		<content:mobile><![CDATA[Chicago's Riot Fest returns for its sixth installment with another formidable lineup headed by punk's most elite. Oh, and Rivers Cuomo, too. Set to take over Chi-City's various venues between October 5th and 9th, this year's edition will be headlined by Weezer, Social Distortion, and the recently reunited Descendents.

Other notable acts include X, who will be performing their album <em>Los Angeles</em> in its entirety, Youth of Today, Suicide Machines, ALL (featuring Scott Reynolds, Chad Price and Dave Smalley), and Helmet. In addition, the festival plans to announce another headliner, which festival founder Mike Petryshyn says "deserves its very own separate announcement," on Friday, June 24th at 9AM CDT. <strong>Update:</strong> It's Danzig. The band will perform "a career spanning show featuring sets of Danzig, Samhain, and Misfits songs with none other than [former Misfits guitarist] Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein joining on guitar for the Misfits set."

Also announced today was the Riot Fest's latest off-shoot, Riot Fest East. Set for September 24th at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, PA, the festival will feature Descendents, Dead Milkmen, X performing <em>Los Angeles</em>, How Water Music, Naked Raygun, and more.

You can find the full lineups for both Riot Fest and Riot Fest East at our Festival Outlook. Tickets for Riot Fest cost $135 for a Congress Pass and $145 for a Festival Pass, while tickets for Riot Fest East are priced at $34.50. Both are on-sale beginning Friday, June 24th. Visit the festival's website for complete details.]]></content:mobile>
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		<title>Devo, Descendents, Stars head North by Northeast 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Staples</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada's answer to SXSW. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With most multi-day passes hovering around $200, festival going definitely isn&#8217;t cheap. Add in airfare, gear, hotel/camping costs, plus the price of 4-days worth of chicken pita, and attending more than one summer extravaganza seems daunting if not impossible. So <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/north-by-northeast/" target="_blank">North By Northeast</a>&#8216;s (NXNE) 8 free sets, $50 5-day &#8216;Music&#8217; wristbands and $150 early bird &#8216;Priority Pass&#8217; seem like a steal, considering the festival boasts 600 international bands performing across 50 venues in beautiful Toronto.</p>
<p>Pattered after Austin&#8217;s South By Southwest, NXNE is comprised of an interactive, film, and music segment, with various workshops, panels, and activities taking place over an entire week. This year, the Interactive Festival will run from June 16th-18th and the Music and Film Festivals run concurrently June 15th through the 19th. For the event&#8217;s 17th installment, NXNE has tapped new wave pioneers Devo, reunited punk legends the Descendents, hardcore supergroup OFF!, indie-favorites like Stars, Twin Shadow, Cults, Wild Nothing, Suuns and Art Brut, plus hip-hop acts The Pharcyde, Shad, and Digable Planets. Many of which fans can catch for free at Toronto&#8217;s Yonge-Dundas Square and along Yonge Street. A list of performances can be found below.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s just the beginning, as the festival will also feature Anti-Flag, Bouncing Souls, Men Without Hats, Dum Dum Girls, Deerhoof, The Dodos, Hot Water Music, Evan Dando &amp; Juliana Hatfield, Braids, Ty Segall, PS I Love You, Crocodiles, The Pack A.D., Metz, Dirty Beaches, Land of Talk, Chad VanGaalen, Forest City Lovers, The Luyas, Lower Dens, Gentlemen Husbands, Rusty, Royal Bangs, Julianna Barwick, No Joy, Prince Rama, Doldrums, Secret Cities, Evening Hymns, Snowblink, Parlovr, Talk Normal, PUJOL, Woodsman, Gauntlet Hair, Joey Cape, Tape Deck Mountain, AIDS Wolf, Houses, CJ Ramone, and Kevin Seconds.</p>
<p><strong>Free Yonge-Dundas Square Performances<br />
</strong>06/16: Descendents, OFF!<br />
06/17: Stars, Land of Talk<br />
06/18: Devo, Men Without Hats<br />
06/19: The Pharcyde, Digable Planets</p>
<p>To check out the complete lineup and pick up early bird tickets, head to <a href="http://nxne.com/" target="_blank">NXNE.com</a> before April 25th.</p>
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		<content:mobile><![CDATA[With most multi-day passes hovering around $200, festival going definitely isn't cheap. Add in airfare, gear, hotel/camping costs, plus the price of 4-days worth of chicken pita, and attending more than one summer extravaganza seems daunting if not impossible. So North By Northeast's (NXNE) 8 free sets, $50 5-day 'Music' wristbands and $150 early bird 'Priority Pass' seem like a steal, considering the festival boasts 600 international bands performing across 50 venues in beautiful Toronto.

Pattered after Austin's South By Southwest, NXNE is comprised of an interactive, film, and music segment, with various workshops, panels, and activities taking place over an entire week. This year, the Interactive Festival will run from June 16th-18th and the Music and Film Festivals run concurrently June 15th through the 19th. For the event's 17th installment, NXNE has tapped new wave pioneers Devo, reunited punk legends the Descendents, hardcore supergroup OFF!, indie-favorites like Stars, Twin Shadow, Cults, Wild Nothing, Suuns and Art Brut, plus hip-hop acts The Pharcyde, Shad, and Digable Planets. Many of which fans can catch for free at Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square and along Yonge Street. A list of performances can be found below.

But that's just the beginning, as the festival will also feature Anti-Flag, Bouncing Souls, Men Without Hats, Dum Dum Girls, Deerhoof, The Dodos, Hot Water Music, Evan Dando &amp; Juliana Hatfield, Braids, Ty Segall, PS I Love You, Crocodiles, The Pack A.D., Metz, Dirty Beaches, Land of Talk, Chad VanGaalen, Forest City Lovers, The Luyas, Lower Dens, Gentlemen Husbands, Rusty, Royal Bangs, Julianna Barwick, No Joy, Prince Rama, Doldrums, Secret Cities, Evening Hymns, Snowblink, Parlovr, Talk Normal, PUJOL, Woodsman, Gauntlet Hair, Joey Cape, Tape Deck Mountain, AIDS Wolf, Houses, CJ Ramone, and Kevin Seconds.

<strong>Free Yonge-Dundas Square Performances
</strong>06/16: Descendents, OFF!
06/17: Stars, Land of Talk
06/18: Devo, Men Without Hats
06/19: The Pharcyde, Digable Planets

To check out the complete lineup and pick up early bird tickets, head to NXNE.com before April 25th.]]></content:mobile>
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		<title>Hot Water Music set to work on new album</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Coplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It'll be their first new album in over six years.  ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/hot-water-music" target="_blank">Hot Water Music</a> has had a turbulent half decade or so.  After releasing 2004&#8242;s massively successful <em>The New What Next</em>, the Gainesville, Florida based punk band decided to disband in 2006. However, just two years later, Hot Water Music reunited for the b-sides and rarities collection <em>Till the Wheels Fall Off</em>, and now that they&#8217;ve also begun playing shows together again, it was only inevitable that they&#8217;d announce a new album.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://www.punknews.org/article/38778" target="_blank">Punknews.org</a>, fans who&#8217;ve caught the band live in the last few weeks have been inundating the site with the announcement from lead singer Chuck Ragan and, thanks to some fact checking by Punknews, it can be confirmed that said fans were telling the truth. The band is indeed hard at work on a new full-length.</p>
<p>No other details are currently, but we&#8217;ll let you know when we know. In the meantime, check out the band at the <a href="http://festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net/fests/view/61/sled-island-festival" target="_blank">Sled Island Festival</a> this coming weekend.</p>
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		<content:mobile><![CDATA[Hot Water Music has had a turbulent half decade or so.  After releasing 2004's massively successful <em>The New What Next</em>, the Gainesville, Florida based punk band decided to disband in 2006. However, just two years later, Hot Water Music reunited for the b-sides and rarities collection <em>Till the Wheels Fall Off</em>, and now that they've also begun playing shows together again, it was only inevitable that they'd announce a new album.

According to Punknews.org, fans who've caught the band live in the last few weeks have been inundating the site with the announcement from lead singer Chuck Ragan and, thanks to some fact checking by Punknews, it can be confirmed that said fans were telling the truth. The band is indeed hard at work on a new full-length.

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		<title>Interview: Chris Wollard (of Hot Water Music)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dan Caffrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gainesville, Florida is full of underground Renaissance men, and no one fits the DIY multitasker bill like Chris Wollard. He made punk history as one of the lead throats and guitarists in post hardcore legends Hot Water Music, kicked back in the rocking chair for their country-flavored side project Rumbleseat, collaborated with an ethereal rhythm [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gainesville, Florida is full of underground Renaissance men, and no one fits the DIY multitasker bill like Chris Wollard. He made punk history as one of the lead throats and guitarists in post hardcore legends Hot Water Music, kicked back in the rocking chair for their country-flavored side project Rumbleseat, collaborated with an ethereal rhythm section for the atmospheric Blacktop Cadence, co-wrote some tunes with Bad Religion, spearheaded The Draft, found himself reunited with Hot Water, and most recently, made a guest appearance on The Gaslight Anthem’s second album.</p>
<p><span>But these days, Wollard mans the torpedoes for his crack band <a href="http://www.myspace.com/shipthieves">The Ship Thieves</a>, whose excellent debut record, <em>Chris Wollard &amp; The Ship Thieves</em> is as diverse as his career itself. Chock full of dusty garage rock grit as well as its fair share of introspective backwoods weepers, the album has more than a little something for everybody while remaining astoundingly cohesive. </span></p>
<p><span>Wollard was gracious enough to chat with us on the phone not once, but <em>twice </em>over two days after a malfunction with the recording equipment from the initial interview, delving into the genesis of the album, the future of the band, and what makes the best cover songs. </span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS:</span> Is this your first time being interviewed twice by the same person?</span></strong></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong></span> (laughs) Probably not. I can think of a lot of technical mishaps in the past. </span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS:</span> Once again, congrats on the new album. Where did you guys come up with the name The Ship Thieves?  Is there anything behind that or did you just like the way it sounded?</span></strong></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong></span> Well, it’s a book. There’s a book called <em>The Ship Thieves</em>. I probably bought the book because I liked the way it sounded. But after I read it, you know, it just kind of&#8230;I don’t know, I had a few different names for this band or whatever you call it through the years, but that one just kind of jumped out at me Anyway it’s this book about these convicts down in Australia. They just keep busting out of jail and keep getting caught. Then they put them in a chain gang and they get caught again. Then they get two sets of </span><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-14572" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 2px; float: right;" title="chriswollard_shipthieves" src="http://c438342.r42.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/chriswollard_shipthieves-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="231" height="231" /><span>chains and then they get busted out and then get caught again.  Eventually they steal one of the ships. They sail the ship to South America, like across the globe, and they get caught there. But it was that feeling&#8230;like I can’t relate to what really happened to these guys because it was all a true story, but the band was all about just taking advantage of the freedom that we had with the way we were working. It just kind of fit together and that ended up being the name.</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS:</span> You mentioned yesterday how the recording of the album was more of an organic process in how you guys would just get together and play. Are most of the takes on the album separate tracks or did you just do the whole band recording right off the bat?</span></strong></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong></span> Oh no, they’re all kind of different things. We played in just about every kind of format possible. Some of the songs, there were only a couple of people working on them in the first place. So </span><span>obviously with those, we had to build them one instrument at a time &#8211; kind of start with a loose chord arrangement for the guitar and the vocal line. Then you figure out what you think the drumbeat should be.  If you don’t have a good drummer there, you kind of figure it out any way that you can, you know? You just kind of build it up as it goes. Usually I’ll have some sort of counter-melodies in mind. We’ll try those out on different instruments and kind of just make it up. Like, one of these songs we did in my kitchen here.</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS:</span> Really? Which one was that?</span></strong></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong> </span>“In The Middle Of The Sea”.</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS: </span>Oh yeah. </span></strong></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong></span> It was just me and Addison [Burns] in my kitchen. That’s where I have my grandma’s organ set up and some of my practice amps. We just pounded it out in one night. I was like, “Addison, think you can come over here and record this song?” And he’s like “Yeah.” And I was like “Good, ‘cause I don’t know if we’ll ever record it if we don’t do it today.” So we worked on it for a couple hours, then went out to a bar, had a little hour break, came back, worked on it some more, went back out, and just kind of made it happen. The drums are just us stomping our feet on my floor&#8230;</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS: </span>Nice.</span></strong></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong> </span>&#8230;and like pulling pots and pans literally down from the shelves and tapping on them and just kind of making things sound as close as we could imagine to how we wanted it. That was definitely the most primal kind of recording we did. On the flip side, there were also days where we had George (Rebelo of Hot Water Music) in there&#8230;you know, closer to a full band. It really was just all across the board&#8230;making things work however you can figure it out. It’s really fun.</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS:</span> Yeah, that song has this great kind of rough and tumble feel to it. There’s this one part in the beginning with the lyric (sings) “baby don’t leave me” where you have this low voice underneath it.  Was that you or was that Addison?</span></strong></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong></span> Oh yeah, that’s me.</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS:</span> That’s a really cool effect.</span></strong></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong></span> Yeah, that’s the way the song was written, in that lower voice. Most of the stuff was&#8230;you know, written in kind of a lower voice. That’s just the way I’ve kind of gotten used to writing. So yeah. I’ve had a couple people point out that little low voice thing.</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS:</span> Yeah, I love that. It sounds really cool.</span></strong></p>
<p><span><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">CW:</span> </strong>I like it, you know? It’s a little weird and kind of gave it that cool, different tone. I don&#8217;t know man, I like a lot of that kind of old stuff. You hear that real low voice in there. You’re building your harmonies like out of a lot of different&#8230;I don&#8217;t know what you would call it. It was fun for us to just kind of sit there and be like “okay, well let’s try and figure out a three part harmony here. We’ve got the middle one. What’s the low one going to be?” And you don’t have three singers in the room. It’s just you guys, you know? It’s like “Well, i can’t really find the right note here. Let’s figure it out.” It’s just kind of challenging and fun and not the kind of thing I’ve had a lot of experience doing.</span></p>
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<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS:</span> You mentioned yesterday that although the band on the album was whoever you had around, you’re slowly developing a sort of more solidified line up for the road, right?</span></strong></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong></span> Right.</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS:</span> And who is in that lineup again?</span></strong></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong></span> George [Rebelo] is on the skins, Addison&#8217;s on guitar, Ben Lovett is&#8230;we kind of call him the floater. He can play just about anything. Different songs need different things. But mostly on the piano. He’s got a lot of little toys though. I&#8217;m doing guitar and vocals obviously. The new guy Chad Darby’s playing bass, just a really super cool dude. I’ve seen his band play before, Averkiou, and I just really liked his style. He really knows what he’s doing. He had played with Addison in a band before. Right now he’s working on a record with George and Gared [O’Donnell] from Planes Mistaken For Stars for Gared’s project called Hawks And Doves. So some of the guys have played with him, and me and him had always talked about doing some loose jamming or whatever you’d call it. Once that got going, the band just really solidified. </span></p>
<p><span>Once we had all of us in the room together, it was like “aw, man, this is awesome” &#8211; kind of looking back at the songs on the record and being like “how are we going to play these songs with these guys?” ‘Cause everyone has a different style. “George what are you going to do to this song? Chad, what are you going to do?” Kind of keeping everything open to interpretation even though the record’s already done, you know? It just got us really cooking and lately we’ve just been writing a lot of new stuff; working on the next record, working on the split with Ninja Gun, working on the EP. We wrote a couple songs with Mike Hale, kind of a collaboration thing there, just writing a lot, really focusing in on this band and kind of finding who we are. It’s been awesome, man. After so much time working on all this, and now there’s a band and it feels so good. It’s been a long strange trip.</span></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>CoS:</strong></span> <strong>One of the things that you mentioned about everyone in the band is that they all have other projects they’re working on. But would you say that your main focus right now is The Ship Thieves?</strong></span></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong> </span>Yeah, I mean definitely at this point in time. But just last year we toured all around with Hot Water, and that was the main focus. There wasn’t a whole lot of time to think of other stuff. But yeah, right now, man, especially in a creative sense, this is where we’re putting our energy. But George and Chad are working on Gared’s record and George also went out and helped Chuck (Ragen of Hot Water Music) on his new record.  Addison is playing in The Enablers. He plays drums in that band. Ben Lovett&#8230;we’ve all been helping him with his solo record. Ben usually does a lot of indie movie scores, you know?</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS:</span> Really?</span></strong></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong></span> Not songs, but more of the score type of stuff</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS: </span>There have been a few indie films shot in Gainesville in the past few years. Has he worked on any of those?</span></strong></p>
<p><span><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">CW:</span> </strong>No, he hasn’t worked on any of them here.The last movie he worked one was this one called <em>The Signal</em>.  It got bought for sure. It got a limited release in theaters. I got it on Netflix (laughs).</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS:</span> I’ll have to order it.</span></strong></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong></span> It’s out there. I don’t know how much it really got pushed or anything like that. He’s working on a couple projects coming up. Right now, he’s working on some other friends’ records and blah blah blah. But he’s also got like an <em>album</em> album of songs; more traditional rock. Most of the guys in The Ship Thieves have been helping him and working on stuff pretty similar to how we attack Ship Thieves records. We’re all just kind of helping each other and just doing kind of everything, kind of breaking out of the regular way you would think of a band &#8211; just have it be more of a great creative outlet and a good group of people you can rely on to do a lot of different things. So it’s been really, really wild. Everybody&#8217;s got so much going on.  Luckily, we’ve been able to make time. The Ship Thieves is coming along pretty damn fast.</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS:</span> Is your primary base still Gainesville? Obviously, you tour a lot.</span></strong></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong></span> Absolutely. I’ve got a thirteen year old boy down two and half hours south of me here. So Florida&#8217;s definitely my home. Me and George bought houses here in Gainesville, so that’s a pretty good sign that we’re not going anywhere. Addison lives here. He’s been up here six years, but he’s from down south, like the Miami area. Chad lives here and works at No Idea and his band is here. He’s from down south too. Ben is the only one that doesn’t live here. He’s from Georgia, but most of the time when we were working on this record, he was out in L.A. for about five years. So he just moved back to the east coast. That was kind of what prompted getting more of a traditional group together. It was when I knew we were all going to be semi-close to each other where we could at least drive and play. But when he was still out west, you couldn’t even think about doing that.</span></p>
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<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS:</span> Your son that you mentioned&#8230;you wrote “It’s Hard To Know” for him back with Hot Water.</span></strong></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong> </span>Yeah.</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS:</span> And as you mentioned yesterday, you wrote “Hey B” off the new record for your girlfriend. Do you find that most of your songwriting comes from real life events or people, or is it a mixture of fictional scenarios as well?</span></strong></p>
<p><span><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">CW:</span> </strong>(laughs) Yeah, a very large&#8230;definitely the majority of what I’ve ever done has been directly to somebody. A lot of the kind of love songs really are, you know, about your relationships with your women. Those are directly straight at ‘em or straight for ‘em. Most of what I do, I try and keep it “this is the way I&#8217;m living, these are my stories, these are the moments I ended up thinking about, these are the things on my mind.” I kind of try and keep it nice and simple like that. I&#8217;m not going to tell you how to be and I&#8217;m not going to yell at you about my beliefs but if you want to read about it, it’s all in these stories. I don’t know, I try and keep it like that&#8230;like maybe these are just little chapters. You piece them all together and you’ll find me in there somewhere. Something like that.</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS:</span> You mentioned yesterday that you covered Bruce Springsteen’s “No Surrender” with Hot Water on <em>Till The Wheels Fall Off</em>.  You guys have also covered “True Believers” by The Bouncing Souls.  What’s your favorite cover you’ve done in the past but have never gotten on record?</span></strong></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong></span> Well “True Believers” has never gotten recorded.</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS: </span>(laughs) Yeah, that’s definitely a good one.</span></strong></p>
<p><span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>CW:</strong></span> We’ve done a couple Naked Raygun songs that have never gotten recorded. We did “Wonder Beer” and “Soldier’s Requiem” from them. We did a Pegboy song. So that’s three songs from just those guys.  We did “Field Of Darkness” for The Draft but we never recorded it. There’s a song called “Swann Street” by an old band called Three, that was pretty much a band called Grey Matter except for they changed drummers for one album. The drummer from Minor Threat plays on that record. We used to monkey around with that song but I don’t even think we played it live. But Jason&#8217;s (Black of Hot Water Music) old band Unitas played it once. That’s one of my favorite fucking songs. That song’s so rad. </span></p>
<p><span>I don’t know, man, we monkey around all the time. Wednesday night we were practicing&#8230;we played a couple Thin Lizzy songs. Me and Addison were jamming out to some blues songs before the guys got there, some Otis Rush stuff. What else were we playing? Just, you know, whatever pops up. You learn a lot. You learn a fucking lot by playing cover songs, even if you’re never going to play them live. Even in a million years, if you’re never going to play it live, you learn a lot. You learn about how other people arrange songs. You learn how they’re stacking up their harmonies, you learn how they go in and out of solos.  Imagine learning two different peoples’ versions of the same song. You learn a lot of different things about the people. </span></p>
<p><span>Usually when you get on stage, you go “we have forty-five minutes, or an hour or however long we have”. You have a fixed amount of time, and you’re like “I want to play our stuff. All these covers would be fun but if we only have a certain amount of time, I want to play all the stuff that we wrote.” So you know, for covers, everybody has to agree and you say “let’s play this one live,” but it’s just a fun way to practice and keep yourself loose, thinking of new ideas.</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS: </span>Anything you want to say about the band or the future of The Ship Thieves?</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span><span style="color: #0000ff;">CW:</span> </span></strong><span>Besides the fact that everybody should go out and get the record?</span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS:</span> (laughs) Yeah.</span></strong></p>
<p><span><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">CW:</span></strong> Pay attention when we come into town. </span></p>
<p><strong><span><span style="color: #ff0000;">CoS: </span>Oh yeah, you mentioned an upcoming tour the other day. Any solidified dates for the near future?</span></strong></p>
<p><span><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">CW:</span></strong> Nothing really solid. All these kind of proposed schedules are rubbing up against each other. So we’ve got a little bit of work to do. Definitely in early summer, we’re going to be playing around Florida, playing around the south, and it’s just kinda going to grow from there; some east coast stuff, up to Chicago, New York. Keep it kind of simple, you know? We’re just really getting into the swing of it. </span></p>
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		<content:mobile><![CDATA[Gainesville, Florida is full of underground Renaissance men, and no one fits the DIY multitasker bill like Chris Wollard. He made punk history as one of the lead throats and guitarists in post hardcore legends Hot Water Music, kicked back in the rocking chair for their country-flavored side project Rumbleseat, collaborated with an ethereal rhythm section for the atmospheric Blacktop Cadence, co-wrote some tunes with Bad Religion, spearheaded The Draft, found himself reunited with Hot Water, and most recently, made a guest appearance on The Gaslight Anthem’s second album.

But these days, Wollard mans the torpedoes for his crack band The Ship Thieves, whose excellent debut record, <em>Chris Wollard &amp; The Ship Thieves</em> is as diverse as his career itself. Chock full of dusty garage rock grit as well as its fair share of introspective backwoods weepers, the album has more than a little something for everybody while remaining astoundingly cohesive. 

Wollard was gracious enough to chat with us on the phone not once, but <em>twice </em>over two days after a malfunction with the recording equipment from the initial interview, delving into the genesis of the album, the future of the band, and what makes the best cover songs. 

<strong>CoS: Is this your first time being interviewed twice by the same person?</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> (laughs) Probably not. I can think of a lot of technical mishaps in the past. 

<strong>CoS: Once again, congrats on the new album. Where did you guys come up with the name The Ship Thieves?  Is there anything behind that or did you just like the way it sounded?</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> Well, it’s a book. There’s a book called <em>The Ship Thieves</em>. I probably bought the book because I liked the way it sounded. But after I read it, you know, it just kind of...I don’t know, I had a few different names for this band or whatever you call it through the years, but that one just kind of jumped out at me Anyway it’s this book about these convicts down in Australia. They just keep busting out of jail and keep getting caught. Then they put them in a chain gang and they get caught again. Then they get two sets of chains and then they get busted out and then get caught again.  Eventually they steal one of the ships. They sail the ship to South America, like across the globe, and they get caught there. But it was that feeling...like I can’t relate to what really happened to these guys because it was all a true story, but the band was all about just taking advantage of the freedom that we had with the way we were working. It just kind of fit together and that ended up being the name.

<strong>CoS: You mentioned yesterday how the recording of the album was more of an organic process in how you guys would just get together and play. Are most of the takes on the album separate tracks or did you just do the whole band recording right off the bat?</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> Oh no, they’re all kind of different things. We played in just about every kind of format possible. Some of the songs, there were only a couple of people working on them in the first place. So obviously with those, we had to build them one instrument at a time - kind of start with a loose chord arrangement for the guitar and the vocal line. Then you figure out what you think the drumbeat should be.  If you don’t have a good drummer there, you kind of figure it out any way that you can, you know? You just kind of build it up as it goes. Usually I’ll have some sort of counter-melodies in mind. We’ll try those out on different instruments and kind of just make it up. Like, one of these songs we did in my kitchen here.

<strong>CoS: Really? Which one was that?</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> “In The Middle Of The Sea”.

<strong>CoS: Oh yeah. </strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> It was just me and Addison [Burns] in my kitchen. That’s where I have my grandma’s organ set up and some of my practice amps. We just pounded it out in one night. I was like, “Addison, think you can come over here and record this song?” And he’s like “Yeah.” And I was like “Good, ‘cause I don’t know if we’ll ever record it if we don’t do it today.” So we worked on it for a couple hours, then went out to a bar, had a little hour break, came back, worked on it some more, went back out, and just kind of made it happen. The drums are just us stomping our feet on my floor...

<strong>CoS: Nice.</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> ...and like pulling pots and pans literally down from the shelves and tapping on them and just kind of making things sound as close as we could imagine to how we wanted it. That was definitely the most primal kind of recording we did. On the flip side, there were also days where we had George (Rebelo of Hot Water Music) in there...you know, closer to a full band. It really was just all across the board...making things work however you can figure it out. It’s really fun.

<strong>CoS: Yeah, that song has this great kind of rough and tumble feel to it. There’s this one part in the beginning with the lyric (sings) “baby don’t leave me” where you have this low voice underneath it.  Was that you or was that Addison?</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> Oh yeah, that’s me.

<strong>CoS: That’s a really cool effect.</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> Yeah, that’s the way the song was written, in that lower voice. Most of the stuff was...you know, written in kind of a lower voice. That’s just the way I’ve kind of gotten used to writing. So yeah. I’ve had a couple people point out that little low voice thing.

<strong>CoS: Yeah, I love that. It sounds really cool.</strong>

<strong>CW: </strong>I like it, you know? It’s a little weird and kind of gave it that cool, different tone. I don't know man, I like a lot of that kind of old stuff. You hear that real low voice in there. You’re building your harmonies like out of a lot of different...I don't know what you would call it. It was fun for us to just kind of sit there and be like “okay, well let’s try and figure out a three part harmony here. We’ve got the middle one. What’s the low one going to be?” And you don’t have three singers in the room. It’s just you guys, you know? It’s like “Well, i can’t really find the right note here. Let’s figure it out.” It’s just kind of challenging and fun and not the kind of thing I’ve had a lot of experience doing.

<strong>CoS: You mentioned yesterday that although the band on the album was whoever you had around, you’re slowly developing a sort of more solidified line up for the road, right?</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> Right.

<strong>CoS: And who is in that lineup again?</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> George [Rebelo] is on the skins, Addison's on guitar, Ben Lovett is...we kind of call him the floater. He can play just about anything. Different songs need different things. But mostly on the piano. He’s got a lot of little toys though. I'm doing guitar and vocals obviously. The new guy Chad Darby’s playing bass, just a really super cool dude. I’ve seen his band play before, Averkiou, and I just really liked his style. He really knows what he’s doing. He had played with Addison in a band before. Right now he’s working on a record with George and Gared [O’Donnell] from Planes Mistaken For Stars for Gared’s project called Hawks And Doves. So some of the guys have played with him, and me and him had always talked about doing some loose jamming or whatever you’d call it. Once that got going, the band just really solidified. 

Once we had all of us in the room together, it was like “aw, man, this is awesome” - kind of looking back at the songs on the record and being like “how are we going to play these songs with these guys?” ‘Cause everyone has a different style. “George what are you going to do to this song? Chad, what are you going to do?” Kind of keeping everything open to interpretation even though the record’s already done, you know? It just got us really cooking and lately we’ve just been writing a lot of new stuff; working on the next record, working on the split with Ninja Gun, working on the EP. We wrote a couple songs with Mike Hale, kind of a collaboration thing there, just writing a lot, really focusing in on this band and kind of finding who we are. It’s been awesome, man. After so much time working on all this, and now there’s a band and it feels so good. It’s been a long strange trip.

<strong>CoS:</strong> <strong>One of the things that you mentioned about everyone in the band is that they all have other projects they’re working on. But would you say that your main focus right now is The Ship Thieves?</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> Yeah, I mean definitely at this point in time. But just last year we toured all around with Hot Water, and that was the main focus. There wasn’t a whole lot of time to think of other stuff. But yeah, right now, man, especially in a creative sense, this is where we’re putting our energy. But George and Chad are working on Gared’s record and George also went out and helped Chuck (Ragen of Hot Water Music) on his new record.  Addison is playing in The Enablers. He plays drums in that band. Ben Lovett...we’ve all been helping him with his solo record. Ben usually does a lot of indie movie scores, you know?

<strong>CoS: Really?</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> Not songs, but more of the score type of stuff

<strong>CoS: There have been a few indie films shot in Gainesville in the past few years. Has he worked on any of those?</strong>

<strong>CW: </strong>No, he hasn’t worked on any of them here.The last movie he worked one was this one called <em>The Signal</em>.  It got bought for sure. It got a limited release in theaters. I got it on Netflix (laughs).

<strong>CoS: I’ll have to order it.</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> It’s out there. I don’t know how much it really got pushed or anything like that. He’s working on a couple projects coming up. Right now, he’s working on some other friends’ records and blah blah blah. But he’s also got like an <em>album</em> album of songs; more traditional rock. Most of the guys in The Ship Thieves have been helping him and working on stuff pretty similar to how we attack Ship Thieves records. We’re all just kind of helping each other and just doing kind of everything, kind of breaking out of the regular way you would think of a band - just have it be more of a great creative outlet and a good group of people you can rely on to do a lot of different things. So it’s been really, really wild. Everybody's got so much going on.  Luckily, we’ve been able to make time. The Ship Thieves is coming along pretty damn fast.

<strong>CoS: Is your primary base still Gainesville? Obviously, you tour a lot.</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> Absolutely. I’ve got a thirteen year old boy down two and half hours south of me here. So Florida's definitely my home. Me and George bought houses here in Gainesville, so that’s a pretty good sign that we’re not going anywhere. Addison lives here. He’s been up here six years, but he’s from down south, like the Miami area. Chad lives here and works at No Idea and his band is here. He’s from down south too. Ben is the only one that doesn’t live here. He’s from Georgia, but most of the time when we were working on this record, he was out in L.A. for about five years. So he just moved back to the east coast. That was kind of what prompted getting more of a traditional group together. It was when I knew we were all going to be semi-close to each other where we could at least drive and play. But when he was still out west, you couldn’t even think about doing that.
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<strong>CoS: Your son that you mentioned...you wrote “It’s Hard To Know” for him back with Hot Water.</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> Yeah.

<strong>CoS: And as you mentioned yesterday, you wrote “Hey B” off the new record for your girlfriend. Do you find that most of your songwriting comes from real life events or people, or is it a mixture of fictional scenarios as well?</strong>

<strong>CW: </strong>(laughs) Yeah, a very large...definitely the majority of what I’ve ever done has been directly to somebody. A lot of the kind of love songs really are, you know, about your relationships with your women. Those are directly straight at ‘em or straight for ‘em. Most of what I do, I try and keep it “this is the way I'm living, these are my stories, these are the moments I ended up thinking about, these are the things on my mind.” I kind of try and keep it nice and simple like that. I'm not going to tell you how to be and I'm not going to yell at you about my beliefs but if you want to read about it, it’s all in these stories. I don’t know, I try and keep it like that...like maybe these are just little chapters. You piece them all together and you’ll find me in there somewhere. Something like that.

<strong>CoS: You mentioned yesterday that you covered Bruce Springsteen’s “No Surrender” with Hot Water on <em>Till The Wheels Fall Off</em>.  You guys have also covered “True Believers” by The Bouncing Souls.  What’s your favorite cover you’ve done in the past but have never gotten on record?</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> Well “True Believers” has never gotten recorded.

<strong>CoS: (laughs) Yeah, that’s definitely a good one.</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> We’ve done a couple Naked Raygun songs that have never gotten recorded. We did “Wonder Beer” and “Soldier’s Requiem” from them. We did a Pegboy song. So that’s three songs from just those guys.  We did “Field Of Darkness” for The Draft but we never recorded it. There’s a song called “Swann Street” by an old band called Three, that was pretty much a band called Grey Matter except for they changed drummers for one album. The drummer from Minor Threat plays on that record. We used to monkey around with that song but I don’t even think we played it live. But Jason's (Black of Hot Water Music) old band Unitas played it once. That’s one of my favorite fucking songs. That song’s so rad. 

I don’t know, man, we monkey around all the time. Wednesday night we were practicing...we played a couple Thin Lizzy songs. Me and Addison were jamming out to some blues songs before the guys got there, some Otis Rush stuff. What else were we playing? Just, you know, whatever pops up. You learn a lot. You learn a fucking lot by playing cover songs, even if you’re never going to play them live. Even in a million years, if you’re never going to play it live, you learn a lot. You learn about how other people arrange songs. You learn how they’re stacking up their harmonies, you learn how they go in and out of solos.  Imagine learning two different peoples’ versions of the same song. You learn a lot of different things about the people. 

Usually when you get on stage, you go “we have forty-five minutes, or an hour or however long we have”. You have a fixed amount of time, and you’re like “I want to play our stuff. All these covers would be fun but if we only have a certain amount of time, I want to play all the stuff that we wrote.” So you know, for covers, everybody has to agree and you say “let’s play this one live,” but it’s just a fun way to practice and keep yourself loose, thinking of new ideas.

<strong>CoS: Anything you want to say about the band or the future of The Ship Thieves?</strong>



<strong>CW: </strong>Besides the fact that everybody should go out and get the record?

<strong>CoS: (laughs) Yeah.</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> Pay attention when we come into town. 

<strong>CoS: Oh yeah, you mentioned an upcoming tour the other day. Any solidified dates for the near future?</strong>

<strong>CW:</strong> Nothing really solid. All these kind of proposed schedules are rubbing up against each other. So we’ve got a little bit of work to do. Definitely in early summer, we’re going to be playing around Florida, playing around the south, and it’s just kinda going to grow from there; some east coast stuff, up to Chicago, New York. Keep it kind of simple, you know? We’re just really getting into the swing of it. ]]></content:mobile>
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