Hostage Calm with Greg Horbal (by Carly Hoskins)
2012/10/26 High Dive, Gainesville, FL
Hostage Calm - Please Remain Calm (Blue/green/black marble, /200)
This is awesome!Stand up for your beliefs.
We do.
Got to see some friends last night, we remixed the Please Remain Calm cover
Seriously, these first two weeks of the Please Remain Calm tour have been lifechanging. Since the first note of that first show in Cleveland, this tour has been a whirlwind. We are so thankful for your energy and for making these sets so special. Our performance at FEST 11 was one of the most emotional and meaningful sets we’ve had to date.
When we made this album, we felt like there was something missing in our lives. There was this feeling of being stalled out and disconnected. This is all too common for a lot of us these days, but I will say, these shows and the relationships we’re building give me hope.
Last night’s final show of this Into It. Over It./Make Do and Mend/Owen tour is not an end, but a beginning. There is something brewing in young people across America and we’re going to go around this whole beaten country talking about it. We will be on the road with Streetlight Manifesto for the next month and we hope you’ll join us.
For information on tour dates, go to www.hostagecalm.net
Jeff and Taylor working late at Run For Cover Records to get your order out.
(via runforcoverrecords)
Run For Cover Bands @ Fest 11!
We’ve got some great bands playing amongst many other great bands playing this weekend. Go check em out!
Headline Shows in December!
We are excited to announce some shows on our way back from the Streetlight Manifesto tour in December, including our CT record release show at the Space on Dec 15th. Check out www.hostagecalm.net/tour for tickets/more info. Word!
12/9 Albuquerque, NM @ Gasworks
12/10 Oklahoma, OK @ Conservatory
12/11 St. Louis, MO @ FUBAR
12/12 Columbus, OH @ Rumba Cafe
12/13 Philadelphia, PA @ The Fire
12/15 Hamden, CT @ The Space
POZ BandsOnBands: Hostage Calm On Warning
Mondays mean BandsOnBands, and we’re excited to be posting the PropertyOfZack feature today with Nick Balzano of Hostage Calm. The band just released their new album, Please Remain Calm, via Run For Cover Records a few weeks ago, and it’s one of 2012’s best, so pick up a copy here.
In this week’s feature, Nick dives into one of his favorite bands, Warning, and describes the way their music hit him perfectly during his Doom Metal kick, how we naturally gravitate to great sad music, and what it’s like discovering a band for the first time.Check out what Nick had to say about one of his biggest influences below!
From Nick Balzano of Hostage Calm:
I remember first hearing Warning and thinking, “This is the saddest shit in the world.”
Now I don’t know if you know me, but sad sells in my book. One of my favorite bands when I was growing up and discovering music was Mogwai. All of the instrumental stuff really did it for me. Throw on a Godspeed You! Black Emperor album, lay down in your bed and stare at the ceiling. I don’t think I was ever really in a bad mood, but something about disconnecting yourself from what was going on and listening to the emotion portrayed in those songs really moved me in a profound way when I was younger.
As the years went on I got into different music, gravitated towards the heavier stuff and somehow ended up on a huge Doom Metal kick. Electric Wizard, Pentagram, Bongzilla, Acid King: it was all I listened to. And it was during this time that I stumbled upon Warning. They were Doom Metal’s answer to all of the music I had grown to love over the years, doing something musically that hadn’t really been done. They took the concepts of Doom Metal and brought them into a more realistic domain where the lyrics had meaning but still retained the “epic ness” of their metal counterparts. And the music was nothing short of amazing. Their songs were long (averaging about 10 minutes) and were delicately orchestrated pieces of music in a way that movie scores can be.
After my first listen to the album I’m pretty sure I was humming all the melodies around my house that day. If there’s anything I learned from Warning it was this: don’t be afraid to write an intricate riff that might extend longer than what you’re used to writing. Who says you can’t write a guitar part that doesn’t repeat for 30 seconds and has a lyrical sway to it. It really inspired me at the time to do some serious song writing in that style. I learned about Counterpoint and the importance of good chord choices all because of this one album. That’s not to say that I hadn’t already thought about these things, but it had put it in a different perspective that finally made me get it. Anyone that writes his or her own music knows when something like this happens.
Please Remain Calm Album Release Party 12/15 CT
More bands TBA, tickets on sale this Friday here: http://www.manicproductions.org/event/178777
We’re gonna be on tour from now until then and we’ll be pulling out all the stops. Let’s get wild
BASEMENT - COLOURMEINKINDESS FOR $5
It rules
You can now buy Basement’s amazing last record digitally on bandcamp for $5. Please support this awesome band!
http://runforcoverrecords.bandcamp.com/album/colourmeinkindness
