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"I Am the Water You Are Pumping" EP is now only available at live performances, soon to be completely out of print.

THE ORION SONGBOOK, the debut LP from Frontier Ruckus, will be released this summer on Quite Scientific Records.Frontier Ruckus is most usually in a perpetual state of waiting--limbo. This is an enormous place to be, it is seen clearly in the modern space of the "dead mall;" it's like this, buildings and towns and counties are containers that gradually show the glowing life or death of the things within them. The existence of locality, and the connection of all the spaces or people you engulf via bodies and via breath, that expansiveness of breath, is where Frontier Ruckus resides, and it is past that county-line-frontier where knowledge and affection blur into nothing. Every space/place/winter gas station lot/anonymous-dim-white-metal-highwayside-dome/etc. that you've known and eye-gulped compulsively throughout a lifetime is a container of memory and affect, and the faces of these places, these containers, are slowly exhibiting explicit portrayals of that which they hold--body and breath and horrible nighttime cosmos. When Frontier Ruckus is in song, the dynamism throatily throttles out of idle and the container spills all of its fluid out onto the bashful and awful hands of anything that does the pumping.
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Member Since: 7/14/2005
Band Website: frontierruckus.com
Band Members: Matthew Milia, David Jones, Eli Eisman, Zachary Nichols, Ryan Etzcorn, Anna Burch
Influences: Stephen Collins Foster, William Carlos Williams
Sounds Like: "...and there was them kind of faint dronings of bugs and flies in the air that makes it seem so lonesome and like everybody's dead and gone" -Huckleberry Finn
Record Label: Quite Scientific
Type of Label: Indie

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RCRDLBL sxsw feature on frontier ruckus/ other sxsw press

RCRD·LBL Austin Sound Very kind words in Dutch...
Posted by frontier ruckus on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:41:00 PST

Quite Scientific!

So as of yesterday, Frontier Ruckus is officially a part of Quite Scientific Records! The band is so thrilled and honored to join a collective that consists of some of its best friends--Canada and Chr...
Posted by frontier ruckus on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:10:00 PST

Listen to Matthew's telephone performance on 'Phoning It In' 88.1 WELH Providence, Rhode Island

http://bsrlive.com/archives/playlist.php?p=6337 Matthew performed into the telephone from his bedroom in West Bloomfield, Michigan on May 24, 2007. He played: Adirondack Amish HollerThe Back-Lot ...
Posted by frontier ruckus on Fri, 25 May 2007 07:12:00 PST

I Am the Water You Are Pumping liner notes

I Am the Water You Are Pumping as performed by FRONTIER RUCKUS:Matthew Milia/ voice, guitar, harmonica, staircase, songsDavid W. Jones/ banjo, voice, keychainEli Eisman/ bass, thunder-sheet, voiceZach...
Posted by frontier ruckus on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:38:00 PST