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White Suns

About Me


"White Suns sound like Wolf Eyes covering 'Confusion Is Sex'-era Sonic Youth but with an outcome that is a hundred times more primal and exciting than you could possibly imagine." NME Magazine, Oct 25 2008

"...welders of sharp-edged metallic dissonance White Suns." Impose Magazine, Sept 27, 2008

videos:
'long bong' (clip) @ Pyramid Atlantic, Washington DC 3.21.09
"my form fades" @ z radio - 01.26.08
"summer" @ Z radio - 01.26.08
"growth" @ Z radio - philadelphia, PA 01.26.08
"don mattingly" @ z radio - 01.26.08
"communion" - allston, MA 02.18.06

hear us on our friends' radio shows:
east village radio: local only
z radio
no-core

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 09/02/2006
Band Members: dana, kevin, rick
Influences: life. death. shitty bands. guilt. impatience. media theory. america.
Sounds Like: now:
c20 split w/ shearing pinx on isolated now waves, ltd. 50
soon:
c20 on heavy psych
7inch on dert records

Type of Label: Major

My Blog

happenings

we went on another short tour in march 2009, eerily simlar to the one we did last march.  this time instead of destroying the van, i (kevin) destroyed my guitar.  in richmond, virginia.  all transpire...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:30:00 GMT

WS as audio purgative

our friend rick over at human conduct has recently finished putting together a musical panacea for those of you who are fatally sick of today's infinite expanse of blandness marketed as underground mu...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:55:00 GMT

white suns in NME

we heard about this and first thought someone was just 'taking the piss' out of us, as they say in england. nope. white suns was mentioned in an NME article about bands coming from Wesleyan Universi...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:49:00 GMT

the tour

oh hey, this is a little late.. the tour.  oh my god.    show 1: baltimore brunch at rick w.'s house there is nothing better than starting off a tour with a brunch show.  the ...
Posted by on Tue, 06 May 2008 17:21:00 GMT

new milford and philadelphia

last weekend we did two shows: one in new milford, CT (where white suns was born) at the knights of columbus which is a local rentable space owned by a conservative christian faction of some kind.&nbs...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:36:00 GMT

way back in oct 2007

we never wrote about two really good shows we had in october.  one was at wesleyan university in connecticut.  it took me (kevin) four fucking hours in a car to get from nyc to middletown, c...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:25:00 GMT

providunce

zoe of belly boat fame invited us to play a lovely loft deep in the bowels of rhode island. providence is hell to park in--i think they're attached to the idea of being a quaint villa and refuse to cr...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:23:00 GMT

things for sale

we have a few cds and t-shirts that we made.  the only place we have sold anything was in allentown, PA.  if you would like to buy any of our exquisite merchanise, message us and we can arra...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:55:00 GMT

baltimore and allentown

have been lazy about writing in this recently.  but we played two shows recently that totally deserve to be canonized in the holy white suns blog.  the nerve center in baltimore was a great ...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:41:00 GMT

boston/allston

last weekend, i (kevin) smashed my face on concrete steps after we played a sloppy set plagued with equipment problems and rat shit.  despite my injury and the speaker cabinet ...
Posted by on Fri, 18 May 2007 14:22:00 GMT