allright ye scallywags. Here's what we're doing: we put up a song without bass. No, we're not setting a new trend, and no we don't think it sounds good. What's going to happen is that all the bass playaz in the house (this means you) are going to download it, and put your own bassline to it, then send it back to us. Then one of two things will happen. We'll listen to it and laugh really hard and mess ourselves, or listen to it and be really impressed and ask you to come hang out with us. Then sometime in the near future, someone will put up a better version of this little anecdote.
BUY OUR ALBUMS GIVE US YOUR MONEY.
Just kidding, but seriously.
makeoutmusic is a three-piece hardcore punk band from NY. Since their inception in 2002, they have come a long way from their humble beginnings, evolving a sound that channels west coast punk with an east coast hardness and comes off fresh and energized. With three releases and two U.S. tours under their belts, they emerge from the creation of their fourth relesase (Get off my Soapbox, out now) with a new lineup: Justin Iorio of You and What Army on guitar, former guitarist Olivier Charlas on bass, and Tyler Mahal on drums, and have been busy saturating the Tri-State area with shows and promotion.
makeoutmusic was formed with an ideal in mind: play hard, play fast, but also play good. Aching to bring back hardcore punk rock in an era where it seems to have either been slowed down, dumbed down, or popped out, they spent striving to be the tightest act around, spending up to 8 hours at a time locked in the basement, honing skills and writing songs. When their first E.P. (the Rise of Poop Culture Independent 2003) was released and they started playing nonstop in the Hudson Valley, the payoff came in the form of packed shows and great reviews, although being a young band there were doubts as to where they would go and whether they could progress. The next year, the youth of Northeast America became witness to a harder, faster, yet more capable and evolved makeoutmusic in the form of their first full-length: Infidel. Bringing about murmurs of Kid Dynamite and Bigwig, from reviewers and eliciting phrases such as pure piss and vinegar, rage fueled hardcore romps, scathing DIY punk rock, At first, it hurts like hell , and sticking my hand into a pound of ice cold ground beef to mix it with raw eggs and bread crumbs for my patented meat loaf. At first, it hurts like hell, yet, there's something pleasurable about feeling the raw meat and egg ooze between my fingers.
This time around makeoutmusic is back with a six-song release the results of eight months of constant writing and trashing and growing together as a unit. With fresh influences and new to draw from, Get off my Soapbox is their tightest and most versatile release yet, but still keeps the hard edge that they have become known for.
With a name like makeoutmusic youd expect some sweet poppunking emo-ish goodness but no, this threesome ditches out some of the fiercest, most unrelenting bunch of tracks I have heard in recent times.
-Europunk
