Member Since: 1/11/2005
Band Website: freeporcupinesociety.com
Band Members: THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN THE BAND. WE ARE UNABLE TO PLAY SHOWS FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE AS OUR MEMBERS ARE LIVING IN CALIFORNIA, ALASKA, AND NEW YORK. IT WOULD TAKE A VERY SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCE TO HAVE US PLAY YOUR SHOW OR YOUR TOWN. I WOULD NOT RULE IT OUT, BUT IT IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY, BUT THANK YOU ANYWAY, WE APPRECIATE YOU ASKING
Sounds Like: From the Portland Mercury:7 YEAR RABBIT CYCLEWind Machines(Free Porcupine Society)****At its best, punk rock music is a willfully indefinable genre. 7 Year Rabbit Cycle contains all of the elements that would allow your average CEO or lunch lady to define them as "punk" (petulant and/or terrifying vocals, zealously dissonant guitars, sometimes explicitly political lyrics), but these traits come incidental to a deeper, overriding artistic intent. Unlike some of their more lumber-headed poli-punk predecessors, (NOFX, say) 7YRC are as aggressively democratic in form as they are in theory. Nearly every member of the band sings at various times, and many of the songs are constructed in a skeletal way that demands the tiny, fragmentary compositional forces of every player to achieve full realization. Amongst the animalistic punk workouts (including a pretty straight cover of Black Flag's "Gimme Gimme Gimme") there are some utterly harrowing and out moments. Most of the lyrics deal with either our current landscape of utter political terror or the more uncontrollable and untamed forces of the natural world. Wind Machines seems to be a sort of calling down of these forces to wash away our crippling, slow tyranny; winds of change, winds of death, whatever. SAM MICKENS
Record Label: free porcupine society
Type of Label: Indie