Heavy rock duo Muffler Crunch has risen.
Risen out of a Hull, Quebec neighbourhood made infamous by crack busts and stabbings.
Risen from a house where the amps must be cranked up high to be heard over the warthog snorts of 18 wheelers barreling down their street and the screeching tires and pulsing stereos of bondo smeared Mustangs.
Risen from a street full of loud-mouthed drunks taking their clumsy, evening constitutionals.
When local Ottawa, Ontario rock scouts Neal Johnstone and Scott Terry (Last Drag Records) dug band members Angie “The Barbarian” Neatby (drums/vocals) and Luc Lavigne (Ol’ Sparky, the guitar) out of the dank, subterranean caves of Canadian underground rock, the band had already accumulated a belt's full of musical notches. Both members had done time in the experimental and theatrical goon-rock outfit David and Michaud. The band's only album, “Kermit Roman Numeral” remains a cult favourite among North American indie/experimental rock enthusiasts. While still working with David and Michaud, Neatby and Lavigne worked tirelessly on a variety of two-person, minimalist side projects, some of them walking a "Moldy Peaches" tightrope between the rough and the soft. As David and Michaud crumbled, MUFFLER CRUNCH surfaced.
MUFFLER CRUNCH was the name band members Neatby and Lavigne might have given their musical "moulting stage". Although David and Michaud had been a rich and artistically exciting experience, Neatby and Lavigne had no choice but to press past it as their technical talent increased day by day. The term "experimental" gradually came to mean something completely more sophisticated and refined to them than it had during past projects.
For the band’s first foray into the world of professional recording, Last Drag Records paved the way by providing an appropriately dark and chambered concrete basement recording studio, as well as all the vintage analog and digital equipment that was fast becoming very attractive to many professional musical acts at the time.
It was Last Drag Records' mission, as an indie label, to help shape MUFFLER CRUNCH's reflective, challenging, organic & coarse - yet intellectual music. Johnstone and Terry worked tirelessly alongside Neatby and Lavigne, bending and re-shaping "the bar" and pushing the sacred, unwritten limits of all that was typical of the traditional rock genre.
Muffler Crunch then proudly served up their début full length, Ol’ Sparky’s Revenge, a searing, seven song showcase for the intense vocals and blistering guitar that the duo has become known for. A brash and aggressive record, cast in the fires of brutal honesty and steeped in the heat of the tireless search for a sort of "post-modern" enlightenment - it was met with a phenomenally positive response from a considerably varied fan base, which continues to grow daily. Enter MUFFLER CRUNCH....enter the DEVIL.
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You cant get away with the muffler cause CRUNCH always gives you away - Thanks for the the lazy postering opportunity
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he he no thats our bass player that just left our band yesterday just like that here one day gone the next just as ya think your band just getting out of the rehersal room & start playing shows it all goes to shit. Anyway WE ARE LOOKING FOR A BASS PLAYER IF YA COULD PUT THE WORD OUT FOR US and as far as the show goes we can set it up so we will do a show corasponding with the new cd and the cd release party i asume im know we hav never met but i believe we have some friends in commin im an old friend of kerry mcnolty and a lot of her old friend i would love to play a show with you guys one day take care andy snap
this is the good ole' uncle unknown at HANK III and ASSJACK JUne 06" check out the patented "gravedigger" move-hahahahahahahaaa I like your music!!!! if you come to washington state i will gravedig for you as well :)
Angie! I'm not going to get to track you down before I leave. My departure is imminent-3 days and things are hectic. I'm pissed at myself for not making it happen. Can you give me the address for the House of Horrors so I can send you postcards of snattlerakes while I'm in the desert? You haven't heard the last from me!
Fucking amazing show last night! Thanks for the good times. Angie I'll have a fresh Felines recording for you the next time I see you. Which unfortunately isn't gonna be on the 4th. Found out we're going up to Pembrooke for the long weekend. I'm pissed, I know we're gonna miss a great shindig. Have an awesome time, I know you will and let's get together soon very soon!
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July 6th: THE VIBRATORS @ Katacombes w/The Automatix, Diskonected, Out Of Order & The Bators
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July 13th: SOCIETYS PARASITES (Hell-Cat Recs) @ Katacombes w/Million Dollar Marxists, Subsistance & Dead And COnfused
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July 28th: AGNOSTIC FRONT @ Foufounes Electriques w/Subzero, The Hoods & Pledge Of Resistance
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August 17th: Static Throught (Hell-Cat Recs) + Action (Punkcore Recs) @ Katacombes w/++Guest
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Also We Are Helping Promote This Show:July 21 @ Bar L'Escogriffe: Ryan's Hope (USA) + Giving Chase (USA) + Not Today + Bloody Carole
Hey, I know you're probably going to see ween in Montreal on June 9th, but perhaps the lonely souls reading this would like to come see our band open for Pride Tiger and Die Mannequin that night at Zaphods. Good luck in Toronto. love you long time. MEB
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