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"Hide Your Empties EP" is currently available at NEWBURY COMICS in Cambridge, MA, and PRINCETON RECORD EXCHANGE in Princeton, NJ; and digital release is available on iTunes, Amazon, and more.
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“All You Need from Brooklyn hideouts Gunfight! is a backwoods country-rock stomp that explodes into a clash of distorted guitars and scratchy howls from frontman Drew Mintz. Bassist Tony Aquilino, drummer Dominic Turi, and lead guitarist Bill Dvorak drive the song with their twangy but fast rhythmic eruptions. From the opening guitar licks to the final slam, the song rides an unwavering urgency like a drunk cowboy searching for the wild, wild rock’n’roll West. A whiskey-fueled sprint you just can’t catch up to, but keep stomping because these guys are going a long way. Check out their recent Hide Your Empties EP and a slough of east-coast dates."SPIN Earth - October 2009
"Bushwick four-piece GunFight delivers scratchy punk pop—all hurry-up drums and chugga-chugga guitars. We’ve a feeling this will be excellent fun live."TimeOut NY - November 2009
"Given the sheer amount of bands existing in this city, it's not all that uncommon to see a few acts that deserve to be bigger than they are...[including] the twangy beer-soaked blitz of GunFight!..." The L Magazine - November 2009
"Brooklyn based quartet Gunfight! describes their sound as 'post-country' which equates to twangy, beer-soaked indie rock and rowdy live shows that will kick the dust off your cowboy boots. Hide Your Empties EP features countrified jams about life, heartache and good times all played loud, fast and with loads of fervor. Expect heavy guitar riffs, booming rapid-fire drums and howling vocals culminating in a kick-ass EP."Record Dept Music Reviews - August 2009
"...they are god damn bad ass." Brooklyn Ski Club - July 2009
Fresh Baked: A
"Gunfight! released their debut album, Hide Your Empties, on BNS Sessions just two weeks ago. And, already, the local press is all over it. From start to finish, all five songs on the EP are in top form. Feeling rootsy, but fresh, the tracks come alive with their own take on what it means to blend country and punk. The lead track, Empties, has singer Drew Mintz making accusatory howls in third person, “We know better than you,” disabusing anyone who cares to think they can party harder than the four Bushwick boys. For those with the gall to attempt outdoing these gentlemen over a bottle of whiskey, they might match themselves against Vaccine, a sweet bluesy ballad about love, lust, and liver destruction, delivered in a cooing, guttural growl. The final song, All You Need, is most damning of all those pretty young heartbreakers – “All I want to do is break your heart/All I want to do is see your heart in two,” Mintz wails over the band’s spastic, yet driving jams.
Whether their picking up a bottle or putting down a pill, there’s no time for interventions on Hide Your Empties, now available digitally through iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, Napster and others digital outlets. You can also pick up a physical copy through Cargo Records or directly through BNS Sessions."
Jezebel Music - April 2009
"With their own special brand of beer-soaked post-country jams, Gunfight! has carved out a unique and clever little niche in the current realm of indie music. Hailing from Brooklyn, or Bushwick to be exact, the fourtet has recently risen to the forefront of the New York music scene with their rowdy balls-to-the-wall live shows that have crowds kicking up their cowboy boots for a whole new type of dance. While they wail about the painful proddings and pokings of love, and the beer it makes you drink sometimes, their tunes seem to plow through you like a steam locomotive speeding out of control, having left its tracks behind some time ago."
h-Monthly - New Music Pick - April 2009
"GunFight! exploded onto the stage with their welcome brand of heavy country metal. Although they are perhaps the shortest band around, (the drummer, rather tall, politely chooses to sit down during performances), these four make such a big sound that you can see the soundwaves traveling through the air. With guitars that sound like electric saws, drums like a firing squad, and a the warm screech of Drew Mintz’s howling vocals, these particular waves were enough to make a noise-rock audience dance without irony. These guys have about 10 solid years of entertainment in them before they start carrying bindles full of baked beans and riding the rails."
Tiny Mix Tapes - Live Review - January 2009
"Bushwick’s rootin’ tootin’est foursome, GunFight!, has the audacity to both punctuate their band name with an exclamation point and coin a term to describe their own sound (“post-country”). They have plenty to be fired up about, having armed themselves with an arsenal of solid rock and roll tunes. Bassist Tony Aquilino lays down bouncing melodic lines that bring the “country,” while Bill Dvorak’s lead guitar screams out the “post” over singer/guitarist Drew Mintz’s folksy chords and Dominic Turi’s tight, manic drum attacks. Songs like Home Home Home and All You Need chug along like runaway post-country trains, recontextualizing country themes in a beer-soaked, contemporary Brooklyn setting. GunFight! has been regularly gigging at dive bars and loft shows since forming in 2006. With a five-song EP, Hide Your Empties already under their belt buckles, the band will be heading to the studio over the next few months to lay down a full-length album. For now, they can be found whoopin’ it up at a party near you."
The Deli Magazine - Best of NYC '09 Issue - Spring 2009
"Let’s mix some genres shall we? So you have some New York punk and then add an ol’ cowboy Western edge and finish it off with some indie cred. Sound odd? Well it exists as Gunfight! The scratchy, screechy vocals that sound like indie rock star Muppet (watch yer back Animal) work amazingly well with the fast-paced twangy guitar and the hopping drums. So well that it pushes the band past what could be misconstrued as a gimmick to a legitimate record with original, catchy songs, each standing quite well on its own. All You Need is a song you could play in one of those trendy dance clubs, scenesters know what I’m talking about, but also line dance to it too (not ironically). The yee-haw vocals paired with a rockabilly guitar that seemingly took advantage of a dirty garage band one drunken evening taps along at a beat that would make any ADD sufferer jealous. Vaccine is a yodeling slower number with Strokes-type guitars to give it that certain attitude. Except unlike The Strokes, Gunfight! actually sound like they enjoy what they’re doing. It’s a great song to drag your dame across the dance floor with. Or, more likely, down shots of hard liquor. Take Off begins with lumbering guitar/horse lollops that strum into a fast, energetic party that any hipster worth his/her headband would dance too or even willingly splash their PBR. And then we come to the guns-shooting Flash, with a raucous guitar solo that would make Hawaii-era Elvis jealous. Finishing off with Empties we get lead singer Drew Mintz’s squawk, unfettered by the instruments. Standing quite well on its own, it’s the sort of voice that cries out to be mimicked. So he should probably trademark it (is that even possible?). The rest of the song allows for each band member to stand out on his own, letting guitars take the lead and then drums, with the bass keeping the rhythm throughout. Hide Your Empties is the sort of record a more pretentious magazine would call tour de force, but since that basically tells you nothing, it’s really just four guys having fun, inventing new ways to make music interesting and a little weird."
Northeast Performer - May 2009
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