Black Flag, Bl'ast!, KISS, Left Insane, Local H, Dave Grohl, Ramones, Greg Ginn, Minutemen, Melvins, ALL, Smithereens, Husker Du, Fu Manchu, Boba Fett, Dengar, IG-88 and 4 LOM.
Sounds Like
Black Flag attitude + Greg Ginn riffs + High On Fire volume + KISS action + Bl'ast energy + Fu Manchu thickness + Gloria Estefan odor
IT'S CASUAL: THE NEW LOS ANGELES
It’s hard to digest the minutiae of society while traveling the freeways of Los Angeles in the comfort of a car at sixty miles per hour. Typically lined on both sides by cinder block walls, the L.A. freeways are mere pipelines of travel, often scurrying residents through neighborhoods of both low and high-income within mere minutes, barely offering a scant glimpse of what happens at the ends of those off-ramps.
But when It’s Casual vocalist/guitarist Edward Solis leaves his eastern Los Angeles-based residence to make his daily hour-long commute to Hollywood, he’s able to form an entirely new perspective. Solis, a rare, unlicensed Angelino, relies solely on public transportation to make his way around. The bus routes and train line on which he rides meander on surface streets, cutting across both decorative and distressed neighborhoods.
Armed with nothing more than a hard, plastic seat perched aside an etched window and his keen observations, Solis has been able to capture his interpretation of Los Angeles life via It’s Casual’s third album, The New Los Angeles.
It’s Casual, also featuring drummer W.C.E., has been performing since the late ‘90s throughout Southern California. The summer of 2002 found the pair outside the state’s borders, as part of the Vans Warped Tour, promoting its debut, Buicregl. In 2004, It’s Casual took a couple days off (yes, literally a couple) to record its second album, Stop Listening To Bad Music. The album found Solis upping the ante on his straightforward delivery of life in the large city.
After returning home from a summer tour in 2006, It’s Casual entered the studio with producer Sergio J. Chavez for a third album session. The resulting ten-song collection, The New Los Angeles, finds the band more focused than ever, with its hard-hitting, riff-packed hardcore punk/metal delivery that rubs shoulders with the best of Black Flag, Fu Manchu, Motorhead and Bl’ast.
The song titles themselves are enough to mold a basic expectation. The album launches with the title track, which reveals a lack of communication amongst residents. Child negligence concerns are addressed via “Too Many Kids,” while “The Red Line” flags the horrors of freeway traffic when suitable alternatives already exist. “L.A.P.D.” speaks of law enforcement’s scramble (and sometimes failure) to protect a city bursting at its seams and “Navigator” points the fi nger at those who parade the streets with just a façade of wealth.
X released Los Angeles in 1977 and Ry Cooder’s Chavez Ravine might’ve addressed the City of Angels to some extent. But never before has the nation’s largest city been so thoroughly documented as on It’s Casual’s latest, The New Los Angeles. It’s the new Los Angeles!
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IT'S CASUAL RELEASES:
Buicregl CD/12" LP
Stop Listening To Bad Music CD/12" LP
The New Los Angeles CD/12" LP
12" LPs: Each title in a limited edition of 500 copies worldwide, pressed on 180gm, two-color swirled vinyl.
7": Split with BULLET TREATMENT, limited edition of 500 copies worldwide!
CD COMPILATION: "Wrong Side of the Trax" Vol. 1, feat. IT'S CASUAL, VULTURES UNITED, BULLET TREATMENT and more.
Prices include shipping: North America CD $12/LP $20/7" $5/COMP $3; International CD $15/LP $25/7" $8/COMP $6
Send money orders or well-concealed cash to:
GMI
5419 Hollywood Bl. C451
Los Angeles, CA 90027
PayPal: highenergybooking@yahoo.com
Orders will be shipped a week after they are received. If you have a question about mailorder, please e-mail sales@gmidistro.com.
CONTACT IT'S CASUAL: Send us a message via this MySpace thing or e-mail us at itscasualmail@yahoo.com.
BOOKING: For US and international booking please contact Peter Davis at Creature Booking (pdavis@creaturebooking.com).
RETAILERS: If you are an independent record store seeking to carry our releases, contact GMI (sales@gmidistro.com), Carrot Top or Revolver.
Just stopping by to say hi and give you some news. The award winning album 'Welcome To Murraysville' from Phil Murray and the Boys From Bury is available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
Vinyl Party Boys presents a night of rock n roll celebratory as Brant Bjork, Cale Bunker, & theREASON spin vinyl, show films, and, well, party for the re-release of Brant Bjork's Jalamanta. We will each get behind the turn tables to bring you the rock and Cale will be spinning from the LDP catalog as well as some other desert rarities. 3408 Verdugo Rd. Los Angeles, CA 90065
Here the skinny on the reason we are doing this:
So to commemorate 10 years of this rock n roll classic Low Desert Punk is reissuing it on 180 gram virgin vinyl with a 24 page full size booklet, new photos, lyrics, & liner notes in an embossed gatefold cover and it will be limited to 1000 copies. We will be selling it at this event for less than you will get it anywhere on-line or in stores! We may have some other LDP stuff as well, so come down and see what happens.
Hey compadre queremos reeditar todo el material audio–visual que hizo esta divertida banda de Punk-Oi!-Hardcore entre 1987 y 1997. Los mismísimos TOY DOLLS de Barcelona!!!
Hey compadre queremos reeditar todo el material audio–visual que hizo esta divertida banda de Punk-Oi!-Hardcore entre 1987 y 1997. Los mismísimos TOY DOLLS de Barcelona!!!
Hey ! how are you ? dont think we have spoken in a while ! . We just wanted to let you know we have 4 BRAND NEW SONGS from our debut EP up on our player now, it would mean the world to us if you could listen to them and tell us what you think :) thanks so much for your time its really appreciated !
FUN CITY IS BACK FOR ONE AWESOME NIGHT IN HONOR OF MARIO81'S BIRTHDAY, HALLOWEEN VS. DIA DE LOS MUERTOS (LAST NITE TO DRESS UP IN COSTUME) FREE ALL NIGHT, OPEN BAR TIL10:30, 3AWESOME BANDS (VIDA TINTA, LOUDER THAN BOMBS, AND CRIME OF PASSION), WITH DJ'S MODERN ROQ AND DUNKIN DAVE. SPINNING THE BEST IN 80'S/NU&DARK WAVE/INDUSTRIAL/INDIE AND SPANISH ROCK. 18+//2ROOMS//2BARS//SMOKING PATIO//FREE ALL NITE
Hey It's Casual I just wanted to let you know were having a special on banners (by popular demand) ! If you need any more info email me at dave@darkwoodgraphics.com
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THANX FOR ADDING US!! YOU ROCK!!!
