Fugazi, Frusciante, Jawbox, Jawbreaker, Constantines, Reigning Sounds, Johnstown PA, Bruce Springsteen, Interpol, the Beatles, The Clash, Shiner, Boy's Life, Cap N Jazz, Q and Not U, Les Savy Fav, Johnny Cash, MC5, Coldplay, The Smiths, Morphine, Neil Young, The Police, The Scientist, Gang of Four, The Zombies.
Sounds Like
there's going to be a fire.
Booking and contact info: beth@redcollarmusic.com.
From Ryan Muldoon of InRich.com (Nov. 2007): "Think of the great artists whose reputations have been based in large part on live performances: James Brown, The E Street Band, Milli Vanilli. No one is putting Red Collar in such esteemed company just yet, but since forming two years ago the band has managed to stand out as a live entity in the always-crowded performance market of its Raleigh-Durham home base. Hearing Red Collar's debut EP, "The Hands Up," shows the band members to be no slouches in the studio, either. The EP is a vivid and angular mix of punk, passion and proto-Pylon rhythms, with standout track "Used Guitars" threatening to be burned onto a thousand CD-R mixes."
From Delusions of Adequacy (Oct. 2007):"The frontman can make or break a record, and singer Jason Kutchma provides great, scruffy (actual) singing. A tune forms here and the band know how to work with it and around it, complete with "Buh-baaddaa-bahh" backing vocals. "Stay" opens more like indie rock then punk, but in a good way. This is the track that stands out the most and shows the band able to develop further than the typical punk sound. It's a catchy, hooky song, that, if all were right with the world, would be on your radio right now...This record is incredibly exciting and makes the anticipation for their debut album very high. Let's hope they can live up to the what the Hands Up EP has laid out for us."
From Bryan Reed of Diversions (The Daily Tar Heel): "The band played with the gusto and energy a band should have when celebrating its first release. Guitarist Mike Jackson covered the stage, leaving no monitor un-jumped off of, colliding into his bandmates and grinning all the while. Frontman Jason Kutchma was best described with the word impassioned. His stage presence was powerful as the band sped through disillusioned rock songs such as “Used Guitars” and “Hands Up,” off the new EP. Though the band has often been compared to Fugazi and Bruce Springsteen, on stage, Kutchma brought to mind the intense sincerity of Joe Strummer. The broken guitar strings and bloody fingers he left in his wake, only proved the band’s all-out mentality to live performance...But what sets Red Collar apart from from the average punk band is its world-weary lyricism and a strong, mature sense of melody"
From Grayson Currin of the Independent Weekly: “Somehow, they fuse several great strains of punk—like the power plod of early ‘80s Boston band Mission of Burma and the scabrous edge of D.C.'s Fugazi—with a wide-open sense of pop...
From Josh Spilker of Southeast Performer Magazine: “Red Collar channels the angst of the workingman in a way that hasn't been seen in rock in a long time. Thankfully, Red Collar has enough experience and well-chosen punk-rock influences to create an energetic and convincing modern rock anthem that anyone frustrated with The Man should be proud to own....
From Blake Gillespie of Impose Magazine: "The first two songs are the Fugazi-esque standards. They rock fast, fuzzy and shout the chorus. But the final two songs are reasons to check for Red Collar. “Stay” invites everyone to give up on those higher aspirations for the great wide world and realize they are meant for their small towns. “Used Guitars” is like getting advice from some poor broken sap at a bar who tells you “we were made to fail everyday” and you take it even more nonchalantly as a chorus of bar flies affirms it with slurry “ba ba baduhs.” It is a fair warning that luck was lost at birth, meant to be taken unconscientiously, because there is a good chance it will not spark until it is too late and you are at the stool next to that sap muttering about broken hearts and used guitars to the next generation of young cocks."
From Rich Ivey of the Independent Weekly: “With its Durham-bred dischords falling somewhere between Jawbox and The Replacements, Red Collar's recently-released Hands Up EP is an engaging clash of post-punk angularity and anthemic rock ‘n' roll melody, not to mention one of the best local releases in recent memory..."
do me a favor and simply click on the photo below (it's a link to the jpeg magazine site). i've entered this photo in a competition and it's doing well right now. you don't have to vote or anything, i think the more views it gets the better the chances... thanks
Do y'all know what time you're playing on Friday? Jill and I both won't be able to get out there until 10ish, and we'll probably both cry a lot if we miss you guys.
I was wondering if Jonathan could take some pictures of us. I'm not asking whomever is reading this to give him permission - I guess I'm asking Jonathan, publicly. Jay, Beth - would you give him my number?
My Dearest Red Collar, why do I love you so much? Is it the only exercise that I get from working out at your shows? Is it all that sweat that is sprayed in my face from Jason & Mike too? Is it from Mike jumping on my bod? Is it the blood from Jon? Is it Beth with her throbbing bass? Well, I guess it is that and that YOU FUCKING ROCK!!! I love you!
Thanks for playing with us. If our band could ask your band out on a date we would. Actually, we'd probably be too nervous to ask you out, but we'd go home and write a song about how we wished we had. :)
Only pictures from the first two songs are up... more to come! (I wasnt using my normal camera, so I decided to change one setting per song and see how things worked out. Theres still a ton of color ones, some with artsy blurs, some with just 'shitty picture' blurs.... but its 4am, my ears are still ringing, and some of that goo that was dripping from the ceiling got in my hair so I could really, really, REALLY use a shower.)
The show was an absolute murdering spree! IT totally fucking KILLED. It left only a few survivors with tales of how much it fucking rocked! they are now forever changes and will spread the gospel. amen
hey guys...we finally have our first song up...so stop by when you get some time and check out "The Nightlife"...this one has kind of an 80's feel to it.
just sorting through old pics and came across these from the dc show. i think these are some of the better photos of you guys along wiht the ones i sent already. i think you have the full size files of tthese on beth's mac
