By now, the kids know how to make a retro-New Wave album: Fire up the synths, skittery drum machines and stiff-necked pop hooks. Portland's Reload, a twisted one-man band consisting of dapper coroner-by-day Brian Applegate, kills the clichés by applying them with single-minded, straight-faced, veiny-necked fanaticism. Today's 10 wired songs are more atavistic than retro--a future-primitive masterpiece more New Wave than New Wave itself. Guitar lines move with the herky-jerky momentum of old kung fu action scenes; every splash of antiquated synthesizer is as rubbery as Plastic Man. If the Descendents suffered post-traumatic stress disorder and an incurably black (yet funny!) view of life on Planet Earth, maybe they could have written songs like "Fat Girls on Bicycles" and "I Wish My Friends Were Drug Addicts." As it happens, that's Reload's job. (Zach Dundas) -review from the year 2002
Fri September 26th KPSU 1450 AM SILENT MAJORITY playing live on The Hour Long Hour with Arya Imig. 6PM. WORD.
Fri October 3rd @ The Ranch (NE 15th & Emerson) Young Offenders (Rad SF PUNK!) Airfix Kits (2/3 of Giant Haystacks. SF punk!) DEFECT DEFECT guest All (r)ages
Sat October 4th @ 336 N Lombard PRF SILENT MAJORITY rad guests All Ages NO DRINKING (seriously)
Oct 11 @ The Coop SOUND JUDGMENT FEST 2008 PLAN R Deer Or The Doe Bodhi The Wires The Whines The Shivas New Century Schoolbook White Fang A Bronx Cheer (Edward, Miller, someone from Eskimo & Sons) guests All Ages
AUTISTIC YOUTH/DEFECT DEFECT WEST COAST US TOUR KICKOFF Th Nov 20 Portland, OR @ N Cook & Williams w/Salted City
hiya Brian, well shit i hope yer tour was magickal and I ran into yer purdy girl thee other night. She's flippin rad no doubt. When can i come soak up yer hobby? Dying for it.
