Dan Sullivan: vox/guitar; Mike Marcinkowski: drums; Marcellus Salerni: bass; R. Paveza (guitar/vox)
Influences
Guns n' Roses, The KILLS, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Motley Crüe, Mclusky, Future of the Left, Ikara Colt, Black Sabbath, My Bloody Valentine, Rolling Stones, Pavement, and Slayer
Sounds Like
"South Side natives making stoner rock on speed; think Sonic Youth in Beverly instead of Greenwich Village."
Twin Wrecks the Memory "End of the World" (Five Penn Films/2006):
BIOGRAPHY
"Back off bitch, some punks get shot and some get rich." In the track Kiss Ride Kill, those words spill into the song with a laid back demeanor, so as not to threaten, but simply to state a fact. Harsh reality has always been a fixture in rock n roll, and Twin Wrecks the Memory blast it out with a ferocious non-chalance that creates an infectious take it, or take it attitude.
Loosely formed in late 2000 by art/school rocker Dan Sullivan (vocals, guitar), the band quickly found solid ground with songs such as: Alcohol and Rock N Roll, Burn Out and Dirty American Girl. The sound reflects an era when early Guns N Roses and Sonic Youth took hold as a counter-measure to spineless nice guy music, similar to whats happening to music today.
Marcellus Salerni (bass), a Pittsburgh native, and Rob Medinger (drums), a south sider, get a grip on the rhythm section with enough big rock sentiment and 70s grit that allow this Chicago group to drive their sound into the audience head-on with intensity and guile. From the Empty Bottle to the Brooklyn critics, Twin Wrecks the Memory have received acclaim for their blue-collar blend of rock, punk, and booze. As the lyrics address the gangsters, strippers, skate-punks, and drunks, theres
a subtle reminder that were all in this together. In an insecure world where everyones full of shit, it makes it all fun and worthwhile.
RADIO: Q101, WXRT, 94.7 The Zone, 97.9 The Loop, Fearless Radio, WHPK 88.5, WLUW, Radio DePaul, Hostage Radio
BANDS: Year Long Disaster, Nine Black Alps (Interscope/Island Records), The Automatic Automatic (Cardiff, UK; Columbia Records), Burning Brides(V2), The Explosion(Virgin), The Lot Six(Virgin), Glass Candy (Troubleman), The Reputation(lookout!), Electric Eel Shock (JAPAN), DMBQ (JAPAN), The Thieves (UK), The Fags (SIRE), MOTO (In the Red), Miss Alex White (In the Red), Neurotic Swingers (France), The Street Brats, The Groodies(Failed Experiment), Jesus and the Devil (Fudgesickill)
VENUES: Arlene Grocery(NY), Trash Bar(NY), Doubledown Saloon(NV), Cat Club(CA), The Corral Room (WI), Der Rathskeller Memorial Union (WI), Courtyard Café(University of Illinois), McGaw Hall (Depaul University), Ex Libre (University of Chicago), Empty Bottle, Double Door, Subterranean, Liar’s Club, The Darkroom, Logan Square Auditorium, The Bottom Lounge (old and new), The Note, Lincoln Square Lanes, Command Center, Transmission Gallery, Sylvie’s Lounge, The Mutiny, Beat Kitchen, Kinetic Playground, Big Horse Lounge, Cal’s Liquors, O’Malley’s, The Dragonfly, Champs Rock Room, Penny Road Pub, Hangouts, Wheaton Grand Theater, Lot 4, Ronny's, and many more
BENEFITS: WLUW Benefit (2007) Music with Meaning (2006, 2007)–The Rape Victims Advocacy Foundation; CRUEFEST (2006, 2007) - Nikki Sixx's Running Wild in the Night Foundation, Vince Neil's Skylar Neil Memorial Fund ,Tommy Lee's Charity of choice St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Mick Mars' charity Spondylitis Association of America; Windy City Rollers (2006); Irish Freedom Committee (2005); MPower Benefit (2005) - Musicians for Mental Health; Benefit for Vince Falcone, drummer of Chicago band, Khaos Theory (2005)
PRESS EMPTY BOTTLE(http://www.emptybottle.com)"Straight ahead, drugged-out, alcohol-fueled" punk group TWIN WRECKS THE MEMORY celebrate the release of a new record, as well as their demise. That's right - in a final nihilistic turn, the band releases their debut full length, and then plays their last show ever. It doesn't, we say, get more punk rock than that!
THE CHICAGO READER(http://www.chicagoreader.com/music/thelist)After seven-plus years honing its garage-punk chops, local quartet Twin Wrecks the Memory has decided to end on a high note: tonight is both its final show and the release party for its monster full-length debut, Suffer and Sell. The band starts off pit-bull fierce, grabbing the Iggy/Dolls/surf/greaser formula by the neck and shaking (“More Sex, More Money,” “Alcohol and Rock n’ Roll”), then winds down with a heartbreaking epitaph (“Rise Again”). Front man Ryan Paveza says 100 copies of the self-released record will be available; there were hopes for more but a label deal fell through.
THE ONION(http://chicago.decider.com/events)South Side band Twin Wrecks The Memory purports to be a stoner metal band, and though it does retain the genre's affection for noticeably melodic vocals, the quartet is far from sounding either sloppy or sludgy. The new Suffer And Sell, released at this show, finds the group mixing angry, driving anthems with pretty harmonies ("How I Pissed Off One Million") and celebrating its passions with wild abandon ("Alcohol And Rock 'N' Roll"). It's all a bit bittersweet, though, as this is also the band's final show before breaking up.
FUTURE SOUNDS(http://futuresounds.blogspot.com)
TWIN WRECKS – track: Kiss Ride Kill. Kick in the ass rock in roll from Chicago. Wild and raw and dirty and needing to get a deal so they can tour for the rest of us. Actually called TWIN WRECKS THE MEMORY, this is rawk n’ roll.
The Crytic SemaphoreUniversity of Chicago
"South Side natives making stoner rock on speed; think Sonic Youth in Beverly instead of Greenwich Village."
Illinois Entertainer, Best of Around Hear (June 2006)Patrick Conlan
Garage punk. Mall punk. New wave-bangin hardcore. Some other bullshit. Twin Wrecks The Memory eschew worthless labels, bloodless comparisons, and genre pigeonholing with a simple approach: play blistering, molten rock with such reckless, unrelenting ferocity, youd think they were trying to shatter windows, along with expectations. You would be right.
IMPACT PRESS (Top Picks 2006)Sean Holton Twin Wrecks The Memory/Royal Drug Lodge/Self-released I've got another Chicago band for you to check out. If you like your rock raw and guitar-driven but NOT like those "The" bands, check this out. Twin Wrecks the Memory is better than that. They have a raw, loose edge but they sound tight as a drum. It SORT of has a grunge feel to it, but not Alice In Chains grunge, not grunge-metal. If you're at all intrigued, you won't be disappointed.
Chicago Sun-TimesJim DeRogatis
"The group plays loud, boozy, extremely grungy garage-rock with an arty twist, somewhere between the Stooges and Sonic Youth. Again, if they're as good live as they are on the record, you may be scooping your brain off the floor at the end of their set."
Metromix.com/Who are Chicago's hottest rising talents?Ari Bendersky
"Twin Wrecks the Memory has a gritty, guitar driven Manhattan rock sound, putting Chicago on the map during this era that calls back to the late 70s raw punk rock sound."
Chicago ReaderBob Mehr Twin Wrecks the Memory plays a lacerating hybrid of garage rock, punk, and metal. These guys wear their influences on the sleeves of their black leather jackets: cranked-up Stooges-isms fuel "Kiss Ride Kill" and "Alcohol and Rock n' Roll" (the vocals even approximate Iggy's deadpan drawl from time to time), "Riot Ready" borrows riffs and revolutionary imagery from the MC5, and "Bleed" is a poison-pen Nirvana pastiche. The lyrics sometimes cross the fine line between stoopid and stupid, but the band's paint-peeling intensity makes it hard to stay cynical.
Glorious NoiseVitas Zebraitis
Straight ahead drugged-out, alcohol-fueled vitriol. A blast of fuzz guitar that will leave you begging for more from the moment it starts coming out of your speakers. The cover art's a mess, the music is a mess, and if the album is any indication I can only guess that the band is a mess. And man do I love a mess.
Royal Drug Lodge is some of the best straight ahead rock and roll that I've heard in a while. Let's see what we've got in there... yeah, some Stooges, maybe some Motorhead, some harder Royal Trux, Spacemen 3 with out all the psychedelic swirl, fucked up early Sebadoh, fuzzed out Sonic Youth... yup, eight tracks of non-stop rock. No filler. This is the sort of stuff you put on your stereo when you're pissed off at the world. Gimme more!
OneTimesOne.comArie Musil
Riot Ready contains the bluntness and brutality of The Sex Pistols backed by a hardcore Black Flag. This is a screamer song, and it's as raw as it can get. It doesn't take much to see that musically, Twin Wrecks is already there. A perfect opening band with enough attitude and experience to provide an entertaining show (and a killer mosh). Look into these guys, and just take in the music.
hey guys. we had a really great time playing with you guys at your last show. kinda sad that you guys arnt playing anymore. but when you get something new together let us know.
hey nows. thanks for letting us jam out with you guys last night. was a killer show! thanks again for the cd ive been listening to it all day. damn you for callin it quits! i want more! -meg
Hey BOYEEEZ....Whats with the "CD release/Last show party"? That's like a "New Job/Retirement party" way ta beat around the bush and stick it back in your undies! Twin Wrecks the Moment more like!!
all the same we shall miss you dearly and look forward to hearing new thoughts and ideas-
Hey! Hope you can come party with us, Tommy Lee and some of the other guys from the tour after the show at Midwest Bank Ampatheatre on 7/16! We have a bus going from the city if you don't feel like driving:
