Kill Your Stereo

Hartford post-punkers MAKE DO AND MEND (MDAM) hit the studio last week to record their full-length debut, which will be released later this year via Paper + Plastick Records, in conjunction with the band’s long-standing label, Panic Records. With plans to be locked away until July 6th, the quartet will split time with co-producers Nick Bellmore (Hatebreed, Kingdom of Sorrow, Death Threat) at Dexter’s Lab in Milford, CT and Jason Maas (Bane, Verse, Title Fight) at Getaway Group studio in Wakefield, MA. With nearly a dozen songs ready to record that range in subject matter from isolation, to the trials and tribulations of playing in a touring band, vocalist/guitarist James Carroll confides “the sound is definitely more mature than anything from our previous EPs, but overall it definitely a MDAM record; very driving, heavy and filled with a lot of emotion.”

 After 6 years, 400 shows, 2 EPs, 2 albums and countless bottles of Vodka later, hard rock heavyweights Behind Crimson Eyes, or BCE as they are more affectionately known, will embark on their final shows for the year before heading into the studio to record their follow up to 2009’s Self Titled LP.“We have always been a band that has pushed the conventional boundaries of music” Josh Stuart, the band’s frontman, muses. “The way music is consumed these days has changed so much since we started back in 2004, yet we see the same monotonous album release cycle that has been in place for over a decade. We want to do something different, something grand and something that will be more in line with the times.” That ‘something’ is a 3 part EP series entitled “See You In Hell”, with the first chapter set for release later this year, and subsequent EP’s a couple of months later.“We realise that people don’t want to have to wait 12 to 18 months to hear new material. This method will enable us ...