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Introducing - Plague Vendor
Get to know Cali punkers Plague Vendor, celebrating their debut album.. California four-piece Plague Vendor have just released their debut album, Free To Eat, which packs a shitload of punk-rocking good times in all of 18 minutes. It's all killer, and definitely cause to get to know 'em a little better. You can grab their album HERE: Who are you? We are Plague Vendor. P-L-A-G-U-E-V-E-N-D-O-R, like the song on FREE TO EAT. We're from Whittier, California.  How’d you meet? We met some time early on in high school. All of us were in different bands at the time, except for Michael. He didn't start playing bass until we asked him to join P.V.  What kinda tunes we talkin’? Someone said "graveyard groove" recently. We dig that. FREE TO EAT is definitely 6ft under. I just can't tell if the next thing we do is going to head straight down to hell or dig it's way back up through the soil. Writing process: All four of us have to be together. Once one of us sniffs the slightest bit of bogusness in
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Track by Track - Movement EP
Movement give us the lowdown on their amazing self-titled EP.. We've been crushing hard on Movement ever since we stumbled across their first couple of songs, especially Feel Real, and later last year Us with its incredible VIDEO CLIP. Needless to say we're pretty fucking excited about the upcoming EP release - it's been on repeat since we got a sneaky preview a little while ago, and Sean and Jesse from the group were kind enough to give us a little track by track rundown ahead of its release on May 2 (pre-order HERE). LIKE LUST Like Lust is about attraction, confused and half remembered. It's a fairly heavy track - we kept it repetitive because that's how it feels. We had the concept of this track being a fairly repetitive thing from the start, we worked with the one particular vocal loop in the chorus and just explored a whole bunch of things musically. We wanted a track that wasn't so reliant upon vocals - because this occupies a large part of our writing space. We kept it fairly b