ARTIST: The Hanslick Rebellion
TITLE: The Deli of Life
LABEL: Eschatone Records
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 174kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 21m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-00-00
RIP DATE: 2007-05-23
Track List
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1. Caught 4:00
2. Make My Heart Stop 2:48
3. You Are Boring The Shit Out Of 3:42
Me
4. Photograph 3:29
5. Pop 3:55
6. The Day My Baby Broke My Heart 3:48
Release Notes:
The Hanslick Rebellion is a rock group like they don't make 'em any more. Formed
in Albany, NY in 1995 by a couple of teenagersùkeyboardist Jed Davis and bassist
Mike Keaneyùthe band rocketed though an immensely successful two-year run in
upstate New York, performing its singular brand of brash, honest,
visceral-yet-thoughtful rock and roll in front of thousands in the region. They
recorded one album, a scorching live tape called the rebellion is here. Then
they did what teenage rockers do: flame out. The Rebellion ended in April of
1997 and its two founders didn't speak for the better part of a decade.
But ten years later, the four members of The Hanslick Rebellion found themselves
face-to-face once again, instruments in hand, 200 miles south of the band's
birthplaceùat a rehearsal studio in New York City. There had been other bands
for the H-Rebels since 1997: Collider, Provan, Citizen Fury, Rhythm Ritual.
There had been session success: Jessica Simpson, The Deuce Project, Bandcamp.
There had been songwriting credits: tunes recorded by Daniel Johnston, King
Missile, the surviving Ramones. But neither Jed nor Mike, nor guitarist Alex
Dubovoy and drummer Mike Kearns, felt like they had ever approached the power
and passion they once generated together. After a series of chance meetings,
they agreed to put all the old baggage aside and just jam. One time.
Once felt good enough to try twice. Twice became a weekly thing. Weekly sessions
made the band tighter and hotter than ever before. And one showùa packed and
rabid house at CBGB on the 10th anniversary of the Rebellion's first gigùwas
enough to solidify the unit. The rock group that Metroland critic J. Eric Smith
hailed as "possibly the finest band to ever call Albany home" has returned to
finish some business. And it's business of the noblest kind:
The Rebellion takes its name from Eduard Hanslick, a 19th-Century music critic
of the Vienna Neue Freie Presse. A feared writer whose opinion could make or
break a composer's career, Hanslick was responsible for such gems as,
"Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto brings to us for the first time the horrid idea
that there may be music that stinks in the ear."
As Gen-X kids pimping out the ideology of the band they might become, Keaney and
Davis would sit in Denny's and rant until the wee hours about how Hanslick's
"rebellion" against musical excess should be revived to bring back rock and roll
in its purest form, to strip away the decadence and the bullshit.
There has never been more decadent bullshit in music than we've got right now.
So consider yourself lucky that the Rebellion has refused to grow up or give up.
Consider yourself lucky that the Rebellion is hereùto write great songs and play
them all fuckin night.