5-day East Coast Tour begins today
New Brunswick, NJ's Rapid Cities is set to leave for another string of shows along the East Coast in support of its debut full-length, Machinery Saints.
The band has also been hard at work in the studio recording a number of new songs for upcoming split 7-inch and cassette releases for early 2010. Rapid Cities stand on the outliers of society and of the very subculture to which they do (or do not) belong, giving them the unique position from which to criticize, modify, or completely misunderstand the world around them. You laugh… and so do they.
Deliberately evoking familiar patterns of hardcore and punk rock tradition, and spitting it out with a conscious, yet subtle control of the unconventional and the dissonant, Rapid Cities accepts the challenge to take the step forward. The resulting art of the band’s debut, Machinery Saints, observes what is pleasurable about today’s living, as well as what is mundane. Rapid Cities is both a breath of fresh air as well as an assurance that truly “progressive,” yet enjoyable, music is still possible.
Listen to "In My Mind" (Free mp3)
TOUR
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NOV 18 - New Brunswick, NJ @ Cretin Hop w/ The Reptilian
NOV 19 - Wilmington, DE @ The Spot
NOV 20 - Washington, DC @ 3rd St. Co-Op w/ The Fordists
NOV 21 - Richmond, VA @ Wess's Place w/ The Fordists
NOV 22 - Baltimore, MD @ Mr. Pees House w/ The Fordists
The band has also been hard at work in the studio recording a number of new songs for upcoming split 7-inch and cassette releases for early 2010. Rapid Cities stand on the outliers of society and of the very subculture to which they do (or do not) belong, giving them the unique position from which to criticize, modify, or completely misunderstand the world around them. You laugh… and so do they.
Deliberately evoking familiar patterns of hardcore and punk rock tradition, and spitting it out with a conscious, yet subtle control of the unconventional and the dissonant, Rapid Cities accepts the challenge to take the step forward. The resulting art of the band’s debut, Machinery Saints, observes what is pleasurable about today’s living, as well as what is mundane. Rapid Cities is both a breath of fresh air as well as an assurance that truly “progressive,” yet enjoyable, music is still possible.
Listen to "In My Mind" (Free mp3)
TOUR
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NOV 18 - New Brunswick, NJ @ Cretin Hop w/ The Reptilian
NOV 19 - Wilmington, DE @ The Spot
NOV 20 - Washington, DC @ 3rd St. Co-Op w/ The Fordists
NOV 21 - Richmond, VA @ Wess's Place w/ The Fordists
NOV 22 - Baltimore, MD @ Mr. Pees House w/ The Fordists
