The Separation - Demo 07

The Separation formed in 2007 after the brake up of Set It Straight and quickly became a strong and successful band in its own right. They wasted no time getting things rolling right from the beginning. They played their first show in the late summer of 2007, recorded their demo that fall, and played a west coast tour with Restrained that winter. Hard working and well organized qualities you can't help but look up to. Their demo still rips to me. The music on it is a mix of hardcore bands like Left For Dead, Catharsis, and Chokehold along with passionate and thought provoking lyrics. Truly a killer demo from a band that would only continue to get better in time.

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Demo Line Up:
Ben Paulsen - vocals
Nate Corbin - drums
Joey Moonboots- guitar
Kyle Loewen - guitar
Harry Petty - bass

Ripped to Shreds - Demo (2012)

Ripped to Shreds was a short lived thrashcore band that formed in the spring of 2012 and lasted until the late summer. Ethan Campos and I were living together that spring, and he suggested one afternoon while we were at Los Gordos to form a thrashcore band. Now there are two things I'm a total sucker for, one being short/fast songs and the other being thrown together projects. So it wasn't hard for Ethan to convince me to form the band with him ha. It was rad how fast we were able to throw together the band and demo. We wrote the whole demo in two days, and recorded it a month later ourselves in Josh Eermy's garage (aka Emery's Dungeon). And despite being a thrown together band and only playing a handful of local shows, there was a lot of different people who told us how much they loved our band. I'm still completely blown away by how many of them were from outside of Redding. A number of them we're from, Sothern/Central CA, Canada, the East Coast, South America, Europe, and even Australia. Pretty weird for a band that never toured or promoted its self very much. Definitely one of my favorite projects I've been a part of. Wish we could have done more, but it was rad while it lasted.

Ripped to Shreds
Andreya Boehm - vocals
Tommy Ghiorso - bass
Miles Claibourn - guitar
Ethan Campos - guitar
Josh Emery - drums


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DEC 27: RED ROBOT REUNION!

I'm super excited to hear that Redding's indie hero's, The Red Robt, are doing a reunion show December 27th. And to put the cherry on top, the show will be at the Millville Grange Hall in Palo Cedro! A classic venue that hasn't hosted a show like this in almost 10 years.







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Nov 22 - Caldwell Park

Set It Straight - Reunion at Big League Dreams 2010

Heffer Wolfe - Rats! Rats! Rats! EP

I went to a show at Going Local back in January and had a chance to see Heffer Wolfe's first show. After their set, a couple of my friends and I were like, "who where those guys! and man that ruled!" I'm stoked to see that they have been playing more shows around the area and have released their first release, "Rats! Rats! Rats!" The album's sound is built around short funk songs in the vein of the Minutemen but with their own modern approaches to the style. If you dig short funky songs you can dance to but also rock out to, I recommend you give this album a listen

Recommended Jams:
Eating Moths
Coughing Fit

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Till Death - The Patchcord Sessions (2003)

The very first Redding hardcore/punk show I ever went to was with Till Death, American Standard (later American Waste), The Red Robot, Barefoot Army, and The Melodramatics at the Millville Grange with my cousin Ryan Dodge and Terrence Fannin. I didn't know anyone else at the show except for Ryan and Terrance, so I felt really shy and awkward. The very first person I ran into after walking in the door, though, was Nate Corbin. We already knew each other from skating the CV park together, so we started talking. After talking for a little while, Shannen Hansen (now the drummer in Hysterics) came up with some pictures to show Nate she'd taken of a band playing. I noticed one of them was with Nate on drums. I asked, "you play in a band?" He said "yeah, we're playing tonight too." The band was Till Death, and their set ruled! It was filled with circle pits and a 7 Seconds cover of "Young Till I Die." A week or so later, I ran into Nate at the CV skate park with Ryan and Terrance, and he gave us three burned copies of Till Death's "Patchcord Sessions." If I remember right, though, only one of them actually worked haha. But it didn't really matter, because we were stoked he took the time hook us up. Listening to the "Patchcord Sessions" always takes me back to that time in my life and in the scene. Feeling shy, but extremely excited to be at the shows and be part of the energy.

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Till Death - The Patchcord Sessions