32FPS

32 Frames Per Second (32FPS) was a very short lived hardcore punk project that lasted from the winter through the fall of 2007. Their sound was based on short melodic blasts fueled by the influence of Kid Dynamite, Paint It Black, and The Nerve Agents. 32FPS literally came out of nowhere. I remember on a rainy day afternoon show at Rachid's garage with Scared to Death, Skeletons, and Belda Beast. I was standing outside waiting for the show to start and saw Josh Owens and Curt Baer loading gear into the garage. I hadn't heard of any new band they were in at time, so I was a little confused. Before I really knew what was going on, 32FPS was ripping through their set. Just a couple of weeks later, they put out a killer 10 song demo. The songs on it are super catchy, witty, pissed, and short. They played a handful of rad shows complete with covers of “Black Sheep” by Nerve Agents and "Roots Radicals" by Rancid, and then broke up.

Curt Baer on 32FPS:
“32FPS started as a project meant to span a two month period. Earl was back in Redding, albeit temporarily, and we wanted to do a band in that short amount of time. The idea was to write a demo, book studio time, record, and play a few shows in 2 months before Earl left. We did that, but Earl didn't move, so we kept it going for a while. This is the demo we produced, written and recorded in less than a month and with a not-too-subtle tip of the hat to Kid Dynamite."

Line Up
John Waste - Drums
Curt Baer - Vocals
Josh Owens- Guitar
Earl Carrasco - Bass


 DEMO 07 DOWNLOAD

Social Concern

Social Concern was formed in 2003 by Sarah Shintaku, Brandi Benson, and Ami Rose. As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong), they are the only all girl punk band to ever come out of Redding. I remember the first time I saw them was in 2004 at Caldwell Park. I wasn't too into them the first time I saw them, but over the next year, they really began to grow on me. In 2005, I was trying to set up a show and contacted Social Concern about playing. Their bass player Ami and I started talking on AIM about the show and other random things, and it ended coming out that she only lived a mile from my house. Social Concern practiced there too. Out of this is how I became friends with Ami and met the rest of the band. In the late summer of 2006, Ami and Brandi moved to Chico and Sarah to Sacramento. After moving, they continued with a couple different drummers, released two more albums, did two Western US tours, and countless west coast tours. After their last tour in the summer of 2010, they went on to an undefined hiatus.

Redding Line Up

Sarah Shintaku - Vocals/Guitar

Ami Rose - Bass
Brandi Benson - Drums

Later Drummers
Bryon Lion
Alex Coffin
Noelia Ramirez

Redding Releases (downloadable)
Cup Cakes and Snowflakes (2004) 
California Angel (2005)



Post Redding Releases (sadly I don't have these)
Exodus (2008)
Cut and Dry (2010)

Band's Myspace
Band's Facebook

Parker

Parker was a five piece straight edge hardcore band. They were a Redding band, but Ross, their singer lived down around Sacramento. Parker played just about every single Redding hardcore show with Set It Straight throughout most of 2006. At the time I wasn't into modern styles of hardcore, but this band always made me stoked, because they played fast hardcore with short sets and lots of energy. As far as I know, none of the members are straight edge anymore, which makes lines like "if an X on my hand means I'm alone, so it be goodbye" awesome. They sang about other things besides straight edge, so whatever. That's just life and hardcore. By the end of 2006, the band fell apart and broke up.

Line Up
Ross - VocalsJustin Mellor - GuitarCurtis Ide - Drums

Shane O'brien - Bass
Joey Munoz - Guitar

Download Demo

Band's Myspace

Short Circuit

Short Circuit was a short lived hardcore band that existed in the fall of 2007 until I think the early winter of 2008. They were a themed band as well. They were themed after the 80's movie "Short Circuit." They put out a demo and only played one show. That demo rips in my option. It's short hard hitting hardcore with great movie clips. It's shaking in the recording in some spots, but that's how a demo is suppose to sound. Jxrad is listed in on the demo as the bass player, but he never ended up in the band. At their one and only show, they didn't have a bass player, so they just played without one. After the show and the demo came out, they added a second guitar player and found a bass player. I heard various reason as to why they broke up, but I forget exactly what they were. Regardless, though, I wish they had played more shows, because they were a fun band.

Download Demo 07

Band's Myspace
Demo Line Up: (I don't know who was in the band after the demo)
Rachid Yousfi  - vocals
Justin Mellor - guitars/bass
Curtis Ide - drums

Welfare Scouts (1-8/05)

The Welfare Scouts was a street punk band, and the first real band I ever played in. We formed in Jan of 05 and broke up in Aug of that year. During our time as a band we played I think 10 shows. We released a demo in the summer, but never really "recorded." We were too broke to afford to go to a studio and none of us knew how to do home recording, so we recorded the whole thing on a boom box. Nate Corbin was a huge help in transferring our tapes into mp3s on his computer, so we could put them out on cdr and hand them out. I still have a lot of great memories from this band. Being it was a great experience for me, and I met a lot of great people.

Line up:
Zach Williams - vocals
Tucker Hartland - bass
Jarred Dodson - drums
Miles Claibourn - guitar

Website:
http://uselessreject.tripod.com/thewelfarescouts/

Myspace: 
http://www.myspace.com/thewelfarescouts327

Download Boom Box + More Bullshit
http://www.mediafire.com/?58na1n7y4gyf26s

<--The boom box we recorded our demo on.

Skeletons

Skeletons was a straight edge hardcore punk band that lasted from the fall of 06 to the summer of 07. In their short time as a band, they put out a ripping demo, played a lot of Redding shows, and did a short tour with Set It Straight. Their demo is still awesome to me. It has great lyrics, and it's own unique sound. Skeletons' sound was a mixture of cut and dry hc with some oi influences. After Skeletons broke up Joey, Kyle, and Harry went off to form Separation, and Jared and Josh went on to form A Public Infection (later known as Damaged). Skeletons was an awesome band, and I had a lot of fun going wild with friends at the shows they played.

Line Up
Joey - vocals
Harry - drums
Kyle - guitar
Jared - guitar
Josh - bass

DEMO 06
http://www.mediafire.com/?ezdok2f13zwi4pu

White Lie (05-06)

White Lie was a punk band from Redding, and the first band I ever played drums in. The sound of the band was really influenced by Redd Kross, The Germs, The Misfits, and Dead Kennedys. I can't say we were as cool as our influences, but we had really great time playing together and getting into trouble. The band formed in I think early 2005 and broke up in the summer of 2006. In the short time the band was around, it went through a bunch of line up changes. Not being a founding member, this is how I ended up in the band. When the original drummer got kicked out in the summer of 2005, I joined on drums after only learning how to play a few months earlier. In our time as a band we tried to accomplish as much as we could with our limited means and knowledge. We recorded a demo, played every where we could, got disqualified at the Civic Center battle of the bands, played Chico once, met some cool people, made some rad friends, and earned a little following. In June of 2006 things came to an end, though, when we suffered the tragedy of our bass player Julie passing away. After she passed, it didn't feel right to continue on, so we decided to disband. She is still greatly missed by us all.


Since the line up changed so many times, it would take too long to list them all, so I'm only going to list the ending line up.

Dec 05 - Jun 06
Casey Lie - Vocals
Julie Breshears - Bass
Taylor Downing - Guitar
Miles Claibourn - Drums

White Lie - Demo 05 
http://www.mediafire.com/?l0ha9e3a423s8rb

Recorded Nov 2005 by Shawn Pawn at The Black Lodge in Chico CA.

Live at The Underground