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Title: The Band That Sucked The Life Out of Rock N' Roll and Killed Itself in the Process
Release date: 3 October, 2006
Record label: Gigantic Music
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Official website: Gigantic Music
Wikipedia: Some Action
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1. Live and Learn
2. Take Your Medicine
3. Out of Here
4. Done with You
5. Stab
6. What's It Gonna Take
7. Give It Back to the Animals
8. Don't You Look for Me
9. Double Cross My Heart
10. In the Shit
11. Fine China
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Never have truer words been spoken. Some Action is the New York punk revival troupe who sound as if they’ve ordered the largest shot of Fuck You, no chaser, and pounded the hell out of it. Reminiscent of early and legendary punk outfits (see The Queers, The Buzzcocks, Gun Club), “The Band That Sucked The Life Out Of Rock N’ Roll and Killed Itself in the Process,” is Some Action’s debut full-length, and already the band has been receiving massive fan fare by both press and fellow bands alike. Having played alongside punk legends 999 and John Spencer Blues Explosion, Some Action has also made fans out of psycho-punx Turbonegro and press outlets around the world… and rightly so.
With punk-rock anthem sing-alongs like STAB, love song ballads like What’s It Gonna Take, and turn-the-volume-to-11-and-blow-you-through-the-wall live shows, the intensity of Some Action is unmatched by just about any New York (or otherwise) bands claiming to bring the noise.
The band recalls an attitude that has been so greatly missing in today’s punk-rock scene, care-free and balls out, Some Action is here to remind us all just what rock n’ roll should be about. “The Band That Sucked The Life Out Of Rock N’ Roll and Killed Itself in the Process” should undoubtedly make fans out of the Little Steven’s Underground Garage fanbase and newcomers alike.
Band Bio:
Broken bottles, broken instruments, broken bones, broken hearts – the only thing Some Action might ever fix is rock and roll. They’re outlaws in a city where dancing and smoking are illegal, outcasts in a genre where style shines over substance and outnumbered by faux fashion bands full of retro rockers. And yet, here they are: the kids have spoken, the beer has been spilled, many of us have been waiting for this but few are prepared.
The tale of Some Action’s formation is byzantine and boozy, but all members escaped their own version of suburban hell to make big, rotten noise in the Big Rotten Apple. Guitarist Ethan Campbell knows what it means to ‘live free or die’ in New Hampshire while it was more of a ‘skate or die’ situation for bassist John Gatland in Long Island. Singer Ian Magee came to town via the streets of Baltimore while drummer Zac Shaw headed downstate from the rock star retirement home of Woodstock.
Hook-heavy punk rock is delivered at top volume and velocity without a hint of jaded cynicism or plastic posing. These are the two-minute blasts of sugar and sandpaper that caused Turbonegro to remark, “you’re the New York version of us!” With explosive and unpredictable live shows, Some Action quickly built a buzz that rivals most inhalant benders. Besides numerous shows with their good friends in The Star Spangles, the band has played alongside 999, Detroit Cobras, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Little Killers and The Witnesses, to name a few.
In the summer of 2003 - one year after forming - Some Action was tapped by Gigantic Music to release a debut EP. Now four years into their existence, they are prepared to drop their first official full length: The Band That Sucked The Life Out Of Rock ‘n Roll And Killed Itself In The Process. Think Iggy, New Bomb Turks, the Reigning Sound, the Queers; think of raw, aggressive, lo-fi garage rock with melodies to spare. Some Action harken the great days of Crypt records while simultaneously giving us a guilty pleasure pop aesthetic.In fact, listeners report having more fun listening to the record than having sex, which either means that New York's more dead than we thought, or that Some Action are actually living up to their name.
"Some Action has got more down and dirty rock n' roll action then they know what to do with." - Outburn Magazine
"This is what a real rock n' roll band should sound like" - Maximun RockNRoll
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