How about something new? How about something that will provoke your ears to piss rancor, malevolence and ire? It’s time to get mean, and Blood City Shackup are providing a heavy dose of thunder on their self-released demo, Williamsburg Massacre.

Remember those mid-90s basement shows? Remember standing next to a kid named Henry in a Hoover T-shirt? Emo was new and hardcore was an unrequited love that nobody cared about. To the left was a pair of lovers slamming a bottle of Robo while a manic alter boy danced across the cement floor like a chicken with its head sliced into chunks of tiny cubes.

This track, “Year of the Clap“, will force you into that basement with a violent thrust down the stairs. Everything in this tune thumps. The drums drive us through a succession of dangerous dead man curves. While the bass sets us off on a pulp adventure of ass kicking proportions. The vocals and guitar screech out a story of Circus Lupus b-sides and post modern hip shaking. Enjoy this hot shot of coffee to the face.

Blood City Shackup will be performing live in the basement of Lit Lounge this Saturday. The show is $6 and the band goes on at 11pm. Tell ‘em d. sent ya’.

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Do you remember Fuel? How about the time you and Jackson were driving down 696 and he popped in their tape. Remember how the windows vibrated when the vocals kicked in, and chills swept through your body — sensory overload times 10. You were only 16, but you knew the difference between shit and gold. You knew when something sounded right. And so what if Jackson said they sounded like a hardcore Fugazi rip-off; most bands only dream about emulating that kind of greatness.

Now you’re older. But these songs still make sense. They still help the bag on your shoulders feel a little lighter. They still take you away from the pressure that continues to cook dinner in your head. And when the lyrics ask if you are
“secure in your cynical world?” You nod and say, “Yeah, pretty much.”

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