This Is The New American National Anthem
03/14/07
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(PR) Those familiar with the mid-90's heyday of the AmRep label's fantastic T Rex-meets-Blue Cheer power trio Love 666 will recall that band's penchant for grandiose statements of drug-fueled revolution (including the landmark album titled Please Kill Yourself So I Can Rock.) Over a decade later, Dave Unger and Joe Johnson are still advocating pure freedom, drug use and revolution in the new freeform noise rock collective fittingly named Rock / USAdown, two independent endeavors that perform separately on tour and on future releases.
The duo's forthcoming new album This Is The New American National Anthem is the product of mental illness, years of drug abuse and personal epiphanies found in free-association noise music. Rock / USAdown's performances are completely unhinged and unhindered -- neither musician listening to the other. Guitars squall, crash and crescendo alongside looping noises and many other dashes of extreme ugliness. But this isn't some plebian attempt at noise, both members of Rock / USAdown have trained in music at prestigious schools before shirking that world in favor of the pursuit of chaos and revolution.
This Is The New American National Anthem is essentially a split record: split in the sense that both bands perform on the record. Rock currently consists of Unger performing solo on guitar and vocals. USAdown currently consists of Johnson on guitar and vocals and Unger on keyboard/guitar and vocals.
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