Razorblade Suitcase

So I bought a bunch of Revelation and Equal Vision Records test presses from some dude earlier this year, and when they arrived it turns out that he had thrown in something extra - an unmarked test press with the standard Rainbo Records labels. I was initially excited, and then immediately disappointed, as I put the matrix into discogs to then find out that it was the second album by Bush, titled 'Razorblade Suitcase'.

This record was released by Interscope Records in November 1996, and wikipedia tells me that it sold 293,000 copies in it's first week in the United States, which saw it debut at number one in the Billboard 200. So yeah, it seems that this record was a pretty frickin' big deal when it first came out.

I had never heard this record before, so don't own another copy, which means I can't take a photo of it next to the regular copy. So here's an image I grabbed from the internet of the cover art for this record, which is most notable for featuring neither a razorblade nor a suitcase.

I was vaguely aware of Bush in the 90s. What I recall was that they were a British band, but they were practically unknown over here, yet somehow they were absolutely huge in the States. Back then I had zero interest in them. But being sent this test press made me curious, so I thought I'd give the record a chance.

After a couple of listens, I really started to enjoy this record. It sounds even more like Nirvana than Nirvana do, which at this time in my life I am really into. The record goes on for longer than I would like (it's a little over an hour), but I've been mainly listening to this one during the working day, so length is less of an issue.

I've also been reading a little bit about this band online, and there are a couple of hardcore connections to this. Firstly, that Revelation handled the pressing of this record on behalf of Interscope. One day I'll ask how this arrangement ended up happening. Secondly, the band broke up in 2002 but then reformed in 2010, and the current line up features Chris Traynor, who previously played in Fountainhead and Orange 9mm.

My initial plan was to put this on discogs for a stupidly high price and invite offers to see if anyone was interested. But after listening to this for the past 3 months or so and loving it, I decided to keep it. But if someone wants to offer me a lot of money for it, I could potentially consider letting it go. Maybe.

Dicknail

WHen I finally got around to picking up a Nirvana 'Sliver / Dive' 7" (as per my last post), I started thinking about other older Sub Pop releases. I remember back in the early 90s when the label was blowing up that there were a lot of big bands of the time who had 7"s put out by the label. A lot of them I have, but there are a few that I never really was too fussed about back in the day. But now I feel nostalgic and feel that I want to pick up some of the 7"s that I wasn't overly fussed about when I was young.

So the natural next step after the Nirvana 7" was the Hole 7". There are quite a few different colours of this one out there, but I wasn't particularly fussed which version I got. I decided that the solid pink vinyl would be fine, largely because it was being sold by a UK seller.

I do love solid pink vinyl. Definitely up there as one of the best colours of vinyl. And it seems like a great match to the text on the front cover, and pretty apt for a band that was three quarters female.

As I am sure everyone knows, the singer of Hole was Courtney Love, who ended up marrying Kurt Cobain. I was never interested in Hole back when this came out as there was zero appealing about them, and I figured that they mainly got coverage just because Kurt Cobain's wife was in the band. As I mentioned, I mainly just wanted this for the Sub Pop collection, but I have to acknowledge that the two songs here are really good. Without a shadow of a doubt I would listen to more Hole. In 2023 this sounds incredible to me. Funny how much difference 30 years makes huh?

Sliver

In all my years of collecting records I have very few regrets. There are a few things over the years that I let go that I wish I hadn't, but if I had to count how many it would probably be less than 10. A few things I sold and then a few years later I bought back. But there's a small handful of things that I wish I'd kept that I still didn't manage to reacquire.

Nirvana is an impossible band to collect, and there is no way I would bother. However, the one record that I would mess with is the 'Sliver / Dive' 7". There are quite a few different coloured vinyl copies, and most of them aren't too expensive, especially when compared to some of the rarer Revelation items that I am stupid enough to try to collect. For a few years I have wanted a copy of this record to replace the one I sold in the early 90s, and recently I spotted one for a good price and made a fast move.

This copy on clear vinyl is a second pressing. It comes in a glued card sleeve rather than a paper fold over version that the first press copies came in. The copy I used to own in 1992 was part of the same pressing, although I used to have a turquoise copy. So this is a fair replacement.

And then of course, whilst shopping around I also then found a clear yellow copy going on eBay for what looked like a great price. This colour is much rarer, although still not one of the real top end rare versions.

There are only 2 songs on this 7", but as far as Nirvana songs go, they are up there for me amongst the best. It came out after the first album 'Bleach' but before 'Nevermind' came out and changed the world. This was also recorded before Dave Grohl joined the band, and before they got picked up by a major label. And as you can see, it's a Sub Pop 7" with the classic label design and large centre hole. And whilst I thought I would have been happy to pick up just one color copy of this 7", all of a sudden I can feel myself wanting to collect more. Because hey, if there's one thing I need in my life it's another record to collect...

This Won't Get Any Fucking Better

At some point earlier this year Rev announced a new record by a band called Planet On A Chain. I hadn't heard of the band before, and thought that it sounded like a weird name for a band, but mentally I am still in the same place that I was at 20 years ago whereby I assume that any new hardcore band signed by Rev must be good, so I was down to check it out. I ordered the LP but don't have it yet, but I listened to it a bunch of times and I have found that the nore I listen to it, the better it gets. There is absolutely no doubt that this band rips.

Well, whilst I wait for the LP to arrive, I managed to satisfy my vinyl needs with a couple of 7"s being sold by a UK distro. The first is titled 'This Won't Get Any FUcking Better' and is, I believe, the demo pressed to wax.

This version I have obtained is part of the second press on 'eco' vinyl. 300 made.

The second is called 'Last Word. Last Act'. On the bandcamp page this is referred to as 'Demo 2' and was recorded in July 2021 and was sold on cassette. Obviously the vinyl format is far superior, although slightly disappointing as this one was pressed at the shitsville pressing plant. Apparently there were 200 pressed on orange.

About a week ago Rev announced that they were putting out another Planet On A Chain LP soon of a record that was released digitally only. So at some point in the future I'm gonna end up with a pretty big pile of POAC records... which is fine by me. After a couple of months of casually listening to this band, I feel that I am now really starting to get it, so it's cool that there is a pile of material to get stuck into.

Kito

I love how sometimes I can just be reminded of bands from the past that I haven't listened to or thought about in a long time and then end up discovering them as if they were new. Case in point, the UK 90s band Kito. They had a 7" released by Armed With Anger Records back in 1994, and even though AWA was a pretty small UK label, it had pretty good distribution. This means that a lot of AWA releases made it overseas, which means a lot of people who have been into hardcore since the 90s have generally heard (or heard of) a lot of the bands on the AWA roster. Well anyway, I was flipping through the used section of a UK record store's website recently, and I found a couple of cheap records that grabbed my interest. One was the Kito LP. Now, I have had the 7" in my colletion for quite some time (I even have 2 test presses of it), but I never ever heard the LP. So I decided to pick it up as it was super cheap

This record was put out by Flat Earth Records in 1998, which was a whopping 4 years after the 7". Even by today's standards where time moves at triple speed, four years would be considered quite a long time between releases, but back then the hardcore world looked very different in 1998 as it did in 1994. I think I was aware of this record coming out at the time, but by then Kito felt like something old to me, and the lack of colour vinyl (or indeed any kind of cover art) meant that there wasn't a lot of appeal in this record. I was probably more interested in chasing Coalesce, Elliott, and Ink & Dagger records at the time.

By the time this came out, a couple of original members had left the band. But listening to this for the first time all these years later, it doesn't sound significantly different to the 7" in my opinion (well, apart from the final song, which sounds like a totally different band). This is some heavy and dirty sounding hardcore that the north of England did so well back then. I think I saw this band play only once, at one of the 1in12 Club weekend festivals, so this record brings to mind the many times that I trekked over to the dark, wet and cold city of Bradford to listen to one or two bands I'd heard and 12 more that I hadn't. Fun times! But anyway, given that I am hearing this for the first time in 2023, I think this holds up pretty well. This is a good listen and well worth the pittance that I paid for it.

Give One More Blood

Back at the start of this year Bane announced that they were coming back to play some shows. The first couple were set to take place in Boston in June, and there were more shows to follow a couple of months later at some big festivals. Then the day before the first of the shows, the band posted a pic of a couple of records that would be for sale - both different colours of a new 'anniversary pressing' of the 'Give Blood' LP (originally released in 2001). Being a longtime collector of Bane records with an almost complete collection, I felt that I needed these records in my life.

Well, fortunately Mike was going to the show and offered to try to pick up a record for me. And then a week or so later he took the trouble to fly it over and hand deliver it at my house.

There were 250 copies of this marble green colour, and also 250 copies on neon pink. I don't know how many sold at the show, but there were a few left adter the event.

I have to say that this seems like a really high quality product. The sleeve is a gatefold thing with a cut out cover, and there's a thick booklet included. I haven't seen inside it as I didn't want to remove the shrinkwrap.

Where the story gets slightly interesting is that a few days later, a whole bunch of other colours were announced. I think that in total there are 9 different colours, with most being allocated to different retailers as 'exclusives'. Not to mention that each copy costs $40 or more. So I decided that I wasn't going to bother trying to collect this. After over 20 years of collecting Bane records, modern collecting has finaly extinguisehed the flame for me. It's a game I no longer want to play. I mean, if they had cost half as much and if I would have been able to buy them all from one source, then I might have considered buying 9 copies of this, but with things the way they are it's a pretty easy decision to exit the game at this point.

Too Many Buttons

The third and final installment in my recent trade, and this one is the same as the previous two posts insofar as it another version of a record I already own.

I haven't listened to Samiam in quite a long time. I initially got into the band in the early 90s and have always liked their early records, but they weren't a band that I kept up with as the years rolled by. I think I lost interest when they moved to a major and their new album was CD only. But recently I've been listening to a lot of music through the daytime whilst working, and I've been enjoying some quieter and more melodic stuff as a result. I mean, it's tough to focus on fill out insurance forms with some youth crew jams blasting out in the background.

So this is a red vinyl repress of the first Samiam 7" on Lookout! Records. I'm not exactly sure of what year this was made, but I do know that it is a later press because it comes in a brown sleeve, and the label's address is Berkeley. The first press copies came in a purple sleeve and have the Laytonville address. I had always thought that the colour vinyl copies were all part of the first press until only a couple of years ago when I spotted this colour vinyl version in the brown sleeve.

The sleeve on this one is made from quite flimsy paper, so it could be from relatively early in the 90s. I have no idea. But I do like having a third copy to sit with the other two that I have had in my collection for many years, and it's kinda cool sometimes to not know any pressing info whatsoever.

Field Days

Continuing from my last post, this record was also acquired in a trade along with the burgundy vinyl ‘Flip Your Wig’ LP. And, along the same kinda theme, this record here also represents the second version of this particular record that I am now adding to my collection.

‘Field Day’ is the third Dag Nasty LP and I think it is fair to say that it is commonly regarded as their worst record. Even though it came out a year after ‘Wig Out At Denkos’ and two years after ‘Can I Say’ it somehow manages to sound more dated than both. Listening to this now, it does have a very 80s sound to it. Like, I can definitely imagine the kids hanging on the boardwalk in 'The Lost Boys' listening to this during the day.

This version I just picked up is the green vinyl pressing on Giant Records, which is the limited version of the US pressing. I have no idea how many were made but it doesn’t pop up as often these days as it used to. Then again, does anything?

To make things slightly confusing, this record was also pressed by We Bite Records in Germany for the European market and the more limited copies of that version were also pressed on green vinyl. Putting the two copies side by side, the two colours are quite different.

I usually feel that the European vinyl colours don’t look as nice, but this is an exception. The lighter shade of green looks a little nicer in my opinion, especially with a lightsource behind it.

I’d say that this is kinda similar to ‘Staring At The Sun’ by Uniform Choice in that probably a lot of fans of the previous record struggled with the newer sound when this came out. But if you have a little patience, there are definitely some great songs on here. It's not a bad record by any means, but it certainly isn't in the same ballpark as the two that came before it.

Flip Your Wigs

It's almost exactly ten years since I wrote on here about picking up a purple vinyl copy of 'Flip Your Wig' by Hüsker Dü. It must be a tradition to pick up a colour vinyl of this record in October of a year which ends in '3'. Well, sadly this isn't quite true as I received this one about two weeks ago (i.e. in September).

This album was originally released in 1985 on black vinyl only, but like a lot of SST releases, it was repressed on colour vinyl around the 1990-92 era. This burgundy vinyl version is one of 3 different coloured versions pressed at that time.

I was offered this record in a trade and was keen to find something to trade for it. I was happily and slowly collecting Hüsker Dü records and building a nice collection until the rest of the world started doing the same, and then suddenly it became super difficult to find anything for sale at a reasonable price. So it's been a while since I have added anything to my Hüsker Dü collection.

So here's this copy next to the purple copy I picked up a decade ago. These dark but clear colours look so much nicer with a lightsource behind them, don't you think? This is actually a photo which I then cropped using some basic technology. Anyway, I'm still looking for a clear pink copy, and no doubt that at this rate I'll be due to pick one up in October 2033.

Trial By Fire

So after rediscovering the Explosion LP (in my last post) I also had a quick scan through the other Jade Tree releases I own to see if there was anything else that I'd forgotten. The answer was a resounding 'yes'. I listened to the Trial By Fire 'Ringing In The Dawn' LP and was instantly annoyed at myself for forgetting how good it is. And once again, a quick look on discogs I found a solid yellow vinyl copy being sold by a UK seller for a crazy low price, so I just bought it.

This record came out back in 2002 and I got it directly from the label. I was sent one of the clear copies, so I was happy to be able to upgrade to this superior solid colour.

Just like the Explosion LP, I now have a solid yellow to go with my clear yellow/orange copy. I think the clear copy was feeling a bit neglected having not been touched for about 20 years, so its probably happy to have a friend to keep it company.

I remember seeing this band live back when they toured this record in September 2002. I have pretty much no memory of anything other than the singer was a big dude with a beard. Musically this is very much in the same ballpark as Paint It Black, Kid Dynamite, etc. So they seemed right at home on Jade Tree. I guess part of the reason that I forgot about this one is that the band seemed to do nothing else after this, which is a shame.

Flash Flash Flash

One of the cool things about having a lot of records and being a music fan generally is when you rediscover things from years gone by. So there I was flicking through my phone trying to find something to listen to and I decided to listen to the first Explosion LP 'Flash Flash Flash'. It had been a while. But goddamn, I was singing along and started to wonder why I'd lost interest in the band at some point, because this LP is absolutely fantastic.

SO of course I went to discogs to see what else might exist, and I was reminded that the copy of 'Flash Flash Flash' that I own is on clear yellow/orange, and there was a solid yellow copy out there. And by luck there was one for sale on discogs from a UK seller for a good price. So for whatever stupid reason I decided to buy another copy.

This came out back in 2000, and around this time Jade Tree were in a phase of releasing LPs on two different colours at the same time, and a lot of them they pressed on a solid colour and a clear colour. The first Kid Dynamiet LP comes on both solid red and clear red, the second Kid Dynamite LP comes on solid green and also on clear green, the first Paint It Black LP comes on both solid blue and clear blue, and there are more. But what I remember is that there was never any pressing info, but I always wanted the solid colours just because they look nicer than clear colours.

I ordered most of the Jade Tree releases direct from the label back when they were originally released, and always got sent colour vinyl copies. But sometimes I got clear colours and sometimes solid colours. But picking this one up has kinda made me want to collect second copies of the LPs I have. At this point in record collecting I think that another collecting goal is exactly what I need, haha.

My conclusion to why I gave up on this band is that a few years went by after this record came out, and when the band released something else it was 4 years later, and in that time a hell of a lot had changed, both in my life and in the hardcore scene. That happens sometimes. But given how much I have been enjoying this record again lately, I'm keen to explore what else they did that I have been blissfully anaware of for the past decade or two.

Nowhere II

I held a sealed reissue copy of the 'Nowhere' LP by Ride at my house for a few months for Nico. A few weeks ago I sent it over to him, abd he recently posted it... and I thought that the clear blue vinyl looked so good that I decided that I also wanted one.

This record was originally released in 1990. At the time I had friends at school who were into this, but at the time I wasn't. But I gaveit a try back in 2014 and enjoyed it, and eventually teo years later managed to find an original copy on eBay. I was fine with that copy until I saw this beautiful clear blue vinyl reissue.

This was pressed last year (2022) and I have no idea how many were made, but it's still pretty damn easy to get hold of. I doubt it will ever be hard to find or valuable, but who cares when it looks this pretty?

Texas Of Today

Ten years ago I was sweating about getting the four clear vinyl 7"s from Rev's 25 year anniversary show in Chicago. Ten years. Wild. Anyway, back then it became apparent that a few copies of the Texas Is The Reason 7" came with the wrong label. It was never a huge want of mine, but as time went on I started to want it more. Well, a decade later and Mike was kind enough to hand deliver one straight to my record room.

I'm not entirely sure how many copies exist like this. But I'm really curious as to how they spotted the mistake. And of course, I'm also curious as to whether any copies got out there with the wrong labels that weren't found.

I love how someone made the effort to correct the band name on the label, but not the song titles. I mean, talk about a half arsed job.

Speak Out

I've managed to pick up a few records from within the UK recently, which makes a nice change. There seem to have been a few things popping up lately, between discogs, eBay and some private sales. Some dude sold a bunch of Rev records, and one item I bought just for the hell of it was this copy of 'Speak Out' with white labels.

I haven't really ever tried to collect different black vinyl versions of any Rev releases, but seeing as I already had most of the different copies of 'Speak Out' then I figured that grabbing this would actually complete the collection, which is something that I rarely manage to achieve.

This particular copy is from the second 'edition', i.e. the 90s pressing which came in a regular (non gatefold) sleeve. Some of the copies from the 90s have blue labels, and some have white labels. I don't know which came first nor which is rarer. Nobody knows. It was never documented anywhere.

I haven't done this for a while, but I decided to get all my copies out for a photo. Heck, it was a rainy day and I didn't have much else to do. So here it is.

The first, second and third press copies are on the top row. The second row has the 90s pressings. And the bottom row is the 'final pressing' from 2001.

I decided to post this today as Rev put up the new, remastered version of the LP for order. It's taken me a few weeks to get around to taking this photo, but I think I managed to have a complete collection of this for up to a month before this latest repressing. Proving once again that I can never have a complete collection of anything,

Crunch Time

I'd never consciously heard Rhythm Collision until this year when one of their records came on youtube after something else I was listening to on youtube.I was into it really quickly and went straight to discogs and bought a nice purple vinyl copy of their second LP, 'Now'. Well, a month or so later the guy who sold me the record got in touch and asked if I would like a green vinyl copy of their third LP, 'Clobberer!' which I was also pretty stoked on.

And then, another few weeks later, and the same guy hit me up again with more Rhythm Collision records that he was looking to sell. And as is often the case, I couldn't say no...

First up is this self titled 7" from 1990. There are two songs on here, and both were also on the first LP, so this is essentially a promo 7".

Copies exist on red and blue vinyl, and there is no information about how many of each there are, but based on the number of people on discogs who own one, it feels that the blue vinyl is probably the rarer of the two.

Next up is the band's first LP, 'Pressure', released way back in 1991. This one sounds a little bit more basic than their later records, and a little more poppy. I haven't listened to this one as much as the others, but in time I will get to it.

I'm not sure how many copies exist on red vinyl, but not all are.

Next up represents just how stupid I can be at times. Even though I am relatively new to this band, I somehow decided to buy three more colour vinyl copies of the second album 'Now'. DO I really need 4 copies of this record? Well, probably not. But they are nice colours and they were pretty cheap, so it seemed better than spending money on a new release pressed on some crappy colour that looks awful.

And finally, what I thought was the final LP, 'Crunch Time'. It turns out that this is actually a live LP, released in 1996 on Stiff Pole Records. From what I can tell, it feels that white is the more limited version of this one.

Crazy that until this year I had never heard this band, and now I have a pretty extensive collection of their records. I have to say though that in my defence I probably wouldn't have been so keen ot buy them if they weren't cheap. The band also seem to have released a bunch of 7"s but I don't think I can be bothered to try to collect those. But who knows? I'm starting to confuse myself these days so anything is possible.

Party Like It's 1999

It was only a little over a year ago that I got into Lungfish. I was initially attracted to check them out due to the cover art on one of their records, so I checked them online and instantly loved it. Fast forward a year and I have just bought the latest of the colour vinyl represses, which is their final record titled 'A.C.R. 1999'.

I noticed on discogs that this was the last Lungfish record released, with a release date of 2012. I was confused because the band went on hiatus in 2005. I went to Dischord's site to see if I could find any info, and what was there slightly confused me. This is what it said:

These 10-songs were recorded and mixed by Craig Bowen at Baltimore’s A.C.R. Studios but never released. After the session the band decided to continue writing new songs. Six of these songs were re-recorded at Inner Eat Studios and released on Necrophones, while four others remained unreleased, until now. Released in 2012.

So it sounds like these were old, unreleased songs that later got released I guess. ALthough six of them had actualy been released. Yeah. Colour me confused.

This is the 7th Lungfish record that has been repressed in the last year or so, and I've bought them all now. I'm sure that the rest will follow. By my count there are another 5 still to come. Quite why they are not being released in order remains a mystery, but at this point I'm down for whatever. Looking forward to whichever is next.

Sincerely

Even though I've been a big fan of Revelation Records for many years, a year or so ago I realised that there are several Rev releases that I had never heard before. Why? Because they were released on CD only. The majority of the CD only releases are in the Rev 110 - Rev 140 catalog range, which were released in the period from 2002 to 2006. In total there are 24 Rev releases that were released by Rev on CD only, of which 17 were in the 2002-2006 era. And I bought none of them, because i always prioritised whatever money I had for records. I always figured that CDs would never be hard to find or rare or expensive, so I skipped buying them. I guess it helped that most of the CD only releases were by bands I didn't have much interest in anyway.

So I went on a mission to download all of the CD only releases and give them a listen. And in doing that, I found a couple of gems. One of them I then discovered was actually released on vinyl, albeit by a differnt label. So I added it to my wants list and a few weeks ago a copy popped up for sale in the UK.

This record is titled 'Sincerely' and is by a band called End Of A Year. It was originally released in 2006. I genuinely had no idea that Rev even released this album until a year or so ago. But here I am picking it up in 2023, some 17 years after it first came out, which seems nuts.

This vinyl version was released by a label called Slave Union. Cool that they left the Rev logo on the back though. A quick check on discogs tells me that Slave Union have released nothing else I have ever heard of, or have any interest in. Apparently there were 400 copies on this sky blue colour vinyl. There's also a green colour which is rarer. If I ever see one I'll probably pick it up.

I have no idea how I'd describe this record musically. I read something that compared it to Embrace and Rites of Spring, but I'd say that if this comparison is there then it's vague. But still, it's in that kind of ballpark. Whatever it is, I genuinely feel that this is a really good record, and I'm glad that I finally got around to checking it out all these years later.

Parallel Worlds

My last post was the Prey 'Unsafe' LP that recently came out on Scene Report Records, and when I picked it up I also grabbed another record that they have put out recently. This record is titled 'In The Comet's Path' by a UK band called Parallel Worlds..

This band have actually been around for the best part of a decade, but have at some point changed their name. The band used to be called Young Conservatives, and I'm going to hazard a guess that they changed their name because the old one made them sound like a group of teenage Tories... which I highly doubt would have enticed the average UK hardcore fan to pick up their records or watch them play live. But even if this was not the reason, I think 'Parallel Worlds' is a better band name generally.

Again, just like the Prey LP, part of the attraction to this record was the artwork. There's something about the cover art for this record that grabs my interest. Without any indication as to what kind of music this band plays, I'd be intrigued to give this a spin. And even though I'm not a big fan of swirl or splatter vinyl colours, this one kinda suits the artwork, so it gets a pass.

The band features the vocalist from The Horror and Imbalance, and Dave on drums from Voorhees and 20 other bands, and a couple of other dudes i don't know who they are. I'm not sure how best to describe their sound. I can hear small elements of the aforementioned bands in places, but this generally sounds nothing like any of them. It's a hardcore record, but there's a lot more going on under the hood. The more I listen, the more I notice subtle little bits of guitar in some of the songs which kinda makes me want to describe this as something other than 'hardcore' as that sounds almost too basic. Whatever is going on here though is certainly interesting and is gonna keep me comnig back for some time. This has been on the daily playlist for the last couple of weeks and I can't see that changing for a while.

When this record came, the label had also thrown in another record for free. This is a record from the band pre name change. 'Non-Exist' is a 5 song EP from 2017 which completely passed me by.

According to discogs there were 250 copies of this one pressed on red vinyl. I'm going to assume that it didn't sell out, which is how come I got given one for free. Anyway, listening to this, I can totally hear how the band has progressed into Parallel Worlds, but this sounds much closer to a more 'traditional' hardcore sound. It almost sounds like sometihng that would have come out on SST circa 1988. Hopefully the new name will help give this band the attention that they deserve.