Year : 2017
Style : Sleaze Glam Hard Rock
Country : Canada
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 84 mb
Bio:
Dirtbag Republic started off as an idea to put the sleaze back in Rock n' Roll with zero shtick. Vancouver rock veterans Sandy Hazard (vocals/Drums) & Mick Wood (Guitars) were up to the task.Wood & Hazard have been friends since 1985, when Hazard stole Wood from another group he saw at a local battle of the bands.Years later Hazard would call on Wood again when his then band Pretty Boy Floyd/Tommy Floyd (Canada) had just disbanded. The two were dismayed at the bandwagon grunge scene and had a vision to put together something that crossed Hanoi Rocks with the Ramones. Enter Grandma Moses, a freight train of a band that stormed the Vancouver scene, was featured in Metal Edge magazine and debut album released posthumously by Perris Records to critical acclaim. The band was also featured in Sleazegrinders Flash Metal Suicide.After Grandma Moses imploded, Wood laid low in the scene surfacing now and then, and Hazard went on to play for 20 years with Bubblepunkers MCRACKINS releasing 17 albums from labels around the globe. The band were featured on the legendary John Peel Show (BBC), MTV Europe, Much Music, Spin, Molson Canadian commercial and a hilariously bad feature film called Downhill Willy. The MCRACKINS outlasted many of their contemporaries from the 90’s and consistently received critical acclaim for their albums.Enter Dirtbag Republic. Hazard had an unstoppable urge to create an old school dragging your ass through the gutter filth rock record, with zero filler.His first thought was to call Mick Wood to run it by him. Wood was fully onboard and the two soon began to work on 12 songs for what would soon become the album. Hazard also brought in former Pretty Boy Floyd/Tommy Floyd bassist Steve Bratz to lay down bass.A year in the making, the debut Dirtbag Republic record has been recorded and will be ready for release this fall. It was mixed and mastered at Rain City Recorders in Vancouver, BC by Stu McKillop who is a veteran of the Vancouver music scene.Dirtbag Republic is a modern non-stop aural assault, crossing influences such as Hanoi Rocks, Aerosmith, The Faces, Cheap Trick, Rolling Stones & NY Dolls. The borders are wide open to expand their nation of two.
Album:
Canadian sleaze rockers Dirtbag Republic have released their debut video for their new song “Junkie Girl” from their upcoming sophomore album Downtown Eastside, which will be released on April 7, 2017.Dirtbag Republic‘s press release states in part:“Dirtbag Republic are a Vancouver Glunk Rock N Roll band featuring Mick Wood on lead guitar, Sandy Hazard on vocals/drums and Andrew Cairns on rhythm guitar, Kyle Richardson on Bass.The band wears their influences on their sleeve “Hanoi Rocks, Aerosmith, Stones, Cheap Trick, Sex Pistols, NY Dolls with a healthy dose of punk attitude for good measure.Dirtbag Republic sophomore album entitled “Downtown Eastside” which contains 10 in your face songs about homelessness, love, hate and deceit will be out April 7th 2017. The album was recorded at Hazmat Studios, Richardson Sound, The Woodshed and mixed once again by Stu McKillop at Vancouver’s Rain City Recorders….Hazard and Wood began writing the second album during the recording of the debut as they had lots of new ideas they wanted to get down fresh. Hazard says their vision was to record an album as good or better than the debut and push themselves as writers. Their mission is to keep alive songs that stick in people’s heads for months, years. We want to make earworms that fertilize people’s brains. We want this album to hit you like a cinderblock to the head, stumble to your feet and get back again for another round. Dirtbag Republic’s Downtown Eastside will be issued on CD via the boutique punk rock label Spawner Records and will be available on all popular DDL services April 7th.Hazard and Wood started the band in late 2014 and released their self-titled debut album “Dirtbag Republic” on Sept 30th 2015 to worldwide critical acclaim. The band has become a bit of a collective with Wood and Hazard bringing in old friends to fill in the gaps of the recording process….In early 2016 the band added second guitarist Andrew Cairns and Kyle Richardson on bass who are both veterans of the Vancouver punk scene and old friends with Hazard and Wood. The group intends to start doing some live shows in the coming year. They’ll be looking fill the drumming vacancy later this year as Hazard wants to just focus on vocals for live shows.
Line-Up:
Sandy Hazard - Drums, Vocals
Mick Wood - Lead Guitar
Andrew Cairns - Guitar
Kyle Richardson - Bass
Tracklist:
01. Junkie Girl
02. Homeless
03. My Part of Town
04. Fantasy World
05. Swing and a Miss
06. See You in the Morning
07. Thinking of You
08. Don't Shoot Your Mouth Off
09. Free Falling
10. Crawling Back to Me
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