FAIRWEATHER If They Move...Kill Them

Wikipedia:

Fairweather was an American rock band from Virginia that has released two full-length albums on Equal Vision Records: If They Move...Kill Them (2001) and Lusitania (2003). The band also released several demos and the Alaska EP.

Fairweather began playing shows in the Washington, DC suburbs of Virginia. After much critical acclaim of their first album, If They Move...Kill Them (named from The Wild Bunch http://punkrockacademy.com/stm/int/fairweather.html

the band booked dates with Thursday, Brand New, Saves The Day, The Movielife, Piebald, Onelinedrawing, Codeseven, and other nationally known touring acts.

The band announced that they would be disbanding in late 2003, not too long after their second full-length album, and finally disbanded in the winter of 2003. The played their final show at St. Andrews Church in College Park, Maryland, with Darkest Hour, Age of Ruin, StarsHideFire, and Good Clean Fun.

DOWNCAST self titled LP

One of my favourite screamo/political bands of all time is Downcast. This LP was released on Ebullition Records a long time ago and then remixed. This is the original mix.
From the Ebullition Records website:
"The LP cover is also a 20 page booklet that includes lyrics, pictures, and a lot of text written by the band members.

There are two different versions of this LP. The first 3,000 records are scribed as Ebullition #4 on the inner groove of the record. This version had a different mix and doesn't sound all that great. After these were sold the LP was re-mixed and re-mastered, and then it was re-released as Ebullition #6. The only way to tell the difference is to check the scribe on the inner groove.

In the early '90s Downcast toured the United States with Born Against and Rorschach. After their LP was released they then toured Europe.

Downcast also had one song on the Give Me Back comp LP, as well as one song on the Voice Of The Voiceless compilation LP.

After Downcast broke up the various members went on to form Not For The Lack of Trying, Jara, and Born & Raised."


Downcast

Sweetbelly Freakdown 1997

I remembered why I liked this so much when I first heard it. D.C.'s Sweetbelly Freakdown was former bandmates Swiz, who broke up in the early 90's. When they reformed, they changed their name and their sound. My favourite song is "Pleas to the Action Figure" - “Help me Obi Wan Kenobi!…Jesus doesn’t seem to be listening” yells vocalist Shawn Brown, hailing the power of plastic! Their only full length CD was released by Jade Tree Records and SF released a 7 inch, The Long Haul, which contained the title track and MCR. I still think this is a hell of a CD. And I still like Swiz.
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