Local Band Network Member Since: January 8, 2004
Last Update: February 24, 2004
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Music types:
Punk, Metal
Description:
Official is a three-piece based in Washington D.C. They play in your face rock and roll with a dash of punk and a dose of metal. The Official live shows have the energy of an atomic blast. 110 percent every time. If you live in the D.C. area or are going to be visting soon you need to see this fucking band play a show.
Check out the Official website located below to download a couple tunes, "For Now" and "Cocaine Queen." You'll find them under "works."
Band Members:
They’re comprised of three hard chargin’ individuals from various east coast locales- call it fate or divine intervention- hell give it a name, but these three drug-addled drifters were fortunate to find themselves last year in the nation’s capital all at the same time.
Striving to encourage cross-pollination between the spirit and sound of punk, the craft and tradition of ass kicking rock & roll and a general disdain for the confinements of mainstream everything.
OFFICIAL will boil your blood, raise the hairs on your arms and tickle your monkey nerve. They’re reaching for the heavens while keeping one eye on the gutter.
From first meeting it was evident that these boys don’t just play music- they live it. Mind, body and soul…they bleed rock & roll. It’s best not to question how or why. The proof is in their love of all things rock and the truth is in their music.
No politi-punk agenda, no corporate sponsors- these rowdy bunch of rock& roll outlaws brings it hard, loud & nasty- the only way it sticks. Their tick tight sound kicks it out and rescues rock & roll from the mainstream leviathan that tries so hard to keep ‘em down.
Hellfire and brimstone, speed racer and sex kittens, the locomotive rhythms of traditional rock, the intensity and heat of a 4-alarm fire and the full on ferocious sonic assault of guitar, bass and drums create a fertile and jumpy hybrid that will leave you helpless, sweaty and more than a little lost. Your best move might be to make for the rear exit, but you KNOW you want to run to the front and join the fray.
OFFICIAL will have you dancing giddily into the fires.
At a time when many self-proclaimed musicologists and genre snobs want to safely bottle music, label it, and put it on a shelf to be shilled out to the kids in the suburbs, the “never cease three piece” will have none of it-- they aim to air it out every night and let it run wild in the streets.
Irreverent, rebellious, greasy and fun as hell.
If you like what you hear, help spread the gospel.
MSR-bass, background vocals
Jim-drums
Kady-guitar, lead vocals
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