"I was just a joke, I was just a joke at eighteen, at eighteen..."
Vangelism makes music that feel dystopian, fatalistic and hedonistic at the same time. The pair of muscular souls who look like a cross between urban skater kids, 90's graffiti artists, Ramones groupies and characters from John Capenters 'Escape from New York' have a propensity for spitting out caustic ryhmes amid punk metal guitars and industrial rock bass lines and machine beats. They spell out their latest mission on the Instagram which is full of interesting propositions and definitions:
2 piece 90’s rejects.
One new song every 336 hours for a year.
One new video every damn day.
Music til you puke. Or we do.
1-800-Not-Punk
I am really digging the track "Eighteen", a self deprecating, hallucinogenic fight song full of bravado and staying up late night with your drug of choice. I think you will enjoy this dirty, caustic rocker too, blast it in your car late at night rolling down the highway.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.vangelismisnotacrime.com/
https://www.instagram.com/vangelismisnotacrime/?hl=en
2 punks and a boombox. And by punks we mean 90’s kids and by boombox we mean discman. Nomadic tune slingers planting their feet for various periods in places like Montreal, Nashville, Brooklyn, Toronto and Japan, all in search of jeans that fit just right. Plying their trade in a multitude of projects, some good, some bad, all worth it if the end result is getting here. Plowing through stages on 3 continents warming up beer drinkers for headliners as diverse as The Stranglers, DFA1979, Nashville Pussy, Electric Six and Bon F*ckin Jovi, these 2 90’s grunge rejects learned a thing or 2 about throwing down when the time comes. Just ask Toby Keith. Vangelism came out of isolations womb, fully formed from behind the steering wheel of 2 used cars parked 6ft away. Why wait for things to return to normal to get started ? Normal never waited for them.
2 piece 90’s rejects.
One new song every 336 hours for a year.
One new video every damn day.
Music til you puke. Or we do.
1-800-Not-Punk
I am really digging the track "Eighteen", a self deprecating, hallucinogenic fight song full of bravado and staying up late night with your drug of choice. I think you will enjoy this dirty, caustic rocker too, blast it in your car late at night rolling down the highway.
-Robb Donker Curtius
* * *
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.vangelismisnotacrime.com/
https://www.instagram.com/vangelismisnotacrime/?hl=en
2 punks and a boombox. And by punks we mean 90’s kids and by boombox we mean discman. Nomadic tune slingers planting their feet for various periods in places like Montreal, Nashville, Brooklyn, Toronto and Japan, all in search of jeans that fit just right. Plying their trade in a multitude of projects, some good, some bad, all worth it if the end result is getting here. Plowing through stages on 3 continents warming up beer drinkers for headliners as diverse as The Stranglers, DFA1979, Nashville Pussy, Electric Six and Bon F*ckin Jovi, these 2 90’s grunge rejects learned a thing or 2 about throwing down when the time comes. Just ask Toby Keith. Vangelism came out of isolations womb, fully formed from behind the steering wheel of 2 used cars parked 6ft away. Why wait for things to return to normal to get started ? Normal never waited for them.
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