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The Hands Up EP by Red Collar
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fave it Punk | Rock & Roll
5 tracks | 18 minutes
Released Aug 2007
on Power Team Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:12 Hands Up lyrics FREE 04:12 Hands Up lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:12 Hands Up
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:49 Used Guitars lyrics BUY MP3 03:49 Used Guitars lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:49 Used Guitars
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"(A) fuse of several great strains of punk—like the power plod of early ‘80s Boston band Mission of Burma and the scabrous edge of D.C.’s Fugazi—with a wide-open sense of pop." -Grayson Currin, Independent Weekly
Bio / Background
Durham/Chapel Hill’s Red Collar has been described as “...a taut postpunk that’s working-class, not ‘punk;’ honestly emotive, not ‘emo;’ world-weary, but anything but nihilistic.”
-Ross Grady, traianglerock.com
In the same way that their music is both popish and punk-ish, their live show is both aggressive yet playful, an explosion of energy and urgency.
Here's some other reviews of Red Collar and The Hands Up EP:
From Grayson Currin of the Independent Weekly: “Somehow, they fuse several great strains of punk—like the power plod of early ‘80s Boston band Mission of Burma and the scabrous edge of D.C.’s Fugazi—with a wide-open sense of pop. It sounds surprisingly more fresh than forced or marketed...
From Josh Spilker of Southeast Performer Magazine: “Red Collar channels the angst of the workingman in a way that hasn’t been seen in rock in a long time.
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