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Clawjob is a rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, and was formed in 2000. Clawjob's members are Mike Gintz and Nick Burgess. Clawjob's newest release is Manifest Destiny, a rock EP exploring 19th-century America. Their debut album was Space Crackers, a science fiction rock opera.
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WEBSITES:
www.clawjob.com
www.myspace.com/clawjob
www.flickr.com/groups/clawjob/pool/
PREVIOUS PROJECTS:
Mike Gintz was a member of the Allston-based post-hardcore group Clickers. Mike and Nick were the members of Project X, the guitar-based video game music cover band (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH PROJECT X THE HARDCORE BAND!).
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clawjob.com/manifestdestiny
Manifest Destiny is a musical exploration of 19th-century America. Its six songs touch upon Civil War battlefield surgery, the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872, the Industrial Revolution, Indian removal, and people doing awful things to their fellow humans. Rock junkies and academics alike will be satisfied as never before, because Clawjob has infused this EP with crunchy, diseased rock guitars, viciously abused drums, and excitingly humiliated synthesizers!
Inspiration for Manifest Destiny came from many sources, as Clawjob ingested and barfed out such varied musical and cultural influences as Wire, global warming, Ween, unsustainability, Elastica, effects pedals, and general atrocity. As for the final result: Clawjob worked on this EP for too long to have any capacity for objective description, or to even be able to draw distinctions between bands and vague ideological concepts, so listeners will have to figure that out for themselves.
MANIFEST DESTINY ANNOUNCEMENT PRESS RELEASE:
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Space
Crackers detailed information page
Space Crackers is a science
fiction rock opera spanning 100 million years and over an hour of music.
The album is 14 tracks long, one of which (the title track) is a 20 minute rock
epic!
Features the vocal talents of a number of great local musicians (see below)
~ SPACE CRACKERS FEATURES CONTRIBUTIONS FROM
Kris Palumbo (Fox and the Sound)
Devin King (Night Rally)
Daniel Espeset (danielespeset.com)
Deb Nicholson (The Empties, Robotvoice)
Luke Kirkland (Night Rally, Boo Radley Bruises Badly)
Martin Pavlinic (Reports)
John Perotti (Paper Thin Stages)
Nate McDermott (Paper Thin Stages)
Chris Hislop (Piles, artchikent)
Elio DeLuca (Keys to the Streets of Fear)
Ross Farley (Bakula, Clickers)
Doug Harry (Bakula, Clickers)
Farhad Ebrahimi (Night Rally)
Paul DeGeorge (Harry and the Potters)
Joe DeGeorge (Harry and the Potters)
Alec Tisdale (Badman)
Ernie Kim (Tristan da Cunha)
Kevin Micka (Animal Hospital, The Common Cold)
~ SPACE CRACKERS PLOT:
In the future, the world is at peace, and two of Space School's most promising young scientists are to be sent into orbit to discover a solution to global hunger. When one of the scientists can't go, his replacement sees the mission as an opportunity to woo his unsuspecting female spacemate. Things get a little awkward when 50 million ravenous aliens land on Earth, hoping to feed on human flesh!SPACE CRACKERS ANNOUNCEMENT PRESS RELEASE:
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HTML Press ReleaseSPACE CRACKERS LIVE 10/21/06 PRESS RELEASE:
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From Manifest Destiny: "Diamond Hoax"
From Space Crackers: "Welcome to Space School" - "I Got My Space Pass"
Live: "Enter The Password, Dr. O!"
AVAILABILITY:
Clawjob's music is available directly from Clawjob's official
website: www.clawjob.com/store,
and from other retailers including Amazon.com, the iTunes Music Store, and Newbury
Comics.
E-mail: clawjob@clawjob.com
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/clawjob