FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CLAWJOB RELEASES NEW HISTORYROCK EP, MANIFEST DESTINY

Boston-based independent rock band Clawjob is releasing its second CD, a concept EP entitled Manifest Destiny, on August 12, 2008.

MANIFEST DESTINY

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 is available from Newbury Comics, Twisted Village, CDBaby.com, Amazon.com, digitally via iTunes and Emusic, and of course via Clawjob's official website, www.clawjob.com.

CLAWJOB SHORT BIO:

Clawjob is Mike Gintz and Nick Burgess. Manifest Destiny is their second release. Their first full-length, Space Crackers, was self-released in 2006, and is an hour-long rock opera involving a love triangle in space and the eventual alien-attack-and-nuclear-bomb-related annihilation of all human life. Prior to the release of Space Crackers, Mike was in the somewhat-known Boston band Clickers. Before that, Mike and Nick self-released two interneticly-successful mp3 albums of Nintendo soundtrack covers under the name Project X.

UPCOMING LIVE PERFORMANCE

Clawjob will be playing its first show in over nine months on August 15 at the Zine Library (45 Mt. Auburn St.) in Cambridge, in support of Manifest Destiny. Also on the bill: Serious Geniuses (Kiss of Death Records), Bread and Roses, and secret super special suprise guests. Suggested donation 5-10 dollars, all ages, show begins at 7pm.

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