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My name is Riley, and I play drums and write music for a band called Thrice.
This is where I ramble about music, sports, food, books, interwebbery, and whatever else I feel like sharing. I apologize in advance.
In addition to my ramblings here, I write a piece for OC Weekly called "3hree Things" that runs every Tuesday, and I'm also writing over at Flip Collective on occasion.
I'm the co-founder of a baseball-specific twitter feed and blog with my friend Ian, called Productive Outs.
And last, but not least, I have a bandcamp page and a soundcloud page that I'll be posting my own music and remixes on every once in a while.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions presented on this blog are mine, and do not reflect the position or views of the band as a whole.
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15 posts tagged Cave In
Random Start: Cave In, “Crossbearer”
It’s crazy that a record this awesome is actually a collection of the first recorded output from a bunch of 17-year-olds from Massachusetts. Then I remember that those 17-year-olds went on to write and record Jupiter and be one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen, and it’s really not all that surprising that they were shredding and writing great songs at an age when most of us barely knew how to play an instrument.
Listen to more Cave In. New and old.
Buy Beyond Hypothermia here.
Random Start: Zozobra, “Laser Eyes”
The skull-crushingly heavy side project of Cave In bassist, Caleb Scofield, Zozobra is a must-have record for fans for heavy, sludgey, riff driven rock. It’s far and away my favorite of the multiple Cave In side projects (aside from Old Man Gloom, which is kind of in the same vein and from the same brain). I’ve made it no secret on this blog over the years that Scofield’s scream is my favorite in heavy music, so having a collection of songs that feature that scream on top of some brutally heavy riffs that lock in with some rock solid drumming from Ex-Isis drummer, Aaron Harris plays on this record is just the best of all possible situations.
Buy Bird of Prey here.
Random Start: Clouds, “Guardian’s Eyes”
A monster of a song from Cave In guitarist, Adam McGrath’s side project, Clouds. I wasn’t able to find an album version of the track on YouTube, but I think this live video captures the band’s energy perfectly.
Buy Legendary Demo here.
Random Start: Cave In, “In The Stream Of Commerce”
Eleven years ago, Cave In’s Jupiter changed the way I listened to, thought about, and wrote and performed music. It’s been a constant course of inspiration ever since. It’s just an absolutely timeless record and total life-changer for me.
If you don’t own this record, PLEASE FIX THAT IMMEDIATELY.
Random Start: Cave In, “Moral Eclipse”
Cave In put Until Your Heart Stops out thirteen years ago and (arguably) it destroys any metal/hardcore hybrid record record that’s come out since. They’ve been one of my favorite and most influential bands since about 2000, regardless of the style they chose to play at any particular time. (Note: There were many.) I’ve written/gushed about them far too many times on this blog, so I’ll spare you the redundancy of doing it again and direct you to the archives if you need proof.
In short, they’re just amazing, and they always have been.
Buy everything Cave In has ever put out. Start here.
Everyone’s been raving about the new Bon Iver for months, but I haven’t really gotten around to it yet, because I can’t stop listening to these three records.
Click here to read this week’s 3hree Things at OCWeekly.
Cave In’s full set from Krazy Fest. Forty minutes of awesomeness.
(Thanks to @d_mccormack for the heads up.)
(Not So) Random Start: Cave In, “Sing My Loves”
I’ve been a raving super-fan of Cave In since we had the life/band-trajectory-changing experience of touring with them in 2001, I was crushed when I heard they were going on hiatus in 2006, and I almost exploded when I heard they were writing and recording new music for a 2011 release.
That release, White Silence, is finally here, and it’s every thing I hoped it would be and more. It’s got the crushing dynamic shifts of Jupiter era Cave In, the brutality of Until Your Heart Stops era Cave In, the melody and semi-psychedelic Pink Floyd/Beatles vibe of Steve Brodsky’s solo work, the headbanging sludge of Caleb Scofield’s Old Man Gloom and Zozobra projects, the thrashiness of Adam McGrath’s Clouds project and it’s all neatly packaged onto a concise thirty-six minute LP. And it’s that conciseness (and that I love this band to death) that I’ve had this record on repeat since Hydrahead made it available for download yesterday afternoon. I can’t stop. I won’t stop.
They might be done touring, but I hope this band never stops making music together. There’s just nothing like it. Nothing that moves me like this band can.
