Swing Kids (band)

Swing Kids (band)

Infobox musical artist
Name = Swing Kids


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Genre = Experimental rock
Hardcore
Emo
Screamo
Math rock
Years_active = 1994-1997 ["Alternative Press" website, "Five We Fought Over", June 2008 [http://www.altpress.com/specials/features_misc/5wefoughtover/] Access date: July 12, 2008]
Origin = San Diego, California, United States
Label = 31G
Current_members = Justin Pearson
Eric Allen
John Brady
Jose Palafox

Swing Kids were a hardcore/screamo band from San Diego California during the mid 1990s. They were closely involved with and influenced by the forerunners of the San Diego hardcore punk scene of the 1990s.

Their music was characterized by Justin Pearson's spoken/screamed vocals and their melodic/chaotic rhythms and song structures. Swing Kids were influenced Fact|date=September 2008 by fellow San Diego bands Antioch Arrow and Drive Like Jehu. On a broader scale, their music and lyrics were influenced by post-punk.

Swing Kids carried the San Diego "art hardcore" movement past the initial wave of Gravity Records bands and through to the late 1990s, releasing a 7" EP and split 10" EP along the way. Despite their importance in a relatively small scene, Swing Kids' impact both during their tenure and after their 1997 breakup was global, thanks to many independent Zines and a US/European tour. The sound they pioneered inspired bands such as The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower, Refused, Orchid, Jerome's Dream and many others.

Swing Kids are also credited with the unintentional creation of the fad "Spock Rock" during the mid 1990s; largely due to many of their fans emulating Pearson's fashion sense and hair style. The name comes from Leonard Nimoy's character from the Star Trek television series & films, and more specifically his haircut.

Justin Pearson would later go on to play in other bands such as The Locust, Holy Molar, Some Girls, and The Crimson Curse. Eric Allen, who committed suicide in 1998, Fact|date=September 2008 played with the hardcore band Unbroken.

Members

*Eric Allen (of Unbroken)
*Jose Palafox (of Struggle and Bread and Circuits)
*John Brady (of Spanakorzo and Sweep the Leg Johnny)
*Justin Pearson (of The Locust), who would release their recordings on his own Three One G record label.

Ex-Members

*Michelle Maskovich
*Jimmy Lavalle (of The Album Leaf)

Discography

* "Swing Kids" 7" EP - Kidney Room Records (Later re-released as Three One G #2)
* "Swing Kids/Spanakorzo 10" Split EP" - Three One G #3
* "Discography" CD - Three One G
* "Discography Limited Picture Disc" LP - Three One G
* "Live Bootleg Record" 7" - unknown
* "Food Not Bombs Compilation(feat song: Disease) - Inchworm Records
* "Petty Boys With Poison Pens Compilation(feat song: El Camino Car Crash)
* "Two Decades Of Emo, Two Sides Of Tape Compilation (feat song: forty three seconds)
* "This is Circumstantial Evidence" DVD - Three One G

References

External links

* [http://www.threeoneg.com/etis/bands.php?action=view&id=15 Swing Kids homepage] from their label website Three One G
* [http://www.myspace.com/officialswingkids Swing Kids Myspace]
* [http://community.livejournal.com/_swingkids Swing Kids LJ] Swing Kids LiveJournal community


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