U.S. Crush

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Name = U.S. Crush


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Origin = Newport Beach, California, USA
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Genre = Punk rock
Years_active = 1997–c. 2003
Label = Immortal Records/Virgin Records
Associated_acts = Atomic Boy
Kickball
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Current_members = Denny Lake
Hodgie Haynes
Dave Hanson
Ky Lambert
Dennis Wolfe
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U.S. Crush was a California punk band, formed in 1997 after frontman Denny Lake's former project Atomic Boy split up. The band also featured Hodgie Haynes, Dave Hanson (both on guitar), Ky Lambert (bass) and Dennis Wolfe (drums).

The Hollywood Reporter described them as "a more catchy and melodic brand of punk, blending neo-Sex Pistols riffs with touches of power pop, British Invasion and good old rock 'n' roll".cite web |url=http://www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-pictures/4842992-1.html |title=Concert Review: U.s. Crush |accessdaymonth=06 January |accessyear=2008 |author=Daina Darzin |year=2000 |month=August |work=The Hollywood Reporter
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Biography

It would not be until three years after forming that U.S. Crush saw its first piece of moderate success in its major label debut album, "U.S. Crush", which was released in 2000, featuring their radio hit single "Same Old Story (She's So Pretty)", which had received heavy rotation on KROQ.cite web |url=http://wm07.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:a9foxqrkldte |title=U.S. Crush Biography |accessdaymonth=06 January |accessyear=2008 |author=MacKenzie Wilson |year=2000 |month=August |work=allmusic.com |publisher=AMG |quote= ] The album was described as "erupting with swelling pop melodies, hot-lava guitar textures and urgent punk attitude", [cite web |url=http://www.concertlivewire.com/cdarchives/crush.htm |title=Pop Goes The Punk: U.S. Crush |accessdaymonth=06 January |accessyear=2008 |author=Tony Bonyata |year=2000 |month=August |work=concertlivewire.com |publisher= |quote= ] and a "well crafted first effort". [cite web |url=http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:gbfuxqlkld0e |title=U.S. Crush Review |accessdaymonth=06 January |accessyear=2008 |author=Heather Phares |year= |month= |work=allmusic.com |publisher=AMG |quote= ] To date, this is U.S. Crush's only released album. About a year after its release, the group parted ways with Immortal/Virgin.

After a break in 2001, U.S. Crush headed back into the studio in 2002 for their second album, and recorded several songs including "White Trash Girlfriend", "Enemy" and "Girls With Girls", and shopped them around to labels but nobody was interested. However, some demos of the songs for the second album can be heard on the now-rare EP "2002 Rock".

U.S. Crush played a few surprise shows in late 2002/early 2003 to attempt again to catch a label's interest but they were unsuccessful. Around 2003, the group announced their official breakup, and afterward, Lake and Haynes resurfaced in a new project called Kickball.

Band members

* Denny Lake - vocals
* Hodgie Haynes - guitar
* Dave Hanson - guitar
* Ky Lambert - bass
* Dennis Wolfe - drums

Discography

ingles

*"Same Old Story" (1999)

Albums

* "U.S. Crush" (2000) Virgin/Immortal

EPs

* "2002 Rock" (2002) Self-Released

References

External links

* [http://www.myspace.com/uscrush U.S. Crush] at MySpace
* [http://skm.watty.com/cgi-bin/showreview.pl?action=single&style=bw&id=114 killermonkeys review of "U.S. Crush"]
* cite web |url=http://www.ballbusterhardmusic.com/hard_talk/09-2000/uscrush.html |title=U.S. Crush is crushin' the U.S. with their punchy punk rock (Interview) |accessdaymonth=06 January |accessyear=2008 |author=Michele Stefancic |year=2000 |month= |work=ballbusterhardmusic.com
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