From the first guitar riff, no thought comes to mind but to agree that Rock n Roll is back! Pounding drums with an almost familiar vocal and the element of fun. Lead Vocalist ‘Shaun Soho’ and Bass player ‘Bo,’ named the band after a late-night car crash, calling themselves “Crash Midnight.” Making a name for themselves they describe their sound as a collision of the punk attitude from The New York Dolls and the classic 70s rock power like The Rolling Stones. Their trademark sound is packing clubs on the east coast and they’re being heralded as amazingly entertaining. Crash Midnight is poised to take over the world with their exploding high-energy stage show.
As for their musical direction “we were fed up with a lot of the stuff out on the radio today and wanted to make something that was real, true to what we were doing,” explained Shaun Soho.
The formative years of Crash Midnight included hard partying, destruction and nightly occurrences of noise complaints while they lived in their cramped Boston apartment. As growing pains will have it, they also had to deal with their share of scam promoters, scam managers and empty promises. This fueled the band to relentlessly attack stages on the Boston music scene with a ferocity typical to their approach to everything from promotion to partying. The band began entrenching themselves on the club circuit and expanding to tours.
“Made for the Money,” is their present single. When asked about their choice for the single, Bo says, “It's the perfect first song for people to hear from us, it really introduces them to our sound ... and you can dance to it.” The single opens with a riff and swing reminiscent of their Boston predecessors, Aerosmith - perhaps channeled through their West Coast counterparts, Guns n Roses - into honest, street-level lyrics about a friend of the band's struggle with the lure of materialism and addiction that has a distinct 70's punk flavor.
In 2009, the band inked a deal with Bronx Bridge Entertainment (Universal/Fontana) and they've just finished all tracking on their debut full-length album. With the electrifying guitar tandem of Jonny Coltrain and Todd Friedman plus the incomparable Tommy Maz on drums, the band is set to hit the road and hit it hard so buckle up for CRASH MIDNIGHT to sideswipe the town with that brand of whiskey-soaked Rock n' Roll.
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ahhahaha what a bunch of jokers
how old are these guys they look like their 38 and thats why they play old people music!!1
well, it's clear you went to college with that amazing grammar of yours... "their" does not equal "they're"... well done.
on another note, I think they're really catchy, good stuff guys...
They couldn't draw flies unless their mom brought them. This isn't a review its an advertisement. Not credible Mr. Archer.
Honestly, I liked what i heard, it took me by surprise....
I don't like it. If that's "the return of rock and roll" rock and roll is beyond help.
Thanks guys for commenting, I appreciate your honest opinions on Crash Midnight.
I'm a bit curious about why "Unanimous" concluded that this was an advertisement and why this article is not credible? It's not my job as a music reviewer/ writer to like or dislike an artist or to blow up an artist just for the sake of it or to downplay. There're many forms of music that might not be my personal taste and as a music writer I need to be impartial and respect the art-form. The accounts in the article are credible and the last time I checked, it's normal if an artist is coming out with a project it's good to have a few articles to help expose them to the public. As for the taste of music, I'm familiar with Rolling Stones, Duran Duran, Billy Idol, Living Color, Genesis and so many others, by these artist you should conclude I'm a 70s and 80s kind of a guy. One of the things I appreciate with Crash-Midnight's single is that they didn't over produce the song like many bands do today, which will go a long way when they go live. They also have an older sound, they didn't claim to be Green Day. So if you can shed some light on my article being one that's not credible, it will maybe help me grow. I don't mind constructive criticism.
Where do we start? First, the text of your "review" is largely comprised of verbatim quotes from the "band's" web and social page hype. Therefore, it's not remotely objective or based on a personal evaluation, is it? Second, and I quote you: "There're many forms of music that might not be my personal taste and as a music writer I need to be impartial and respect the art-form." Maybe start with respecting the art-form of journalism.
Perhaps I should pontificate on quantum physics, something I know absolutely nothing about. Or canning pickles.
How do you qualify your effusive review that contains such frothing adulation when you infer the style of music (and I'm being generous) is not something you're familiar with, or even to your taste?
Can we expect a similar and summarily hyperbolic evaluation of the recently discovered roll recording of Liszt' Piano Sonata Monographs by Arthur Friedheim?...oh, wait, Liszt wasn't a contrived poser with a fraudulent Internet presence. As ignorant as I am, I can quantify this- simply look at the inflated numbers on the band's Myspace page and compare them to the current number of followers on Facebook or Twitter- it's somewhere around 50K to 1 ratio. I surmise this is because it's not possible to artificially inflate the latter's numbers. Pity that Myspace is extinct.
If you want to be taken seriously as a writer, you may consider sticking to the genre(s) you know, not the ones where you are asked to promote fantasy. I like the Examiner, but credibility is everything to a writer; plus, this is a new world. The machinations of the old record business are archaic.
Ok, thanks for your comments, first of all, I didn't specify in my comments what my musical taste is, Rock and roll is one of my personal taste. In my comment I was making a point. I was not saying that I’m not familiar with the art form. Secondly, let’s clarify this review. It’s an initial review or a personalizing review, a little information about the artist and an idea of their style of music. This review is not an analytical review of the band, and here is where there might be confusion. I’m not listening to different selections of the band and musically describe the key signature of the song or the time signature or about the dynamics. I may analyze if I’m inspired to mention something in the music that sticks out, in their case it’s their guitar work.
You sound like pompous jackass with a thesaurus. Clearly you have some personal grudge against this band and your attempt to appear intellectual with your stilted verbiage is so transparent it's laughable.
I "surmise" you are insanely jealous of this particular band's success despite your repeated, obvious, and ultimately fruitless multiple attempts on this page to attack them - 21+ radio stations nation wide and counting... doesn't it just eat you up?
PS. you can't "inflate" friends on Myspace. You should do your research, the real estate business is slow anyway so you'll have plenty of time
Music is a fun and simple science. Anyone should be able to take part regardless if they’re musically inclined or not, whether they’re scientist, teachers, researchers, journalists, or what ever. At the end of the day it’s supposed to be fun, relaxing, elevating, no stress, nothing to think too hard about. This article is more of an introduction as I mentioned before and the band meets the basic requirements for me to take a listen and write about them.
The biography was used as reference and that’s normal. They’re an unknown right now and may soon become very popular. If it meets your taste then fine, if not then keep it moving. They ‘are’ doing Rock and Roll, maybe not the recent kind but it’s rock and roll. As life goes on we keep learning and I’m learning as we correspond which will help me to improve and adjust my style of writing. Thanks again for taking the time to respond and I hope that my future articles won’t come off as an advertisement or an article that’s not credible.
I have no idea why this much time has been devoted to a nothing band with no following but you should check YOUR facts: ALL kinds of bands had "bots" that artificially inflated hits and friends on Myspace. Common fact. And I did look at at their Twitter page- 21 no-name terrestrial AM and Internet stations with no listenership don't really count. Although I suppose it's a start.
I have nothing against the band, btw. If they succeed honestly, good for them. I agree with other guy, It just looks like another local band pretending to be something it isn't....babbling about what "rebels" they are; just my .02.
How is this band a "nothing band?" They're signed to Universal, have their single spinning on 21-plus FM radio stations across the country already which, no matter how much you'd like to convince yourself otherwise, those are FM stations with strong listenership, look them up - and they're on Comcast and Verizon's Music Choice cable Rock station. They seem to be doing just fine and people obviously like their stuff.
Of course you "agree with the other guy" you ARE the "other guy" ... it's blatantly obvious you're the same person posting repeatedly and have some personal connection/grudge with these guys. What are they pretending to be that they aren't? If you're such an impartial observer, what do you know about their parties etc? You're reading a Philadelphia publication, they're from Boston, how are they "local" ... the only thing they'd be local to is you in Boston where you apparently have beef with them.
Give it up and move on.
The guy in the band posting is pretty defensive- I live in Vermont, but I read a LOT of online metal stuff. I knew one of the guys in the band, so Philly or wherever something is posted, I don't have to BE there to read about stuff. It's the Internet. I did say if they make it honestly, that's great! But c'mon, they have 38 twitter folowers right now. i don't know what parties your referring to either. I've never been to one.
If your band's good, stop being a pussy and earn a afollowing. Then brag.
Guess I should have signed as Hatorade instead of Anonymous above, but having known these guys for a long, long time it annoys me that some people seem so jealous of them having success that they lash out about completely irrelevant things.
My point on myspace is of course I'm aware you can get a bot to continually visit a page and jack up bands plays that's pretty common knowledge, but to get friends on a site like that people actually have to ADD you ... that means 40,000 some odd people added them, you can't fake that.
Regardless, Mr. Archer's article never mentions anything about Myspace numbers, he simply says he digs their single and the sound they've got going. Clearly since the haters seem to love their research, from 10 seconds of research on the band's sites you can read that they're signed to Fontana-Universal, embarking on a national tour as well as read how many radio stations they're currently playing on across the nation so obviously Mr. Archer isn't alone in thinking their band is onto something.
It takes quite a lot of venom to go to the lengths of attacking the journalistic integrity of someone who did nothing but write a perfectly credible and honest article about his opinion of this band.
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