AVEC formed in 2003 and hail from Baltimore, MD. A real band’s band, AVEC has consistently amazed show goers with their energetically emotive performances. The vocals duel between Shawna Potter’s whisper to roar and Brooks Harlan’s honest tenor melodies. They both trade off angular guitar lines for plastered chords. Drummer Scott Tiemann and bassist Adam Yeargin keep the rhythms tight to help those growling guitars stay afloat.
Drums beaten forcefully, growly bass, some simple hard rock guitar, one guy with a nice voice, and one guy who screams a lot. Take all of this and turn it up louder than most anybody you have ever seen or will ever see live, and you've got Gravity Keeps The Hours.
AVECduet is one-half of the Baltimore band Avec. They play new versions of AVEC songs, solo songs from Shawna, and other new songs written for this group.
Red Animal War play a melodic brand of postpunk with a bit of an edge. The band fills each song with poignant lyrics and angry moments to go right along with the softer more melodic ones. They manage to find enough variety to make a sound all their own in a genre that seems to be full of more and more imitators every day.
http://www.myspace.com/redanimalwar
Picture a trio of music-school graduates that are down with Rush and Fugazi and play in a band that sounds like it, with songs that approximate Ian MacKaye sitting in with Geddy Lee and Neil Peart after staying up all night, taking turns reading passages out of a science textbook. Now imagine it all sounds good, prog-punk that has all of the emotion of the latter, and none of the wankery of the former. That band was Sand Which Is.