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60 WATT KID
July 28, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
The Smell
July 28, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
The Smell
WAX FANG
August 01, 2010
Louisville, KY
Ear X-Tacy
The Affair
Azeda Booth
Bottom of the Hudson
Franklin Bruno
Buttonhead
Chet
The Court and Spark
Rob Crow
The Dead Science
The Dudley Corporation
Eltro
Ex-Boyfriends
The Extra Glenns
Frog Eyes
The Gang
Chris Garneau
Get Him Eat Him
Goblin Cock
The Hidden Cameras
Hometapes
Jack Hayter
The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up
Jukeboxer
Laarks
Life Without Buildings
Little Teeth
The Mountain Goats
Okay
Optiganally Yours
P.E.E.
Pidgeon
Pinback
+/- {Plus/Minus}
The Rollercoaster Project
60 Watt Kid
Sparrow
Summer at Shatter Creek
Sunset Rubdown
The Swords Project
Sybris
Telegraph Melts
The Places
Thingy
Two Guys
Virginia Dare
Wax Fang
The Wrens
Xiu Xiu
The Gang
If my memory serves me correctly it all started shortly after Y2K. The world was still rolling in all of its first-pumping, roof-raising euphoria upon the realization that their God was a merciful one--that the world hadn't ended because of a very important number that they themselves had created. Time had come and gone...
Actually it was before that.
The foundation had been laid years prior from the basements and garages of Bloomfield and North Caldwell to the bedrooms and backyards of Montclair and the jersey Shore converging on a Prep school in West Orange, New Jersey. Our school's motto was "Hazard Zet Forward" which roughly translates to--"Whatever things and stuff get all up in your grill--Keep going." So we did.
Many a friend worked hard at making this album and the live performances happen. There was a revolving door of musicians rolling thru our Fort Greene apartment...THe core of the band has always been myself (Gary Keating--Guitar and Vocals), Rich Bonner---Bass and Vocals and Eva Johannesdottir--keyboards and vocals with different drummers lending themselves to push the songs from where they were to where they could be. The majority of "Zero Hits" was written and recorded in that Fort Greene apartment but would have never made it there without the Bedrock of the early sessions recorded by Chris and Danny Leo in their Bloomfield basement and Danny's Brooklyn studio "Wild Frontier." The importance of these sessions is immeasurable and the particular quality with which they were approached and executed possessing an intangible value that inspired us to see the project thru. Overall we were searching for a spirit and it was only until we stopped looking and just played that I'd like to think that it found us. It is difficult for me to speak about this album and all of the friends that made it a reality without feeling a sense of uncomfortable self importance...Bullshitting. Steven Wright said it best as he always does when he said..."I was talking to myself the other day and though I was polite and cordial I could tell that I was lying."
Zero Hits CD (Absolutely Kosher, 2008)
Validate Me
January 07, 2009

The Gang is in Magnet's Best Of 2008: Hidden Treasures
The 10 Best Albums You Didnt Hear- "Zero Hits is a shit-fi masterpiece"
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/01/05/best-of-2008-hidden-treasures/
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The Gang - Zero Hits
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A tour de force of huge-sounding, rollicking rock, the Gang's debut album is a sure bet for fans of The Go Team, Mission of Burma, Fugazi and Le Savy Fav. The Gang honed their skills in Brooklyn basements and and display their prowess in this 2008 release. In the NYC band's own words, "as simply as it could possibly be put--we love doing what we do which is playing music for people. We are just trying to lend form to a feeling. Make a contribution. Get it out of us and our living rooms, cars and walkmen and into yours...."