War Tapes is:
Neil
Becca
William
Matt
 
Genre: indie, post-punk/new wave
Sounds Like: the child of The Bravery and Boy Kill Boy, with a female bassist/vocalist.
Label: Sarathan Records
 
myspace

Why Bother?
If you’ve heard The Bravery, you’ll recognize their obvious influences on the War Tapes, from lead singer Neil’s distinctive voice to the same musical influences. Of course, there’s the fact that they toured with The Bravery before to add to those similarities. So why bother listening to these guys? They’re not The Bravery, for starters. With the presence of a female vocalist and their sardonic lyrics, I can guarantee you’ll be interested in their Cure-like sound. Of course, as with most bands, time and money could help them improve their sound, but I don’t think you should ignore these guys as just another one of the multitude of post-punk bands out there. They need to release an album before I can officially judge them, but I have some hope for these guys.

Current Discography:
War Tapes [EP] (2008)
- download: Dreaming of You
- download: Always Falling

Upcoming Tour Dates:
Sep 21 2008 – The Fillmore w/ Tiger Army (San Francisco, California)
Sep 24 2008 – EP RELEASE PARTY @ Club Moscow (18+) (Hollywood)
Oct 15 2008 – Club A.D.D. @ Nicholby’s (Ventura, California)
Oct 23 2008 – Octoberflame 2008 @ The Grove with Tiger Army & Vnv Nation (Anaheim, California)

Disclosure: War Tapes were brought to my attention by two emails from Sarathan Records. Please see my review policy for more.

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags:

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 14th, 2008 at 5:27 pm and is filed under preview, war tapes. You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.

One comment

  1. Dianna
    October 6, 2008 at 6:09 pm

    Hey, thanks for the War Tapes support, glad you like them! You should check out their recently released EP. Anyone who’s interested in buying the EP should look here: http://www.amazon.com/War-Tapes/dp/B001DSNGB8/?tag=sr0d-20

    /* Plugin Name: Custom Write Panel Plugin URI: http://wefunction.com/2008/10/tutorial-create-custom-write-panels-in-wordpress Description: Allows custom fields to be added to the WordPress Post Page Version: 1.0 Author: Spencer Author URI: http://wefunction.com /* ----------------------------------------------*/ $new_meta_boxes = array( "image" => array( "name" => "image", "std" => "", "title" => "Image URL", "description" => ""), "album" => array( "name" => "album", "std" => "", "title" => "Album Title", "description" => ""), "artist" => array( "name" => "artist", "std" => "", "title" => "Artist Name", "description" => ""), "year" => array( "name" => "year", "std" => "***, *** Records", "title" => "Year & Record Label", "description" => ""), "wiki" => array( "name" => "wiki", "std" => "", "title" => "Wikipedia Link", "description" => ""), "web" => array( "name" => "web", "std" => "", "title" => "Website Link", "description" => ""), "myspace" => array( "name" => "myspace", "std" => "", "title" => "Myspace Link", "description" => ""), "lastfm" => array( "name" => "lastfm", "std" => "", "title" => "Last.fm Link", "description" => ""), "genre" => array( "name" => "genre", "std" => "", "title" => "Genre(s)", "description" => ""), "rate" => array( "name" => "rate", "std" => "", "title" => "Rating", "description" => "values of 5, 4.5, 4, etc."), "recs" => array( "name" => "recs", "std" => "'***,' '***,' '***,' '***'", "title" => "Recommended Songs", "description" => ""), "alb1a" => array( "name" => "alb1a", "std" => "", "title" => "Recommended Listen #1: Artist", "description" => ""), "alb1n" => array( "name" => "alb1n", "std" => "", "title" => "Recommended Listen #1: Album", "description" => ""), "alb1l" => array( "name" => "alb1l", "std" => "", "title" => "Recommended Listen #1: Link", "description" => ""), "alb2a" => array( "name" => "alb2a", "std" => "", "title" => "Recommended Listen #2: Artist", "description" => ""), "alb2n" => array( "name" => "alb2n", "std" => "", "title" => "Recommended Listen #2: Album", "description" => ""), "alb2l" => array( "name" => "alb2l", "std" => "", "title" => "Recommended Listen #2: Link", "description" => "") ); function new_meta_boxes() { global $post, $new_meta_boxes; foreach($new_meta_boxes as $meta_box) { $meta_box_value = get_post_meta($post->ID, $meta_box['name'].'_value', true); if($meta_box_value == "") $meta_box_value = $meta_box['std']; echo''; echo'

    '.$meta_box['title'].'

    '; echo'
    '; echo'

    '; } } function create_meta_box() { global $theme_name; if ( function_exists('add_meta_box') ) { add_meta_box( 'new-meta-boxes', 'For Album Reviews', 'new_meta_boxes', 'post', 'side', 'high' ); } } function save_postdata( $post_id ) { global $post, $new_meta_boxes; foreach($new_meta_boxes as $meta_box) { // Verify if ( !wp_verify_nonce( $_POST[$meta_box['name'].'_noncename'], plugin_basename(__FILE__) )) { return $post_id; } if ( 'page' == $_POST['post_type'] ) { if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_page', $post_id )) return $post_id; } else { if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_post', $post_id )) return $post_id; } $data = $_POST[$meta_box['name'].'_value']; if(get_post_meta($post_id, $meta_box['name'].'_value') == "") add_post_meta($post_id, $meta_box['name'].'_value', $data, true); elseif($data != get_post_meta($post_id, $meta_box['name'].'_value', true)) update_post_meta($post_id, $meta_box['name'].'_value', $data); elseif($data == "") delete_post_meta($post_id, $meta_box['name'].'_value', get_post_meta($post_id, $meta_box['name'].'_value', true)); } }

Leave a comment