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Red Dons featured in an article about “the New Postpunk” by Souciant Magazine.

“8.) RED DONS

 

Red Dons – “Se Foi”

Portland, Oregon’s Red Dons are such a great band. You’d think more people outside MRR’s readership would be into them. Although I have met no one else who agrees with me on this, I think the singer sounds a wee bit like Morrissey, and that there is something very Smiths-like about them. Perhaps more appropriately, their sound could be compared to Under Two Flags. Whatever the case, Red Dons are one of those bands that will bug you to death for sounding like someone, except for the life of you you can’t think of who. They essentially used to be The Observers, whose  So What’s Left Now LP is also a mandatory document. Red Dons have a page here:http://www.reddons.com/

Read the rest of the Article Here. An interesting hypothesis for a punk dialectic.

“MOTHER’S CHILDREN European Tour May 2012!

Howdy,

I’m stoked to announce that MOTHER’S CHILDREN from the city of Ottawa plan on touring Europe finally in May 2012! If you wanna have them play your town, get in touch through info@takenbysurprise.net – a tentative schedule will follow soon. We released their ARE YOU TOUGH ENOUGH 12″ EP this year and they have a full length LP out on DERANGED RECORDS. Check out a song from the EP and a video from their LP below!”

MOTHER’S CHILDREN – (Baby You Ain’t) Tough Enough by tbsr.

 

Original Post Here.

Sue Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

“MOTHER’S CHILDREN European Tour May 2012!

Howdy,

I’m stoked to announce that MOTHER’S CHILDREN from the city of Ottawa plan on touring Europe finally in May 2012! If you wanna have them play your town, get in touch through info@takenbysurprise.net – a tentative schedule will follow soon. We released their ARE YOU TOUGH ENOUGH 12″ EP this year and they have a full length LP out on DERANGED RECORDS. Check out a song from the EP and a video from their LP below!”

MOTHER’S CHILDREN – (Baby You Ain’t) Tough Enough by tbsr.

 

Original Post Here.

Sue Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

“The next Release on Erste Theke is ready! No More Art is comprised of people from rather dissimilar backgrounds in music, but the elements are easy enough to lay out. There are the surf-drenched guitars, the complementary female vocals, and the rock ‘n’ roll frenzy of X (Los Angeles), some of what has been brewing in Denmark and Sweden over the last decades with bands like MASSHYSTERI / VICIOUS, and NO HOPE FOR THE KIDS, but also with lots of melody and leads that is reminiscent of 80’s LA bands like SOCIAL DISTORTION and ADOLESCENTS, but with a unique sound of their own as well. Lead singer Milo has been paying her dues for some years now as a singer song writer in her own solo project ROSIE TIE. Drummer Juan Miguel has been busy on the heavier side of music, playing guitar in bands like LOS DOLARES, ETACARINAE, and PELIGRO!, in Barcelona over the past decade. Will has also done time in many bands over the past decade with groups BORN/DEAD, DESOLATION, SUICIDE BOMB, DOPECHARGE, and most recently Portland’s RED DONS. Recorded by Dennis Rux at Yeah Yeah Yeah Studios and mastered by RED DONS Hajji Husayn in a 80s sound that made you KBD fans out there forget the modern world. Enjoy the first No More Art songs!

500 are made

400 Black Vinyl ( With normal Center Hole )
100 Black Vinyl ( ETT Version – With Big Center Hole )
5 Testpress ( Different Artwork )”

Original Post and and where you can get it HERE.

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No More Art is my new band in Hamburg Germany. This is our first demo after playing for a very short while together. It was recorded in HH at Yeah Yeah Yeah Studios with Dennis Rux and mastered by Hajji Husayn of Red Dons. We tried to go for a warm sound that you can hear every instrument, the end result is pretty good I think.This tape is available through Kink Records here in Europe.”

Original Post HERE

Download the Demo HERE

Get it at Kink Records

Perpeteia Mastered

Perpeteia Unmastered

“The next Release on Erste Theke is ready! No More Art is comprised of people from rather dissimilar backgrounds in music, but the elements are easy enough to lay out. There are the surf-drenched guitars, the complementary female vocals, and the rock ‘n’ roll frenzy of X (Los Angeles), some of what has been brewing in Denmark and Sweden over the last decades with bands like MASSHYSTERI / VICIOUS, and NO HOPE FOR THE KIDS, but also with lots of melody and leads that is reminiscent of 80’s LA bands like SOCIAL DISTORTION and ADOLESCENTS, but with a unique sound of their own as well. Lead singer Milo has been paying her dues for some years now as a singer song writer in her own solo project ROSIE TIE. Drummer Juan Miguel has been busy on the heavier side of music, playing guitar in bands like LOS DOLARES, ETACARINAE, and PELIGRO!, in Barcelona over the past decade. Will has also done time in many bands over the past decade with groups BORN/DEAD, DESOLATION, SUICIDE BOMB, DOPECHARGE, and most recently Portland’s RED DONS. Recorded by Dennis Rux at Yeah Yeah Yeah Studios and mastered by RED DONS Hajji Husayn in a 80s sound that made you KBD fans out there forget the modern world. Enjoy the first No More Art songs!

500 are made

400 Black Vinyl ( With normal Center Hole )
100 Black Vinyl ( ETT Version – With Big Center Hole )
5 Testpress ( Different Artwork )”

Original Post and and where you can get it HERE.

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No More Art is my new band in Hamburg Germany. This is our first demo after playing for a very short while together. It was recorded in HH at Yeah Yeah Yeah Studios with Dennis Rux and mastered by Hajji Husayn of Red Dons. We tried to go for a warm sound that you can hear every instrument, the end result is pretty good I think.This tape is available through Kink Records here in Europe.”

Original Post HERE

Download the Demo HERE

Get it at Kink Records

Perpeteia Mastered

Perpeteia Unmastered

 

 

Another blog  featuring Red Dons records for download. Here you can find Escaping Amman 7″, Death to Idealism LP, Fake Meets Failure LP, and the new A Forced Turning Point 7″.

Download them from: Fruitonia

or you can Click HERE to download our new album FAKE MEETS FAILURE. The album is $5 and all proceeds go directly to the band, not to itunes or any other outside corporation. This money helps us tour and record. But if you’re strapped for cash, you can always download the album for free!

*THE ABOVE LINKS NO LONGER WORK*

*You can download Fake Meets Failure and the A-sides of our 7″s FREE HERE*

Red Dons live in London @ Neat Neat Neat 29.4.11 playing My Life in Exile / Superficial

In care you don’t already have it the Red Dons Fake Meets Failure LP has been posted on another blog where you can download it for free.

Lair of Depravity

“Check out this link to a radio segment about Portland Punk that originally aired on September 12th, 2011 on the Bra Trommis program on Radio Nova in Norway. The piece features interviews with Red Dons & Tragedy. It is narrated in Norwegian but our responses remain in English so you can still make out most of what the interview covers.”

Link