Middle Class Rut
| Middle Class Rut | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Sacramento , California , United States |
| Genre (s) | Alternative rock |
| founding | 2006 |
| Website | www.mcrut.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Zack Lopez | |
| Sean Stockham | |
Middle Class Rut is an American alternative rock band that formed in 2006 in Sacramento , California .
history
Zack Lopez and Seam Stockham formed the band Leisure in the mid-1990s. The band's line-up changed very often and despite expressions of interest from some big labels and producers, the band was disbanded in the early 2000s.
In 2006 Lopez and Stockham formed a new band, Middle Class Rut, which is just the two of them. Middle Class Rut toured the United States since 2007, prior to the release of their first album. At the end of 2007, the first single New Low came out. The song is still the best known of Middle Class Rut and attracted attention back then. So it was song of the year 2008 of the local radio station KWOD. The band then released several EPs. So they drew the attention of New Musical Express , Kerrang! and BBC Radio 1 on itself. In 2009 and 2010, Middle Class Rut supported Social Distortion , Alice in Chains , Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures .
Her first studio album, No Name No Color, was released in the United States on October 5, 2010, followed by a UK release on November 22. The album contains many of the songs previously released on EPs. Several tours followed as headliner and support act.
On April 16, 2013, the music video for Aunt Betty was featured on Loudwire . The album Pick Up Your Head was released on June 28th .
In 2017 Middle Class Rut released the album Strangler Days , which contains mostly unreleased songs from previous years. In 2018 the new studio album Gutters was released .
Discography
Studio albums
- 2010: No Name No Color (Bright Antenna)
- 2013: Pick Up Your Head (Bright Antenna)
- 2018: Gutters
EPs
- 2008: Middle Class Rut: Blue EP (self-distribution)
- 2008: Middle Class Rut: Red EP (self-distribution)
- 2008: Busy Bein 'Born / All Walks of Life (Bright Antenna)
- 2009: Busy Bein 'Born / Start to Run (Bright Antenna)
- 2009: 25 Years (Bright Antenna)
- 2011: Hurricane (Bright Antenna)
Compilations
- 2017: Strangler Days
Singles
| title | year | album |
|---|---|---|
| All walks of life | 2008 | on no album |
| I guess you could say | 2009 | |
| New Low | 2010 | No Name No Color |
| Busy Bein 'Born | 2011 | |
| Are you on your way | 2012 | |
| Aunt Betty | 2013 | Pick Up Your Head |
| Dead Eye |
Web links
- Official website
- Middle Class Rut at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Visions 244 p. 43
- ^ Middle Class Rut replace TAT on Social Distortion tour . punknews.org. September 21, 2009. Retrieved December 8, 2013.
- ^ Alice in Chains with Middle Class Ruth . adn.com. Accessed on December 8, 2013. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Visions 244 p. 84
