Rival Schools
| Rival Schools | |
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 Rival Schools 2009 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Post-hardcore |
| founding | 2001, 2008 |
| resolution | 2003 |
| Website | www.rivalschools.net |
| Founding members | |
| Walter Schreifels | |
guitar |
Ian Love |
| Sammy Siegler | |
| Cache Tolman | |
Rival Schools is an American post-hardcore band from New York City founded in 2001 .
Band history
Rival Schools was founded in 2001 by singer and guitarist Walter Schreifels , who had previously played in hardcore and post-hardcore bands such as Youth of Today , Gorilla Biscuits and Quicksand . The other members are the drummer Sammy Siegler (including Youth of Today, CIV , Glassjaw ), Ian Love (guitar) and Cache Tolman (bass, later with Institute ). The group was named after a computer game series by the Capcom company .
The band's first work, a 6-song EP , was recorded together with Jonah Matranga and released on Schreifel's own label Some Records . A short time later the album United by Fate was released , which was released on the major label Island Records by Quicksand due to contractual obligations from Schreifel's time . The song Used for Glue contained on this album and released as a single became the most famous piece of the band, not least because of the associated video, which was played relatively often on music television.
In 2002 the group was on tour in Europe, where they supported the band A alongside the Beatsteaks . Ian Love left the same year to devote himself to another project; In 2003 Rival Schools was closed. Schreifels cited the planned solo career of guitarist Ian Love and disputes between him and other band members as reasons.
In 2008, Rival Schools reunited with the original line-up on the initiative of Walter Schreifels . In March 2011 the second album Pedals was released . In 2013, the band released ten-year-old recordings in self-distribution with Found , which until then had only been available as illegal leak , in remastered form digitally and on LP.
Discography
- 2001: United by Fate (Album, Island Records )
- 2001: Rival Schools United by onelinedrawing ( EP , Some Records)
- 2011: Pedals (album, Atlantic Records )
- 2013: Found (album, self-distribution)
Web links
- Rival Schools on MySpace
- Interview with Sammy Siegler at motor.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bodo Unbroken: Walter Schreifels… Sings All The Hits , Ox Fanzine, Issue # 63 (December 2005 / January 2006): Rival Schools disbanded relatively suddenly a few years ago. Why? - “Our guitarist wanted to start a solo career back then and that was the beginning of the end. At that point I was fed up with the band and couldn't get on with some of the members at all. "