Right Way 7" Pre-order up now!

Finally, this is it. The U.S. pressing of the Right Way 7" that was just released by Refuse Records in Poland for the European Tour 2010.

We did a special run of 100 records on black vinyl with a special cover just for the States. 8 songs of fast hardcore from your favorite Clevelanders who aren't Drew Carey or Charlie Sheen in MLB.

Track list:

Side A:
1. Right Way
2. My Say
3. Peace
4. United Front

Side B:
5. Think Free
6. Dew It
7. Find Yourself
8. If You Cared,II

Pressing info:

100 copies black vinyl, special labels and cover.

This is a ***pre-order*** and will begin shipping August 9th 2010. Please don't email us asking where your record is until the end of August--especially because we're going to be in Europe until then. . .

Euro 2010 Tour Flyer

Shipping the Right Way

Just got word from Robert over at Refuse Records that he's received in the complete shipment of the new RIGHT IDEA 7" Right Way and everything is good to go!

Here's the particulars (from the Refuse Records myspace):

Brand new EP contains 8 brand new songs of the Cleveland band. Expect a high-energy straight edge hardcore in the vein of Straight Ahead, No For An Answer, DYS or Youth Of Today. The positive energy, intensity and sing-a-long parts are all there, with the message of enthusiasm, hope and optimism.STRAIGHT EDGE 2010!

Pressing info:

3 test pressings
50 copies of special tour edition, different cover, hand numbered, yellow vinyl (available only on Right Idea European tour)
100 copies of limited edition pre-order version, yellow vinyl w/ Right Idea tour poster
350 copies of regular edition, blue vinyl.

The first press (breakout above) is already almost sold out but hit up Robert and order yourself a copy or 2 of what remains or come out and check the band out on tour to try and score a "Tour Edition" in beautiful Europa!

Added Bonus! We've posted an MP3 of the title track in the sidebar to the right!

Word!

European Summer 2010

Here's the Confirmed Dates:

17.07. Germany, Berlin
18.07. Germany, Hamburg
19.07. Denmark, Copenhagen
20.07. Sweden, Nykoping
21.07. Norway, Oslo
22.07. Sweden, Gothenburg
23.07. Sweden, Lund
25.07. Czech Republic, Rokicany
26.07. Czech Republic, Praha
27.07. Poland, Częstochowa
28.07. Austria, Wien
29.07. Germany, Nunchritz
30.07. Holland, Tillburg
31.07. Belgium, Mol
01.08. UK, London
02.08. UK, Nottingham

Spring to Summer

So, just like intro/changes, we're experiencing our seasonal transition into summer. This means three things:

1. John is playing baseball. You can follow the action here. If you're not a baseball fan, then you can follow the World Cup (Football), or the US World Team Trials in wrestling.

2. We're transitioning our spring line of gear into the summer line and knocking money off of t-shirts, closing out the sweatshirt and taking a buck off each of our 7"s at the webstore. Once this stuff is gone, we'll replace it with new stuff before our tour.

3. Our European tour dates have been finalized:

Right Idea Right Way Tour 2010:

17.07. Germany, Berlin w/ Your Fucking Nightmare
18.07. Germany, Hamburg
19.07. Denmark/Sweden, tba

20.07. Sweden, tba
21.07. Norway, Oslo

22.07. Sweden, Gothenburg w/ Lewd Acts

23.07. Sweden, Lund, tba
24.07. day off

25.07. Czech Republic, Rokicany, Fluff Fest

26.07. Czech Republic, Prague w/ Unrestrained, Regres
27.07. Poland, Częstochowa
28.07. Austria, Wien,
29.07. Germany Nunchritz w/ Ramming Speed
30.07. Holland, Tillburg w/ State Of Affairs, Incarnation

31.07. Belgium, Mol, HC Fest

1.08. UK, London w/ Times Together
2.08. UK, Nottingham w/ Times Together

We're very excited to be playing with Times Together, Incarnation, State of Affairs and all the other bands that we don't get to experience on our side of the pond. Nevermind that we're also on two awesome fests, HC fest in Mol and Fluff Fest in Rokicany. Tons of your favorite European and American bands will be around, so come check us out while you're at it. The dates in red are being finalized and may not be confirmed, so if you can help out, please get after Robert Refuse: refuserecords@gmail.com.

We have a show in June that's TBA in Cleveland, so keep your eyes right here for more info.

Also, the Right Way 7" is making its way to and fro the plant as I type while the Our Way discography of all our recorded material thus far is getting proofed and pressed up as as well. You can expect a big update on that very, very soon. For now, keep it tuned in to Refuse Records, this blog and your HC messageboard of choice:

Refuse Website

Refuse Myspace

Until next time, keep your bike helmets on and your wheels on the pavement.

-Nate

Nude Tayne

Cooler Hand Luke

Holy Shit did these turn out awesome! Go to the Mad At The World site to scoop up one or twelve of these limited t-shirts from the best band you never listened to (featuring all the best parts of Face Value, Committed, Right Idea, Little Sister, Up To Us, 9 Shocks Terror, Gordon Solie Motherfuckers, Hockey Fight and none of the bullshit). The LP Souvenirs & Evidence, Vol 1 is almost sold out -- but I guess there's a few clear wax copies left, plus a CD version is slated for the summer still (believe it or not with extra tracks).

Don't be an idiot. This shit rips.

Right Way 2010: European Tour

As you may know, we've been planning a European Tour for the last couple months, and it looks like all of my childhood hardcore music dreams are moving towards reality.

Right Idea: Right Way 2010

17.07. Germany, Berlin w / Your Fucking Nightmare

18.07. Germany, Hamburg

19.07. Denmark, tba

20.07. Sweden, Lund tba

21.07. Norway, Oslo tba

22.07. Norway, Stavanger tba

23.07. Sweden, Gothenburg 24.07. Sweden, Linkoping, Deadfest w/ Earth Crisis, First Blood

25.07. Czech Republic, Rokicany, Fluff Fest

26.07. Czech Republic, Prague w/ Unrestrained, Regres

27.07. Poland, Częstochowa

28.07. Austria, Wien, tba

29.07. Germany, Nunchritz w/ Ramming Speed

30.07. Holland, Tillburg, tba

31.07. Belgium, Mol, HC Fest

1.08. UK tba

2.08. UK tba

So in preparation for this, Hess is pumping iron, I'm going raw foods, Chuck is getting tattooed, John is getting a haircut and Geoff is skating every day. I think we'll be ready by July, especially since Robert at Refuse Records has been laboring tirelessly to help us put out two new releases!

Coming soon to Refuse Records:

Right Way 7": This is the 8 new songs we recorded with John D at Negative Space in January. It's a straight forward hardcore record, you know, a couple colors of vinyl and the clean layout of one John Millin's design hand/mind. It's also the first record we wrote/recorded with Geoff in the band, so you know it's good. You can still hear a new track here.

Our Way Discography CD, one easy-to-find volume of all of our recorded works including rare and b-side tracks and covers. This includes the Demo, Our World EP, the cd sampler, the Right Way record and some b-side tracks from the archives. The idea was to put all of our tracks together for kids in places where vinyl is expensive to ship, the internet doesn't make it easily downloaded, and turntables might not be super common. We hope to have this distributed worldwide, so please get in touch with Robert Refuse if you'd like to carry it in the Philippines, Malaysia, Korea, the Ukraine, South Africa, Fiji, wherever.

To get ready for all of this, we're going to be playing on Friday April 23rd at the Tower with the Basement Boys. We'll see you there. Until then, here's a video:

Right Idea - Right Idea + Clear Your Head from hate5six productions on Vimeo.

Dangers--Messy isn't it?

My near and dear friends, Al and Tim, Justin and Teenager do a band called Dangers and they have a new record, Messy, isn't it?

It is pissed. It is fast. They put a lot of time and soul into it, and now they're going all around the world in support of it.

Here is my one sentence review of the record:

Sometimes, you feel like you're on top of the world, other times you feel like a piece of insignificant shit, and then you're pissed at everyone around you, and finally you come to terms with the fact that you may be content, but you can never be complacent with yourself or the world around you.

If you have some scrilla to spare, head over to the vitriol records webstore and pick it up

If you want to stream a track, you can do that too.

Cake Face

Right Idea played a show last night. With some other bands. They were cool and stuff, and I was in one of them, Ge-off was in one of them and you really couldn't hear the vocals on any of them. But the coolest thing was when RXI took the stage -- Jeff Hess in all his glory brought cake. Not just like some bullshit homemade "here I got you this" cake, but like a full on set of 3 "X" cakes, complete with Cleveland Hard Core (or straightedge or something).

This was my reaction to the cake being cut:

I was like "C'mon, hurry this shit up -- Daddy's gotta get some sugar." (Notice Alex was his leeringly loving self in the background) Let's just say the cake did not disappoint in all its Giant Eagle confectioner's sugar and Crisco goodness. Nom Nom Nom.

Then we played some songs.

This was pretty much my view:

That's Mr. Hess' back, adorned with IMPACT fanzine represent. True very true.

We played A LOT OF SONGS. Like more than we've ever played -- big ups to GEOFF for leading things and EDDY and CHUCK for providing the thump to my noodle-isms. We opened with a cover of Basement Boys' "Tower Skins" (As I was setting up, Geoff says to me, he says: "John -- we're playing "Tower Skins," it's 'A-B-F' and some octaves, cool?" And I of course said -- "Got it.") and we tore that shit down while Alex looked on like a proud papa.

We then slammed into our set -- "Alert / That's Not You" medley started it off, some demo songs and AF's "Last Warning" held it down, 3 new songs (including the Cleveland Crew Oi Song) made their stage debut and rounded things off with a couple more. Awesome possum.

Then Jeff was like "I'm done -- I don't know this one," and Alex is holding a bass now and Chuck grabs the mic -- and I sure as shit don't know what's going on, so I take off my guitar and proceed to watch what unfolded:

What it was was none other than the prettiest Emile Hirsch look-alike with sleeves you'll find rocking Bless'd gear tearing up "New York Crew" by Judge. Hot shit.

Then the cake-fight happened.

And that ruled.

Pat took these pictures, and he is awesome too.