Spring Break
Saves the Day comes out from 'Under the Boards'
Ali Qari
Issue date: 10/19/07 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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Saves the Day, a byproduct of the late 90s New Jersey punk scene, is gearing up for the Oct. 30 release of their new album, Under the Boards, but this isn't your everyday punk band.
Sifting through their catalog, you might not call them a punk band at all. The group is known for its ability to shed its skin from album to album, and Under the Boards, part two of the band's self-described triology, which began with 2006 release, Sound the Alarm, is slated to be no different.
"Each album is still a transformation, we just know what we're doing right now," said guitarist David Soloway in an interview. Soloway and lead singer/guitarist Chris Conley performed an acoustic set Oct. 16 in front of a packed house at the North Star Bar in Philadelphia.
In the past decade, Saves the Day has gone from New Jersey punk rock heroes to dabbling with MTV fame, with videos for their songs "Freakish" and "At your funeral", from the poppy 2001 album Stay What You Are, making a splash on the channel. In 2003 the band jumped shipped from independent Vagrant records, to major label Dreamworks, releasing In Reverie.
"We were super proud of that record," "We had our heads pumped up," Soloway said. "They gave us all this money, we were like, now we're really in it, we're gonna win."
Only three days after In Reverie's release however, Saves the Day met the first roadblock of their musical careers.
"The record literally wasn't even out for three days before we were on the phone and [Dreamworks] is saying, all the radio stations are saying the song doesn't fit into any formats, they're not going to play it. We tried everything we can try, your record is dead."
The album did sell copies however, peaking at number 23 on the Billboard 200 album charts in 2003.
Only one and a half months later, Dreamworks was swallowed up by media giant Interscope records and Saves the Day was left without a label.
"We were happy with that, because we didn't want to be on Interscope, but all of a sudden we had no label. We were dealing with our first experience in which what has been this upslope kind of went and did this little [dive]," Soloway said.
Sifting through their catalog, you might not call them a punk band at all. The group is known for its ability to shed its skin from album to album, and Under the Boards, part two of the band's self-described triology, which began with 2006 release, Sound the Alarm, is slated to be no different.
"Each album is still a transformation, we just know what we're doing right now," said guitarist David Soloway in an interview. Soloway and lead singer/guitarist Chris Conley performed an acoustic set Oct. 16 in front of a packed house at the North Star Bar in Philadelphia.
In the past decade, Saves the Day has gone from New Jersey punk rock heroes to dabbling with MTV fame, with videos for their songs "Freakish" and "At your funeral", from the poppy 2001 album Stay What You Are, making a splash on the channel. In 2003 the band jumped shipped from independent Vagrant records, to major label Dreamworks, releasing In Reverie.
"We were super proud of that record," "We had our heads pumped up," Soloway said. "They gave us all this money, we were like, now we're really in it, we're gonna win."
Only three days after In Reverie's release however, Saves the Day met the first roadblock of their musical careers.
"The record literally wasn't even out for three days before we were on the phone and [Dreamworks] is saying, all the radio stations are saying the song doesn't fit into any formats, they're not going to play it. We tried everything we can try, your record is dead."
The album did sell copies however, peaking at number 23 on the Billboard 200 album charts in 2003.
Only one and a half months later, Dreamworks was swallowed up by media giant Interscope records and Saves the Day was left without a label.
"We were happy with that, because we didn't want to be on Interscope, but all of a sudden we had no label. We were dealing with our first experience in which what has been this upslope kind of went and did this little [dive]," Soloway said.
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chuck norris
posted 11/06/07 @ 11:29 AM EST
jk lol
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