The Shyness Clinic / Everyone Asked About You - The Boston To Little Rock Connection Split

The Shyness Clinic was from Massachusetts, Everyone Asked About You was from Arkansas...  Pretty far apart for two independent rock bands to be in the 1990's, but none the less they came together to put out this split 7".  Released in 1998 by Amulet Records based out of Roxbury, MA this split gives a good look at some of the best bands emo-rock had to offer in the late 1990s with The Shyness Clinic's "Barcelona To Madrid" and Everyone Asked About You's "A Better Way To A Broken Heart" and "I Will Wait".  The Shyness Clinic's track would be re-recorded for their CD later that year, and while that recording is of a higher fidelity, I prefer the recording on this 7", the vocals just feel more raw to me.  Both of Everyone Asked About You's tracks are wonderful, but unlike the majority of their small catalogue they feature only Hannah's vocals.

One thing to note about this 7" is how noisy the pressing is.  Those who have only heard the compressed mp3s and YouTube uploads might be a bit jarred on first listen to this rip.

Download the split here.

The Scenic Vermont - Collected works

The Scenic Vermont was a rock band hailing from San Francisco, California in the mid '90s.  Putting out only 3 releases under their name, as well as 2 radio session tracks being put out in station comps, their output was not large; however I find their sound to be one of the most addicting of that scene. 

 

I originally heard these folks when I bought the Suicide Squeeze 10th anniversary CD which featured the final song on their 12" EP "Elementary".  I fell in love with that track and listened to it many times though the years, unable to find any of their other music.  Eventually I wised up to the internet and was able to purchase all the records, and was not disappointed by the 11 other tracks from the band.  I've shilled this band to pretty much anyone who knows me and talks to me about music, so without further adieu, I present every released recording from the band.

Download the Epilogue Fits B/W L.G.A. 7" here. (note: my 7" has a scratch on the first bit of the B side, i tried to patch it up a little but its still pretty noticeable..)

Self-Titled 7" here.

Worse Further South 12" here.

Compilation tracks here.

Infind - Collected Works

Infind was a hardcore/emo group from Staten Island.  The band initially went as Dropjaw; played together live a few times but never formally released anything.  In 1995 they eventually switched the name to Filter and changed bassists, recording an untitled demo tape.

After Filter they changed again to Carbon and finally settled on Infind (notice the 3rd track on the filter tape).  Infind also had a 6 track demo cassette which they titled "Rolemodel", featuring one of the same tracks from the Filter tape.  

The same year they released their only "official" record, the Absence 7".

They continued to play music together into 1997, here's a nice video of them playing in their friend's backyard in '96 or '97.  And here's another great recording of their last show, featuring Kevin Devine as the third guitar and second vocalist!  Kevin played with Infind for the last two or so years of the band,  he had already been doing some stuff with Miracle of 86, and would continue that band after Infind broke up as well as his own solo music.

The Guys (left to right): Rob, James, Dave, Rico, Kevin

flyer from the show they had played, pretty sweet lineup

Infind got back together for a short time in 2006, adding keyboardist Joe Grado, but Dave would quit the band a little less than a year later.  Instead of dropping the band, the fellas changed the band name (once again!) to Audiometry.  Two years or so later Joe left the band and was succeeded by Andrew Struck-Marcell.  They played a lot of local shows up until 2014, releasing one CD in 2013 which you can listen to on Spotify.  There are some parallels to be drawn between them and Infind, but the sound is entirely instrumental and much more polished, I'm a big fan.  Lots of youtube videos of them playing live/in session, this one's probably my favorite, two reworked Infind tracks and Agonist which appears on the CD.

My immense gratitude to Rob Marinelli for giving me so much info and the Audiometry CD!  Thank you Rob, for the 100th time.

Listen to Audiometry on Spotify.

Download the Absence 7" here.

Rolemodel demo here.

Filter demo here.

Dropjaw rehearsal tape here.

Listen to Infind's last known recording ('96 or '97) on youtube:

(the cassette had some pretty bad audio glitches, tried my best to clean it up)