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Q&A:
WHAT IS CLAWJOB?
Clawjob is a rock band specializing in hammering
raw petrous material into breathtaking vistas of artistic
perfection. Their first album, a rock opera called Space
Crackers, broke new ground in the frontiers of human
achievement. Their EP Manifest Destiny shattered
brains across the world with its insight into 19th century
life.
WHO IS CLAWJOB?
Clawjob is Nick Burgess and Mike Gintz, Boston-area musicians
and visionaries.
HOW CAN I CONTACT CLAWJOB?
You can e-mail
Clawjob , or you can go wild and send
us a myspace message. |
Biography:
Clawjob is Mike Gintz and Nick
Burgess. Manifest Destiny is their second release.
Their first full-length, Space Crackers, was self-released
in 2006, and is an hour-long rock opera involving a love triangle
in space and the eventual alien-attack-and-nuclear-bomb-related
annihilation of all human life. Prior to the release of Space
Crackers, Mike was in the somewhat-known Boston band
Clickers.
Before that, Mike and Nick self-released two interneticly-successful
mp3 albums of Nintendo soundtrack covers under the name Project
X.
HERE IS A PROFILE/BIO FROM THE BOSTON
PHOENIX :
Laugh at the end of the world: The grim punchlines of clawjob |
About Manifest Destiny:
Manifest
Destiny is a musical exploration of 19th-century America.
Its six songs touch upon Civil War battlefield surgery, the
Great Diamond Hoax of 1872, the Industrial Revolution, Indian
removal, and people doing awful things to their fellow humans.
Rock junkies and academics alike will be satisfied as never
before, because Clawjob has infused this EP with crunchy,
diseased rock guitars, viciously abused drums, and excitingly
humiliated synthesizers!
Inspiration for Manifest Destiny came from many sources,
as Clawjob ingested and barfed out such varied musical and
cultural influences as Wire, global warming, Ween, unsustainability,
Elastica, effects pedals, and general atrocity. As for the
final result: Clawjob worked on this EP for too long to have
any capacity for objective description, or to even be able
to draw distinctions between bands and vague ideological concepts,
so listeners will have to figure that out for themselves.
RELEASE DATE: August 12, 2008 |
About Space Crackers:
In
the future, the world is at peace, and two of Space School's
most promising young scientists are to be sent into orbit
to discover a solution to global hunger. When one of the scientists
can't go, his replacement sees the mission as an opportunity
to woo his unsuspecting female spacemate. Things get a little
awkward when 50 million ravenous aliens land on Earth, hoping
to feed on human flesh!
RELEASE DATE: May 16, 2006
SPACE CRACKERS
VOCAL CAST:
JULIAN: Nick Burgess
GREG: Mike Gintz
MADELEINE: Kris Palumbo (Fox
and the Sound)
DR. O: Devin King (Night
Rally)
MISSION CONTROL: Sarah MacDonald
THE DOOKS OF DOOM: Daniel Espeset
RADARTRON: Deb Nicholson
(The Empties, Robotvoice)
SNIPER: Ernie Kim (Tristan
da Cunha)
SOLDIER 1: Farhad Ebrahimi (Night
Rally)
SOLDIER 2: Kevin Micka (Animal
Hospital, The Common Cold)
SPACE SCHOOL FACULTY: Luke Kirkland (Night
Rally, Boo
Radley Bruises Badly), Martin Pavlinic
(Reports),
John Perotti
(Paper Thin Stages),
Nate McDermott (Paper
Thin Stages), Chris Hislop
(Piles, artchikent),
Diane Akerman, Elio DeLuca(Keys
to the Streets of Fear), Jessica
Rudis, Nellie McKesson, Ellen Gintz, Christina Cameron
ADDITIONAL SOLDIERS: Mike Dacey, Steve Gintz,
Ross Farley (Bakula,
Clickers),
Alec Tisdal
(Badman),
Paul DeGeorge (Harry
and the Potters), Joe DeGeorge (Harry
and the Potters), Doug Harry
(Bakula,
Clickers)
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