We have a pretty radical mini East Coast/Midwest tour on our hands coming up next month:
June 20 Kansas City, MO @ The Record Bar *
June 22 Philadelphia, PA @ TWOB House ^%
June 23rd TBA ^#
June 24th Brooklyn, NY @ Legion ^#&
June 27th Pittsburgh, PA @ The Smiling Moose ~
June 28th Toledo, OH @ Frankies Inner City ~
June 29th Lansing, MI @ Mac’s Bar ~$
June 30th Chicago, IL @ The Subterranean /
July 1st Dubuque, IA @ Off Minor /
* = w/ The Life And Times, Beta Capsule (ex Shiner, Coalesce, The Esoteric)
^ = w/ Carved Up
% = w/ Sic Bacchus
# = w/ Cavale
& = w/ Hannibal Montana
~ = w/ Wilson
$ = w/ New Venice, Against The Grain, Shogun
/ = w/ Cut Teeth, Disguised As Birds
Yep, it’s true. We’ve mainstreamed. It’s basically available at all online retailers now, Amazon, iTunes, Spotify etc., plus you can still get it at our BandCamp, but the “name your own price” option has dissolved. Sorry! You’ll have to shell out $4.99 from here on out.
May 17th
@ The Grand Victory in Brooklyn, 245 Grand St Brooklyn NY 11211
w/ Cinema Cinema, Your Skull My Closet | 18 and over | $9 | 7pm doors
tickets @ ticketweb
See ya there turkeys!
Thanks to everyone that came to our first show at Union Pool last night! It was a blast.
We have some more shows in the works. Will post them on here as soon as they’re solidified. In the meantime, download our FREE record here»
Featuring members of Fall Out Boy, The Damned Things, Shiner, Every Time I Die and more, With Knives Premieres Name Your Own Price Debut EP “Schadenfreude” on Son Of Man Records, as well as announces First Show This Friday at Union Pool in Brooklyn, NY
Download “Schadenfreude” by With Knives here!
With Knives started as a passion project of Josh Newton, formerly of Every Time I Die, Shiner, Season To Risk, The Damned Things, amongst the myriad of bands he’s played in throughout his career. With the hopes of maybe one day being able to do a band that represents himself the way he sees it, he continued to pine away secretly on this project, awaiting who knows what.
A few years later enter Joe Trohman, formerly of Fall Out Boy and The Damned Things. Josh and Joe became quick friends upon embarking on a year and a half’s worth of The Damned Things shows. A like minded bond grew between the two, and Josh asked Joe to join the “band”, which wasn’t a band, it was just two weird guys with laptops and anxiety disorders.
Now being partners in crime, they began working secretly on With Knives, realizing more and more that this was going to be a real band, not just some flight of fancy. And for the first time since the incarnation, Josh found someone he felt comfortable sharing creative control with. It was a true 50/50 working relationship where they sat down and tried to write dirty, spaced out rock music with no pandering whatsoever.
Fast forward somewhere between six months and two million years, the two man band set out to Kansas City to record a “half a record” with Paul Malinowski from Shiner manning production duties and Rob Smith from Riddle of Steel/Traindodge taking over the in-studio drum duties. Again, everyone was on the same page: make it strange, do what feels right and see what comes out. And thus was made ‘Schadenfreude’, 6 songs, which will be self released for free on their label, Son Of Man Records.
And now you have it, With Knives. Rock music on a bunch of downers that by mistake drank the water with acid dissolved in it. Oops!
* With Knives will be covering their home base of NYC/the East coast playing local shows and eventually embark on some tours.
With Knives is:
Josh Newton-bass
Joe Trohman-vocals, guitar
Rob Smith-drums
“Schadenfreude” Track List:
1. Dig A Hole
2. Pretentious Child
3. Between Our Veins
4. Mr. Groper
5. You Can Stand Losing Me
6. Black Box Remedy
With Knives Live
Friday, April 20th Brookln, NY Union Pool *
* = w/ Across Tundras, Mount Olympus
About Son of Man Records:
Son Of Man aims to be a safe haven for strange rock music. What started as a flight of fancy has now become something Josh Newton and Joe Trohman always wanted to do but never thought they could: work amongst music that they would actually want to listen to.
With the release of their With Knives record under way, they are taking the idea to the next logical step and putting out other band’s material. Shiner’s release of ‘The Egg’ on vinyl, for the first time ever, will be Son Of Man’s first venture into working with bands other than their own.
And with that, the idea came about to put out unadulterated music without multiple cooks in the kitchen, hands stirring the veritable creative sauces in a way that would end up coming out tasteless and boring. They wanted to create a place where musicians could release things in a way that wouldn’t make them feel compromised. Without pretensions, Son Of Man is the idea that people can make and release music for music’s sake.
For more information, visit:
www.withknives.com
With Knives on Twitter
With Knives on Facebook
www.sonofmannyc.com
