We Are Pressure

This is the end...

2010-02-13T13:24:00.000-08:00

so after 5 years, 9 different member changes, a full U.S tour, 2 east coast tours, 3 west coast tours, and countless trips up and down california... we're calling it quits come may.

it's been a fun ride, but some of us have other commitments that supercede the band. in all honesty, it's been a struggle to put together music since one half of the band lives a ways away from the other half.

everything we recorded (minus our turd demo), plus a live set from KGRG radio is available on our blog for download at http://wearepressure.blogspot.com our split with COA on 6131 records and the "beasts" 7" on burn bridges records are still in print for sale. we provided links to both labels for purchase.

our friends at BIG TIME MERCH have an exclusive design by adam rossiter in their website at www.bigtimemerch.bigcartel.com as well as an exclusive design by tyler densley (LEWD ACTS) at MISSION MERCH www.missionmerch.com. you can also check out 6131 RECORDS at www.6131records.com for our sick cock sparrer ripoff shirt!

we'll be playing our final show at RAIN FEST this memorial day weekend - may 28, 29, and 30. we're really stoked that we can go out with bang with a ton of awesome bands that we love surrounded by great kids from all over the country. up until then, we will play some last california shows.

tim and colin have recorded some scratch tracks for a final release. it'll be 2 or 3 new songs on a casette tape only split with our close friends (and in some cases matching tattoo having and house-sharing) ROTTING OUT. this tape will be available at RAIN FEST and from 6131 RECORDS after the fest is over.

please support our other current projects:

colin is drumming for RUCKUS www.myspace.com/ruckushc. he's also singing for a band called TWITCHING TONGUES. no myspace link, but keep an eye out... this shit will blow you away. tim is playing in MINUS with ex-members of VIOLATION and current members of FELL TO LOW: www.myspace.com/minushc. josh is dick-dragging somewhere in huntington beach. ryan is a fucking mystery to us all. i'm hoping to continue being in bands, but just to have fun... no hitting the road.

anyways... it's been awesome. we wish we could personally thank everyone for their support, for buying our records, for feeding us, giving us a floor to crash on, getting us high or drunk, etc., but this is probably the best way to reach the most people.

bye!

www.wearepressure.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/pressurerocknroll
www.6131records.com

p.s. - listen to more alpha & omega and touche amore.

Jan 29 (Updated Flier)

2010-01-18T00:57:00.001-08:00

Free show(s)

2010-01-14T12:00:00.000-08:00

party

2009-12-07T22:03:00.001-08:00

dec 18th

2009-11-22T17:16:00.000-08:00

2009-04-13T10:47:00.001-07:00

read the previous entry

helvetica

2009-04-13T00:30:00.000-07:00

JUST ADDED

2009-03-28T14:05:00.000-07:00

we jut got added on to this

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIV

2009-03-17T12:25:00.000-07:00

Gonna demo some new songs this week for the upcoming record. Get ready.

- Butcher

San Diego 3.15.09

2009-03-11T10:20:00.001-07:00

One show. Two fliers.
Come out and support our friends Swamp Thing and Naysayer.
Both bands are out here on tour from RVA so show them a good time.
I'm not sure which one has the right door price but bring $8 just in case.

- Butcher

some important shit

2009-01-20T22:39:00.000-08:00

first and foremost....

On Sunday, February 8th we are putting on a benefit for the family of Oscar Grant, the young man that was fatally shot by a BART police officer on the night of New Years Eve in Oakland, CA. The show will be taking place at Gilman St. in Berkeley and will feature Two Gallants, Trash Talk and two more bands that will be announced shortly plus A VERY SPECIAL guest that will be announced the morning of Feb 8th. Trust me this will be a line up that you will not want to miss. The cover is $12 and all of the money will be donated to his family. We are putting on this show with our good friends, the Fuck Yeah Fest.

For information about the incident please click this link:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=OScar+Grant+shooting&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=news_group&resnum=4&ct=title

A BENEFIT FOR THE FAMILY OF OSCAR GRANT
Sunday, February 8th
Two Gallants
Trash Talk
+ many more to be announced shortly
AND ONE SPECIAL GUEST THAT WILL BE ANNOUNCED THE DAY OF
@ Gilman St
924 Gilman st. Berkeley, CA
3:00pm / $12 / All Ages
Brought to you by the Trash Talk Collective & the Fuck Yeah Fest

SPREAD THE WORD

aaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd

The vinyl for Swamp Thing's "In Shame" came in today and was assembled throughout the night. The mailorder will be put together tomorrow and shipped by Friday. There are still some copies of maroon and white available, but you need to place your order ASAP since there were only 1,000 total copies pressed.

Maroon - 500
White - 300
Black - 200

http://www.6131records.com/store/
http://www.6131records.com/store/
http://www.6131records.com/store/

RIVERSIDESIDESIDESIDE

2009-01-19T19:46:00.001-08:00

sorry about that other show. we fucked up

however, we're playing another show at the pharaoh's den. this one we shouldn't have any problems with

TUESDAY THE 13th

2009-01-10T20:01:00.000-08:00

godkcalb

2009-01-03T18:00:00.000-08:00

blackdog III is out

http://blackdog.bigcartel.com/

get it

blackdog uber alles

ridiculousness

2009-01-03T17:16:00.000-08:00

things that qualify:

THE DODGERS GETTING OUT OF THE ANDRUW JONES CONTRACT!!! kind of

this....flyer....?

actually having a good response last night at chain reaction. there was even a fight! kind of

this show and all the bands that are yet to be announced

shamwow

the things trash talk have on their plate

and rotting out killing it

long time no post

2008-11-30T21:54:00.000-08:00

pulling teeth made a video. gavin makes an awesome appearance in it. haha

there's shows coming up with rotting out and soul control. i think there's one with final fight and rotting out too. you'll find out when i find out.

i remember halloween

2008-11-02T13:46:00.001-08:00

i can't seem to form complete thoughts right now, but this weekend was great. played a pretty decent set in oakland. saw lot's of friends we don't get to see enough of. in between never healed and sabertooth zombie's sets tim, blaine from skin like iron and i got into a weird/rad/confusing conversation with one of the locals. dude was telling us how he can talk to racoons and snakes, and has four snakes living in his room with him. 2 males, 2 females. he said he loved our band and that we had real communication. said something about keeping it real, and that's what got lennon killed. my mind was a little blown. i love home, there's nothing else like it, but being in the bay area is always a good time. we need to make trips up there more often.
anyways, came back down and played in carlos from rotting out's gargage. pretty decent turn out for a stormy day/evening. pagan showed up late cause evan's rude and doesn't care about anyone but himself. fun sets from all the bands and some real sloppy mosh due to a packed garage and a slippery floor.
i'll stop typing now. i'm sorry this reads like shit. it was great hanging out this weekend. here's some pictures from the show in oakland.

THIS WEEKEND!!!!

2008-10-30T12:21:00.000-07:00

halloween in oakland

saturday in san pedro

pressure
never healed
skin like iron
rotting out
pagan
sabertooth zombie
crucified

perro negro

2008-10-30T12:16:00.000-07:00

Blackdog III is pretty much finished and will be available very soon (I'm aiming for the first / second week of November). In this issue you can expect an interview with Corey Williams from Internal Affairs, part one of the Ian MacKaye Hollywood High Q & A, some more "Hello, my name is..." sections from some vaguely familiar faces, more band interviews (One of the bands being NJ's Pellinore!) and a few other surprises. Also, keep your eyes open for some very limited and awesome silk-screened Blackdog III posters, which may or may not look like this fabulous artwork...

I'll post more info on ordering and whatnot once the zine is in it's final stages of completion.

- Tim/Blackdog

http://www.blackdogzine.blogspot.com

Frau Blücher!!!!

2008-10-28T21:58:00.000-07:00

rip peter boyle

NEWS FLASH

2008-10-27T12:34:00.000-07:00

the show on sat got moved.

ROTTING OUT
NEVER HEALED
PRESSURE
SKIN LIKE IRON
PAGAN

@ Carlos's Place
872 w. 2nd St.
San Pedro, CA 90731

ALL AGES - ALL ARE WELCOME - 5pm - $5

***PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD***

my brothers....

2008-10-25T16:51:00.000-07:00

our friends in trash talk and alpha and omega, are out on tour. here's a couple of videos of them in long island.

Trash Talk @ The Doghouse 10/24/08 from Chris Albin on Vimeo.

Alpha & Omega @ The Doghouse 10/24/08 from Chris Albin on Vimeo.

i'm sure you've aleady heared these bands, but if not, click the links below and if you don't know, now you know.

trash talk
alpha & omega

mackaye, as in pie

2008-10-22T12:35:00.000-07:00

went and saw ian speak last night in irvine. it was fun. dude's still got the fire. if you can, i recommend hitting up one of the other events in your area.

10-19 Riverside, CA - Riverside Art Gallery
10-20 San Diego, CA - Price Center at UC San Diego
10-21 Irvine, CA - Humanities Hall 178 at UC Irvine
10-22 Claremont, CA - Mary Pickford Auditorium at Pitzer College
10-22 Ventura, CA - Ventura Library
10-23 San Pedro, CA - Sunken City Skates
10-26 Hollywood, CA - Hollywood High School

sixonethreeone

2008-10-21T17:21:00.000-07:00

an update from the label

www. 6131records. com/store

We finally got around to putting up the shirts we had made for Sound & Fury and This Is Hardcore on our webstore. Better late than never, right?

www. 6131records. com/store

The preorders for the Down to Nothing / 50 Lions split 7", Alpha & Omega 7", and Swamp Thing 7" represses are still up. They should be shipping next weekend.

www. 6131records. com/store

also, check out
http://www.myspace.com/pagancalifornia
http://www.myspace.com/wulverband

ps, don't forget

2008-10-05T12:33:00.001-07:00

at the end of the month, pressure, skin like iron and never healed.

and i just saw that crucified is now playing the show in oakland.

sabertooth zombie
never healed
pressure
skin like iron
crucified

temescal art gallery
511 48th st
oakland ca
$8 starts at 6

100 years.........?

2008-10-05T11:04:00.000-07:00

who's next?

DODGERS WIN THE PENNANT!!

2008-09-26T00:14:00.000-07:00

chucky, jy, where you at??
here's to another month of baseball.

updatesatesatesates

2008-08-27T19:03:00.000-07:00

-shows
-recording
-far away lands

we've jumped on the Alpha & Omega and Crucified weekend here in so cal. friday sept 19th in riverside, with Lewd Acts, Xibalba and Creatures. sat the 20th in fallbrook with Rotting Out, Badmouth, Amongst Wolves, and Worship. and then sun the 21st up in santa barbara with Downpresser, Over-vert, and Worship.

then in the fall we're doing a weekend with Never Healed and Skin Like Iron. fri oct 31st will be in oakland with Sabertooth Zombie and Street Walkers. sat nov 1st will be in la, with rotting out. and then sun nov 2nd will be up in santa barbara.

tim's also been busy with some new material that we hope to be recording before the end of the year, and have out and available early in 09. 6131 will be putting out a cd of the new material, plus the songs from the split and the death's head 7".

europe next year?? maybe. things are being talked about with people that make those kinds of things happen. so maybe we'll get to experience some fine dining and drinking euro style. do they have waffle house in belgium?

i'll post more as i make them/they start popping up.
ps, check these out.
http://www.svrfandestroy.com/
http://www.totalnobrainer.blogspot.com/

CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES

2008-08-10T10:52:00.000-07:00

now available at www.revhq.com the CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES tape comp. never healed, downpresser, ability, ceremony, rotting out, pressure, neon claws, lone wolf and more. live, radio, new, and some previously released tracks showcasing some of california's best.
http://revhq.com/store.revhq?Page=search&Id=PRESS02
all the bands will have these available at some point as well.

ps, RIP bernie mac

merchmerchmerchmerch

2008-08-02T21:53:00.000-07:00

need shirts? a new beer koozie? we've got you covered.

pressvre.bigcartel.com

news and shows

2008-06-29T09:56:00.000-07:00

our split with COA is finally available at www.revhq.com, www.6131records.com, and www.itunes.com
a few tapes are still available at rev and 6131 as well.
we've got a show with ruiner, final fight, rotting out and brain dead coming up, and we're also gonna be playing this years sound and fury festival in santa barbara. please come check out the shows, hangout, enjoy the lovely parking lots.

NORTHWEST

2008-05-26T21:38:00.000-07:00

oh wow, shit was intense. great sets, great fest, great times. markley, bri bri, all the bands. it was awesome. shout outs to the gay bar, the pho resturant, trash talk's van, pbr, rotting out, and the sun for coming out at least once over the weekend.

-josh

RAIN FEST

2008-05-21T19:55:00.001-07:00

Rain Fest is this coming up weekend. We fly out tomorrow afternoon and we will be in the beautiful state of Washington by 6 p.m. tomorrow evening. Come hangout this weekend and check out all the awesome bands playing the fest. We will have copies of new split 12" with C.O.A., a handful of new shirt designs and some crewnecks so come pick them up so we can eat. See all you soon, we're looking forward to it.

- Butcher

shirts from tour

2008-04-27T17:48:00.000-07:00

i'll be putting up left over t-shirts / longsleeves / crewnecks from the tour in the next week or so on this blog, myspace, b9, and various other messageboards across the informational superhighway of interwebs.

keep your ear to the ground.

-joe

oh yeah, a couple of pics from tour

2008-04-27T17:29:00.000-07:00

thanks to robert scheuerman

who left the heater on??

2008-04-27T17:08:00.000-07:00

holy fuck. 100 degrees+ today and it's still only april. ugh.

tapes are still available, but you need to hit up 6131 or rev
http://revhq.com/store.revhq?Page=search&Id=PRESS01
http://www.6131records.com/store/index.php?cPath=42&osCsid=92d7a1b3fd6d2d5ab322bdd2405580d6

i also just found this game and think it's funny/amazing/a little fucked up.
http://pekkasandborg.com/portfolio/?id=2
enjoy

-josh

The end is here...

2008-04-21T10:52:00.000-07:00

Our east coast invasion with Skin Like Iron has ended, prematurely, in my own opinion. If we all didn't have to get back to work/school I wouldn't have cared if we stayed on tour for another month or two. A big thank you to SLI for being our road buddies (Every Pressure tour should be with them from now on), another gigantic thank you to Brian McBrian Cool III for filling in on drums and being the best dude (Check out his band Sojourner), thank you to our road photographer and sudoku pro Vanessa (xVanx photography), and last but not least to Steve for driving us around and putting up with us for the past week.

The tour consisted of the following dates:
4/12 - Redwood City, Ca
4/14 - Richmond, Va.
4/15 - Doylestown, Pa.
4/16 - Baltimore, Md.
4/17 - New Brunswick, Nj.
4/18 - Brooklyn, Ny.
4/19 - Boston, Ma.
4/20 - Providence, Ri.

All of the shows were more than awesome, even the one we didn't get to play (Sorry Max). Shoutouts to the Banner, Swamp Thing, COA, Heathen, Pellinore, Surroundings, The Mongoloids, The Fire Still Burns, New Lows, Naysayer, Trash Talk, Sabertooth Zombie, Laced Joint, Glue, Mother of Mercy, Slave, Force Fed, Alarmed, Turncoat, Product of Waste, Pitfall, and there might be one or two more but my memory isn't what it used to be... Without those bands, all of our hard giggin' wouldn't have been the same.

Now that all the thanks are out of the way, here is my short recap of tour. I ate some pizza, drank some yuengling, ate at the grease trucks, ate more pizza, drank some more, hungout and played some shows on the way. Pressure should do this more often. I'll let someone else post about this shit now, I'm terrible at blogging.

- Butcher

p.s.

Kimpossible > All
She rules for booking this tour and making all of this possible.

Brooklyn

2008-04-18T15:07:00.000-07:00

Joe hates new York but he loses because of the sheer amount of gorgeous broads and the bomb pizza.

re-cap aka read the post below first

2008-04-18T08:31:00.000-07:00

You dudes suck at blogging, everyone has teh internetz on their phones but still no updates? Come on. Alright, first of waffle house is the shit and I wish we had them in Cali. Our show in Richmond was fun, thanks to all the dudes in swamp thing for lending us gear and in general just being solid dudes. Heathen killed it, 3 guitars and full stacks is sick. The first few days we stayed in Baltimore at Steven's new house which has been nice since its easy to leave all the bags at one spot. Finding clean places to stay with legit bathrooms is more tricky than it sounds on tour. There's a few dive bars around the corner where we hung out, blasted some sweet jams and shot darts (open challenge to anyone reading this to a game of cricket.) Brian manned up and got a kiss from the haggard old woman running the bar.

The next day was o'doylestown, pa which was hella nice and looked like main street Disneyland. We met up with the sli dudes and they killed it. Josh had technical difficulties and only played like two songs. Apparently we're too heavy for this coast.

Day after that was charm city art space. We hung out at the mall while butcher tried to fix his laptop. Joe and I tried to find an orange julius since that shit doesnt exist anymore in Cali but apparently it was closed or something. Saw the hottest girl in Baltimore working at the abercrombie store and tried to convince the girl at the coffee shop to go to the show, it didnt happen. Charm city art space is sweet, good kids, free pizza and a set without equipment fucking up - score.

That pretty much brings us up to date, eat shit.

-a dude in the band

4/18

2008-04-18T08:13:00.000-07:00

We're currently driving into nyc, blasting sheer terror and pounding a grip of redbull (thanks jackie.) We're going to kick it in the city for awhile , which means eating as much legit pizza as humanly possible, before heading over to 538 Johnson for the show. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that our gear doesnt crap out again, my mesa dual rec really hates touring. Last nights show was a great time, the banner dudes and jersey kids were awesome and grease trucks are out of this world. Definitely saw some authentic nj guidos as well which was just icing on the cake. On a side note what's with rutgers having an insane ratio of gorgeous girls? The show tonight should be fun, its our first day with coa and we're stoked.

-Ryan

Blah Blah Blah Blog

2008-04-16T13:29:00.000-07:00

My troubles... this tour I have had to borrow a guitar because is mine is kicking the bucket, had a computer break, had to buy new power/instrument/speaker cables because the east coast can't handle my equipment and my ipod died before we left. I'm missing a week and some odd days of school to tour and I had been planning on getting all my work done, which is why I had my computer in the first place. Since my mac has stopped working all of a sudden, I can't get any school work done or any design projects that I've been working on. So I may or may not be totally fucked school-wise because of this tour. I am currently waiting for the genius bar at the apple store in towson, md. so I can find out if I need a new computer or not. On top of this personal stuff the band as a whole hasn't been having the best of luck either, if you've read the two previous entries you'd know. You know what though, with all this shit going on, I think it's totally worth it. I'm travelling and hanging out with my bestfriends everyday, plus I get to see old friends and make new ones along the way. There's no real point to this entry, just ranting, you may continue with your ever so busy day.

- Butcher

last night in doylestown....

2008-04-16T10:20:00.000-07:00

1 blown head
+
two cab's that don't work
=
me not playing .

: (

waffle house and yuengling are still the shit. celebrated summer, guitar center, utz crab chips and charm city today/tonight.

-josh

i'm pretty sure none of us have ever done one of these before...

2008-04-13T10:52:00.000-07:00

but it's probably a good idea to keep one of these around. you know... to remember interesting events by and other banal minutia like that.

anyways... we're on tour right now and holy shit has it been a fucking weird last 24 hours. here it goes:

saturday (4/12) morning i went with josh to go pick up the rental we were taking to redwood city to play our show with trash talk, sabertooth zombie, skin like iron, downpresser, and trapped under ice. nothing really unusual about that, right? right. well, i get the minivan home and we start loading it up. i guess we didn't really take into account how much shit we were taking and it ended up that we would be 1 seat short. 6 of us were going but only 5 would fit. trapped under ice kindly agreed to take brian, our drummer for this tour, with them in their van. everything seemed cool, on time, under control, etc.

a couple hours into the drive i get a call from brian telling me that they had a blowout, AAA was on their way, and they'd be back on the road shortly. no big deal, shit happens. a couple hours later another call comes in and they've now blown out their spare. FUCK. AAA took them to a 24-hour service center, the tire was replaced, and they were back on the road, hauling ass. at that point, it was already 8:30pm (i think?) and they were still easily 3 hours away. playing the show was already out of the question - the big concern now was making sure that brian caught our flight to philadelphia.

by the time they'd reached the venue and drew from skin like iron was getting ready to speed brian to the oakland airport, it was already too late. brian ended up catching a stand-by flight later that morning, but it was still a toss-up if he could get on the connection from houston to philly.

luck hasn't exactly been on our side the last 24 hours, but i just got a call from brian saying that he's confirmed on the next flight to philly and will be here in a few short hours.

tour can finally begin now.

-joe