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| Background information | |
| Origin | Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Genres | Post-punk, noise rock, alternative rock |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Labels | Sony Music Entertainment Owned & Operated Records Columbia Records |
| Members | Steve Tulipana Duane Trower Billy Smith David Silver Wade Williamson |
| Website | http://robotswin.com |
Season to Risk are an American noise rock/indie rock band hailing from Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
Season to Risk formed in late 1989 from Kansas City, Missouri punk bands Nine Lives and Curious George, who played together at the Outhouse, a Kansas hardcore venue. Although Season to Risk have had several line-up changes, two founding members have remained constant: Steve Tulipana (lead vocals, guitar) and Duane Trower (lead guitar, keyboards, and vocals). Drummer David Silver joined the band in 1994. Billy Smith (bass) and Wade Williamson (rhythm guitar and keyboards) joined in 1999, both coming from the band Dirtnap.
Founding bass player Paul Malinowski played from 1989 - 1995, until he left to join the Kansas City band Shiner. He was replaced on bass in 1995 by Josh Newton, who also plays guitar in Shiner. [1]
The band's genre-bending sound has been defined as post-rock, post-hardcore, math rock, and indie rock. Their constantly changing music has challenged audiences and the record labels they have worked with, with one CMJ reviewer calling it "metal for recovering indie rockers".
The band were signed in 1992 to Red Decibel records in Minneapolis, who then partnered with Columbia Records / Sony, who released their first two albums, during the early 90s post-Nirvana alternative rock band-signing frenzy. Season to Risk toured constantly, being booked as a young band on shows with Killdozer, Killing Joke, Prong, Fugazi, and Unsane. They performed in the nightclub scene in the 1994 film Strange Days , while living in a trailer on set in Hollywood for two weeks.
The master tapes for the band's first two albums were destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire , along with an estimated 150,000 other master tapes.
The band recorded demos at Sony Studios in NYC, and then lived in Chicago, IL to record their self-titled first album at Soundworks Studio with engineer Jeff Moleski. The self-titled debut Season To Risk (1993) features the songs "Snakes" and "Mine Eyes", and a cover of Neil Young's "Don't Cry". The artwork was designed by Frank Kozik, [2] who had done posters for the band's shows.
Season to Risk wanted a darker sound that reflected their live performance, and recorded In A Perfect World (1995) during the Summer 1994 with Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Foetus, Swans). [3] The album had a cover designed by Derek Hess, who designed flyers and posters for the band's shows in Cleveland, OH. Although the record was popular in post-hardcore underground, it had no place on the radio and the band was dropped by Columbia at the end of 1995. Both Hess and Kozik produced limited-edition silkscreen posters of their cover art. [4]
They spent a year building a recording studio and another year recording new music. Men Are Monkeys, Robots Win (1998) was produced in their Trainwreck Recording studio, and released on Thick Records on CD only. A mastering error caused the CD to be out of phase, and the issue was not corrected until the band reissued the remaster on vinyl in 2019.
The Shattering (2001) was produced by Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore at the Blasting Room in Fort Collins, CO, and released on Descendents' label Owned and Operated Records. This first album as a five-piece was well received and the band toured for several years in support of its release. In the mid-2000s the band announced they were "slowing down" to focus on side projects. Steve and Billy continued writing songs in a more melodic direction on several Roman Numerals albums and performing with Wade as Thee Water MoccaSins. Billy and Wade performed as Olympic Size, CoNoCo, and Vanish Mode. Steve and Josh released an album and toured as Sie Lieben Maschinen. David moved to the East coast to focus on a publishing career. Duane Trower played guitar with Overstep, Ex-Acrobat, Olivetti Letter and built a new recording studio, Weights and Measures Soundlab, where he has produced many albums including Radkey, Giants Chair, Muscle Worship, and others.
Still based in Kansas City, the band plays shows each year and tours occasionally including shows with No Means No (2006), Helmet (2009), Iron Rite Mangle / Moly McGuire (2012), the Medicine Theory (2016), Descendents (2017). Singer Steve Tulipana is the owner/operator of two venues in KCMO, the RecordBar and MiniBar where they often play.
In 2018, Season to Risk began releasing a remastered vinyl reissue series with indie labels and on their Bandcamp page [5] and toured, playing SxSW South By Southwest in Texas and Valley of the Vapors fest in Arkansas, sharing the stage with side project band Sie Lieben Maschinen. In 2019, the band toured the midwest, playing shows at Riot Fest in Chicago and with Porcupine in Minneapolis, supporting a new vinyl release of the album ”The Shattering”, remastered for vinyl by Jason Livermore at Blasting Room studio, Ft. Collins, CO, on limited-edition orange vinyl.
In 2020, Season to Risk re-issued their seminal 1998 album ”Men Are Monkeys. Robots Win.“ remastered by Duane Trower at his studio, Weights and Measures Soundlab, on limited-edition green vinyl. A 2020 tour was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Their website stated: "Ironically, mentions of the album title are often incorrectly flagged as hate speech by the algorithm on many platforms. Robot wins."
The band released a limited-edition collection of singles, B-sides, and experiments on cassette / digital including covers of Bauhaus, The Go-Go's, Killdozer, and others in 2021 titled 1-800-MELTDOWN and played a release show with Descendents and The Menzingers. Season to Risk began recording new music with Duane Trower at his studio Weights and Measures Soundlab in 2022, while they were reunited for shows with Cheer Accident. Shows followed in 2023 with Man or Astroman and in 2024 with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Cherubs.
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