| Until We're Dead | ||||
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| Released | September 30, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | 2008 | |||
| Genre | ska-punk, anarcho-punk | |||
| Length | 45:00 | |||
| Label | Fat Wreck Chords | |||
| Producer | Sturgeon F. Hipster, Fat Mike | |||
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Until We're Dead is the debut studio album by ska-punk/anarcho-punk band Star Fucking Hipsters. It was released in 2008 on Fat Wreck Chords.
Leftöver Crack vocalist Stza and drummer Brandon Chevalier-Kolling were the original creators of the punk rock supergroup Star Fucking Hipsters. The band went on hiatus following Brandon’s untimely death. [1] Stza eventually reunited with another former Leftöver Crack member, drummer Ara Babajian, along with friend Frank Piegaro of The Degenerics to reform the group. With the addition of female vocalist Nico de Gaillo of Another Dying Democracy and bassist Yula Beeri of World Inferno Friendship Society they crafted their full-length album in early 2008. According to Stza, the album was to be originally titled "Allergic To People". [2] The album was recorded and mixed by Ryan Jones at The Wild Arctic in Queens, NY and additionally mixed by Stza and Jamie McMann at Motor Studios in San Francisco, California during the early half of June that year. [3] It was eventually released by independent record label Fat Wreck Chords on September 30, 2008.
The album has spawned a video for the song "Two Cups of Tea". [4]
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Introducción a los Hipsters" | 0:18 |
| 2. | "Until We're Dead" | 3:57 |
| 3. | "Immigrants & Hypocrites" | 2:43 |
| 4. | "Two Cups Of Tea" | 3:34 |
| 5. | "Empty Lives" | 2:51 |
| 6. | "Snitch to the Suture" | 2:37 |
| 7. | "Only Sleep" | 5:12 |
| 8. | "9/11 Was (An Inside Joke)" | 3:10 |
| 9. | "The Path is Paved" | 2:21 |
| 10. | "Zombie Christ" | 3:00 |
| 11. | "This Wal-Mart Life" | 2:25 |
| 12. | "Broken" | 4:33 |
| 13. | "Death or Fight" | 8:08 |
Choking Victim is an American punk band formed in New York City, which lasted from 1992 to 1998. They played a mix of hardcore punk and ska. Following the breakup of the band, which occurred the same day as the recording of their only studio album No Gods, No Managers, members went on to form Leftöver Crack and INDK, among others.
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Scott Sturgeon, also known as Stza Crack or simply Stza, is an American musician who has fronted several ska-punk bands in the New York City area, the best known being Choking Victim and Leftöver Crack. The stage name Stza is a tribute to the Wu-Tang Clan, in which the members would take their stage names from the Supreme Alphabet of the Five Percent Nation, such as GZA and RZA - Stza's name would therefore be Self Truth ZigZagZig Allah.
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