Season to Risk

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Season to Risk
Origin Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Genres Post-punk, noise rock, alternative rock
Years active1989present
Labels Sony Music Entertainment
Owned & Operated Records
Columbia Records
MembersSteve Tulipana
Duane Trower
Billy Smith
David Silver
Wade Williamson
Website http://robotswin.com

Season to Risk are an American noise rock/alternative rock band hailing from Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

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History

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 to Columbia Records / Sony, who released their first two albums, during the early 90s post-Nirvana alternative rock frenzy. They performed in the nightclub scene in the 1994 film Strange Days , living in a trailer on set in Hollywood for a week.

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.

Recording sessions

The self-titled debut Season To Risk (1993) features the underground hits[ citation needed ] "Snakes" and "Mine Eyes", with a cover designed by Frank Kozik, and was released on Columbia/Sony. The band wanted a darker sound that reflected their live performance, and recorded In A Perfect World (1995) with Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Foetus, Swans). [2] The album had a cover designed by Derek Hess. Men Are Monkeys, Robots Win (1998) was produced in their own studio Trainwreck Recording, and released on Thick Records. The Shattering (2001) was produced by Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore, released on Descendents' label Owned and Operated Records. "1-800-MELTDOWN", a collection of B-sides, covers, and experimental music was released in 2021. Both Hess and Kozik produced limited-edition silkscreen posters of their cover art. [3]

Still based in Kansas City, the band tours occasionally and plays regionally, including shows with No Means No (2006), Helmet (2009), Iron Rite Mangle / Moly McGuire (2012), the Medicine Theory (2016), Descendents (2017, 2021), Cheer Accident (2022). Singer Steve Tulipana is the owner/operator of two venues in KCMO, the RecordBar and MiniBar.

In 2018, Season to Risk began releasing a remaster series on their Bandcamp page [4] and toured, playing SxSW South By Southwest and Valley of the Vapors fest, 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 released 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 collection of singles, B-sides including covers of Bauhaus, The Go-Go's, Killdozer, and others in 2021 titled 1-800-MELTDOWN. Season to Risk began recording new music with Duane Trower at his studio Weights and Measures Soundlab in 2022.

Members

Former members

Discography

Studio albums

Singles and EPs

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