HEAVYHEX Wrap Up East Coast Tour
HEAVYHEX wrapped up their East Coast tour this Saturday, alongside Spite House, B9 labelmates Roll Call, and local Connecticut acts Almighty Watching and Montclair.
From the second we heard their music, we knew HEAVYHEX was something special. Their passion, talent, and extreme work ethic has us thrilled for what's coming in the next year. Stay tuned for some killer music and more from our Long Island friends.
Members of HEAVYHEX & Roll Call with Chris & Katherine Wrenn
DYS Celebrating 40 Years of Brotherhood: Boston & NYC Shows: Tickets Available Now
DYS returns to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of their classic LP Brotherhood in November. Catch them in NYC on Thursday, November 9th, and Boston on Friday, November 10th! B9 label-mates ROLL CALL will be joining them on both shows.
Grab tickets for Boston HERE
Grab tickets for New York City HERE
ROLL CALL playing with JUDGE in October, New Podcast / Live Recording
NYHC legends JUDGE have announced some northeast shows for this October, including a show at the Brooklyn Monarch on October 21st with ROLL CALL opening! Other openers include 108, Age of Apocalypse, and Wild Side. Tickets are available here!
Roll Call was recently featured on Queens hardcore podcast Up In The Locker Room, where they played a live set and discussed the release of their EP and more. Check it out here!
Up In The Locker Room Podcast - S2, Episode 14
We've been playing this EP regularly here at the office for months and this continues to be one of the best recent hardcore bands I've heard. It's been incredible to hear that you all feel the same way. Keep sending your feedback to us at info@bridge9.com or message us on socials. Be sure to follow Roll Call as well because you have to see this band live.
And if you're still living under a rock and haven't checked this band out yet, do yourself a favor and listen today. Vinyl records and cassettes of the EP are still available here.
Roll Call's 'Perpetuate' EP Now Available on 4 Vinyl Variants
The Perpetuate 12" EP is now available in 4 variants and is shipping worldwide. You can also visit the Bridge Nine store and buy it in-person! Save 15% if you get the bundle that includes all variants! Check it out HERE.
Guitarist Brian Kemsley (Outbreak) and drummer James Philips (Sea Haven, Final Fight) wrote six songs in November 2021 before recruiting bassist Cornell Ward and vocalist Chad Leddy to record their EP last summer.
Adam Yoe of No Echo described the opening track as “… a blazer that makes its bones somewhere in the midpoint between late '80s NYHC and early ‘oughts Boston. The clean production doesn’t skimp on rawness or urgency, which lends it a vibrant and decidedly current vibe.”
Since the initial release of their EP, they have performed and made a name for themselves across the American northeast, as well as southeast Asia. Keep your eye out for more music to come!
ROLL CALL is Headed to South East Asia!
From our friends over at UniteAsia.org:
YOOOOOOO…
Super stoked to join forces with Bridge 9 Records and all the amazing Asian promoters and announce that brand new NYHC band Roll Call will be hitting SE Asia in February of 2023. Some of the dates include them hopping on the already announced One Step Closer dates so MAD thank you to those promoters for allowing our boys to jump on.
Whenever we put these things together it always takes an immense amount of time and heart. None of these promoters do this for a living – it’s all a side gig that they do simply for the love of this music and culture. Often, they put on shows at a loss and they just quietly eat that shit. So big ups to any promoters anywhere on the planet who are still doing this shit on a DIY level putting in what they can, when they can to keep this shit moving.
Though Roll Call is a newer NYHC band, the members are veterans of the hardcore scene playing and traveling the world in acts like Outbreak and others. Mainman behind this beast is someone very familiar to Unite Asia – Brian Kemsley who we’ve covered extensively on the site on many occasions because of his time growing up in Hong Kong and through his Muaythai accolades (read about that HERE and HERE). But it’s his most recent project – a straight-up in-your-face hardcore band – that we’re stoked to talk about today.
“Cornell and I are both Muaythai fighters and will be in Thailand training this winter, so since half the band was already gonna be in Southeast Asia, we just needed to convince Chad and James to fly over in order to do some shows. Thankfully Riz from Unite Asia, along with each local promoter, was able to help us out. We’re a new band and grateful for the opportunity to play in Asia. I was born in Taiwan and grew up in Hong Kong, so this is extra dope for me to get to do this. Asia fucking rules!” states Brian when asked about his thoughts on finally getting to be in a band that’ll be playing out here in Asia.
We’ve teamed up with the following promoters so to get more details hit them all up directly! To read up more on the band hit up this link for a dope write-up on DSCVRD Magazine HERE.
Feb 4 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – RVDA Records
Feb 5 – Manila, Philippines – Still Ill Records
Feb 6 – Cebu, Philippines – Friends Fun Hardcore
Feb 8 – Bangkok, Thailand – Holding On Records
Feb 9 – Jakarta, Indonesia – Driftt Records
Bridge Nine Welcomes NYC's ROLL CALL - Six Song EP Streaming NOW!
ROLL CALL Photo by Evan McNight
We are thrilled to announce a new band and new music today! New York’s ROLL CALL have signed with Bridge Nine Records. Guitarist Brian Kemsley (Outbreak) and drummer James Philips (Sea Haven, Final Fight) wrote 6 songs in November 2021 before recruiting bassist Cornell Ward and vocalist Chad Leddy for the recording of their EP Perpetuate this past summer. When its members aren’t providing public services in New York City (Chad working as an NYFD firefighter, Brian Kemsley stopping kidnappers), Roll Call is making fresh and uncompromising New York hardcore that you absolutely can’t miss. Listen on Bandcamp or any streaming service, check out the teaser video below, and order the cassette tape HERE (12" EP to follow in 2023).
