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Photos: Polar Bear Club, Scream Hello | ABC No Rio, NYC | 4/19/08

Saturday was the longest ABC No Rio matinee that I’ve ever been to. Definitely an odd lineup of bands but two made the five hour plus marathon well worth it. Those bands you ask? LNWF favorites Polar Bear Club and soon to be one our favorites (if not already) Scream Hello. Do yourself a favor and check out Polar Bear Club’s Sometimes Things Just Disappear and Scream Hello’s Smart and Stupid, both from our friends at Red Leader Records. Check out some more pictures after the jump.

Album Review: Polar Bear Club - “Sometimes Things Just Disappear” (Red Leader)

Great, now I’ve soiled my pants just thinking about how awesome this damn thing is. Polar Bear Club are, hands down, one of my favorite new bands that I’ve discovered in years. It’s not just because they have pretty mouths. I mean sure, that helps, they’re good-looking guys…you know what, I’m just gonna stop now and talk about the record instead.

Sometimes Things Just Disappear, their debut full-length on Red Leader Records follows up the phenomenal The Redder, The Better EP. Drawing from almost all my favorite bands like Lifetime, Hot Water Music, and Texas Is The Reason, this album, including tracks like “Hollow Place,” “Another Night In The Rock,” and “Heart Attack At Thirty” has been playing in my MP3 player and stereo nonstop for a while now. I’m pretty sure it played through about three times on my way to work yesterday.

Sometimes Things Just Disappear is hardcore without being ridiculously overdone. Heavy yet emotional but without the sap. Straight-up fun without any sense of well-planned ironic statements. Polar Bear Club are so right on that you really won’t know what hit you until you’re alone in your room listening to this and screaming along with every fucking word with every ounce of yourself, wishing you were at one of their shows.

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Interview With Chris Browne Of Polar Bear Club

Photo by Tim Hunt

Rochester NY’s own Polar Bear Club are definitely not the naked, old dudes swimming at Coney Island in December, so don’t worry about being driven blind with horror if you ever see them. Just be prepared for the melodic-hardcore goodness to melt your face off. Simple as that. Also don’t be surprised if you start hearing more and more people talking about them in the upcoming months, after the release of their new album, entitled Sometimes Things Just Disappear, for Red Leader Records. PBC’s guitarist Chris Browne was cool enough to put up with me for a bit one evening for an interview.

How exactly did the band come together?
We started in spring of 2005. Jimmy [Lead singer] and I were in an old band together called Tamiroff. That band was sorta ending and I wanted to do a band that was sort of in the same style but more energetic. I actually talked to a couple of old friends of ours who started a band with me, Kevin and Bob. We got together and started practicing. Jimmy didn’t join until later that summer when we’d already recorded our demo. Over the last two years, we’ve replaced member by member until we got the lineup we’ve got now and it’s been that way for a little while now.

Polar Bear Club Sign To Red Leader Records

Our friends at Punknews (dot) org are reporting that upstate NY’s hardcore pride and joy Polar Bear Club have signed to Red Leader Records. Red Leader’s also gonna be re-releasing Polar Bear Club’s phenomenal 2006 EP, The Redder, The Better, so if you didn’t pick it up beforehand now’s your chance.

I remember seeing this band over a year ago in Brooklyn, and even without knowing a single word to their songs, they absolutely blew me away that night with a passion, a fury, and a ton of “whoa oh”’s that you don’t see alot in hardcore these days.