New hardcore thrash from Weekend Dad

This weekend, I saw Weekend Dad play a house show. A band playing a house show isn’t a big thing, especially in Lawrence, but the fact that their bass player was on break from his job was. Seriously — the show started about three minutes after he pulled up in front of the Shirley Temple of Doom on Lawrence’s East Side. The band played their set, which ran about fifteen minutes, and then he headed back to work. If that’s not fucking punk, I don’t know what is.

Their sound’s fast, thrashy hardcore — songs that smash you in the face, but pick you up and buy you a beer as an apology afterward. The whole demo’s over before you know it, which is a shame, but fun while it lasts. Their singer and guitarist told me that the first two tracks, of which “I Got Punched In the Nose, For Stickin’ My Face In Other People’s Business!” is one, are the two that they’d been playing the longest when they recorded the demo in the very living room where I’d seen them play. The demo’s six songs, and something like two bucks, so grab one from them if you get a chance to check them out.

MP3: Weekend Dad, “I Got Punched In the Nose, For Stickin’ My Face In Other People’s Business!”