Blag'ard is a 2-piece

rock band including the following two members.
Joe (click here to get your "Joe" t-shirt) and Adam (click here to get your "Adam" t-shirt). They play so much guitar and drums that they don't feel like any other members are necessary. Besides that they tour in a Ford Windstar which really doesn't afford them enough room to add anyone but the most desperate of mail-order refugees. "Joe like a little coffee?" "Adam want sandwich?"

They hail from Chapel Hill North Carolina which is home to the legendary Tarheels and used to be the coolest before Carrboro became the coolest which has since become second coolest to Durham. Both of which are not anywhere near as cool as Williamsburg Brooklyn.

Adam has a window washing business

.

Joe owns a music download website www.pigzenspace.com and works as a waiter/bartender/construction worker.

The singer-guitarist is Joe

. He was in a band called Capsize 7 in the 90's which was good and nobody really remembers. They were on Caroline.

The singer-drummer is Adam

. Adam can walk on his hands and does forward flips pretty easy.

The duo's first release "Bobcat" is a 14-songer which came out last summer. It got a pretty good amount of play on collej radio and some nice reviews. The second album will be out this fall.

They are best seen live - thank goodness - because any band of which the opposite is true is a hobby waiting to happen.

January 24, 2005
Found Sound
by the Pitchfork Staff
Capsize 7: Recline and Go EP [Hep-Cat; 1995]
Capsize 7 is better known for their Mephisto LP than for Recline and Go (with which it shares a song, the spring-wound proto-punk anthem "Pong"), but this EP best epitomizes their sleek, powerful essence. The art that accompanies the liner notes depicts an arc of flame leaping from a recliner, an apt visual expression of music that consistently foiled listener inertia. While Capsize 7 was part of the same 1990s Chapel Hill indie rock boom that birthed Archers of Loaf, Superchunk, and Polvo, they didn't stick around long enough to garner their share of the hype, even though they were just as salient. Capsize 7 blended Archers's fractured power-pop and Polvo's baroque guitar shapes with Slint's churning rawness, creating prickly, streamlined melodies that simmered diabolically, then surged into massive sing-along choruses. "Clinger" stands as one of the most galvanizing, distinct songs Chapel Hill has ever produced, and while my beloved Archers and Superchunk records are mostly gathering dust, Recline and Go still makes my blood boil, and puts Capsize 7 in competition with Pipe for (deep breath) the Best Defunct Chapel Hill Rock Band Who Didn't Get Enough Props.
~Brian Howe