Blag'ard is a super-energetic and melodic, guitar and drums combo from Chapel Hill, NC. Recently described as a "Chapel Hill-Melvins", Blag'ard is at once punk and powerful, with jaggedly angular guitar, driving drums, and harmonizing vocals. Tough to compare to or stamp a label on, they are the better for it.
Joe Taylor is the singer and guitarist of Blag'ard, and had the same job for Capsize 7 in the mid-nineties. Capsize 7 was a part of the much talked about 90's scene in Chaple Hill which attracted national attention. They were signed to Caroline Records and toured nationally with great bands like Archers of Loaf, Chavez, Silkworm, Hammerhead, and Superdrag. Capsize 7's second LP, the never-before-released "Horsefly", just came out on Joe's label, Pig Zen Space. 
Adam Brinson is the drummer and second voice, he joined Blag'ard in 2006 after the release of the EP "Blank Faced Clocks" replacing drummer Bill Buckley. The band has travelled extensively since Adam joined, and has covered a lot of territory both in terms of milage and maturation. Blag'ard practices in the shed behind Adam's house, and have endured two show-downs with the local police.
Blag'ard has written a new full-length and are going to be donning headphones for some studio time this fall. Please keep your ears and eyes pealed for their 3rd record avialable for download or on CD (and maybe vinyl too!) next winter.
Spring of 2010 Blag'ard signed a distribution deal with Redeye Distribution which made Blag'ard's "Mach II", "Bobcat", and "Blank Faced Clocks" (as well as the Capsize 7 release "Horsefly") available at over thirty download websites including iTunes, Amazon, LimeWire, Rhapsody, etc.
Blag'ard would love for you to come see them live: stand up close, and have some fun.
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.
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