Biography
Hammer No More The Fingers' sound is luxuriously full for a 3 piece. They write catchy, edgy, slightly off-kilter rock music and their live show is powerful and reckless, yet somehow refined. Searing, crunchy, and without pretense they do brain surgery and tree removal with the same pocket knife. You might call it arena rock for small clubs.
HNMTF's self-titled debut started 2008 at #176 on the CMJ charts with adds on 90 stations.
In May of 2008, the band traveled to Magpie Cage Studios in Baltimore to record their first full-length, "Looking For Bruce", with J Robbins (Jawbox, Burning Airlines, Channels, Caverns, Jets To Brazil, Promise Ring)
Robbins has captured perfectly the impressive dynamic range that makes it hard to believe there are only 3 guys in the room; as well as the volatile combination of pure reckless energy and refined artistic ambition that is a signature of HNMTF’s live sound. These boys write catchy as hell riffs and marry them with crunchy-around-the-edges melodies to create an intoxicating cocktail of slightly off-kilter rock music. It’s a classic sound that still manages to sound fresh and exciting.
HNMTF live shows have already become legendary across the southeast, and the band has plans to tour extensively in support of the new album.
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Quotes from the Press:
"See the simple energy at "Fall Down, Play Dead"'s close? That's what we're talking about: College rock in that best old-school, early '90s sense, though it goes some place else with it, too."
- Stereogum.com - Band To Watch
"HNMTF hits hard with a sound that kicks you in the gut and makes sure you know what hit you."
- Daily Tar Heel - Dive Picks: 2007's best EPs
"Hammer No More The Fingers' CD release party at Duke Coffeehouse stands as one of local music's best moments this year."
- Independent Weekly
"Think Pixies, Pavement and Polvo, and you're in the general neighborhood. It's unabashedly retro, but the songs are way too catchy and fun to be dismissed as mere nostalgia or tribute-like."
- Creative Loafing - Charlotte
"Surrounded by the crowd, the band seemed almost like prophets revealing some hidden truth to its audience. It was an incredibly intimate moment and perfect ending to the best show I've seen all year."
- The Daily Tar Heel
"Durham's Hammer No More The Fingers serve up Sloppy Joe power pop all over their self-titled debut, but "O.R.G.Y" is the noticeable standout. Loaded with noodly, slipshod verses and one hell of an earworming chorus, it's maybe the most anthemic song born in the Triangle this year."
- Independent Weekly - The Triangle's best songs of 2007
"Their sound is just straight up indie rock that's laced with energy and dipped in a vat of pure catchiness."
- sideonetrackone.com
"These guys create a perfect musical balance. Their performance is infectious, with the entire crowd singing along, jumping up and down. I felt the floor moving below me, and momentary concern that the Duke Coffeehouse might actually collapse."
- wallflync.blogspot.com
Instrumentation
Duncan Webster - Vocals, Bass
Joe Hall - Guitar, Vocals
Jeff Stickley - Drums, Vocals
Discography
"Looking For Bruce"
APril 7th, 2009, Churchkey Records
Selft Titled 7 Song EP on Power Team Records
Release Date - November 13, 2007
Links
| http://myspace.com/hnmtf |