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END TRANSMISSION Bring your video game action figures but leave your violin at home, because the boys in End Transmission are big geeks with broken hearts to spare. Their sound and fury descend from the highest echelon of love-sick dweeb rock: namely Weezer. Their synth-driven record Head Over Heals on Missing Words Records is available for download. Try them, you’ll like them.
Monday, Feb. 9., Billy O’s, 2819 E. Main St., Ventura. 652-0327, - VC Reporter
End Transmission, which, after an extensive national tour, will use the event as a platform for the release of its newest album, Devour, a bouncy gem of nerdy alternative rock with loads of characteristic Korg synth hooks and singalongs for fans of Weezer, the Cars and argyle sweaters. Though available to the public since early September, Devour never got a proper release show. “We want to be able to play the album live all the way through,” said lead singer and keyboardist Zeke Berkley. - VC Reporter
It’s not easy being an unabashed power-pop band during a time when depression in music is all the rage. Luckily, the young men of End Transmission couldn’t care less. They recently released their debut EP on Missing Words Records and are currently writing their first full-length album, not to mention the opening slot they just scored for Cute Is What We Aim For at CSUCI’s spring festival. Catch them locally before they head out on a national tour later this year. See them April 18 at CSUCI. - VC Reporter
Won the first No Cover Magazine battle of the bands and were featured on the cover of No Cover Event Guide and interviewed in the same issue (20,000 copies). - No Cover Magazine
End Transmission just got back from its first tour, an insane 40-date indie run that found the band sleeping most nights in a conversion van and playing to sometimes hostile crowds and empty rooms. That’s a good thing. The band members’ ethic is a throwback to a bygone era when bands spent more time on the road than online. On Devour, the band’s first full-length, it wears its influences on its sleeve. Produced by Jose Galvez of the sorely missed Los Angeles keyboard rockers Ozma, the album conveys a “melody comes first” ethos. Huge pop hooks, catchy key lines and clever lyrics about relationship frustration are the blueprint for standout tracks like “89,” “Talking In Circles” and “Say You Will.” Though not screamo-friendly or drum looped enough for the popular kids, it’s an excellent debut that transcends scenes by a band that puts in the work. End Transmission will be at Bombay on Sunday, Dec. 27. Available at www.missingwords.com, iTunes and local retailers. - Ventura County Reporter
Discography
Devour!!! - Full-length, September 8, 2009
Head Over Heels - Debut EP, July 8, 2008
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After many attempts from Jordan Brunner to get long-time BFF Zeke Berkley to focus and write some music he finally succeeded in the fall of 2006, and thus End Transmission was born. Zeke wrote some songs. Jordan helped. They recorded some demos in Jordan's bedroom. They thought it was pretty good. It wasn't.
They continued to write and record demo after acoustic demo, and eventually decided that in order to rock greater numbers of people, electric guitars and a drummer would be necessary. The band enlisted Hunter "R0llz R0yc3" Cook with his amazing drummabilities and Shawn Toyooka on bass and to help to fill the affirmative action requirements for the band. This quickly led to playing awesome shows that rocked people's faces completely off. Serioulsy, people are still missing their faces from those original shows.
In the summer of 2008, End Transmission recorded and released their debut E.P., "Head Over Heels", and followed it up with a short accoustic run on the California dates of the Vans Warped Tour.
After over a year of shows and writing a slew of new, more mature songs, End Transmission recorded their full-length masterpiece, "Devour" with Jose Galvez of Ozma. "Devour" was released on September 8, 2009, again on Missing Words Records. They followed up the release with a 2 month national tour, featuring a showcase on the CMJ Music Marathon in New York City.
Songs from "Devour" have been in rotation on hundreds of college and independent radio stations across the United States and Canada, charting as high as number two on many of those stations.
End Transmission now strives to not only completely take over the planet Earth, but eventually destroy it... but not in a bad way... like in a good way though... maybe with Legos... or robots... but the robots are good robots (not those evil Skynet kind)... and they make them fight and stuff... they’re still working out the specifics.
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