WAR TAPES TO APPEAR ON ABC FAMILY TV SERIES “GREEK” JUNE 15//VIDEO FOR “MIND IS UGLY” AVAILABLE NOW

LOS ANGELES’ HEART-QUAKING DOOM POP BAND
WAR TAPES
TO APPEAR ON ABC FAMILY TV SERIES “GREEK” JUNE 15

VIDEO FOR “MIND IS UGLY” AVAILABLE NOW

As the Los Angeles band WAR TAPES prepare for the release of their debut album THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE on May 26 via Seattle indie label Sarathan Records, the quartet has just confirmed they will appear on the ABC Family TV series “GREEK.”  For the episode that airs on June 15, War Tapes will be featured performing two songs from their forthcoming album on-camera — “Always Falling” and “Dreaming Of You” — as the band at a frat party.  

In other news, WAR TAPES have recently made available the video, directed by newcomer Jon Danovic, for their single “Mind Is Ugly.” Both melodic and thrashing, the song is about inner turmoil and how people often lash out at those who love and care about them the most while protecting others further away. The video encompasses the self-proclaimed “heart-quaking doom pop” that best describes the band and allows a glimpse into the cathartic live energy that possesses the band. Danovic will join up with the band again in the coming weeks to shoot the video for “Dreaming Of You,” the lead single from The Continental Divide.

WAR TAPES–Neil Popkin (singer/rhythm guitar), his sister Becca Popkin (bass), Matt Bennett (lead guitar) and William Mohler (drums)–has an innate knack for crafting timeless melodies, anthemic choruses and an arena-ready sound that has already erupted from the stages of The Fillmores in San Francisco and NYC, The Bowery Ballroom, The Warfield and The Wiltern–and, of course, epic shows at dangerously overcrowded warehouse parties and punk clubs that have become legendary for the passion of the band and their audiences.  Upcoming Los Angeles appearances for the band include:

 

Date	Venue	Location
4/24	740	Downtown	w/ She Wants Revenge
5/2	Downtown 21	Downtown
5/27	Club Moscow @ Bordners	Hollywood	The Continental Divide CD release party

 

 

The Continental Divide is a potent work.  Songs like "The Night Unfolds" and "Mind is Ugly" are tailor-made for the 1:30 am Saturday night mosh pit, while "All the World's a Stage,” "Dreaming of You” and "Use Me" beg to be sung cinematically from a majestic peak or at Red Rocks. Like the cover art (a photo of the continental divide in Colorado taken by Becca while criss-crossing the U.S. on one of their national tours), the music also conveys the expansive openness and hope of the empty, but majestic American west.  The early buzz on War Tapes has earned the band airplay on such tastemaker radio stations as BBC Radio 1 and Live 105 in San Francisco, while “Dreaming of You” was aired on NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly. Meanwhile, Sarathan Records is gearing up to begin the radio campaign with a special radio sampler going to Modern Rock Specialty Shows around the album release date. The sampler will include "Dreaming Of You," "The Night Unfolds," "Use Me" and "All The World's A Stage."

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