In 1995 I made a music video by editing footage of my brother’s Taekwondo and Shaolin-Do exhibitions set to Information Society’s 1992 number one dance chart smash (and I know how closely you followed the dance charts in the early nineties), Peace & Love, Inc. I used two VCR’s, one for pausing, rewinding, and playing,

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Here’s a video of the first live performance of “A Place For My Soul”, at Cameo Gallery in Brooklyn on the 3rd of February, 2012.

This is from our show at Cameo Gallery in February, which was the first time we performed “City of Hate.”

This one is pretty unusual in–so many ways…but the manner of the lyrical composition is one of those. These lyrics are entirely freestyled–meaning they were made up as we went along. I did try to rewrite them on paper referencing the made up track, as I do from time to time while composing words, but

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We are so stoked that Pure Volume premiered our newest opus, “City of Hate.”

Even though I am the world’s greatest humanitarian, who also happens to have the best taste in music of pretty much anyone, doesn’t mean I can figure out how to post a link on our website. Y’all expect so much. If you would like the facebook event, copy and past this: http://www.facebook.com/events/307013519380027/permalink/308919165856129/?notif_t=like I’ll figure this

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I find that the most difficult question posed to a band is “who do you sound like?”. It’s easy for me to tell you who we set out to sound like, but actually meeting that expectation is a rare thing. Since Candidate has been around we’ve heard many comparisons and in turn came up with

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