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Never Got Caught (ex Tree) Announce Tour With Clutch

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14 years ago

April 30, 2010

Never Got Caught has announced a two week trek with Clutch this June through the Midwest and the south. This is a continuation of a long standing relationship with Clutch as Never Got Caught’s Bryan Hinkley (vocals, guitar) spent years working with the band including helping to write two songs for the band in the studio and playing on 2007’s full-length From Beale Street To Oblivion. Neil Fallon of Clutch returns the favor by contributing vocals to the song “Slipping Out” on Never Got Caught’s recently released full-length Creepshow (They Want More Records).

New England kings, Never Got Caught is comprised of Hinkley, his brother Bill (drums), Paul Dallaire (bass) and Dave Ward (guitar, vocals). The band play rock influenced by kick out the jams 60’s and 70’s fuzz-tone heroes in addition to some lyrically dark 90’s bands such as Morphine or The Afghan Whigs. Working with vintage gear, Hinkley himself uses a 59 Les Paul Jr, a 72 Les Paul Deluxe and his guitar head is a 69 JTM 45. Sonically of a vintage tone, their songs are melodic and hook-laden but there is a powerful underlying current of heaviness gleaned from past metal cred.

The Hinkley brothers cut their teeth in the 90’s post-hardcore unit, Tree, who were contemporaries of Helmet and The Deftones. Talking on the difference between that project and what they do in Never Got Caught, Hinkley says “When we started doing Never Got Caught we wanted a different outlet from what we did with Tree. It’s a return to the rock that we grew up with, with individual songs rather than a sound. We really try to develop different song progressions and melodies from track to track. Recording Creepshow with Andrew Schneider (Pelican, Unsane), he was really helpful in changing tones and even different drum sounds from song to song.”

The album title Creepshow definitely reflects in the music and lyrical themes of the album. Hinkley comments, “There are definitely creepy corners and dark alleyways in the sound of the album. Lyrically, it’s a dark album talking about a lot of down and out times and trying to rise above them.” This is the band’s second album after 2008’s There And Back (Wonderdrug Records). Never Got Caught started as a side project in 2003 writing a couple of songs a year in-between Hinkley’s work with Clutch. “In 2008 I decided I had to stop working with Clutch, as much as I loved it, because working with them I never had time to really devote to my own thing. We had enough songs to release There and Back and have been going full-force since then. We are planning to record more music this summer, possibly an EP for release later this year.”

Tour with Clutch, Bakerton Group, Lionize:

6/4 – Huntington, WV – V Club

6/5 – Lexington, KY – Busters Billiards

6/6 – Toledo, OH – Headliners

6/7 – Urbana, IL – Canopy Club

6/9 – Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom

6/10 – Little Rock, AR – The Village

6/13 – Montgomery, AL – Strange Days

6/14 – Houma, LA – The City Club

6/15 – Beaumont, TX – Whiskey River

6/17 – Greeneville, SC – The Handlebar

6/18 – Norfolk, VA – The Norva

6/19 – Allentown, PA – Crocodile Rock

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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

2 weeks ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…