Minor Threat have released a new EP, titled Out of Step Outtakes, to mark the 40th anniversary of their only studio album. Stream it below via Apple Music or Spotify.
The three-song collection contains material recorded during the original Out of Step sessions in January 1983, Minor Threat’s first time in the studio as a five-piece band. During that period, they did new versions of “In My Eyes” and “Filler”. Using the remaining blank tape on the reel, they also recorded an instrumental called “Addams Family,” which wound up being used as a coda to “Cashing In.”
All three songs ended up being sealed in Minor Threat’s vault for over 35 years, until the multitrack tapes were taken to the studio to be digitized in 2021. Upon the discovery, singer Ian MacKaye and Don Zientara mixed the tracks to be included on Out of Step Outtakes. Pick up your 7-inch vinyl copy here.
The three-song collection contains material recorded during the original Out of Step sessions in January 1983, Minor Threat’s first time in the studio as a five-piece band. During that period, they did new versions of “In My Eyes” and “Filler”. Using the remaining blank tape on the reel, they also recorded an instrumental called “Addams Family,” which wound up being used as a coda to “Cashing In.”
All three songs ended up being sealed in Minor Threat’s vault for over 35 years, until the multitrack tapes were taken to the studio to be digitized in 2021. Upon the discovery, singer Ian MacKaye and Don Zientara mixed the tracks to be included on Out of Step Outtakes. Pick up your 7-inch vinyl copy here.
- 12/1/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
A new EP containing unreleased Minor Threat music will coincide with the 40th anniversary of the band’s only full-length studio album, Out of Step. Aptly dubbed Out of Step Outtakes, the three-song EP contains material recording during the original Out of Step sessions in 1983. It will be released on December 1st via singer Ian MacKaye’s Dischord Records.
The sessions that spawned Out of Step Outtakes occurred in January 1983, marking Minor Threat’s first time in the studio as a five-piece band. Experimenting with the new sound, they cut new versions of their songs “In My Eyes” and “Filler,” both previously released on their debut EP, 1981’s Minor Threat, as well as a handful of other tracks. Afterwards, they had blank tape left on the reel, and decided to record an instrumental song titled “Addams Family,” which was ultimately adapted into a coda for Out of Step’s hidden track,...
The sessions that spawned Out of Step Outtakes occurred in January 1983, marking Minor Threat’s first time in the studio as a five-piece band. Experimenting with the new sound, they cut new versions of their songs “In My Eyes” and “Filler,” both previously released on their debut EP, 1981’s Minor Threat, as well as a handful of other tracks. Afterwards, they had blank tape left on the reel, and decided to record an instrumental song titled “Addams Family,” which was ultimately adapted into a coda for Out of Step’s hidden track,...
- 11/15/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Kent Stax, original drummer for legendary hardcore punks Scream, has died. The news arrives just a day after the band announced their upcoming album DC Special, their first new music since 2011 and first full-length since 1993.
Bandmates Pete and Franz Stahl commemorated Stax in a social media post Wednesday, September 20th: “We are heartbroken to share that our drummer Bennett Kent Stacks passed away this morning after a bout with metastatic cancer. Kent is the original heartbeat of Scream. Though we have had to continue on without him before, we have always known Kent is irreplaceable. He was one of a kind. In addition to being a truly unique drummer, Kent was also an accomplished fisherman, skilled carpenter, and avid train enthusiast.”
The post goes on: “Kent also played in prominent punk and harDCore bands including The Suspects, Spitfires United, Alleged Bricks and more throughout his life. He also branched out to other genres,...
Bandmates Pete and Franz Stahl commemorated Stax in a social media post Wednesday, September 20th: “We are heartbroken to share that our drummer Bennett Kent Stacks passed away this morning after a bout with metastatic cancer. Kent is the original heartbeat of Scream. Though we have had to continue on without him before, we have always known Kent is irreplaceable. He was one of a kind. In addition to being a truly unique drummer, Kent was also an accomplished fisherman, skilled carpenter, and avid train enthusiast.”
The post goes on: “Kent also played in prominent punk and harDCore bands including The Suspects, Spitfires United, Alleged Bricks and more throughout his life. He also branched out to other genres,...
- 9/20/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Los Angeles punk stalwarts Bad Religion will publish their autobiography, Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion, August 18th to coincide with their 40th anniversary.
The book is described as a “hybrid oral history/narrative” and was written by frontman Greg Graffin, founding members Brett Gurewitz and Jay Bentley, and long-time guitarist Brian Baker, with help from music journalist Jim Ruland.
Do What You Want will chronicle Bad Religion’s 40-year career, “from their beginnings as teenagers experimenting in a San Fernando Valley garage dubbed ‘The Hell Hole...
The book is described as a “hybrid oral history/narrative” and was written by frontman Greg Graffin, founding members Brett Gurewitz and Jay Bentley, and long-time guitarist Brian Baker, with help from music journalist Jim Ruland.
Do What You Want will chronicle Bad Religion’s 40-year career, “from their beginnings as teenagers experimenting in a San Fernando Valley garage dubbed ‘The Hell Hole...
- 1/8/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Producer, director and lawyer Murray Fahey, principal Fahey Rosenblum Laywers and Mediators, warns producers to be mindful when it comes to recoupment.
Too often creatives are focused on one of two issues: raising the money or creating the content. But if we are to have a sustainable industry, there should always be an eye on the third and most crucial issue in production: recouping the money from the various territories and formats that creative content is licensed to.
Traditionally, this has been the role of producers, who either are hands-on and chase the returns, or appoint collections agents to manage the collection of revenues. It has always been difficult for producers to track funds, particularly from overseas territories, and even more difficult to litigate and track the sales agents who change their executive and corporate structures quicker than rooms in a renovation reality TV show.
The big question is: Who do you trust?...
Too often creatives are focused on one of two issues: raising the money or creating the content. But if we are to have a sustainable industry, there should always be an eye on the third and most crucial issue in production: recouping the money from the various territories and formats that creative content is licensed to.
Traditionally, this has been the role of producers, who either are hands-on and chase the returns, or appoint collections agents to manage the collection of revenues. It has always been difficult for producers to track funds, particularly from overseas territories, and even more difficult to litigate and track the sales agents who change their executive and corporate structures quicker than rooms in a renovation reality TV show.
The big question is: Who do you trust?...
- 10/1/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
This interview originally appeared in the April 17, 1997 issue of Rolling Stone
You knew he was tall, but when Ric Ocasek walks out of the Blue Room at the Chung King House of Metal, in New York, you realize he’s impossibly tall — and reedlike to the point of being wispy. The man whom those over 25 know as the former leader of New Wave icons the Cars (and those under 25 know as the producer of Weezer and Nada Surf) is here recording his fifth solo album; Smashing Pumpkin Billy Corgan is producing a few tracks,...
You knew he was tall, but when Ric Ocasek walks out of the Blue Room at the Chung King House of Metal, in New York, you realize he’s impossibly tall — and reedlike to the point of being wispy. The man whom those over 25 know as the former leader of New Wave icons the Cars (and those under 25 know as the producer of Weezer and Nada Surf) is here recording his fifth solo album; Smashing Pumpkin Billy Corgan is producing a few tracks,...
- 9/16/2019
- by Suzan Colon
- Rollingstone.com
This February, TV celebrities and new Hershey area residents Terry Farrell ("Becker", "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Back To School") and Brian Baker (best known as "The Sprint Pcs Guy") will star in the Hershey Area Playhouse production of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters. The production will be the first collaborative project, and Playhouse debut, for this real-life husband and wife. Farrell began her career as an Elite Fashion Model, and was featured on the covers of Elle, Vogue, Mademoiselle, and Self.
- 2/20/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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