Here We Go With...

Bloomington, Indiana is a town with a lot of rocking to do but not enough people to bring it. Most Bloomingtonians with true dedication to the cause have to pull double, sometimes triple duty. Jason, Mark, and Pete - The Coke Dares - are no exception. These young men have extremely full plates band-wise, but this is not some kind of side project. More of a supergroup power trio, a rock n roll bulldozer plowing fiercely through the boredom forest. 32 songs in 32 minutes? Half studio tracks, half live? Don't expect just another punk album that forsakes brilliance for brevity - The Coke Dares have both in spades. Think Wire's Pink Flag, or the Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime, any early SST, really. Think Robert Pollard on his front lawn with a Marshall stack and an even shorter attention span. Each song is a new classic, a collage of hooks. The message of The Coke Dares is universal. Who hasn't chased a rat down the alley? Who hasn't carried a big box and wished that someone without a big box would get the door? Who hasn't stolen ten thousand dollars from the kitty at work? All this in 32 minutes, and if the whole thing is over before you know it, there's a music video on the disc as well!