Little Cuts

Dave Hernandez of legendary garage punk band Scared of Chaka, formed Little Cuts in Seattle during a break from touring duties with indie rockers The Shins in '08. His years with The Shins (a band of whom he'd been friends with the leader of, James Mercer, since Scared of Chaka was touring the world in the mid 90s) left him anxious for a return to the louder and more chaotic leanings of his earlier bands.

Andrew Church (Ballard master rock musician, genius go-to guy, fixer, bartender extraordinaire, all around gentleman, and Godfather to Hernandez's firstborn) was the obvious choice for wingman in the group. Having previously played and recorded with Hernandez in power rock outfit Broadcast Oblivion (featuring murder city devils/big business/melvins drummer Coady Willis) he filled bass duties handily when not working with his other great band The Cops.

Curtis James of Old Haunts had met Hernandez mid tour in the early 90s when he'd drummed for Olympia band Excuse 17, and it was total random coincidence that had him tattooing at a shop next door to Hazelwood, Church's bar in Seattle. He completed the three piece, and they set about recording a handful of CDRs that were passed around town, and played a handful of shows as well as releasing a single for Bag of Hammers.

Inevitably, the pull of other bands, family, and a bad case o' the "grumps" prevented this lineup from touring extensively. This release holds their last recorded work before Curtis James returned to Olympia and left the band. Lars Finberg of The Intelligence recorded this in the fall of 2010 and a year later its finally seeing release thanks to Ken at Dirtnap Records.

The current lineup includes David Weeks from The Cops on drums. Hernandez is currently working on songs for a full length and looking at more live dates by the end of the year, and on into 2012.

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