The Kidcrash

"Formed in 2000, used to sound different, have toured the U.S. three times, europe once, and love to make friends."

Hailing originally from Santa Fe, NM: Alex Gaziano, John Gee, Kevin Brouse, and Buster Ross are the Kidcrash.

The band currently has three full lengths, New Ruins (2004), a Demo (2006), Jokes (2007), snacks (2009) and NAPS (2011).

There is a lot of controversy surrounding the deals regarding the bands debut album New Ruins, so the band ask people to download it rather than purchase:

"Please don't order this cd (New Ruins). After spending more than $10,000 of our own money recording it, Lujo Records continues to try to justify their right to continue to collect 100% of the royalties from mp3 sales, after four years of selling the album on itunes and amazon. At one point we requested a box of cds for a show, they sent them way too late and they didn't arrive for the show. We never ended up selling them, but according to them we still owe them $400 for those cds and with that included they are still out about $500 recouping their $2000 investment. Reality is, we are still out about $8000, and they are honestly out maybe $200-$300 and have plenty of copies of the cd left. But there is no way for us to know how much they have made off of the sales of our mp3s. We have, on multiple occasions demanded that four years is long enough, and that the mp3s be removed from itunes. The response has been a load of bullshit about how we will get 50% of the royalties once the label recoups. But we don't want those royalties, and don't want to make money for those music monopolies. Amazon.com does not have the legal right to sell our mp3s and continues to after hours and hours of phone calls; we never signed anything granting Lujo Records the right to sell our music on iTunes, so when the time comes and we want it taken down, they have no right to refuse to respect our wishes. After all, they dropped us in a myspace message, why are they holding on so tight to our music. The only way we can force this to stop is by giving away this album. We wouldn't ever want to encourage people to listen to this album with the belief that if you like Jokes that we think you'd like New Ruins. So it is only posted here in protest of Lujo Records' lack of consideration for our wishes and legal rights as the composers, and REAL financiers of the record. DO NOT BUY IT!"

All records are available in mp3 format for free at http://www.denovali.com/kidcrash/

www.myspace.com/thekidcrash

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