Brand Managers of the Mid-Atlantic

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17-track album on "Blue Crab" vinyl. Limited to 100 copies.

Released by Magnet Coil Media and Tor Johnson Records.

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1.	Staples Mill Station 02:23	buy track
2.	Union Station 01:06	buy track
3.	30th Street Station 01:27	buy track
4.	Heiress 01:56	buy track
5.	Amherst 03:02	buy track
6.	Providence Station 01:27	buy track
7.	South Station 02:26	buy track
8.	Spacer 00:31	buy track
9.	Books Are Heavy 04:32	buy track
10.	The Weatherman 02:34	buy track
11.	Unit 105 00:35	buy track
12.	Public Transit to Yr Heart 03:06	buy track
13.	Totality 03:57	buy track
14.	Out of Pocket Costs 04:39	buy track
15.	Carved 01:27	buy track
16.	Fort Greene 02:23	buy track
17.	Chapin to Bellevue 01:09	buy track

about

“The last, and only, piece of music that affected me the way that Brand Managers of the Mid-Atlantic has was Rock Island from the Music Man soundtrack. And that’s saying something.” - Nat Coghlan, Transistor Transistor/Strangelight

As with many defense contracts and journalism careers, Northeast Regional began in the northwest quadrant of Washington, DC and ended in a satellite city.

Northeast Regional “Brand Managers of the Mid-Atlantic” is indebted to Foo Fighters’ “The Colour and The Shape” as much as it is Hot Snakes, Tenement, Lungfish, and Fugazi’s “End Hits”.

In short, if you like guitar-based rock music, you’ll like Brand Managers of the Mid-Atlantic.

Northeast Regional is a studio project led by Jeff Byers (Wow Owls, Best Practices, Light the Fuse and Run) now headquartered in Richmond, VA. The album collects studio sessions and home recordings from 2015 to 2022.

“As an impatient person, I found the process to be very anti-impatient,” Byers said of the album.

The album, ultimately an exercise in the craft of songwriting and production, started with inspiration from playlists at the gym where Jeff tried to decode The Lemonheads, Smartboys, Superchunk, Superdrag, Supercrush and other super bands’ songs while maintaining a heart rate of 120-150.

Then more groove-oriented riffs influenced by the Washington, DC metropolitan statistical area bands such as Regulator Watts and Lungfish started seeping into the project.

Add the demure emotional intensity of Lucinda Williams and Sparklehorse with the devil-may-care attitude of Dismemberment Plan, the weirdness of The VSS and Brainiac, and the energy of Swiz and you get the idea that Northeast Regional is a distillation of a mid-Atlantic man of a certain age’s listening history.

The album fits into the modern canon of post-hardcore and post-pop punk bands, including Fiddlehead, Militarie Gun, Timeshares, and Oso Oso. During Brand Managers of the Mid-Atlantic, styles flow seamlessly from abrasive yet catchy power punk anthems to slowed down post-punk dirges.

Byers plays guitar and sings on most tracks but he’s not alone.

While not quite hitting the body count on Chinese Democracy, Northeast Regional features a murderer’s row of ex-members of bands that mostly played for exposure:
- Neil King (drums, Weak Teeth/Sullest)
- James Doubek (guitar, The Sniffs)
- Mike Morris (guitar/vocals, REPS)
- Tyler Worley (bass, Wow Owls, Sharpening)
- Zach Nelson (drums, Missives, REPS)

Steve Roche (Amateur Party), Nate Dominy (Prayer Group), Zach Wish (Large Margin), and Allen Bergendahl (Viking Recording) recorded the various sessions. The album is mastered by Will Killingsworth (Orchid, Ampere) at Dead Air Studios.

If you’re still excited by the sound of guitars, go for a jog and press play on “Staples Mill Station.”

FFO: Tenement, Lungfish, Militarie Gun, Oso Oso.

credits

released January 27, 2023

J. Byers - guitar, voice, bass, some drum programming
J. Doubek - guitars
M. Morris - guitars, vocals on "Weatherman," "Carved" & "Fort Greene
N. King - drums
Z. Nelson - drums
T. Worley - bass/tamborine
N. Dominy - drum programming/recording
B. Mutter - bass

Recorded by Steve Roche (Permanent Hearing Damage), Nate Dominy, Zach Wish, and Allen Bergendahl (Viking Recording).

Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studio.

Art by Chris Foster-Baril.

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Northeast Regional Richmond, Virginia

As with many defense contracts and journalism careers, Northeast Regional began in the northwest quadrant of Washington, DC and ended in a satellite city.

Power pop, post-hardcore, feedback, catchy choruses & meditative dirges.

FFO Militarie Gun, Timeshares, Fiddlehead, & Superchunk, guitar-rock ... more

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