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About|the band|the musical composition|The Rite of SpringInfobox musical artist | name = Rites of Spring| image = Rites of Spring.jpg| caption = Rites of Spring members Guy Picciotto (left) and Mike Fellows (right) performing.| background = group_or_band| origin = Washington, D.C. , USA | genre = Post-hardcore , emo | years_active = 1984–1986| label = Dischord Records | associated_acts = Happy Go Licky , One Last Wish , Fugazi (band)|Fugazi , Miighty Flashlight | website =| past_members = Guy Picciotto Eddie Janney Mike Fellows Brendan Canty Rites of Spring was an American post-hardcore band from Washington, D.C. in the mid-1980s, known for their energetic live performances. A part of the D.C. hardcore punk scene, Rites of Spring increased the frenetic violence and visceral passion of hardcore while simultaneously experimenting with its compositional rules. Lyrically, they also shifted hardcore into intensely personal realms and, in doing so, are often considered the first " emo " band,cite news | last =DeRogatis | first =Jim | coauthors = | title = Emo (The Genre That Dare Not Speak Its Name) | work = Guitar World | pages = | language = | publisher = Future US, Inc. | year = 1999 | url = http://www.jimdero.com/OtherWritings/Other%20emo.htm | accessdate = 2008-11-16 but Rites of Spring itself rejects any association between themselves and emo genres.cite book | last = Greenwald | first = Andy | authorlink = | title = Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo. | publisher = St. Martin's Griffin. | year = 2003 | location = New York | pages = 13–4 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 031230863
The band only performed 15 concerts.cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Rites Of Spring | work = Dischord Records Official Website | publisher = Dischord Records | year = 2008 | url = http://www.dischord.com/band/rites-of-spring | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2008-11-16 Vocalist/guitarist Guy Picciotto and drummer Brendan Canty went on to play in Fugazi in the late 1980s.
Band history
Allmusic 's Matt Kantor described the band's music as being at times "fast and furious" while also being "at other times lush and evocative though always with a sense of drive and melody."cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/end-on-end-r75986/review |title= End On End - Rites of Spring - Review |author= Kantor, Matt |work= Allmusic |publisher= |accessdate=March 19, 2011
Though rooted in the loud-and-fast style of hardcore punk , Rites of Spring is claimed after the fact as being the founders of the Emo|emotional hardcore genre,cite book | last = Azerrad | first = Michael | authorlink = Michael Azerrad | coauthors = | title = Our Band Could Be Your Life|Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 | publisher = Little Brown and Company | date = 2001-07-31 | location = | pages = 528 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn =0-316-78753-1 or what is now commonly and retrospectively called emo-core , a precursor of screamo and emo. Jenny Toomey notes that, "Rites of Spring existed well before the term did and they hated it."
The band is named after the symphonic ballet The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky .
Recordings
Rites of Spring (album)|Rites of Spring was the band’s eponymous debut album from 1985. Its twelve songs were recorded at Inner Ear Studios in February 1985, produced by Ian MacKaye of Fugazi and Minor Threat , and released on vinyl in June of that year as Dischord Records #16. The album was re-released on CD and cassette in 1987, with an additional track from the same session, "Other Way Around", as well as the four songs from the Rites' follow-up Extended play|EP , All Through a Life , Dischord #22. The CD and cassette originally retained the number "16" while the 1991 repress, as well as the 2001 remastered version of the same seventeen songs, were numbered "16CD" and given the new title End on End . The band broke up in January 1986.
Post-breakup and musical influence
Picciotto, Janney, and Canty formed One Last Wish with Embrace (U.S. band)|Embrace alumnus, guitarist Michael Hampton (punk musician)|Michael Hampton (not to be confused with Michael Hampton , lead guitarist for Funkadelic ).Strong, Martin C. (2003) "Rites of Spring", in The Great Indie Discography , Canongate, ISBN 1-84195-335-0
The Rites of Spring personnel reunited for a quasi-reincarnation called Happy Go Licky , releasing an LP/CD of various live concert recordings though never producing any studio work. The music was much more experimental than Rites of Spring, heavily improvised and featuring tape loop effects.
Picciotto and Canty eventually teamed up with bassist Joe Lally and former Minor Threat , Skewbald (band)|Skewbald , Egg Hunt , and Embrace (U.S. band)|Embrace singer Ian MacKaye (co-owner of the band’s label, Dischord Records ) in Fugazi (band)|Fugazi . Mike Fellows went on to do session work for the Drag City (record label)|Drag City label and form Miighty Flashlight , releasing an eponymous album under this name in 2002.
Picciotto himself doesn't recognize the attribution of having "created" emo. When asked about it in an interview his response was, "I've never recognized "emo" as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets labeled with that term hates it. They feel scandalized by it. But honestly, I just thought that all the bands I played in were punk rock bands. The reason I think it's so stupid is that - what, like the Bad Brains weren't emotional? What - they were robots or something? It just doesn't make any sense to me." http://www.markprindle.com/picciotto-i.htm "Guy Picciotto - 2003 Interview" markprindle.com. Retrieved on February 23, 2009.
Discography
Studio Albums
Rites of Spring (album)|Rites of Spring (1985)
EPs
All Through a Life (1987)
Compilations
End on End (1991)
References
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