Icewater Scandal

Formerly referred to as AM Radio prior to the southern California punk-pop band from the same name claimed the rights towards the moniker, N.Con.C.’s Icewater Scandal can be equally affected by avant rock and roll like the Fantasy Syndicate as well as the Deceased C, aswell as the faculty rock from the ’80s and early ’90s. The music group shaped in the past due ’90s, when guitarist Sean Malfucci, bassist Travis Redington, and drummer D.W. Burnam had been students at the institution of Visible Arts; the trio have been tinkering with different seems in an deserted studio space if they had been asked to execute at an area Starbucks. Vocalist Andrea Hansen is at the audience, and even though she have been composing and carrying out her own materials, she became a member of the music group. After shifting to Brooklyn’s Williamsburg area, the group documented their debut EP as AM Radio by using maker Jerry Teel, who also done the 1st EP through the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The EP’s 16-minute-long last monitor, “Beeswax,” captured the interest of Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, who documented and combined the band’s debut recording at his Echo Canyon studio room. By enough time of No Handle’s launch, AM Radio acquired converted into Icewater Scandal, and brand-new drummer Ben Stanton stepped set for Burnam. The record premiered in springtime 2004 over the Social Registry.