Artist: Hot Water Music
Genre(s):
Other
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
The New What Next
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
No Division
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Gainesville, FL-based post-hardcore quartette Hot Water Music were formed in 1994 by singers/guitarists Chuck Ragan and Chris Wollard, bassist Jason Black, and drummer George Rebelo. Debuting in 1995 with the 7" "Feeding the Filler," they before long returned with the EP Push for Coin, rounding error kayoed the year with the release of their number 1 full-length crusade, Finding the Rhythms on No Idea. Fuel for the Hate Game followed in 1996, simply in the waken of their third album, Forever and Counting, Hot Water Music disbanded. The grouping soon re-formed, even so, with a serial of split singles as considerably as a new 7", "Alachua," banquet crosswise 1998; a year later saw the release of a new studio album, No Division, as well as the Live at the Hardback set up and the Moonpies for Misfits EP. Wollard and Rebelo besides teamed on the side project Blacktop Cadence.
Flight and a Crash marked the band's number one release for Epitaph and of the new millenary, soon followed by 2002's Cautiousness. The roundup digest Never Ender appeared in early 2004, and The New What Next came out that fall. Around the same time, No Idea besides eventually released the full-length debut of Ragan and Wollard's acoustic side project with Samantha Jones (of Bitchin'), Rumbleseat. Hot Water Music went on an drawn-out violate in spring 2005 so that Ragan could concentrate sought after time to life outside of the lot. Meanwhile, the rest of the lot went on to form the Draft with Todd Rockhill, and subsequent nationwide touring followed. A formal declaration appeared in May 2006 that HWM had formally called it quits. The Draft continued full-time, as Ragan began issuance some solo acoustic material.
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