Snapcase

Two vocalists sort of like kind of says what it's going to say right there.

Yeah, and the influences were Biohazard, Sam Blackchurch, Snapcase, all great stuff in its own right, but the things that were happening around us immediately, like within our local parameters, You could just hear things were just a little bit headier and weirder.

And we wanted to align ourselves with that.

And so that's where Adam came in.

Okay.

And obviously, uh, touring partners, uh, Friday is Strife, Earth Crisis, Snapcase- Uh, Bloodlit.

[laughs] I think that's probably-

It's Bloodlead because I feel like everyone said Bloodlit.

I just looked it up.

Okay.

So the following day, so now that's an interesting show in and of itself, The Strife, Earth Crisis, Snapcase.

Oh, yeah-

leanings you know which is weird because you guys are hardcore kids yeah playing different styles you know what i'm saying like i never understood that whole like genre thing and the labeling

and I know we played our first shows with you know Snapcase and Mouthpiece and Siv and you know that's that we were we didn't really also it might the fact that we were calling ourselves indie rock but like we still didn't know like we were still playing with you know the bands we knew and the bands we wanted you

can leave it open that's fine you can leave it open

that's fine so

It's such an interesting, what an interesting, uh, I want to say all the bands that were on here.

You had, if you don't mind, you had Earth Crisis, Strife, Snapcase, War Zone, Cast Iron Hike, Integrity, Dead Guy, Cause for Alarm, Baby Gopal, Donuts, Hi-Fi and the Roadburners, Guilt, one of my favorite bands of all time, Refused, The Path of Resistance, By the Grace of God, another one of my favorite bands of all time, and Bloodlet.

That is a freaking great comp.

Yeah.

But, you know, it's a lot of work.

How far... out of bounds will we go with booking? Like, does it have to fall within certain parameters? Like, would we book Snapcase? Would we book Texas is the Reason? You know what I mean? Like, what, how far out of bounds would we go, so to speak? And like, what's the decision making process for who we want to play the fest?

That's a good one, because Paul and I have definitely thrown some like, some stuff like in that vein you know like paul and i definitely have like a a little bit of an emo heart and a chugga beat down heart we just haven't had those bands yet but we've we've talked about them for sure like um

yeah we i think both we both love like midwest emo kind of stuff um i mean yeah i don't know if texas is the reason came up but uh and we talked about Yeah.

I don't know.

Okay, so today I am joined with Daryl, who is the vocalist of the legendary, in my opinion, legendary Buffalo hardcore band, Snapcase.

And one of the reasons why I'm so excited is because I think in the 90s, there was such a deep connection between Detroit and Buffalo.

So I'm like super stoked about that.

But for me, Snapcase helped shape the sound and evolution of what 90s hardcore was.

And I just think it's important that we talk about it But I really think it's important we also talk about what Daryl does outside of music.

He is also a clinical counselor with a ton of years of experience in the mental health field, which gives a real perspective on hardcore emotional expression, identity, healing, and what it means to evolve as a person.

No.

You know, my band Support, like, you know, like, I- we tried to get on every single show.

So there was an under- underbelly of a lot of activity happening, but, you know, I would say Snapcase was probably, like, the one who really...

But, you know, I, I think maybe on an international or, like, national level, kinda put Buffalo on the map.

You know, prior to Snapcase, the local bands were the ones putting Buffalo on the map for Buffalo people, if that makes sense.

Like Zero Tolerance and Tugboat Annie, um, No Joke, Slugfest, Cinderblock, Against All Hope.

Like, we just were blessed with such an intense roster of, of local bands that historically, and again, I was part of this group, playing in front of six or 19 people on a Tuesday night, but those were the nights that, like, changed many lives and changed many trajectories for people who were at those shows.

And then by the time I was getting into, to punk and h- well, it was more specifically hardcore, it was kinda post Chokehold-

Okay

We toured with other hardcore bands.

Like our first couple of years of touring was fucking Snapcase, fucking Boy Sits Fire, Remembering Never, fucking, you know, like all these like hopes fall.

Like it was, we were 18 visions.

It was all

And on the show this week we have Mike Ski of Brothers Keeper.

Mike grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania and helped build the hardcore scene there, booking shows, connecting bands, in addition to being a roadie for Buffalo Legends' Snapcase.

After doing a number of tours with Snapcase, Mike decided it was time to start his own band and formed Brothers Keeper, who released three full-length records, a number of splits and EPs, and toured the country multiple times over before disbanding in 2003, two years after the release of their final LP, Fantasy Killer.

After Brothers Keeper, Mike formed the AKAs, an indie rock band out of Pittsburgh who made their way to New York City and eventually Philadelphia.

From 2003 to 2009, they released three LPs, a couple EPs, toured the country and the world while Mike worked as an artist for Fueled by Ramen Records, the same label who released the AKA's debut LP, White Doves and Smoking Guns.

In this conversation, we talk to Mike about his bands, his tattoo shop, True Hand Tattoo in Philadelphia, and the exciting news that Brothers Keeper are reuniting for the first time in 20 plus years for two shows in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Those shows feature a lot of great bands, Snapcase, Earth Crisis, One King Down, Ringworm.

The shows are October 16th at Centennial Hall in Erie, Pennsylvania, and October 17th at The Bunker, also in Erie, Pennsylvania.