CrashFuse

Chad Hornberger: vocals, guitar Colin Eberhardt: drums Nick Wnuk: bass

4/3 - For the Music Productions: With Life Comes Death; Melloncore; Artemis; My Girl, Chernoybl w/ Blood of the Martyrs, Alive in the Dark Broadway Joes Bar & Grille

4/4 - FTMP: Redwood Experience, Matthew Ruhl, Savannah King, Peter Sorkin, Michelle Scull Allentown Music Too 4/4 - Standing Ground Booking: Fiasco Jones, Cedar Kites w/ Placeholder, Eyes Wide St. Clare Center 4/5 - FTMP: Beyond the Illusion (EP Release), Down With the Buffalo, Breckenwood, Dollar Diplomacy, The Devil in Love Stamps 4/6 - FTMP: /Signs/, Bungler, A Breath Alive, Through Lifeless Eyes w/ Insult to Injury 142 Ramsdell Ave. 4/10 A Hotel Nourishing, The Malones w/ Tony Rocky Horror Nietzsches Allen 4/11 - FTMP: Billy Draws Two, Revolt-88, Death and All His Friends, The Devil in Love Allentown Music Too 4/12 - FTMP: Mikanecho, Lily Among Thorns, Gutterface, Sin District, The Benefits of Breathing The Forvm 4/12 Ritual Walk, Sacklunch, Fiasco Jones, City Under Siege The Riviera Theatre 4/13 - SGB: Backbiter w/ Call Me a Dreamer, Dead Gods, Night Terror The Glory Hole 4/13 - Tiny Blue Entertainment: Darling Harbor, The Cascos, Instead of Sleeping, Skylight Stereo Broadway Joes Bar & Grille 4/20 - SGB: /Signs/, Red Light Departure, Artemis, Lily Among Thorns w/ Refuge St. Clare Center 4/22 - Relik Productions Currents, Valiance w/ The Plot in You, I Declare War, Erra, Fit for a King Jamestown Railroad Station 4/25 - TBE: Space Cubs, Colors in the Air w/ Joywave, Mosaic The Forvm 4/26 Savannah King Natures Network 4/26 - TBE: Days of Youth, The Odd Times w/ Edelweiss Broadway Joes Bar & Grille

How did your band form? CE: We played in a cover band for a few years that slowly was dissolving. Through a friend I had met Chad. We jammed together and decided we wanted to take it in a new direction. We asked Nick if he wanted to come along for the ride. NW: I had nothing better to do that week. Where did you come up with the name CrashFuse? CH: My sister wrote down a couple names. [I was] like, Where did you get them? Band name generator online! CrashFuse was number one. What are your influences? CH: A lot of punk rock, alternative. 90s alt rock. Hardcore. NW: A lot of progressive rock, jazz. CE: Jazz, folk, country. Were all across the board. NW: Petty much everything except for hip hop. How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard you before? CH: A melodramatic fusion of captivating pop and alternative rock. Are you putting out an album soon? CH: Were working on it slowly. Right now were just releasing a couple singles. Eventually well add those to the album. Were chugging towards it. NW: Weve got three or four more songs to write. We recorded five last year. When are you expecting your album out? NW: By the winter. So youre not in a hurry? NW: Its quality over quantity. We want to get the best product out there that we can. CE: Its not that were slow at writing songs. We write them and then we rewrite them and then we rewrite them. NW: And even when theyre finished we rewrite them. CE: It keeps our live performances interesting and new for people.
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What can people expect from the music you are going to be releasing? CH: Our newest single that were releasing in a couple weeks called The Girl, were using trash cans, kind of like Stomp. A lot of different stuff. NW: I just picked up a banjo, ukelele. CH: Were adding saxophone in one of our songs down the road. Trying to keep up to the name CrashFuse, things coming together. How do you make your shows interesting? NW: Dancing around. We have little light boxes. We stand on them. We do a lot of crowd involvement. We try to get everyone to clap [their] hands. CE: Its a performance overall, its not just playing. NW: Were working up to costumes. CH: Maybe not the costumes

What is the best thing about being in a band in Buffalo? CH: Theres so much art and music. There [are] so many good bands that you can play with. NW: So many venues. What else do you enjoy doing? CH: I like graphic art. I do a lot of sports, as well. CE: Im anything outdoors, whether its physical activity or simply sitting out in the sunshine. What was the first concert you went to? CH: Josh Groban. I got sucked into it by my parents when I was young. CE: The first one I can remember was country. It was George Strait, and Kenny Chesney opened for him. NW: Me and my dad went to a three-day-long progressive rock festival to see one of my favorite bands in Montreal. It was awesome.

4/27 - FTMP: A Boy and His Airplane, Garret Shea, Matthew Ruhl, Peter Sorkin, Calling All Skeletons Allentown Music Too 4/28 - SGB: Fiasco Jones, Dangerfield w/ Light Years, Safe 5/2 - TBE: Honey Spine, Sonny Baker, The Folk Faces, Mothers Nietzsches Allen 5/10 Johnny Nobody, Sleepy Hahas, Made Violent Nietzsches Allen 5/17 This Is Fiction, Rescue Dawn, The Odd TImes, Lily Among Thorns, Dan Erickson w/ The Composure The Forvm *SEND SHOW DETAILS TO 716LOCALMUSIC@GMAIL.COM

If you could tour with any band and play in any city, which would you choose? CH: The Goo Goo Dolls, probably. We would definitely like to take a lot of our friends on the road with us, like Queen City Renaissance and Average at Best. I would love to play with all of them. Thats freaking awesome. CE: New York City would be cool. Vegas. I would like to play in our own home city, the Queen City. NW: [It would] be cool to have a local show thats free for everybody just to get everybody into it. CH: If there was ever an opportunity , that would be awesome.
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Photograph by Gabby Marek