I’ve never heard of Ellicott City, Maryland, but if the guitar opening of “The Permanent Rain” (If You Could Only Keep Me Alive) is any indication, the sounds in the Ellicott City heads are just fine, thank you.
The Dangerous Summer is composed of AJ Perdomo, Cody Payne, Bryan Czap and Tyler Minsberg. Wanna catch ‘em? Try the Recher Theatre in Towson, Maryland or go to Vienna, Virginia on May 24 for Jammin’ Java with The Friday Night Boys. On June 21, The Dangerous Summer will be at the Penn Monster Factory in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
The group members cite Name Taken, Third Eye Blind, Bright Eyes, U2, Jimmy Eat World, Phil Collins and others as influences. Not bad for a learning process. It is interesting that in addition to Sub City Records, the name Hopeless Records shows up here. That label was the home of the ska group Mustard Plug, a group this listener experienced some years ago in Danville, Illinois.
“Wake Up,” is a rock anthem from If You Could Only Keep Me Alive, while the song with an interesting title on the collection is “Disconnect feat Alex of ATL.” I don’t get it either, but it is good listening.
The Dangerous Summer on MySpace
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Not too sure that I am “sold” on these guys. I mean, I that I might enjoy a concert or two. Buying a CD might be out of the question because I am just not sure that they are something that I would enjoy listening to over and over. Not anything that I would search through the iPod just to find one song. But I guess I could live with it popping up on shuffle now and then.
I’m a bit unsure on these guys. The intro to Falling Rain is just so fantastic and makes you very expectant for the entire song to be great. It was so-so to my ears, but that’s just me. They aren’t as bad as some other indie bands I’ve heard, and I think that the instrumental section of their band is what differenciates them from the majority of other bands, as it makes each song all the more enjoyable. I probably wouldn’t go to their concert, but I wouldn’t mind hearing them once in a while over the radio.