We had a good run. Actually, a great run. Evan and I started playing music together in 6th grade... now we're in 11th. We played shows for 300 people, we played shows for 5. We played with bands that we look up to and admire, band like Free Yon, Much The Same, The Gaslight Anthem, Polar Bear Club, A Wilhelm Scream, American Steel. We befriended bands like The Swellers, Pax Romana, A Lesser Evil, Frame By Frame and so many others. Over 30 something shows... countless releases... everything came together when our good friend Andrew Robie joined the band. We released our first ep, got terrible reviews, and yet people still downloaded and listened to it. Even if it was only a couple hundred people!

Throughout our last school year we wrote 5 songs.

As I remember it, "3:10" was written almost completely by Evan. He brought it to a practice and Andrew wrote lyrics. It's still my favorite of our songs.

"That's Life" was written by Evan and I together, the second guitar part on the chorus by myself and some structural things also by me, while Evan wrote most of the rhythm for the song. Andrew again did lyrics, and I had a few lines.

"Matter Of Fact" never intended to be so long, I don't know how that came about. Evan wrote this one again with me. Andrew did the lyrics, and I had the "Tonight tonight" line.

"Bering Strait" was Evan and I again. I was upstairs while Evan played that thick riff. I came downstairs and we made it into a song. Evan never liked this one as much as I did but the recording of it turned out much better than either of us expected.

"Monterey Jackass" was Evan and I only. We did this after Andrew left the band. During a trip to New Jersey in August we hung out with our friends in Free Yon, and saw a bunch of my family. A catch phrase between us became being a "Monterey" as in, Monterey Jack chesse. It's a term for someone being completely clueless of their surroundings and/or lack of an inteligent life. We wrote it in a day on our 8 track in the basement. It's not serious and it was a lot of fun to do.

"Choice Words" was written by Evan and I coming up with that intro. It took us a few days to get the rest to flow out, but then we had a song.
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We recorded these all in one day last June. When we got the mastered versions back we weren't 100% behind it. The drums didn't sound as I'd planned... "3:10" sounded different than we had gone for live. Basically it was only about 70% of where we had wanted the sound to be. We bought the masters from the studio to remix/master the songs and rerecord vocals and such.

This was going to be used as a demo for our full length as False Alarm but the mixed results put that on hold. After Andrew left we spent a few months drifting, writting little and finding ourselves unmotivated to finish an album.

Then we decided to break up and release the demos as they are.

Most likely we'll never play these live, or will they ever see any true release.

This is one day in the studio in June 2009, enjoy.
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Although False Alarm has broken up, Evan and I will be forming a new band very soon with some close friends. Our last bassist Donovan Johnson will be a part of this project.

Information will be available soon.

Thanks! - David

Welcome our newest member, Donovan Johnson! We're keeping quite but we are as busy as ever. More news sometime soon...

False Alarm
Genre : Pop punk
Location : United States
www.myspace.com/falsealarmmusic
Remarks : Don't look down on their talent just because of their myspace and pictures. Im sure they will blow your mind, like how they did to mind. Expect the unexpected!

Interview questions answered by drummer, David.

Tell us a little about the band history.
Evan (guitar) and I (David, drums) have been playing for what seems like forever. We got Andrew on bass in June 2008 and from there we've been a solid band.

I see that you guys are coming out with a new full length album in awhile, what can we expect from that record?
Well first of all, it'll be a while. We have tracking almost completely done for 5 songs but we are going to be remixing and remastering as well as redoing some vocals for those songs. We are just starting to write the second half of the album, but we only have two songs done for it. The album will be like the two demos we released in last June, it's more rock based then our old stuff but it's still better than anything we've ever done.

Who are your inspirations? And why?
Theres are a lot. First and foremost for me, The Beatles. I love The Beach Boys, Neil Young, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and all of those classics. In terms of sound and stuff though, Green Day, Set Your Goals, Blink-182, The Swellers, and all that pop punk stuff. The Gaslight Anthem, Against Me!, Kings Of Leon, and Paramore kind of round out the rock side of things. We're basically a mixture of that fast pop punk stuff and the more rock based stuff. I'd be lying if I denied we listened to Paramore sometimes haha.

What is the most played song in your iPod?
Evan: "Angry Johnny And The Radio" - The Gaslight Anthem
David: "When I Come Around" - Green Day
Andrew: "This Is My Everest" - The Swellers

If you guys were not playing music, what do you think you will be doing?
I'd probably be way more into politics but, really, all any of us want to do is play music. We just want to have a goodtime and hope this lasts for a good run.

Lastly, any shoutouts?
Thanks to the dudes in The Swellers for all the advice on playing music. And of course all of our friends in the following bands: Free Yon, A Lesser Evil, Overated, Two Cow Garage, Sanus Valde, Frame By Frame, The Danger Brothers, Completely Smitten, Viewmaster 3D, and A Big Crash. Thanks for reading, and check us out at www.falsealarmohio.com for a bunch of free music!
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http://bandsearch.blogspot.com/2009/07/interview-false-alarm.html

Thanks to Marc from Band Search for putting this together! - David

I don't have a blog and my life is far too boring to make one. This will do.

From around November till May, Evan and I wrote 5 songs. Mostly they start with Evan coming up with an opening and me throwing my two cents in here and there, Evan gets more credit than I though. We work through them with Andrew who writes lyrics, sometimes with, and sometimes without me. Writing is fun but time consuming and getting more complex as we develop our ideas more and more. These 5 songs we wrote will end up our first true full length album which will come out in the Fall. We booked the studio time a while back, maybe two months ago and today was the big day, and now I'll overview.

Thursday, June 11th 2009

We planned to practice all day, 9:30 in the morning till whenever we felt comfortable to record. We ended up starting at 10-something and before 12 Andrew's bass string broke. We ended up driving to Guitar Center and getting back around 1:30 or so. We ate lunch and practiced pretty solidly from 2 till 5 or 6 when we went to Chipotle to celebrate recording. Mostly uneventful day.

Friday, June 12th 2009

At 1:30 am I found out our money situation wasn't quite what we wanted and needed to record, in the end it was okay though. I got up at 9:30 because Andrew texted me about recording, I tried to go back to sleep but was woken up again at 10:15 or so by Evan. Evan and I packed up the van with everything by 11 and Evan went home. We were set to record at 12 with Andrew meeting us at the Studio. My wonderful Father who was going to take us didn't show up at 11:50 and we were supposed to be leaving much sooner, all hell broke loose but my equally wonderful Mother ended up taking us. We met Andrew and apologized to Colin (our Producer, Engineer, Mixer, and Mastering genius) for being late. He didn't care; he's still getting paid. We set up and by 1:40 or so we had good drum tones, guitar and bass sounds and were ready to start. We started tracking at 2.

I never get nervous for shows anymore. Whether we're playing for 2 or 200 people, it hardly phases me, but I was extremely nervous to record again because I know whatever I play will be the version of the song I will hear for the rest of my life. We started with a song called "That's Life", my favorite and one we will be releasing on our website soon (FalseAlarmOhio.com). We went with, I think, the second take and then double tracked guitars. We did this for 4 more songs.

After the live track and second guitars were tracked Evan spent sometime doing his overdubs. This is around 4 and for the large part of this (and his time double tracking) Andrew and I read old Entertainment Weekly magazines while eating mints and cheeze its and other food we brought (cheapo Pizza rolls were summerlunch).

After this Evan and I now sat on the couch in the control room while Andrew did all the vocals (also first takes, mostly) and we joined him for some back ups and stuff. We finished with tambourine and clap overdubs.

Colin and I talked when I was setting up the drums, he asked me if we were still going for a 'punk' sound. I told him we were but we were also more of a rock band now, he asked if I meant similar to the Foo Fighter to which I agreed and said Green Day for another example of a more powerful rock sound. Because of this Colin produced this in a similar style to the new Green Day album - crunchy guitars, think-powerful drums and so on.

We paid and left the studio around 7. We'll get masters next week sometime. I'm very stoked. If you read everything you are either awesome or have too much time on your hands. Thanks! - David

We'll Keep Believing, If You Keep Singing - Various Artists

The False Alarm song "The Social Contract" is featured!

The compilation is set to be released tomorrow.

The FREE zip file is available @ www.deathtofalsehoperecords.com/Various.html

The comp will also be available for streaming on PUNKNEWS.ORG sometime tomorrow!

Track listing:

1. Red Tape Parade- Fingerprints
2. Project 27- Five Days
3. Red Collar- Used Guitars
4. The Ruining- Here is to Kyle’s New Face
5. Minnesota’s Calling- Whiskey Nights
6. Fist of the North Star- We Are Legion
7. Loudmouth- Plod On
8. The Martyr Saint- The Days You Would Ditch Class(Rock Mix)
9. Serf Combat- Start Afresh
10. The Fine Print- Left Unsaid
11. Hanalei- Twilight Gleam
12. The Great Explainer- I Finally Found my Dreamboat
13. Agent and the Patient- Muscle
14. Falcon/Whip- Friendly Reminder
15. 10-4 Eleanor- Needs More Tree Metaphors
16. No Where Fast- Medicated Good-Bye
17. The Carry-Ons- I Remember
18. I Hate My Friends- Cam Taylor Moves to Gainesville
19. Sons of People We Know- Fiery Homes
20. False Alarm- The Social Contract
21. Rad Vibes- Children’s Crusade
22. Echoes of Harper’s Ferry- Delmar
23. Maco Lights- Song 1
24. Bad Decisions- Movin’ to the Moon
25. The Ghost Rockets- Sunchild
26. The Sandwiches- Tom Gabel= OMG TABLE

We did an interview for UWeekly recently which can be found here:
http://uweekly.com/newsmag/04-22-2009/10970

Also, we are NOT playing Bernie's on April 28th, although Bernie's/other bands seem to think we are... Mildly strange.

You might think we're dead cause we haven't done anything in a while but we are alive and well. The new album is slowly coming together we have 5 songs ready, and man do they sound killer. Much more of a rock and pop punk sound. You'll hear them soon enough though. The songs are 3:10, Matter Of Fact, Bering Strait, Choice Words, and That's Life. Yep. Lots of shows and more news soon. Stoked! - David

As you may have heard, OSU has bought the Holiday Inn on Lane Ave. and is turning it into a dorm. The fate of Hineygate is uncertain. Let's be sure that a great Ohio State football tradition doesn't die! Support these groups!

Petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/OSUGATE/petition.html

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=69281914045

News article:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2009/02/09/holiday_inn.html?sid=101

Thanks for the support everyone! Let's hope for the best!
- The Danger Brothers

Hey, so we have a live album coming out soon. Nothing special, the live record is just the audio from our live video of our Battle Of The Bands performance. We will have the entire live show posted in this here blog very soon. (If not tonight, tomorrow). The show itself was sweaty, sloppy, fast, and energetic. One of our better shows and the audio is actually decent. The album which will be posted/finished/etc in the next week or so has the entire False Alarm EP, 3 new songs and an intro, most of which has been unheard until now. The 3 songs will appear on our next album. Much more soon. Yeah, let's get our economy moving again.
Setlist
Intro
3:10
Make Music, Not Noise
Tallahassee Two-Step
Choice Words
Bering Strait
The Social Contract
18 Underground

Full Set:False Alarm Live at Bexley High School

We haven't played many shows lately because we've been busy with school, and writing our new record. We are making a huge amount of progress and are totally stoked on the new material. The new album will be done around late summer or early fall, we'll see. We are however playing the Bexley High School battle of the bands, which raises money for the choir to travel to Europe, so come out if you can cause it'll be awesome! No comment on the guitarist situation but we'll see where that leads. Have a nice weekend/day and stuff. Get the new Rise Against and eat burritos! Happy new year!

The Newsweek article: http://www.newsweek.com/id/174601

More on the government spying program:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_controversy

If you'd like to donate to the legal defense:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/15/the-thomas-tamm-legal-defense-fund

Sorry for the none update, some form of news in the near future. Happy new year!

So we recorded Tallahassee acoustic in my basement, the mix is a little off cause I couldn't get it be loud. Seriously it was playing games with me, anyway the song ain't to bad even if the vocals are a little soft and you have to turn it up all the way to hear it. Robie sings it too. Fun. New (as in actually new) songs up in the next few months, already finished with a couple of new songs and they sound like wanna be Free Yon songs so look out for that. Not really, Free Yon sucks. Goodbye for now, shows in January/February.
- David

CURRENTLY LISTENING - DEADTOWN 7"

Do you like rock and punk?
(A Wilhelm Scream, The Swellers, Bruce Springsteen, The Gaslight Anthem, Against Me!, The Hold Steady, The Beach Boys, Polar Bear Club and similar artists {we are all over the map})

If you're a singer and/or guitarist...

or you know someone who's a singer and/or guitarist...

and you're (or they're) interested in being in this band, let us know AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

and live in Columbus, please. (also, watch Scrubs, eat Chipotle burritos and hate sarah palin).

thank you,

the collective False Alarm

A full length with new songs, maybe some off the ep songs with new vocals, and Andrew Robie playing bass. Boring Summer eh?