Quarterbacks Go With Team Love

New Paltz, NY’s QUARTERBACKS sign with Team Love Records for the 2015 release of their Kyle Gilbride-produced album!

Catch them on tour around the Northeast all July and hear singles from their previous cassette only releases:
“Sportscenter” and “Prove Me Wrong”

TOUR DATES:
07.12.14 – Utica, NY @ House Show*
07.13.14 – Binghamton, NY @ House Show*
07.14.14 – Akron, OH @ House Show*
07.15.14 – East Lansing, MI @ House Show*
07.16.14 – Kalamazoo, MI @ House Show*
07.17.14 – Bloomington, IN @ House Show*
07.19.14 – Columbus, OH @ House Show*
07.20.14 – Washington, DC @ House Show*
07.21.14 – Baltimore, MD @ House Show*
07.22.14 – New Brunswick, NY @ House Show*
07.23.14 – Philadelphia, PA @ House Show*
07.24.14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Shea Stadium
07.25.14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Silent Barn
* Follow Quarterbacks on Twitter for house show details: @quarterband

QUARTERBACKS started as a short-lived duo playing too-fast love songs backed by guitar and a single snare drum. Basement style, old smelly carpets, house shows for punk and patch kids. This was in New Paltz, a college town at the bottom of a mountain in upstate New York. Dean (Dean Engle, the band’s songwriter/vocalist) worked at one of the town’s two record shops, as K Records-obsessed small town boys usually do.

The QUARTERBACKS line-up combusted after a handful of shows. The songs sat dormant until January 2012 when Dean enlisted Max Restaino and Tom Christie to revive the project. The new three-piece expanded the original vision, playing love-obsessed songs with limited affectation. The songs averaged under-2 minutes, and the DIY ethic remained firm. A few tape-only releases came into being (See the brilliant Double Double Whammy Records of Brooklyn NY).

Two years of upstate basement shows further refined their efficient tw*e punk set, new songs slowly forming from familiar themes and chord patterns, progress through recursion. Down the street from the record shop where Dean worked was Team Love Records, a record label that had relocated from Sugar Street in NYC’s East Village to Church Street in New Paltz. The folks at Team Love and Dean found themselves spending way too much time discussing favorite Cat’s Miaow singles and Young Marble Giants songs. The rest, as they say, IWITSs

QUARTERBACKS will be recording their Team Love debut (set for release in winter 2015) with producer Kyle Gilbride. (Swearin’, Big Soda) who’s production credits include Waxahatchee’s “Cerulean Salt” and the new album by Radiator Hospital. It’s expected to be 20 minutes long, or maybe it will have 20 songs on it (probably both). Kids, please set your watches.