Song of the Day: Avail "Fix"

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Today’s installment of “Song of the Day” is brought to you by yours truly, Virgil Dickerson.

I decided to pick this Avail song for a few reasons. Yesterday, when Teenage Bottlerocket stopped by, Ray got super stoked when he saw that we had Avail vinyl and picked up a copy of "4 AM Friday". When we got dinner, we were talking about Avail and about all of these earlier albums. I guess Fat Mike when talking to Teenage Bottlerocket said that he wanted to hear their demos of their new songs because he felt like he had put out the worst albums by Avail, Against Me, and a third band I can't remember when those bands put out their first albums for Fat. I like those Avail Fat albums, but to me the best material is on 4Am Friday and Over the James. I was also thinking about picking an Avail song since Tim Barry will be playing tonight and it is always a treat when he plays an Avail song in his set. Maybe it will happen tonight.

Words cannot even begin to describe the influence that Avail has had on the musical landscape. A bunch of punk rockers from Richmond melded Punk Rock and Hardcore opening my eyes to heavier music. To this day, Avail put on one of the most intense sets I had ever seen and as much as I love seeing Tim Barry perform live (he is amazing), I miss not seeing Avail regularly.

The album, "4 AM Friday" is available in the VC store (as are other Avail albums), you can find it here http://stores.channeladvisor.com/vinylhome/Store/Search.aspx?&Page=1&Sort=1&key=avail

The song, “Fix” is the 9th track off of “4 AM Friday”. You can download the song here http://www.jadetree.com/mp3/Avail-Fix.mp3

As the Song of the Day continues, you can find past installments here http://www.vinylcollective.com/category/song-of-the-day/ . You will also notice that each week’s streaming player will have each Song of the Day added so that by week’s end, there will be 5 songs. We hope you like the track.

[keevhren]

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