By MaryAnn Bayer

I was just about to write this weeks Band of the Week, when my husband called me to tell me that our car was broken into while we slept and some skidder, D-bag ripped us off for a bunch of cd’s and whatever else they could scrounge out of a Subaru.  Needless to say, as I write this I am seething with rage. I want to throw something at something damn it!!!

Still, I must push on, so I get in the car, throw Buzzards self-titled album into the cd player and ahhhh… I am instantly sated.  I feel like my pissed off-ness has found a mate.  Buzzard’s album, from start to finish is exactly what the irrational, angry, disillusioned teenager in me (and you) needs right now.  Thrashy in the vein of all the great 3 letter skate punk bands, D.R.I., JFA, and RKL, Buzzard play abrasive, snotty, drunken odes to what is most important to your teen sub-conscious: weed, booze, douche bags,  shitty cars and everything else  ‘the man’  has  created to keep you down. This is the kind of music that makes me wish I still had my denim jean vest, from high school,  I would totally wear a Buzzard back patch on that bitch!   Each of the albums 14 tracks hovers around 2 minutes or less, simple, perfect, little blasts of misanthropy.  Don’t look to Buzzard for ditties about romance or songs of hope, these guys aren’t playing you and your girlfriends ’song’, unless of course, your girlfriend is a hooker.

Formed in 2005, and playing pretty steadily since, Buzzard are local fixtures. Guitar player George DeMers is a walking encyclopedia of all that is metallic, thrashy, and heavy, one-half of the ’Full Metal Racket’ Skidmore College radio show, he is O.G. people, No new-school posing’ here.  The album was produced by punk/hardcore legend  Don Fury, so, it sounds blistering and majestic.  Artist Jeremy Fish, former Saratogian, and forever Silly Pink Bunny (Google it) lent his talents for the album artwork, so, it looks better than most major label releases.   The album is out now.  If you are local, please stop by DiVinyl Revolution in Saratoga Springs to buy the record, support DIY and local merchants.

Delusional Thoughts vid

For Booking/Contact:  @myspace.com/buzzardcore   or Facebook ‘em for more info.

Let’s recap: We’ve  learned that  Buzzard are the soundtrack to your next and my current temper tantrum and,  Oh, yeah, lock your car doors people!!