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Pop-punk trio Four Arm Shiver announces new album out this fall
HARRISON HIPP
@harrisonhipp
The future looks bright for a group of local musicians who, through poise and persistence, has landed a record deal.
Lawrence-based pop-punk band Four Arm Shiver, which originally got its start in Emporia, came together when the members — the bassist Logan Herrera, the guitarist Joel Austin and the drummer Ryan Schlotterbeck — met while attending Emporia High School.
The trio recently announced its plans to sign with Smash My Records, a Kansas record label located in Chanute. They will release their second full-length album titled "Something About My 20s" this fall. The record's release is set for this September and will be available in CD and vinyl.
Herrera said the band has really enjoyed working with their new producer at Smash My Records
"We are very thankful to be a part of the Smash My Records
'team and can't wait to grow with them,' Herrera said.
The band has headlined concerts in nearby Colorado, Nebraska and Oklahoma, while building a solid local following. Schlotterbeck said the band is currently scheduling fall and spring mini-tours to promote its upcoming record.
All three members share vocal responsibilities on stage and describe their music as pop-punk. The group cited various musical influences but could not put a finger on one in particular.
"We're a little more on the punk-rock side of pop punk," Herrera said. "We all have a very wide range of influences."
Four Arm Shiver was recently part of a full slate of music this past July in the basement of the Eighth Street Taproom. The band has played the venue twice before but performed there for the first time in 2015 with Fools Rush and Something and the Whatevers.
"Playing live is always an exhilarating experience," Schlot-
terbeck said. "I try to focus any nervousness into playing with more feeling. When I'm really in tune, I can totally lose myself while still carrying the song."
Four Arm Shiver has two albums available on its Band-camp page, a streaming website for artists to post their music. The band's site is the main way it distributes music to fans.
The band's first album, a nine-song self-titled release, was recorded in the summer of 2013 at their parents' houses and released in late July 2014.
The band was also featured on "Lawrence Kansas Punk Rock Vol. 1," a 24-track compilation album recorded at Revealed Studios, which is owned and operated by Smash My Records. The album was a collaborative effort with Lawrence punk-rockers The Rackatees and The Sluts, among others.
The members of Four Arm Shiver came together as a group of high school students
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Four Arm Shiver, a trio from Emporia that is now based in Lawrence, said they will release their second full-length album, "Something About My 20s," in September.
in 2008 looking for an outlet for their musical talents and for something bigger than themselves.
"I feel liberated when we're playing. Liberated from the real world, our responsibilities and our flaws," Herrera said. "I guess that's the romantic way of looking at it, because we're really just three friends participating in makeshift therapy."
For Austin, the best part of performing is the people he does it with.
"You've got the friendship level where you get to hang out with your best friends, doing things you love and going places," he said. "Then, of course, music. It's powerful. It's fun. Even if we're playing to an empty room or something it's still just a great time for all of us."
During the last eight years of playing music together, Four Arm Shiver has evolved into a working class band ready for the next step in the music industry. In addition to growing stronger as a unit, the individual members have also learned a lot about themselves.
"Iused to be a scrummy little punk who didn't care about much, let alone many other people," Austin said. "The
band has given me friends, family and the best time ever. It forced me to become responsible for myself."
Four Arm Shiver will open for Albuquerque band Russian Girlfriends Aug. 31 at 9 p.m. with Lawrence-based band The Hemorrhoids at Jackpot Music Hall at 943 Massachusetts St. Tickets are $5.
The band will also play at 9 p.m. Sept. 9 at Frank's North Star Tavern at 508 Locust St. in north Lawrence. The band will join locals Chess Club in support of the Atlanta-based band Seagulls. Tickets are $3.
Jenna Bush welcomes second daughter, Poppy
Associated Press
NEW YORK — NBC News correspondent Jenna Bush Hager and her husband have welcomed their second daughter.
Former President George W. Bush said in a statement that Poppy Louise Hager was born on Thursday in New York.
She's named after Jenna's grandfather, former President George H.W. Bush, who was called Poppy as a child.
Hager and her husband, Henry, also have a 2-year-old daughter, who is named Margaret Laura after her grandmothers. She is called Mila.
Hager told NBC's Savannah Guthrie that George H.W.
EVAN AGOSTINI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jenna Bush Hager with husband Henry Hager. Their second daughter was named after Jenna's grandfather, George H.W. Bush, who was called Poppy as a child.
push "got very emotional" when he got the news that
the new baby was named after him.
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