Crime In Stereo

Crime In Stereo

Crime In Stereo is a hardcore punk band with links to Sydney, Australia. The group is active from 2015 to 2018 and is made up of Jakob Delgado, Ethan Karpathy and Chris Lanzon.

The name also belongs to an earlier Long Island-based hardcore punk band formed in 2002, known for a sound that combines punk, hardcore punk, melodic hardcore and punk rock. That band builds a reputation through extensive touring, including shows with Brand New, Glassjaw and Warped Tour dates, and through releases such as Explosives and The Will To Use Them, The Troubled Stateside and Crime in Stereo Is Dead.

Long Island band details

The Long Island group centres on songwriter and guitarist Alex Dunne, singer Kristian Hallbert, bassist Mike Musilli, drummer Scotty Giffin and guitarist Gary Cioni. Dunne also works as a political consultant on Long Island, New York, while Musilli earns a masters degree in education and works as a teacher at his hometown high school. Dunne has diabetes, which makes touring more difficult for him.

The band spends time on hiatus before ending it in 2012 and beginning to write new music. During the period around Crime in Stereo Is Dead, Hallbert takes vocal training and his singing broadens the band’s sound, moving from screams and shouts to falsetto. The record is made with producer Mike Sapone, whose credits include Brand New, Straylight Run, Taking Back Sunday and MC Lars, and it is released on Bridge Nine Records.

The Troubled Stateside receives praise from All Music Guide as ambitious within modern hardcore, while Crime in Stereo Is Dead is described as ranging from sharp, fast hardcore to more ambient and experimental material, including tracks such as “Nixon,” “XXXX-The First Thousand Years of Solitude,” “Animal Pharm,” “Small Skeletal,” “Unfortunate Tourist,” “Orbiter” and “Choker.”