PARTS

Pop / Post Hardcore / No Wave

Providence, RI

Billboard

The origin of The Origin can be traced back to the winter of 2006 and illicit phone conversations between Alexander Laorenza and Mikeyslams, both founding members of post-punk-indie-sex-pots A Trillion Barnacle Lapse (Level-Plane Records, Nova Recordings, Sound-Virus, The Electric Human Project , Release the Bats). These prophetic diatribes took place during Alexander's Los Angeles days, where he made cash writing for a Hip Hop website and played with a myriad of musicians in desperate need of rehab.

Over on the East Coast, fresh out of Brooklyn's mean streets and a stint with New York based band Rockethouse (Kanine Records, Fabtone Records), Mikeyslams was back in Rhode Island, drumming furiously for The Midnight Creeps (Red Car Records) and hitting poles with his car. Alexander was set to move back within a few months. The two planned a triumphant return, with a band that would honor their past while at the same time achieving the kind of sound they have always strove for...

Short demos recorded on pirated software were sent through the wires across the USA; enthusiasm abounded; band names were strewn about in a ludicrous fashion. By late spring of 2007, Alexander and his Ford Escort made it back to Rhode Island after braving the buffalo depositories and murky cops in off-road vehicles of the Midwest. He and Slams immediately recruited ATBL's A Cruise In Heaven/Nut Royalty-era bassist Ronald Webster, as well as music theory encyclopedia/guitarist extraordinaire Johnny V to round out The Origin's line up.

Holed up for a month in a practice space riddled with potential health hazards, the boys wrote the songs which have come to be known as their Cash for Gold demo. Prelude to a debut full length, Cash for Gold shares equally with the experimental post punk of ATBL as it does with the surefire pop sensibilities of Prince, Radiohead, Taking Back Sunday and Maroon 5. Be sure check out selected tracks from Cash for Gold here on Myspace, and if you would like to have The Origin on the roster of your record label or playing a show in your town, hit us up on Myspace or send an e-mail to The Origin