FACE REALITY

2011-01-26T09:36:00.001-08:00

We have joined the flawless roster on Youngblood Records. We are doing a self-titled 7" with them that is due out in Spring.

Check out what Sean has to say and listen to a new song, Seeker.

http://www.youngblood-records.com/site/

More merch soon as well as a weekend with America's finest straight edge act TBA soon.

FR CREW

http://twitter.com/FaceRealityXXX

http://www.facebook.com/pages/FACE-REALITY/350671867795

http://www.myspace.com/facereality2008

COACH

2010-02-05T10:35:00.000-08:00

Thanks for everything, Coach.

Upcoming shows

2009-11-03T10:15:00.000-08:00

November 21st- At the championship in Lemoyne, PA.

A TIME WE'LL REMEMBER FEST.

UPFRONT
RESOLVE
THOUGHT CRUSADE
RIGHT IDEA
MINDSET
OVERLOAD
ALERT
OUTLAST
GATOR BAIT
FORCE FED
REVEAL THE TRUTH
NOT SORRY
TRUTH INSIDE
ENVISION
FACE REALITY

November 28th- at the wesley foundation in Mount Pleasant, MI.

MICHIGAN FEST

UNDER ANCHOR
POSITIVE NOISE
XTRA VOMIT
BUNNY SKULLS
DAMAGES
DIRE WOLF
EXPIRE
OVERLOAD
GREAT REVERSALS
SIN ORDEN
THEY COME IN WAVES
TIGER
FACE REALITY

We should have new shirts for these shows, also.

TWO SHOWS COMING UP.

2009-07-14T10:37:00.000-07:00

7/29/2009 at the metal frat in ann arbor. 5 bux. vegan potluck at 7, bands at 8.

Damages
Face Reality
Under Anchor
Fraud
Junkyard Dogs
Hostage Calm.

8/12/2009 At the majestic in detroit. 10 bands for 10 bux.

Face Reality
xTyrantx
Crime In Stereo
The Mongoloids
Trapped Under Ice
This Is Hell
War Of Ages
The Ghost Inside
Terror
Poison the Well

TICKETS ON SALE NOW @ TICKETMASTER (NO SERVICE CHARGES IF YOU GET THEM FROM THE GARDEN BOWL)
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/080042B4AD1048DF?artistid=1325745&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1

End of February Update

2009-02-28T09:18:00.001-08:00

Yo, January was golden, minus us having to bail on the weekend with ALERT, and OVERLOAD.

February we got to play with some cool bands.

This month has been the month that our new record, Positive Change is really coming together. Pre-order t-shirt designs are done, the artwork is almost done (thanks SLABA), the record is recorded/mastered and sent to the pressing plant. Pre-orders should be up next week or so. We can't wait to have these things in our hands.

We have a few longsleeves left (1 small, a few medium/large). Sorry to everyone that wanted an XL, we printed way less than we should have. Email withthisregret at gmail.com to order.

POSITIVE CHANGE.

NEW YEAR UPDATE

2009-01-08T12:33:00.000-08:00

YO, December has come and gone. Christmas show at the T-Plex was kinda weird but went along smoothly. Nightbringer ripped it up along with all the other bands. We wrote a couple new tracks for the 7" coming up. I also had the chance to ride in the Right Idea van to go to the MINDSET record release show the 28th at the Championship in PA. What a great show. Great times were had. Evan Mindset owes me a burrito.

On to the new year. January has been a HUGE month for us and is looking to remain that way until February. We kicked in the new year at Refuge with Right Idea, Mindset and Louder Than Bombs on the second. I'm glad so many kids came out and bought shit from Mindset/Right Idea. Cool hang outs were had once more. The next night we played at the Tower 2012 in Cleveland, which is apparantly the Chinese restaurant from "A Christmas Story", pretty cool. Before the show we went to Phonographic Arts, an awesome record store in town and emptied our pockets. Thanks to the dude working there for buying two tapes from us. Any Ohio kids who missed our tape/wants one: Phonographic Arts has two. I'll be sure to head to PA soon with a LOT more money than I brought. We don't have cool record stores like that in Detroit. Back to the Tower. We go on right after Poison Planet played and a lot of people seemed to be into us. Our new friends Mindset played after us and got the crowd going. Right Idea played last and killed the place. Cool Committed cover. Awesome set. I'm glad we've gotten the oppurtunity to play with this band so much. Happy belated, John!

We're recording our 7" late this month and then we will be sending it to our buddies at Dead End records to get this baby pressed!

Shows coming up:
MONGOLOIDS this Saturday at Static Age. You know the deal.
PETITION on the 12th at Refuge. Cool touring bands playing. Bring me a birthday cake and a mix tape.
Our weekend going the 23-25th with RIGHT IDEA, OVERLOAD, and ALERT. Awesome. We'll be in Baltimore, MD; Brooklyn, NY; and one more state around there. Stay updated at our myspace.

Also, we are out of tapes. We're going to put some songs on a CD-R (unfortunately) and we will have shirts done soon. Navy longsleeves. Check it.

Keep the faith.
James/FRXXX

New Michigan hardcore board

New Cleveland board

CHECK OUT THESE BANDS AND GIVE THEM YOUR MONEY:
RIGHT IDEA

MINDSET
order their new 7" REAL POWER at www.myspace.com/itstimetoreact

OVERLOAD

MAD MINDS

Phonographic Arts Record Store

DECEMBER UPDATE

2008-12-07T09:12:00.000-08:00

Overload weekend was a time and a half. Great friendships were made. We're going out with Overload again but this time with RIGHT IDEA and ALERT. It will be a straight edge weekend indeed. More details for that coming soon. We're recording the rest of our 7" at the end of the month with our man, Gifted. To hear the new songs we have on our plate so far, come to these shows.

2008-11-16T18:14:00.001-08:00

fall is here.

2008-10-27T14:04:00.000-07:00

We've joined the Dead End Records crew. They will graciously be putting out a 7" for us in early 2008. Thanks a lot to Derek for the oppurtunity.

We'll be recording 2 new songs to put on a cd-r to bring to Cleveland with us in November. It'll be 2 new ones, a demo song, and maybe a cover. We're not sure yet.

Straight edge.
Positive change.
FR XXX

2008-10-20T17:20:00.000-07:00

see you soon, boys.

HAPPY EDGE DAY

2008-10-17T21:57:00.000-07:00

10.17.99

PROGRESS 10/16

2008-10-16T17:30:00.000-07:00

First and foremost:
Right Idea's record release was fucking awesome. Thanks to the Mads Minds dudes for the gear, Nick/Hope This Helps for getting at us, Jeff Hess for being the reason people have even heard our name in Cleveland, and the dudes that gave us money for tapes to get home! We can not fucking wait to come back to Ohio! See you dudes in November.

10/10 we played in Lansing, but I left a little early before the show to meet up with the Dragtown dudes to skate the park out there. Crucial times. Dragtown and Louder Than Bombs were great. We got the best reaction we've ever had so far in our 5-show career. Thanks to everyone. Jon Crays took a couple photos for us, which can be found on the Face Reality myspace. KT/Safe In Sound booking really helped us out and we can't wait to come back and play a little later in the year.

We're almost outta tapes and we're basically all out of cd's! So if you need one, contact us somehow and we'll get one to you ASAP!

We've been writing a few new songs that are almost done and will hopefully at least be on a cd-r by our Cleveland weekend in November with All Hype and Overload. We'll hopefully have shirts by then too. We just need a design!

Until November... Listen to the Free Spirit, Clearsight, and Rearranged demos while you patiently wait for your Right Idea pre-orders. You know I am! All Hype also posted songs from their side of the Under Anchor split coming out! Heavy.

Stay tuned for the Positive Change.

james/face reality xxx

MAJOR FLYER DROP

2008-09-26T18:31:00.000-07:00

THE FIRST STEP R.I.P.

2008-09-06T08:41:00.000-07:00

I remember buying open hearts and clear minds from a thrift store just because it was 97 cents and the cover looked cool back in 2002, in 7 years of being a band they only got to put out one full length and two 7"s. This band deserved all the hype they got, they were the definition of a hardcore youth crew band, i wish there was more recorded material from this band before they go, I'm going to miss them, i'm already hoping for a reunion show. haha, R.I.P.

TAPES, MORE SHOWS

2008-08-17T23:19:00.000-07:00

After hours upon hours of slaving in front of this record player, I finally have all the tapes done. They're available for order. See our myspace page for ordering info. We did a friends press that are all gone that were out of 25 and a normal press of 75. Pick one up at a show or paypal Casey for one.

There is a Face Reality review in the new There's Nothing Like It zine (issue #3). Andrew Lee is an impeccable dude.

New songs are being written, we hope for a new release early 2009.

On October 2nd, an honorable gig will be taking place at Refuge Skateboardshop featuring LEWD ACTS, Grand Rapids thrashers Positive Noise, Delta City bro dogs All Hype, and Face Reality. More deets to come.

Coming up in November is a Clevo weekend with Face Reality, All Hype, and OVERLOAD. I could not be more excited. It's going to be taking place the weekend before thanksgiving. We're going to Cleveland friday, Grand Rapids saturday, and Romeo sunday. Talk about a gig fest. Again, more deets to come.

Just an update on what's going on at Face Reality HQ. Shirts soon? Sweaters? Who knows? Can I kick it? Yes you can.

frxxx

UPDATE

2008-08-02T21:38:00.000-07:00

So Neimi is back from tour, we will start practicing again this week and writing more songs, We are also going to be playing more shows. Alot of people have been showing interest in face reality and it's awesome, i couldn't be more excited. The cassettes are in we just have to dub them and print out the covers, hit up http://www.myspace.com/facereality2008 if you want one shipped to you, we will also have them august 19th at static age.

SONGS UP

2008-07-11T11:59:00.000-07:00

Yo, I couldn't figure out how to put songs up on this so I went ahead and put the last two songs of the demo on the My Space that we have. Check it out. Thanks to Hess/Right Idea for the kind words. Also thanks to Chris Trestain for working with us. We're ordering tapes soon and then all we have to do is transfer the songs onto the tapes and print out covers. We're doing a limited cover too, so if you're interested, let one of us know and we'll try and set one aside.
Also, our good friends and guitar player's other band, All Hype, just left for tour today. They just got their 7"s in and they are hand numbered out of 60, although there is only 50 according to Ryan Felton. Be sure to pick one up and see them on tour. See you next month, buds.

That's all for now.

James

NEW SHOW

2008-06-27T13:25:00.000-07:00

tuesday, august 19th
Glue (NY, members of attitude)
penchblende (ontario)
all hype (bunch of jerks from here)
face reality (yeah dude)

@static age
104 south main
romeo, mi

7:00
$7

we will be opening so get there early!!!

we will also be recording this week.

-casey

First gig recap.

2008-06-10T17:58:00.000-07:00

First of all I'd like to thank everyone that came to the show we played on Sunday (6/8/8) at Refuge. Biggest thanks to Mad Minds and their bros from Cleveland for coming and having fun on a semi-short notice. Thanks to Red Handed for stopping here on tour... Seriously check this band out if they come to your area on this tour... Also thanks to the major storm that busted through for not taking us all.

Apologies for the show starting late, I did not know the P. A. was fucked up and it called for some serious last minute hard work (major props to Ryan Felton and Tim Maze).

We played first... Obviously. I'm not too sure about how we sounded, but it felt like we played very tight for a first show. There was some footage I believe, that is not up yet. We played this song (second of the two).

Second was Dragtown. This band is the future of Michigan hardcore. I can not say enough about them. Do yourself and check them out. They played a couple goodies such as this and this.

Next was Cleveland's Mad Minds. I had the pleasure of seeing this band's first show in Cleveland in early January, and I had to get them on this show after I heard the Red Handed show in Clevo fell through. Cool Life's Blood cover as well as this one. Awesome, thankful guys and I would love to see/gig with them again.

Last was Red Handed. Bummed most people left before they got on, but it was a Sunday night and that must be understood. This band rips, was a ton of fun. Goofy moshing all around. They could not be more understanding and thankful for everything.

Shout outs to Randy Staat, Ryan Coleman, Jeff Hess for snoozing his way out of this one, Dr. L of Bridge 9 fame, Ryan Felton, Edge Master Ken, and Refuge for letting us do this.

4 song demo next week? I'm not promising anything but just a warning.

Straight edge.

-James

First show update

2008-06-05T17:24:00.001-07:00

Dragtown has been added to our first gig. A few young punks who bust out some Cro-Mags-influenced jams. The price has also been upped to $7. Gotta pay two bands who drove a long time to play and gas is at over $4 a gallon. Sorry!

News

2008-05-29T17:29:00.001-07:00

Lots of good stuff happening with Face Reality right now.

Some news that we are looking forward to: Clevo's youth crew moshers, Right Idea, have a new 12" ep up for pre-order at React! Records. Pre-order that boy here. Be a real hardcore kid and pre-order all 3 colors! I know I did! Hopefully we get to play with these dudes soon since they're not that far out of Michigan.

Other stuff: Our first show is next Sunday, June 8th with Red Handed from California and Mad Minds from Cleveland at Refuge Skate Shop in Dearborn. It doesn't look like we'll have our demo ready by then but come out and get wild anyways. It's 5 bucks on a Sunday evening, what else do you have to do?

Straight Edge.
-James

Daniel Albright Benefit show.

2008-05-20T17:04:00.000-07:00

For those of you who knew Danny, you know that he had the biggest heart and a one-of-a-kind personality. It does not even need to be said that he will be sorely missed. This Saturday is a solid show of Danny's favorite Detroit bands playing for him one last time. He really would have loved this flyer. Even if you don't know Danny, come to this show to support the cause. I believe all of the money for this show is going to Danny's family. Here's to you...
RIP Danny... "The Power Is Yours"
August 6, 1989 - April 17, 2008.

-James

first entry

2008-05-19T18:54:00.000-07:00

our first show:
June 8th, 2008
Refuge Skateshop
24334 Michigan Ave,
Dearborn, Mi
$5 / 5:00
RED HANDED (rivalry records)
MAD MINDS (cleveland hc)
FACE REALITY (first show)

We will also be recording in the next couple of weeks. So lookout for that.

-Casey