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Washington Post
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Hardcore band Drain's X factor: Positivity. ‘We've got nothing but love.'
The cover art of Drain's 2023 album 'Living Proof' is no day at the beach: It's a cartoonishly psychedelic trip to the California coast complete with a tidal wave, palm trees, flaming faces, a porcine police officer and a careening helicopter. Riding the wave is Drain's logo — a cutie Kewpie doll in a shark costume — that serves as a fitting metaphor for the band: a deceptively friendly party starter that revels in the chaos of its shows, which add boogie boards and beach balls to hardcore staples like crowd-surfers and circle pits.
Scoop
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scoop
Drain Announce New Album '...Is Your Friend'
Hardcore Santa Cruz, CA trio DRAIN are back and announcing their new album '...IS YOUR FRIEND' today, due for release on November 7th via Epitaph Records. After crushing all expectations with 2023's 'LIVING PROOF' and spending the subsequent year on the road, the new record finds these best friends playing at the top of their game and flexing their instinctive chemistry. Leading with bouncy hardcore banger 'Nights Like These,' vocalist Sammy Ciaramitaro pauses to discuss the lifelong goals that have now become Drain's average Tuesday: 'Over the last decade of doing DRAIN, I've been able to see the world, meet incredible people, experience all sorts of incredible highs and even a couple of lows - but most importantly, I got to do all of those things with my best friends. No matter how much we accomplish and how big we grow - we are still just a couple of friends who get to play music together, make memories all over the world, and we are SO aware of how lucky we are to do it. THAT is what "Nights Like These" is about.' The Derek Rathbun-directed music video splits between footage of the band's rowdy live show in 2025 and fast-forwards to them displaying the same onstage energy thirty years later but utilizing the members' dads and uncle as stunt doubles. 'When we were coming up with ideas for this video, I thought it would be so cool to try and make us look old and play a show as seniors,' Ciaramitaro explained. 'We could have gone the route of using make-up and practical effects, but then it clicked in my brain...I am going to look just like my dad when I get old - I should just use him.' Enthused about witnessing his 61-year-old father stage dive for the first time, he adds, 'The fact that we got to share this special night with the people who shaped us to be the men we are today - means SO much to all of us. I hope that everyone enjoys watching it as much as we all enjoyed getting to make it happen. Shout out to Stu, Frankie, and Donny!' There's no other hardcore band like DRAIN. The Santa Cruz band is an institution in their genre and an affable neighbor to their adjacent ones. Punks love Drain. Metalheads love DRAIN. Haters can't help but love DRAIN. DRAIN is for everyone. Well, venue security guards might not love DRAIN. But to everyone else: DRAIN …Is Your Friend. DRAIN (Ciaramitaro, guitarist Cody Chavez, and drummer Tim Flegal) formed back in 2014 and cut their teeth in Santa Cruz's fertile DIY hardcore scene. COVID lockdown couldn't stop their 2020 debut, California Cursed, from making waves, and their 2023 follow-up, LIVING PROOF, hit the hardcore scene like a Cali beach during hurricane season -- a torrential classic. Since then, DRAIN have blazed through hundreds of shows worldwide: headlining festivals, taking their friends and heroes on tour, and even playing arenas with Blink-182. Regardless of whether they're opening for pop-punk jukeboxes like Neck Deep or grabbing the stage-dive torch from Terror, DRAIN's only goal is to make the crowd go buck wild. With their third full-length album and second for Epitaph Records, …IS YOUR FRIEND, DRAIN had two primary goals in mind: to capture their quintessential live essence on recording, and to write new songs that'll make their next shows even crazier. Their previous albums were written before DRAIN were on the road all year, and they spent the last few hundred nights onstage making note of which songs their fans respond best to. …IS YOUR FRIEND is designed to maximize their audience's shit-losing abilities. Its ten songs include the heaviest mosh parts, the catchiest choruses, the tastiest thrash riffs, and the most scream-able lyrics DRAIN have ever written. Producer Jon Markson (The Story So Far, Drug Church, One Step Closer) tracked the whole album live -- 100% real-time drums, no metronome, no programmed bullshit. It sounds the way DRAIN was always meant to: crisp, serrated, animated. Over the years, they have gotten bigger, their crowds have gotten more diverse, and their music has become more eclectic. But Ciaramitaro underscores what this album makes abundantly clear: their founding ethos remains unchanged. 'DRAIN is your friend, DRAIN was your friend, DRAIN will forever be your friend.' …IS YOUR FRIEND Tracklisting 1. Stealing Happiness From Tomorrow 2. Living In A Memory 3. Scared Of Everything And Nothing 4. Nothing But Love 5. Can't Be Bothered 6. Loudest In The Room 7. Nights Like These 8. Who's Having Fun? 9. Darkest Days 10. Until Next Time
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Drivers win $10.4M verdict in contract dispute with Michigan carrier
A group of about 100 truck drivers has won a $10.46 million judgment in federal court in Michigan against a carrier that they said shorted them on payments related to cross-border freight. The judgment Wednesday by Judge Gershwin A. Drain of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan put actual damages in the class action at about $3.5 million. That figure was tripled under provisions of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act for a total of nearly $10.5 million. Keith Flynn, an attorney with Detroit-based Miller Cohen P.L.C., one of the firms representing the plaintiffs, called the judgment 'a major victory for working people.' 'We represented a class of hard-working driver owner-operators,' Flynn told FreightWaves in a phone interview. 'They were promised compensation. They were defrauded from receiving that compensation.'At issue, according to Drain's opinion, was whether the drivers were entitled to 80% of gross revenues that customers paid to defendant RSP Express Inc. for freight hauled by separate third-party carriers to or from Canada or Mexico – without deductions for costs linked to those international shipments. The plaintiffs are owner-operators who contracted with Romulus, Michigan-based over-the-road freight company RSP to haul freight in the U.S. The approximately 100 drivers said they were entitled to the full 80% for all freight they hauled, without the deductions related to the third-party transport of freight across the border. But RSP, owned by Razvan Pop and his former wife, Maria Pop, said freight hauled cross-border by third parties wasn't delivered 'by contractor' as stated in the contract, so the 80% figure didn't original complaint stated that the drivers received less than they were entitled to for several years prior to the contract being revised in 2015. The judge wrote that although the contract allowed some deductions, it didn't permit deductions for costs linked to third parties hauling freight internationally. 'Thus, by its plain terms, 'any freight by Contractor' encompasses any and all freight transported by Plaintiffs, irrespective of whether a third-party carrier handled transporting the freight to or from Mexico or Canada,' Drain wrote. He stated that RSP provided the drivers inaccurate statements of gross revenues it had received for each load. 'The Settlement Statements … demonstrate that Plaintiffs were consistently paid 80 percent of the gross revenues for all freight they transported, including those originating from or ultimately delivered to Mexico and Canada,' Drain wrote. 'The Statements reflect no adjustments or deductions based on the international nature of the transport or based on a third party carrier's involvement in transporting the freight.' The defendants argued that costs paid to third parties were 'not 'deductions,' but instead were not included in and were subtracted from the reported gross revenues,'' he added. But Drain said he was ruling in favor of the plaintiffs' civil RICO claim partly because the defendants 'habitually mailed fraudulent weekly Settlement Statements to more than one hundred owner-operators/drivers. Therein, RSP underreported the gross revenues it actually received from customers, resulting in significant underpayment to Plaintiffs.' FreightWaves reached out to RSP Express, but the number on its website apparently was not functioning. An attorney representing RSP Express did not immediately return a message Friday afternoon seeking post Drivers win $10.4M verdict in contract dispute with Michigan carrier appeared first on FreightWaves. Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
01-03-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Public Health issues ocean water use warnings for multiple L.A. County beaches
High bacteria levels have prompted the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to issue ocean water use warnings for multiple county beaches. Officials are encouraging beachgoers to avoid swimming, surfing and playing in the ocean water at the following locations: 100 yards up and down the coast from the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica 100 yards up and down the coast from the Pico-Kenter Storm Drain at Santa Monica Beach near South Tower 20 100 yards up and down the coast from the Ashland Avenue Storm Drain at Santa Monica Beach near South Tower 28 100 yards up and down the coast from Escondido Creek at Escondido State Beach 100 yards up and down the coast from the Rose Avenue Storm Drain at Venice Beach Entire swim area at Mothers Beach in Marina Del Rey 100 yards up and down the coast from the Wilshire Boulevard Storm Drain at Santa Monica Beach near North Tower 12 Entire swim area at Inner Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro 2 insurance companies receive approval to raise rates However, it's not all bad news. Warnings have been lifted for some beach areas where water quality has improved, including: Herondo Street Storm Drain in Hermosa Beach Malibu Pier in Malibu Entire swim area at Corral Creek at Corral Beach near Corral Tower 2 in Malibu Entire swim area at Marie Canyon Storm Drain at Puerco Beach in Malibu Entire swim area at Sweetwater Canyon Storm Drain at Carbon Canyon Beach in Malibu An ocean water advisory remains in effect for areas impacted by recent wildfires, spanning from Las Flores State Beach to Santa Monica State Beach. While beachgoers are allowed to access the sand, officials advise them to avoid visible fire debris and remain out of the water until further notice. Residents can get more information on beach conditions by calling the county beach hotline at 1-800-525-5662 or visiting the L.A. County Public Health website. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
