Fourth Rotor Contact Info

Email: dczward@fourthrotor.com

Mainling Address:
2842 N Springfield Ave
Chicago IL 60618
http://www,fourthrotor.com
info@fourthr

Fourth Rotor Bio

Punk/D.i.Y./underground — a style, or a call to action? Today we're almost drowned in a sea of laziness, apathy, and boring acceptance of the status quo, in culture and politics. When bands treat playing music as a sport, an ego inflating attention grab, or even stupider, as their "shot" to music industry stardom, they've taken a subculture and turned it into a fashion. When kids walk around wearing the trappings of yesterday's punk and hardcore radicalism, worshipping it as a hallowed tradition, and pick a single narrow subgenre of music as their only source of sounds and ideas, they're truly lost in a sea of consumerism and hero worship. That needs to be fucked up! Fourth Rotor challenges ourselves to create music that really means something and doesn't follow a pre-defined style or genre. We believe in communicating with people, and doing our part to help build and sustain a true underground scene, one that doesn't need validation from the mainstream. And playing kickass live shows.

Three dedicated longtime D.i.Y. punks started FOURTH ROTOR in the autumn of 2000. Jacob Levee, bass, came from his previous bands RUSTWEILER and AMBITION MISSION, as well as running the Community Showers loft D.i.Y. show venue. Douglas Ward guitar, came from bands I.D. UNDER, 8 BARK, V.REVERSE. Kammy Lee, drums, came from the SPACE INVADERS, and AMBITION MISSION too. We were all involved with Chicago's D.i.Y. collective Underdog Records/Underdog Zine that put out many Chicago compilations and releases from 1986–1996, and helped put out the second annual Book Your Own Fuckin' Life D.i.Y. booking list with Maximumrocknroll in 1995.

Even though we're all long time "veterans" of the underground punk scene, we still are striving for the same thing that inspired us to get into it in the first place: anger, frustration, energy, self-expression, and challenging traditions. Where others have long since given up on the core, we've rejected the "punk rock music business" path, and keep heading into the basement looking for that magic, fantastic show.

We've released one full-length CD "Seize" on our own label, Electric Noise, in 2003, which was followed up with the release of an LP version in 2004 on Chicago's Council Records. We released our second full-length CD "Plain" on Chicago's Underground Communiqué Records and the LP on Chicago's Southkore Records. We've been on seven major tours throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe.
We have no managers, booking agents, or publicists; only friends and the community to help us out.