"Vinyl Collections Vol. 1" is a small compilation of vinyl and ultimately-never-made-it-to-vinyl tracks from Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Textbook Traitors.
Textbook Traitors played a unique and characteristically regional take on a then-rapidly emerging sonic exploration within the hardcore genre later coined "screamo" or "skramz" (largely by those that completely missed the actual era). Contemporaries in their local scene of Milwaukee, Wisconsin included Since By Man and Seven Days of Samsara, while labelmates Pageninetynine, Crestfallen, Corn on Macabre, and Majority Rule operated loosely within the same venues and community circles around the country.
Always rapid-fire, highly volatile, and viscerally explosive, the music of Textbook Traitors continues to shine on as a time capsule to a youthful, do-it-yourself era within punk that was able to operate entirely autonomous to any form of the music industry writ large.
Textbook Traitors played a unique and characteristically regional take on a then-rapidly emerging sonic exploration within the hardcore genre later coined "screamo" or "skramz" (largely by those that completely missed the actual era). Contemporaries in their local scene of Milwaukee, Wisconsin included Since By Man and Seven Days of Samsara, while labelmates Pageninetynine, Crestfallen, Corn on Macabre, and Majority Rule operated loosely within the same venues and community circles around the country.
Always rapid-fire, highly volatile, and viscerally explosive, the music of Textbook Traitors continues to shine on as a time capsule to a youthful, do-it-yourself era within punk that was able to operate entirely autonomous to any form of the music industry writ large.
