Free Friday: Mace Ballard - "The Time It Takes To Rewind" EP

Pittsburgh's Mace Ballard are an energetic and super-catchy pop-punk band with screamo and hardcore moments mixed in for good measure. They are offering their new EP The Time It Takes To Rewind as a free download on their website.

Fans of Four Year Strong, Close Your Eyes, and early New Found Glory and Brand New should find enough common ground to get down with Mace Ballard!

A couple of standout tracks are the speedy "Newsflash" with its bright, anthemic melodies with contrasting screamo breakdown and surprising guitar solo. And "Double Negative" features infectious vocal harmonies and a positive message. Also, a humorous 13-second track titled, "Spell Check"is just the band chanting out the spelling of the band's name!

Download the free EP here: http://www.wearemaceballard.com/ now before they hit it big and start making you pay for it!

3 Songs: On Repeat

1. Soft Metals - "Love or Music" (Portland duo Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall create romantic dance music with icy Kraftwerk-ian synths and vintage drum machines. First single from their forthcoming debut EP on Captured Tracks.) http://www.myspace.com/softmetals

Download: http://www.forcefieldpr.com/softmetalsloveormusic.mp3






2. Kristin Hersh - "Coals" (First single from Crooked which was released as a book with stunning artwork and essays by Kristin for each song. A smoldering guitar solo and choppy rhythm throw back to her Throwing Muses days for her best song in a long time.)http://www.kristinhersh.com/

Download: http://loudfeed.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/20920/06_Coals_1.mp3






3. Mace Ballard - "Up In Arms" (Punchy new song from Pittsburgh pop-punk purveyors. If you haven't yet, download their excellent free EP from their website.) www.wearemaceballard.com

Download: http://wearemaceballard.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=31a2a06df7907b965b869eb75&id=5453356492&e=ade9a0941f

EP review on Atlas and the Anchor: http://atlasandtheanchor.blogspot.com/search?q=mace+ballard