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On Wednesday evening Fair To Midland made a stop on the “Minus The Machine” Tour in Sayreville, NJ in support of 10 Years who are touring to promote their new record, which shares a name with the tour. Even though I was very excited to see 10 Years’ set, I was equally interested in what Fair To Midland had to offer as I had caught their set a few years back at Bamboozle and was very impressed but hadn’t had another opportunity to see them since. My expectations, which were admittedly high, were blown out of the water within moments of the energetic and eclectic 5-piece hitting the stage.

Fair To Midland’s sound can be described as progressive-rock-meets-metal-meets-madness-meets-storytelling, for whatever sense that makes. The point is, they truly have a sound and a stage presence all their own. Vocalist Darroh Sudderth has such a remarkable range that its hard to even believe that a single vocalist is fronting this group. He juxtaposes beautiful harmonies with crushing, guttural screams that sound truly like none other. That, coupled with the band’s ability to match his intensity and the music’s clear nature of revolving around the vocals creates for a show that continues to hold interest and impress.

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Go For Launch is a staggeringly talented 5-piece that is preparing to take the music world by storm. The Westchester County, NY locals came into the studio last week and graciously played an 8 song acoustic set for us. The set, which was put together for the Tri-State Rock: Studio Sessions series, will be premiered in the coming weeks on our LIVE broadcasts and will be archived on www.tri-staterock.com thereafter.

Since the end of last summer, all has been very quiet in the 10 Years camp. After completing a nearly two year touring cycle in support of the massively successful “Feeding The Wolves”, the band took some time off to recuperate and get down to writing the next album. Many attempts over the past few months to contact their publicist for information or an interview was denied, and yesterday we found out why.