T-Tops new EP "Disease EP"

T-Tops started jamming when Pittsburgh guitarist/vocalist Patrick Waters, who fronted well-regarded and spastic-rock group The Fitt, joined up with bassist/vocalist Jason Orr (Holy Rivals).

Struggling at first to find the right drummer, the pair nearly gave up before coming across a post on a local message board by Jason Jouver, a recording engineer at /- Studios on the city's South Side and multi-instrumentalist from bands including Don Caballero, Teddy Duchamp's Army and German Shepherd. They knew the name but hadn't even realized he played drums, and gave it a try.

In no time, ravaging riffs, gravely vocals, and thundering beats came together to produce T-Tops' signature soundtrack for high-velocity destruction. "There's not really a theme," Waters says of the in-your-face, sludgy, hooky heaviness that resulted. "We're just trying to write catchy, loud, heavy songs."

The trio's experience in other bands certainly comes across in both their songwriting and prolific output. Despite moving through a series of drummers, T-Tops have issued a half-dozen EPs, 7-inches, and split releases in just a few short years. Their latest, the Disease EP, is the band's most urgent helping of raw, furious, garage rock yet, a slab of power best heard at full volume.

T-Tops will be touring to support this killer new EP in September, and also managed to slip an angy, roaring take on Pink Floyd's "Nile Song" onto the digital version of Magnetic Eye Records' upcoming Best of Pink Floyd [Redux] project, which lands in November.

Buckle up, turn it on, and turn it up, T-Tops will rock your world. - Metal Nexus

If you need a soundtrack for the moment your feeble New Years optimism expires, grab this 7-inch. The sludgy punk trio is good at extracting bleakness from the mundane. It’s dark, sure, but it’s delivered in a noisy, heavy rock ’n’ roll package, which goes down real easy. - PGH City Paper

Disease releases digitally and on 7-inch via the band in association with Magnetic Eye Records on September 28th.

Tour Dates:

• Aug 30 Akron, OH @ Hive Mind
• Aug 31 Indianapolis, IN @ State Street Pub
• Sept 1 Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club
• Sept 2 Chicago, IL @ Reed’s
• Sept 3 Youngstown, OH @ Westside Bowl
• Sept 12 State College, PA @ The Brewery
• Sept 13 NYC @ El Cortez
• Sept 14 East Windsor, NJ @ Toxic Cleanse
• Sept 15 Philly, PA @ Century