LaGrecia Comes to an End Before They Begin

It pains me to share with you the following news. LaGrecia have made the decision to call it a day. I know what you are thinking, the band has barely begun and they are already over. It is truly disheartening. They recorded one of the most rocking records we have ever had the opportunity to release and everything seemed to be going perfectly. Sal, the band’s bass player has assembled one of the most beautiful pieces of artwork for the album. The band had already done a string of dates with the Loved Ones and were planning on doing some really great shows. I am pretty much speechless.

Dana, the band’s drummer, wrote a blog post on the LaGrecia Myspace page that explains things a little further. You can find the blog, here.  A few people commented their confusion about the blog post’s reference to Jason selling off his gear and the fact that None More Black just announced a free show on July 4th. To clarify, it is true that Jason sold off most of his gear, but the decision to play a show with None More Black has Jason re-purchasing a few pieces of equipment.

Just to let you know, we at Suburban Home/Vinyl Collective have known about this for a little while now, but we did not want to tarnish the release of such an amazing album with speculation about the band’s untimely breakup. I am just as excited about releasing “On Parallels” as I was when I first heard the demos and know that although this might show up as an asterisk in Jason Shevchuk’s recording resume, I still stand by my opinion that this is one of the greatest albums he has ever been involved with.  The release date is still June 24th and I urge you to reserve your judgements about this band until after you have listened to the album.

I am just bummed that many of you will have never had the opportunity to see this band rock. I feel very lucky to have seen their first show, but I was really excited at the prospect of flying out east to see their album release show and for so many of you to see the band play after hearing the album.