Effective period / Period of releases: 1997

Members: B. Blunt, Josh DeMarco, George Reynolds, John Kamoosi

George and Josh both spent time in the seminal NY hard-core band Mind Over Matter where George was a founding member. The group earned itself a nice buzz before breaking up a couple years back.
'After that, laughs Josh, 'I decided that I wanted to go off and start the Josh solo project, and that ultimately failed. I got in touch with George and we decided to try something again.'
The two got together, formed dayinthelife... and decided that they wanted to take the band in a different direction from Mind Over Matter. 'We made a vow never to write any broken-hearted, hate-my-girlfriend songs,' Reynolds asserts. 'I don't want to write songs for hurt little kids. I want to write about bigger things.' With dayinthelife...'s music, George and Josh were determined to tap into the universal mind, to move groups of people en masse. The music they listened to in the past--George's background was straight hardcore while Josh's taste included bands like Neurosis, Skinny Puppy and Godflesh--gave them the inspiration to push themselves creatively as far as they could.
The quintet came together easily. John Kamoosi was a friend of Josh's from way back, and they were familiar with guitarist Blunt and bassist Kris Fleischmann--both were known entities around Long Island.
'Believe it or not Long Island has a huge underground music scene. It's not just made up of cheesy hair bands let everyone seems to think,' dayinthelife...'s Josh DeMarco firmly asserts. 'There's a big youth scene out there that 's into good music, and people are just starting to realize this.'
The guys were firm about the hard work that was going to be involved. 'We were like, 'Hey, this is your life. You're gonna quit your job, your girlfriend can't complain,'' George recalls. 'We would practice every day, sometimes 'til four o'clock in the morning. We loved it. We made it our social life and everything, once we got it together.'
However as serious as they were about dayinthelife..., it doesn't mean they didn't have fun. The group's first rehearsal room was a basement below a butcher shop. 'Not only was it a rehearsal space,' DeMarco remembers, 'it was a party space, a lounge, a hangout.
This is where dayinthelife... had its first gig. 'To start it off right,' Josh continues, 'we decided that instead of opening up for someone for our first show, we'd make it more significant. So we invited all our friends, the whole circle, and had a show right there.' Such parties were a continuing theme until they inevitably got kicked out.
Of course dayinthelife... played the clubs, too, and it was one show the band had, opening for labelmates stillsuit, that turned the head of producer/Building Records president Don Fury. Fury had recently formed the label in conjunction with TVT--stillsuit had been his first signing--and he was on the lookout for a second band. His interest in dayinthelife... only made sense--he'd known George from the Mind Over Matter days, and was keenly aware of the burgeoning Long Island scene. As for the band, they were overjoyed at how fast they got signed. Says Josh, 'I think all of us expected to be playing horrible basements for five years before a label like Building/TVT would take interest in us.'
Working with Fury in his SoHo studio (the same place where he produced the likes of CIV and Quicksand), helped accelerate the young band's growth. The vocal interlacing between George and Josh got stronger, and their sound forged ahead into formerly unknown terrain. 'We're not scared to write a song that's slow and has a nice groove, with almost an ambient quality to it,' Josh points out, 'but at the same time we'll write a song that's pretty fucking heavy! We don't limit ourselves.' What was important to the group wasto reach something deeper in its listeners, something that the guitarist sees as 'exceeding just a bunch of kids moshing around.'
Although dayinthelife... practice the kind of unity professed by mid-eighties hardcore, dayinthelife has created a more earthy, primal attitude. Says Josh, 'The tribalism, and what we're expressing in the lyrics, is an open invitation for everyone to join in.'
With 'dayinthelife...,' you've just gotten your call.