Artist description Moody, dynamic, desperate.

Music Style post punk

Musical Influences Wire, Joy Division, Rites of Spring, Mission of Burma

Similar Artists Panthers, Liars, Skull Control

Artist History Coup Fourre is a three-piece maelstrom of fury, passion, and desperation from New York City. Formed in 2001 by Ohioans Steve Shodin and Adam Rizer, who share vocal, bass, and guitar duties, and Virginian Andy Craven on drums, they set out to bridge the gap between the decades of rock/punk dagger wielders from Gene Vincent to the Rolling Stones to Wire to Rites of Spring and onward. Their first show was performed as My Sound is Your Signal to Explode! with math dirge monsters Jumbo's Kill Crane at the Midwest's best-kept secret the Nyabinghi in Youngstown, Ohio. The show was a rousing success - but only a hint of what was to come in the not-so-distant-future. As the fellows began to write more as a unit it became clear that the band's chemistry was going to be its driving force. The name was changed to Coup Fourre (French for "blow lines" and a term from the card game Milles Bornes). Their second show, a sold out hipster extravaganza at New York's Brownies, was with Chicago's 90 Day Men and fellow New Yorkers Turing Machine and the Liars. The boys stepped up and did what they had to do so that even in the shadow of these three phenomenal bands they were turning heads, drawing comparisons to the sounds of Leeds in 78, Minneapolis in 81, and D.C. in 90. But by the end of their set, the general consensus was that they truly only sound like Coup Fourre. Now it's the future that these young men are concerned with and with every show they sweep a few more recruits into their irreverent army. The demo ep, recorded with prodigious engineer Scott Rosenthal in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is an accurate depiction of the present, but even the boys themselves cannot predict where the future will take them. Coup Fourre have performed with artists as disparate as 90 Day Men,Blacktail, The Double, Favorite Action Hero,Gil Mantera's Party Dream, Jumbo's Kill Crane, The Liars, Matt Pond Pa, MX2, Neptune, On Air Library, Oneida, Oxford Collapse, Parker and Lily, The Prids, Professor Murder, Turing Machine, and Young Sexy Assassins just to name a few.

Group Members Andy Craven, Adam Rizer, Steve Shodin

Instruments Guitar, Bass, Drums

Albums none

Location Brooklyn, New York - USA

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