Season to Risk

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Season to Risk are an American noise rock/alternative rock band hailing from Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

History[]

Season to Risk formed in late 1989 from the ashes of the Kansas City punk bands Nine Lives and Curious George. Although Season to Risk (or S2R as they are sometimes called) has had several line-up changes, two of its founding members have remained constant: Steve Tulipana (lead vocals, guitar) and Duane Trower (lead guitar, keyboards, and vocals). Drummer joined the band in 1994. Wade Williamson (rhythm guitar and keyboards) joined in 1999. Founding bass player Paul Malinowski played from 1989 - 1995, until he left to join the Kansas City band Shiner. He was replaced on bass in 1995 by Josh Newton, who also plays guitar in Shiner.^[1]

The band's genre-bending sound has been defined as post-rock, post-hardcore, math rock, and noise rock. Their constantly-changing music has challenged audiences, reviewers, and the record labels they have worked with.

Season to Risk released The Shattering (2001) on Owned and Operated, produced by Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore. Other releases include Men Are Monkeys, Robots Win (1998) on Thick Records, and In A Perfect World (1995), with a cover designed by Derek Hess. The self-titled debut Season To Risk (1992) features the underground hits^{[citation needed]} "Snakes" and "Mine Eyes", with a cover designed by Frank Kozik. Both Hess and Kozik produced limited-edition silkscreen posters of the covers.^{[citation needed]}

The band performed in the warehouse party scene in the 1994 film Strange Days, living in a trailer on set in Hollywood for a week.

Season to Risk toured constantly beginning in 1991, often on the road 8-10 months per year. They have toured or played shows with Jesus Lizard, Barkmarket, Prong, Unsane, No Means No, Monster Magnet, Fudge Tunnel, Pain Teens, Melvins, Cheer Accident, Babes In Toyland, Quicksand, Fugazi, Helmet, Archers of Loaf, Polvo, Jawbox, Neurosis, the Get Up Kids, Dirtnap, Hammerhead, Coalesce, Reggie and the Full Effect, Libido Boys, CRAW, Descendents, ALL, 7 Year Bitch, Plexi, 90 Day Men, Idiot Flesh, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Toadies, Calvin Crime, Today Is the Day, Glazed Baby, Uz Jsme Doma, House of large Sizes, Shiner, Molly McGuire, Skinyard, Stinking Lizaveda, The Spitters, Boy's Life, Quitter's Club, Giant's Chair, Keelhaul, Janis Figure, SHIV, Cows, Nashville Pussy, Sheilbound, Collossamite, Dazzling Killmen, Buzzoven, Killdozer, Slow Roosevelt, Caulk, Scrid, Blue Meanies, Zen Guerilla, Arab On Radar, 5 Deadly Venoms, Pave The Rocket, Fragile Porcelain Mice, Nebula, Players Club, Beaver, Tribe 8, the Feds, Grotus, Sweet a Pea, many series, Astoveboat, Houston, The Farewell Bend, Guzzard, The String and Return, Pellum 123, Karma To Burn, Ravine, Tanger, Hum, Someday I, Gut, Hickey, Esoteric, Be/Non, anvil chorus, and others.

Still based in Kansas City, the band tours occasionally and plays hometown venues, including shows with No Means No (2006), Helmet (2009), Iron Rite Mangle / Moly McGuire (2012), and the Medicine Theory (2016), and Descendents (2017). Singer Steve Tulipana is the owner/operator of two venues in KCMO, the Record Bar and MiniBar.

In 2018, Season to Risk began releasing music on Bandcamp, and toured, playing S x SW South By Southwest, and Valley of the Vapors fest, sharing the stage with their alter ego band Sie Lieben Maschinen. In 2019, the band toured the midwest, playing shows at Riot Fest and with Porcupine at 7th St Entry in MN, supporting a new vinyl release of the 2001 album ”The Shattering”, remastered by Jason Livermore at Blasting Room studio, Ft. Collins, CO, on limited edition orange vinyl.

In 2020, Season to Risk released their seminal 1998 album ”Men Are Monkeys. Robots Win.“ remastered by Duane Trower at Weights and Measures Soundlab, KCMO, on limited edition green vinyl. A tour was postponed due to the pandemic, and the band announced they are capturing demo tapes for a release of singles, B-sides and covers in 2021 on Bandcamp.

Members[]

• Steve Tulipana - Vocals, guitar, synthesizer (1989-present)
• Duane Trower - Guitar, backup vocals, synthesizer, engineering (1989-present)
• Josh Newton - Bass, backup vocals, guitar, synthesizer (1995-1998 / 2012-present)
• David Silver - Drums, synth oscillator, metal (1994-present)
• Wade Williamson - Guitar, synths, keyboard (2000-present)

Former members[]

• Paul Malinowski - Bass (1989-1995)
• Billy Smith (1999 - 2019)
• Chris Sharp - Bass (1999)
• Chad Sabin - Drums (1992-1994)
• Jason Gerken - Drums (1994)
• Peter Murray - Drums (1991-1992)
• Chris Metcalf - Drums (2003-2009)
• Loren Chambers - Drums
• Frank Garymartin - Drums (1994)
• Mike Myers - Drums (2002)
• Jerry Bayton - Drums (1990)
• Tim Dow - Drums (1990, 1992, 1994)

Discography[]

Studio albums[]

• Season to Risk (Columbia Records, 1992)
• In a Perfect World (Columbia Records, 1994)
• (Thick Records, 1998)
• The Shattering (, 2001)

Singles and EPs[]

• Mine Eyes/Snakes (Red Decibel/Columbia Records, 1992)
• Biter/Oil (Red Decibel/Columbia Records, 1992)
• Undone (AFFA Records, 1996)
• Beestings and Poison Eggs /w Starkweather(Supermodel Records, 1998)
• Ace of Space (-ismist Recordings, 1999)

References[]

External links[]

• The Official Season to Risk website
• Season to Risk Bandcamp
• Season to Risk on YouTube