Slick Shoes
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| Slick Shoes | |
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| Origin | Southern California, USA |
| Genre(s) | Pop punk |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Label(s) | SideOneDummy Tooth and Nail Fueled by Ramen |
| Associated acts | Sigmund |
| Members | |
| Ryan Kepke Joe Nixon Jackson Mould Jermiah Brown Jordan Mould |
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| Former members | |
| Jonah Peterson Dale Yob Greg Togawa David Stoltenberg Kevin Clark Josh Kleven Bill Lanz |
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Slick Shoes is a pop punk band with Christian origins from Southern California. Their name comes from the hit 1985 movie, The Goonies, 'slick shoes' being one of the character Data's many gadgets. The band formed in 1994 and made their first release as a self-titled EP in 1997. They released 5 full length CDs, 4 of them on Seattle based Tooth and Nail Records. They also released an EP, a split with Autopilot Off and a greatest hits CD entitled The Biggest & The Best, featuring 3 previously unreleased songs. Slick Shoes' style could be described as fast and melodic, occasionally with a rough-edged hardcore punk sound.
The band has gone through numerous line-up changes, but founding member and singer Ryan Kepke and Joe Nixon (drums) have played on every release, while Jeremiah Brown (bass) played on all except their final album, Far From Nowhere. This was their first release without Tooth and Nail Records, which they left, not for religious reasons, but merely because their contract had finished and the band felt the need for a change. Far From Nowhere was released on SideOneDummy Records in the summer of 2003.
The band was particularly successful in the Christian punk scene in the late 90s and early 2000s and toured alongside their peers, both secular and Christian (most notably bands such as Face to Face and MxPx, respectively). They also played certain legs of the Vans Warped Tour in 2003.
[edit] Post-2004
Since touring in 2003 and early 2004 in support of Far From Nowhere, Slick Shoes was very inactive (even their website was taken down), and on October 7, 2006 the band issued a statement through their MySpace page saying that they had begun a side project called Sigmund, and that Slick Shoes was on an "indefinite hiatus". Then, 15 months later on January 3, 2008, the band announced through MySpace that they had reunited:
"Hey Everyone, Good news. Slick Shoes is back together with original members Ryan Kepke, Jackson Mould, Joe Nixon, and Jeremiah Brown. We also added guitarist Jordan Mould . Although we will not be touring extensively we will be playing shows and hope to record a new record in the near future. Don't forget to tell your friends."
Their first show back together took place at the Chain Reaction in Anaheim, CA on March 1st, 2008.
[edit] Discography
- Slick Shoes EP (Released January 21st, 1997)
- Rusty (Released June 24th, 1997)
- Burn Out (Released July 7th, 1998)
- Wake Up Screaming (Released May 23rd, 2000)
- Slick Shoes/Cooter Split EP (Released May 23rd, 2000)
- Slick Shoes LP (Released April 9th, 2002)
- Far From Nowhere (Released July 8th, 2003)
- The Biggest and the Best (Released November 18, 2003)
