Tourmaline (band)

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Tourmaline

Background information
Origin	Verona, New Jersey, U.S.
Genre(s)	Alternative Rock Rock
Years active	2004–present
Label(s)	No Milk Records Platform Group Universal Records
Website	Official website
Members
Matt Rauch Max Rauch Ryan Baredes Corey Zaloom Justin Niemiec

Tourmaline is an American rock band from Verona, New Jersey. Formed in June of 2004, the band consists of Matt Rauch (lead vocals, guitar), Justin Niemiec (bass), Corey Zaloom – (synthesizer, piano) Ryan Baredes (lead guitar), and Max Rauch (drums). They have released two albums. Their first album, Strange Distress Calls was released in the United States a year after the band's formation on June 21, 2005. [1] The band plays a distorted blend of pop/rock heavily drenched in melody and message.

Strange Distress Calls, their first full-length released on No Milk Records, has sold over 2,500 copies. The release was well received by many critics getting positive reviews from Absolutepunk.net [2], Punknews.org [3] as well as receiving four out of five stars from All Music Guide. [4]

The band's first song to gain significant attention was "Blank”, which fell into rotation on many college radio stations during the summer of 2005, while they were on tour with Socratic (Drive-Thru Records). It was also featured on many complications.

In late 2005 Tourmaline ended their association with No Milk Records. It is unclear exactly what happened, but there was plenty of speculation and gossip soon after the split.

In late December of 2005 Justin Niemiec replaced Tourmaline’s second bassist and has been in the group since. [5]

Tourmaline later went on to tour with Cute is What We Aim For (Fueled By Ramen), Dave Melillo (Drive-Thru Records), The Forecast (Victory Records), Socratic (Drive-Thru Records), Mashlin (111 Records), Self Against City (Drive-Thru Records) and others.

While on the “In the Shadow of Two Gun Men” tour with The Forecast, Socratic and Mashlin they released a tour E.P., which was also made available for free download on Absolutepunk.net. At this time they also had “Bent” receive airplay on NJ radio station 105.5 FM WDHA.

Tourmaline have gained a very impressive presence in the online community with over 60,000 fans on Myspace.com [6] and over 400,000 plays on Purevolume.com. [7]

Matt Rauch recently produced the Just Turn E.P. for Drive-Thru Records' Socratic. In late December he will produce the new record for the New Jersey, buzz band Red Light Green Light, at his newly built state of the art recording studio, called White Heat Recording Studios.

In a recent interview conducted by Absolutepunk.net, Matt stated that they are currently demoing songs for their new record at his in-house studio. A release date for the new record has not yet been set. [8]