Skintones, Shazy Hade (LP release), Under the Surface

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The band Shazy Hade on stage at the Crystal Corner Bar.

Shazy Hade

Madison quintet Shazy Hade emerged in the 2000s and merged the rock onslaught of Hum Machine with the inimitable New Recruits frontman Eric Schinker. Following a long hiatus the group shook off the rust with a show in 2022, and in 2024 are back to well-oiled-machine status judging by a March set at the Crystal. They return with a new LP in tow: Triumph Returns Again is an excellent outing recorded in the oughts which was long thought lost forever. With Skintones, Under the Surface.

$10.

media release: Skintones host this Galactic Council meeting, with Shazy Hade releasing a new record (Shortwave Records and No Coast Records, more info below), and Under the Surface (resurfacing) to battle the Empire. Free admission with light saber, and remember the Crystal Corner Cantina doesn’t serve droids…..they don’t want them here.

Skintones released an album Coming to Collect last spring.

Shazy Hade was formed from two of Madison, Winsonsin’s prominent local independent bands in the 2000s, The New Recruits and Hum Machine. 

Singer-songwriter Eric “Shinky” Schinker adheres to the edicts of punk, growing up on the south side of Waukesha.  “They were irreverently comic, snotty, and probably laughing at you behind your back, they're a little bent and, well, psychedelic, But the one thing they never are is showily sophisticated or overwrought”  (Tom Laskin-Isthmus).

The new album from the band, Triumph Returns, is their third full length and produces infectious songwriting in the vein of Robert Pollard and 1960s garage psychedelia. Recorded around 2008, the album was lost after the band’s recording studio was bulldozed down and destroyed without the band’s knowledge. After they cleared through the remains, there was one CD version of the session, but the guys never found it until it was recently re-discovered after cleaning out some boxes from the basement.

“We knew we had a copy of the recording, but forgot where it was, and then we all moved on to other projects, so we forgot about it for a while, said Hartz.”  After the band reconnected at a friend’s funeral (Travis Nelsen) they decided they should probably release it before they all die.  With some careful editing and mastering by Justin Perkins, it became a reality. 

“I did one mix of this album straight through with no edits, that was the only copy we had, all the master tapes were trashed in the studio bulldozing, said Eric Geving.”  The band knew at the time it was a great album and are excited to get it out now. Shazy Hade plan to play throughout the Midwest to support the release in 2024.