History

Still Life was a 3-piece rock band from Moorpark, California

Moorpark, California

Moorpark is a city in Southern California. It was founded in 1900 by Robert Poindexter, presumably named after the moorpark apricots that grew in the area. The city has experienced a great amount of growth since the late 1970s...

. They are credited for helping pioneer the first wave of what is often referred to as emo

Emo (music)

Emo is a style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace...

/emocore /screamo

Screamo

Screamo, though used loosely to generally describe music that features screamed vocals, is actually a musical subgenre of hardcore punk which predominantly evolved from emo, among other genres, in the early 1990s...

 bands in this subgenre that is rooted in punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

. They started in the late 80s with the name Monster Club. They changed their name in 1991 after the departure of the original lead singer who joined the band Strife

Strife (band)

Strife is an American hardcore punk band from Thousand Oaks, California. But is now primarily based out of Los Angeles, California. They formed in 1991...

. They were active until 2003. Former Members Paul Rauch and David Pitzel have started a new band named Old Ground and continue to use Still Life's label, Sunflower Tribe.

Discography

• Still Life/Evergreen split (Rhetoric) 7"
• Still Life (self-titled) (Rhetoric Records) 7"
• Slow Children at Play (Rhetoric) 8"
• Still Life/Cerberus Shoal
  Cerberus Shoal
  Cerberus Shoal was a United States rock band formed in 1994 in Boston but largely based in Portland, Maine. They split up in the mid-2000s with some members going on to form Fire on Fire.-History:...
  
   (Tree Records) 7"
• From Angry Heads with Skyward Eyes (Ebullition Records
  Ebullition Records
  Ebullition Records is an independent record label and distro based out of Goleta, California. It published HeartattaCk, a zine focusing on independent punk and hardcore from around the world, informed by an anti-consumerist and D.I.Y. ideology....
  
  ) 2xLP/CD
• Still Life/Jara split (Sunflower Tribe) 12"
• Still Life/Resin split (Sunflower Tribe) 12"
• The Madness and the Gackle (Sunflower Tribe) 12"/CD
• Slow Children at Play and Beyond (Sunflower Tribe) 12"/CD
• Limitations, Boundaries, and Failures EP (Greyday) 12"/CD
• The Incredible Sinking Feeling (Greyday Productions
  Greyday Productions
  Greyday Productions, sometimes called simply Greyday Records, is an independent record label based in Portland, Oregon, USA. Formed to release a new record from long-time friends Still Life, Greyday has grown from a musician run DIY collective to a full independent label...
  
  ) CD

External links

• http://www.ebullition.com/catalog16.html
• http://www.thesunflowertribe.com
• http://www.greydayproductions.com/bands/still.html
• http://www.twoifbysearecords.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=still+life