Whole Wheat Bread
Encyclopedia
Whole Wheat Bread is a punk
band from Jacksonville, Florida
. They formed in 2003 and have so far released two albums and one EP, under the Orlando based record label Fighting Records.
, Florida
. Abraham knew about Largen, aka DJ Dirtee $skeet through the Jacksonville underground rap scene in which Largen was well known. They met up and decided to form a rap group. But Whole Wheat Bread needing members was then filled by Largen and his brother. With Abraham on vocals and guitar
and Largen on bass
, Largen's brother Joseph was brought in to play drums, opting out of a career in neurosurgery, and Whole Wheat Bread continued to play shows and record.
Their first album, Minority Rules
, came out in January 2005 on Fighting Records. The album was produced by Darian Rundall, who had previously worked with other punk bands such as Pennywise
and Yellowcard
. The album reached #8 on Billboard's
Top Heatseekers
chart. In support of this record, they went on tour with bands such as MxPx
, The Suicide Machines
, Reel Big Fish
, Sloppy Meateaters
and Streetlight Manifesto
.
Largen was arrested in Amherst, New York on counts of armed robbery after attempting to rob money from two locations. It was announced on October 11, 2007 that bass player C.J. Randolph parted ways with Whole Wheat Bread. Whole Wheat Bread now have a complete line-up with the addition of Will Frazier on bass. They released their second album Hearts of Hoodlums
on January 6, 2009.
, Street Dogs
, and Wu-Tang Clan
's Killah Priest
. They then released an EP, Punk Life
, in November 2006. The EP included three original songs and 3 "crunk rock" covers of rap songs. One original track "Symbol of Hope" reflected the events of Hurricane Katrina and the government's lack of enthusiasm to respond to the events. The track also featured backing vocals by Jason Navarro of the Suicide Machines.
More touring occurred throughout 2007, when they also began working on their second full-length album. They are working with producer Travis Huff, who has previously worked with bands such as Fall Out Boy
and Yellowcard
to produce the album, which was due out Summer 2008 but didn't come out until January 2009. Additionally, Whole Wheat Bread also has been working with rapper Lil' Jon on his anticipated solo album, Crunk Rock. The band is contributing music (guitar, bass, drums, vocals) as well as producing tracks with many well-noted rappers.
The band's live show was sometimes tainted with live-show hate crime verbal assaults from fans.
Musician's support of the band had continued; with a fair share of a fan base as of 2011.
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...
band from Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...
. They formed in 2003 and have so far released two albums and one EP, under the Orlando based record label Fighting Records.
History
Aaron Abraham and Nicholas Largen were friends from JacksonvilleJacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...
, Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
. Abraham knew about Largen, aka DJ Dirtee $skeet through the Jacksonville underground rap scene in which Largen was well known. They met up and decided to form a rap group. But Whole Wheat Bread needing members was then filled by Largen and his brother. With Abraham on vocals and guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
and Largen on bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, Largen's brother Joseph was brought in to play drums, opting out of a career in neurosurgery, and Whole Wheat Bread continued to play shows and record.
Their first album, Minority Rules
Minority Rules
Minority Rules is the debut album by punk band Whole Wheat Bread. It was released on January 25, 2005 by Fighting Records. The CD contains three hidden tracks which are hip hop songs.-Track listing:#"Broke" – 2:15#"Loud & Clear" – 1:26...
, came out in January 2005 on Fighting Records. The album was produced by Darian Rundall, who had previously worked with other punk bands such as Pennywise
Pennywise (band)
Pennywise is a Californian punk rock band from Hermosa Beach, California, formed in 1988. The name is derived from the monster, It, from the Stephen King novel of the same title....
and Yellowcard
Yellowcard
Yellowcard is an American pop punk/alternative rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1997, and based in Los Angeles, California since 2000. Their music features the use of a violin, unusual for the genre...
. The album reached #8 on Billboard's
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...
chart. In support of this record, they went on tour with bands such as MxPx
MxPx
MxPx is a pop punk band from Bremerton, Washington with connections to the Christian punk scene. The band has recorded eight studio albums, four EPs, four compilation albums, a live album, a VHS tape, a DVD and released 20 singles....
, The Suicide Machines
The Suicide Machines
The Suicide Machines were an American punk rock band formed in March 1991 in Detroit, Michigan and disbanded in May 2006. During the course of their career the band released six full-length albums on the labels Hollywood Records and Side One Dummy Records...
, Reel Big Fish
Reel Big Fish
Reel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out". The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the third wave of ska with the release of the gold certified album Turn the Radio Off. Soon after, the band...
, Sloppy Meateaters
Sloppy Meateaters
Sloppy Meateaters was an American band from Rome, Georgia on Orange Peel Records.-Early history:Prior to forming The Sloppy Meateaters Josh Chambers had a band named NoClass with whom he released a few 7" records and a split CD with Atlanta punk band the Tone Deaf Pig-Dogs...
and Streetlight Manifesto
Streetlight Manifesto
Streetlight Manifesto is an American punk band with many influences from different genres including ska, from New Brunswick, New Jersey fronted by Tomas Kalnoky....
.
Largen was arrested in Amherst, New York on counts of armed robbery after attempting to rob money from two locations. It was announced on October 11, 2007 that bass player C.J. Randolph parted ways with Whole Wheat Bread. Whole Wheat Bread now have a complete line-up with the addition of Will Frazier on bass. They released their second album Hearts of Hoodlums
The Hearts of Hoodlums
Hearts of Hoodlums is the second full length album by the punk band Whole Wheat Bread. It was released on January 20, 2009, though it became available to download on iTunes on January 6, 2009...
on January 6, 2009.
Moving On
The rearranged lineup then continued to tour with various acts, including The Bouncing SoulsThe Bouncing Souls
The Bouncing Souls are a punk rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey, formed in 1987. By the time of their acknowledgment by the national punk rock scene, they had reignited a "pogo" element to New Jersey punk rock by playing fast light-hearted songs, a model followed by various other local...
, Street Dogs
Street Dogs
Street Dogs are a punk rock band originally from Boston, Massachusetts. The band's current line-up includes Mike McColgan, former lead singer of Dropkick Murphys, Johnny Rioux, Marcus Hollar, Tobe Bean III and Paul Rucker.-History:...
, and Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
The Wu-Tang Clan is a hip-hop group from Staten Island that consists of RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard. They are frequently joined by fellow childhood friend Cappadonna, a quasi member of the group...
's Killah Priest
Killah Priest
Walter Reed, better known as Killah Priest, Iron Sheik from the Middle East, or Masada, is an American rapper and Wu-Tang Clan affiliate who was raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant & Brownsville neighbourhoods in Brooklyn. He is known for intensely spiritual lyrics loaded with metaphors and religious...
. They then released an EP, Punk Life
Punk Life
Punk Life is an EP by Whole Wheat Bread. It was released on November 7, 2006 by Fighting Records. Of the six songs on the EP, three are original punk songs and three are parodies of rap songs...
, in November 2006. The EP included three original songs and 3 "crunk rock" covers of rap songs. One original track "Symbol of Hope" reflected the events of Hurricane Katrina and the government's lack of enthusiasm to respond to the events. The track also featured backing vocals by Jason Navarro of the Suicide Machines.
More touring occurred throughout 2007, when they also began working on their second full-length album. They are working with producer Travis Huff, who has previously worked with bands such as Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy is an American rock band from Wilmette, Illinois, formed in 2001. The band consists of vocalist, guitarist and composer Patrick Stump, bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley. The band released five studio albums from 2003–2008...
and Yellowcard
Yellowcard
Yellowcard is an American pop punk/alternative rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1997, and based in Los Angeles, California since 2000. Their music features the use of a violin, unusual for the genre...
to produce the album, which was due out Summer 2008 but didn't come out until January 2009. Additionally, Whole Wheat Bread also has been working with rapper Lil' Jon on his anticipated solo album, Crunk Rock. The band is contributing music (guitar, bass, drums, vocals) as well as producing tracks with many well-noted rappers.
The band's live show was sometimes tainted with live-show hate crime verbal assaults from fans.
Musician's support of the band had continued; with a fair share of a fan base as of 2011.
Current
- Aaron Abraham (aka Nasty Nigga Fleetwood) – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, lead vocals - Joseph Largen (aka Mr.Whitefolks) – drumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s, vocals - Will Frazier (aka Willy) – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, vocals
Former
- Nick Largen (aka D.J. Dirtee $keet) – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, vocals (2004–2006) - C.J. Randolph (aka Johnny Rock, C. Jesus) – bass, vocals (2006–2007)
Studio albums
- Minority RulesMinority RulesMinority Rules is the debut album by punk band Whole Wheat Bread. It was released on January 25, 2005 by Fighting Records. The CD contains three hidden tracks which are hip hop songs.-Track listing:#"Broke" – 2:15#"Loud & Clear" – 1:26...
(2005) - Hearts of HoodlumsThe Hearts of HoodlumsHearts of Hoodlums is the second full length album by the punk band Whole Wheat Bread. It was released on January 20, 2009, though it became available to download on iTunes on January 6, 2009...
(2009)