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Ethanz Ride (band)

Ethanz Ride is an American 4-piece melodic rock band from the Los Angeles / Orange County area of California. The band was formed in early 2005, straight out of the Southern California (LA, Hollywood, & Orange County) music scene, one of the most competitive music scenes in the United States, and has now become a staple in the left coast rock arena for its signature brand of Rock-N-Roll music.

Between early 2005 - mid 2006, the band had completed several demo recording projects and played many live performances. It wasn’t until the summer of 2006 when the band decided to work on a serious recording project and entered the studio to record their first studio EP album at the famous “For The Record” Studios in Orange, CA. The self-titled album was produced by the legendary Producer Eric Garten who is known as simply “E”. “E” has over 25 years experience producing and engineering acts like – (Thrice, Cadillac Tramps, Save Ferris, Game Face, Death By Stereo, Long Fellow, The Tickets, and many other quality Bands) The outcome of that project was a 7-track EP that was generally well received by critics and listeners and assisted in establishing the bands signature sound.

Although the band was offered a nationally distributed record contract from an indie label Ethanz Ride choose to released the album on their own and began playing live performances to support the album alongside bands such as LA Guns, Smutt Peddlers, Agent Orange, Pulley, The Uprising, Battalion of Saints, and more. The band performed on the 2007 Vans Warped Tour along with bands Pennywise, Tiger Army, New Found Glory, Hawthorne Heights, Flogging Molly, Pepper, Buck O' Nine, Boys like Girls and Bad Religion.

August 2007, the band was approached by Skratch Magazine and asked to be a part of their compilation album. Ethanz Ride released two singles from their self-titled album on Skratch Magazine’s Volume 37 compilation record. The featured singles were entitled, Shamed and Victoria.

In 2012, the band completed their second studio recording project which was recorded at 714 Studios in Orange County, CA then mixed and mastered again by Producer Eric Garten “E” at For The Record Studios in Orange, California. This 6-track EP entitled “Totally Premium” has a slightly different and more mature sound than the first album but delivers the same high energy, catchy music Ethanz Ride has become known to deliver.

Ethanz Ride is currently hard at work writing and rehearsing material for their third recording project, which will likely be a full length album and is yet to be entitle (label and release date to be announced).

Band Members

Current

Justin Villasenor - Bass Guitar / Lead Vocals Dustin Jones - Guitar / Lead Vocals Drew Villasenor - Guitar / Backup Vocals Rob Castro - Drums / Percussion

Featured in Skinnie Magazine August 2007, Issue 7, Volume 6

Skratch Magazine’s Volume 37 compilation record