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The Austerity Program is two people from New York City and their drum machine. Thad Calabrese plays bass and Justin Foley sings and plays guitar.
Thad and Justin began playing music together while attending college in New York City. We were not, at that point, the Austerity Program. Some day we will use this website to make available bits of the music that we recorded back then. Here's a sneak preview: we listened to a lot of Bolt Thrower.
After school Justin moved up to Hartford, CT while Thad stayed in NYC. This made practicing more infrequent and difficult. In 1997, Justin moved back to the Big Apple and we began working on new material in earnest. We played our first show in 1998 at Coney Island High. Do not ever try to lie and tell us that you were there, because we personally knew each of the 11 people in the audience. At that point we kept all of our stuff in a big loft in the Bronx. Practices were either freezing cold or swelteringly hot depending upon the time of the year.
Currently, Thad lives in Brooklyn and Justin lives in Queens. We get together about twice a month to practice. No clear word on what the neighbors think, but they have not yet come by to ask for a copy of the CD. Philistines. During the day Thad teaches college. Justin does research for [ SEIU ] with the aim of destroying the system. Or at least providing a check on the inherent market failures of capitalism. We are both married to two wonderful women. That's "both", not "each". We've got five wonderful kids between us.
In case you are wondering about this type of thing, we are happily affiliated with Hydra Head Records. We do not endorse any particular products, but if the people at G. Heileman start making Powermaster again, we can be contacted through e-mail. You can come up to us an yell "Valnott" at a show and we'll smile, but you won't be the first.
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Photo by [ Abby Moskowitz ]
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