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locations uses every release to talk about an issue they care about and an action their fans can take
Partner organizations include:
Extinction rebellion (Climate Emergency)
Represent Us (Anti-corruption)
The Campaign for NY Health (Universal Healthcare)
Labor Unions (Workers Rights)
Any power you give to Locations gives power to these causes
Use your power. Amplify the message. help grow the movement.
Locations is a genre-bending alt-rock duo from Brooklyn, NY. Niko Rummell is on guitar/lead vox and Thomas Whidden is on drums/lead vox. Each Locations release is designed to engage fans with an issue that affects us all and actions they can take to help create change.
Locations stands for:
Healthcare as a human right
Ending government corruption
A safe and sustainable environment
The right of workers to organize and form a union
Taxing the rich at Eisenhower-era rates
Do you?
These issues are not unrelated. The common factor is big money interests and their ability to corrupt our institutions at every level. The working class has been left behind by our leaders and mercilessly exploited by the ultra-wealthy and their insatiable greed. It’s time to “Stop the Money”
Find your lane and start taking action today. It takes regular people like you to stand up and demand change. When we stand together, we win. Join us!
Locations’ latest record STOP THE MONEY is a cohesive assessment of the societal ills trapping the working class with a hypnotizing sonic range. Produced by Nelson Antonio Hernandez-Espinal of STUY (formerly Stuyedeyed) and reuniting with mixing extraordinaire Matt Bayles (Minus the Bear, Botch, Mastodon), the sophomore effort from Locations is a condemnation of the outsized influence of the ultra-wealthy over every facet of our lives.
Their most recent singles have featured campaigns with Extinction Rebellion NYC to stop new fossil fuel investments, and Represent Us to to combat political corruption and defend democracy. With their latest single “Trickle”, the band us highlighting the modern American Labor movement, including their own experience getting a first contract under Teamsters Local 817.
2023 saw Locations playing their biggest shows yet, including their first festival slot at Musikfest 2023, an opening gig for prog-metal champions OK Goodnight, and a film + TV community event at the tail end of the WGA strike. Locations has achieved radio play on multiple stations, including WFUV and WFOX, landed a sponsorship with Sennheiser, and has passed 35k plays on Spotify. Locations made it into millions of homes with a featured performance in HBO’s Vinyl. (S1E05)
Those in power want us to stay divided. By building working class solidarity and organizing the people, we can change the fucking world.
“…they’re not going to rest until they’ve explored most every angle of their sound (one way or another). I admire the experimental edge of this latest release, and even if it doesn’t score this act any points in the mainstream just yet, it undisputedly verifies their authenticity in the underground at the moment.” - Music Existence
“…a celebration of movement and a call for equal access to the care required to support everyone to remain their mobile, healthy selves. Standing in support of The New York Health Act, revolutionary legislation that would guarantee universal coverage in New York, “Moves” is the band’s musically infectious contribution to the fight.” - Wonderland Magazine
“Collective action is an existential threat to the immoral healthcare system that Americans are trapped in, and that is what we are trying to achieve with LOCATIONS. But we can’t do it alone; we need you to join us.” - Black is the New AP Style guest blog by Thomas Whidden
music videos
Trickle
As hard as we go - Tax the rich!
Moves
As soft as we go - We asked strangers on the street what they thought of "Moves.”
stop the money - out now
Produced by Nelson Antonio Hernandez-Espinal (Stuy)
Mixed by Matt Bayles (Minus the Bear, Mastodon, Botch)
Mastered by Ed Brooks (Fleet Foxes, Minus the Bear, Botch)
Press photos
Locations Live
“The colossal chug of "Dancing Queen" already feels primed and ready to rock an arena…like a Black Sabbath injected White Stripes”
"Moves," the new highlight, added funk to their hard rock edge, giving us one of the groovier moments of the night, before blasting back into charged-up blues rock. The band's range, however, is more than initially meets the ear and they managed to interpolate covers of Beyoncé, the Beatles, and Tool into the mix while doing justice to each.”
- OMGNYC
Upcoming Performances
Fri 6/14 - The Sultan Room - brooklyn, nY
Locations Sandwiches residency block 2 announcing summer 2024
To get on the guest list email locationstheband@gmail.com
Photo by Hannah Turner-Harts