Blind Adam & The Federal League Releases New Single: “Cold Dead Hands”
This past July I received a text from my buddy Lou from Albany’s The Lurking Class telling me that I had to go see this band called Blind Adam & The Federal League at this DIY venue in Kingston, NY. He had just played with them a day or so earlier, and he was raving about them. A new DIY space? A new band? Plus Matt Pless? Fuck yeah!
When you’ve been going to and playing shows for 30 years, so you’ve probably seen hundreds of different bands each year for three decades, its almost hard not to get jaded or at the very least it’s difficult to be deeply impressed. Blind Adam and his league impressed me indeed, so I’ve been checking out their stuff regularly ever since.
Their new song “Cold Dead Hands” reminds me a little of early Dropkick Murphys as well as later shit by The Daycare Swindlers or some stuff from The Hudson Falcons. Lyrically, they are taking this famous Charlton Heston quote, “cold dead hands” and turning back at him and his other alt-right fascist ilk like those who marched in Charlottesville chanting openly racist slogans like “Blood and Soil” and like the scum who tried to overturn a legal election on January 6th.
In other words, what’s not to like about this song?
Here’s a video of the show that I saw them at back in July:
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