PLAYERS CLUB

Cooper: Guitar, Vocals
Joel Hamilton: Guitar Vocals
Dave Curran: Bass, Vocals
Jim Paradise: Drums

Players Club got together in Brooklyn, 1999. Each of the four guys were playing in other bands—guitarist Joel Hamilton in Shiner and Glazed Baby; bassist Dave Curran in Unsane; drummer and namesake Jim J. Paradise in Kill Van Kull with singer Cooper. (Those are the main bands—you’ll also find such bands as Book of Knots, Get On Get On, Made Out Babies, Die 116 and Glazed Baby on their resumes). The idea was simple: let’s start a band and play.

Where other bands were only too happy to slip into a category and work within its constraints, the J.J. Paradise Players Club—as they were initially known, desired boundless simplicity: they wanted to make their music, their way but keep that definition dynamic, ever-changing.

Players Club made its recorded debut in 2001 with the J.J. Paradise Players Club EP and the full-length Wine Cooler Blowout (both on Tee Pee Records). The band toured hard in support of both, hitting Austin’s annual South-by-Southwest festival and the stoner rock festival Emissions from the Monolith. In 2002, they released the tour-only Clean EP on Paradise’s own Handikraft label and, naturally, kept touring. In 2003, they signed with Seattle’s Dead Teenager Records and Red Devil Management (Zeke, Speedealer) and released the acclaimed Regenesis in February 2004.