In September 2003 Hijack the Disco leapt onto the San Francisco Bay Area music scene seeking dark spaces and friendly faces. With angular rhythms, double barbed melodies, and dueling vocals, hijack has a strangle-hold on an unconventional, largely unexplored yet surprisingly accessible piece of Americana. Since inception to the Bay Area, they have toured to and been banned from the country of Canada, been garnished by positive press, done releases on DVD and CD compilations, lent songs to a documentary film, and released both a 5 song EP called "Working Is Easy" and a split 7" single on their own home-run label, The Restless Press.

Brian (Fraser) and Chris (Palmatier) are two guys who met in Chapel Hill, NC. Their ongoing musical collaboration started with an improvised dub/post-rock outfit that shared a stage with the likes of 5ive Style and Eugene Chadbourne. After moving to San Francisco, their work coalesced into brian_and_chris, a project that has churned out 3 full-length records and a 12" ep, all of which share one thing: instrumental music that combines the structures and sound manipulation of electronic music with the instrumentation of rock. Live, B and C have added two players, visuals synchronized to the music, and, of course, volume. Comparisons have ranged from Boards of Canada to Polvo to Tortoise, though in truth they only sound like themselves...


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