There are few bands in the Boston indie music scene right now as abuzz as Dinoczar. The trio of garage-punk rockers recently signed to Northeastern University’s Green Line Records and released their debut EP Ghouls.
The band started out in Laguna Beach, hometown to members Aaron Swartz and Paul Dunne. While attending high school together, they drifted into the same circle of jam sessions and realized that the two had some great musical chemistry between them. In 2011, the two moved to Boston to attend Northeastern, all the while recording demos with basic music equipment. It wasn’t until a student organization was putting on a local artist showcase in October 2013 that the duo decided to actually perform the songs they had written. The only issue was that they were one member short so they scooped up bassist Jake Cardinal and had officially become Dinoczar. One week after performing at the artist showcase on campus, the trio signed to Green Line.
Throughout college, however, Aaron and Paul traveled often, interning in various cities. Aaron spent a semester in London, then LA, now San Francisco and Paul spent a few months working in Austin, TX. All the moving around has made it difficult for the three to stay cohesive. Their method of recording and sharing ideas is basically recording beats and riffs on an iPhone voice recorder and sending the files back on forth, evolving the idea with each send. They believe that most software is too complicated to record with, especially when thousands of miles away from one another. However, when playing in the same room, Dinoczar has been able to officially complete entire songs in just a few days.
The band will be together again in Boston later this year so expect some fun and fuzzy songs coming your way. Until then, check out Ghouls on iTunes, Spotify or Bandcamp, as well as the freshly uploaded “Phonic Disaster”.
