No Surrender to Release Medicine Babies
(ZerOKilled Music, Fall 2010)

Free MP3 of “Godda Get It,” Feat. Radioclit
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Band to Preview Tracks from New LP
June 24th @ Cameo in Brooklyn

No stranger to the New York underground scene, No Surrender is gearing up to release their intricate sophomore effort Medicine Babies (ZerOKilled Music, Fall 2010). Blending hip-hop, electro, soul, synth-pop, and indie-rock, No Surrender’s spanning sound is genre-bending. Enlisting European production team Radioclit, Tunde Adebimpe (TV On The Radio), New York fixture DJ Monica Sharp, and former Tricky muse Costanza, their guests are equally as diverse, and equally as interesting.

No Surrender’s members, Seraphim, Steeples, and Gnomad, banded together during the 90s, co-hosting the famous Revenge of The Muse parties at venues such as Brownies, CBGB’s Gallery, and Baby Jupiter, before Guiliani’s New York took its stronghold. Sharing the stage with Mike Ladd, Antipop Consortium, Stiffed (Santigold’s former band), and Apollo Heights, they proved to be a New York staple.

After self-releasing their critically lauded debut, White Power Black Magic, No Surrender was put on hold when Eddie Steeples became a permanent cast member on NBC’s "My Name Is Earl," playing Darnell/Crabman. Putting unfinished tracks on the back burner, Seraphim participated in different projects (including guesting on tracks for Evil Nine and Infesticons) until Steeples finished filming. Picking up right where they left off, but adding years of experience and influences, No Surrender took on producer Costanza Francavilla to finish Medicine Babies in the ZerOKilled studio in Brooklyn.

The first single from Medicine Babies is “Godda Get It”, featuring production by Radioclit.

No Surrender will be previewing tracks from Medicine Babies at Cameo in Brooklyn on Thursday, June 24th.

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No Surrender Bio

No Surrender is a staple on New York’s underground scene. Lording over now shuttered, legendary Lower East Side venues like Brownies, CBGB’s Gallery, and Baby Jupiter, they stepped onto the scene as co-hosts of the Revenge of The Muse parties, one of the first monthlies to bring together alt-rap, rock and dance. They shared the stage with other innovators of the late 90s/early 00s scene like Mike Ladd, Antipop Consortium, Stiffed (Santigold’s former band), and Apollo Heights. Members Seraphim, Steeples, and Gnomad quickly became known for their fiery performances and hypnotically awkward sound.

As their rep grew, Seraphim began popping up as a guest vocalist on tracks by underground legends like Vast Aire of Cannibal Ox, Crunc Tesla and The Majesticons. He was also pulled by avant garde composer Ras Mesinai (the legal name of ROIR’s electro-dub star Badawi) to co-star in the acclaimed theater piece Myth of Nations which did stints at The Kitchen (NYC) and Il Teatro San Giorgi in Sicily.

In 2003, the crew offered up their first self-released CD, White Power Black Magic, a collage of dissonance, off-beat drum patterns and fierce lyricism. Subculture bible VICE Magazine hailed the debut “your new favorite shit.” With nods of approval from the critics and the alt-rap scene, the crew was poised to become a major force in electronic music…and then fate struck.

Eddie Steeples, was picked up by NBC to become a permanent cast member of Jason Lee’s cult comedy hit My Name Is Earl. The unfinished album they were working on got shelved, and the band was put on hold.

Steeple’s unplanned TV stardom didn’t break the crew apart, however. In 2007, while in London, the guys hooked up with Seraphim’s good friend Johan of London’s Radioclit (The Very Best). A musical alliance was formed between the crews, and No Surrender was re-born across the pond.

That summer, they wrangled a spot for the 2007 Afropunk Block Party. Overwhelming crowd reaction spurred Seraphim to begin producing material for a new album. In the studio, he enlisted friends like TV on the Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe and the aforementioned Radioclit to help craft their opus.

A chance meeting with dubstep hero FreQ Nasty (co-producer of Santigold’s breakthrough hit “Creator”) led them to former Tricky muse Costanza Francavilla’s ZerOKilled studio. Camped out in the DUMBO studio, they pieced together the upcoming album Medicine Babies a seamless blend of electro-punk, dance and alt-rap certain to drag No Surrender out of the underground and into the spotlight.

2010 will be an exceptionally busy year for the band as Seraphim also plays a prominent role on this summer’s Infesticons album Bedford Park coming out on Big Dada/Ninja Tune. The album has already garnered rave reviews from MOJO (4/5 rating), UNCUT and promises there will be no calm before the coming storm when No Surrender’s long-awaited album drops. ‘Phim also has a role in the upcoming film Lifted directed by Lexi Alexander (Greenstreet Hooligans), marking another nod of approval from Hollywood for the No Surrender crew. All this…and the story is just beginning. With the coming of Medicine Babies, everyone will learn the underground’s best-kept secret. And the guys will be more than happy to fill the prescriptions.