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Shutdown release new EP ‘By Your Side’

Legendary independent New York-based rock label Equal Vision Records and Shutdown are excited to announce the release of ‘By Your Side’, the NYHC institution’s brand new, six-song EP and first offering of new material in 25 years. A collection of passionate songs that are fueled by the same fiery intensity of the band’s youth but imbued and inspired by an outlook, worldview and wisdom that only comes with age and time, ‘By Your Side’ transcends the genre and shows how effectively the band can write songs that appeal beyond the confines of the scene.

Additionally, Shutdown has released ‘What Are You Thinking?’ today, a new single inspired by bassist Dion DeNardo’s son being diagnosed with autism, and a song that confronts and comes to terms with the challenges that this diagnosis posed for him. â€śThat diagnosis taught Dion and even myself — because my oldest son is on the autism spectrum — to open ourselves up and learn more about who we are as people, especially compared to what we were taught when we were kids,” says vocalist Mark Scondotto

While it’s a song that slots seamlessly into the Shutdown canon, it’s also one that obviously couldn’t have been written when the band first began. As if to drive that point home, it ends with all the band members’ children singing its chorus over an acoustic guitar. It’s the quietest moment on the EP but also its most powerful; not only does it demonstrate how well the band’s message resonates, but it serves as a symbolic passing of the torch to the next generation. 

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