Biography

The sandpaper grit of their guitars, the tight interplay of their jazz-trained rhythm section, and the vocal dynamics of Chuck Ragan and Chris Wollard are the ingredients that make Hot Water Music a singular entity in post-hardcore. In a career that spanned the tail end of the '90s into the new millennium, they made some of the most tuneful and engaging music in the genre. The raw emotion and subtle pop touches ensured that their albums were never rote exercises in tough-guy riffing. With plans to reunite soon, Hot Water Music continue to carry the torch for the thinking man’s hardcore.

Top Tracks

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• God Deciding

• I Was On A Mountain

• Keep It Together

• Kill The Night

• My Little Monkey Wrench

• No Surrender

• Our Own Way

• Radio

• Rooftops

• Russian Roulette

• The End Of The Line

• The Sense

• We'll Say Anything We Want

• While You're Waiting

Discography

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• The New What Next

  Epitaph

  2004

• Caution

  Epitaph

  2002

• Alkaline Trio/Hot Water Music [Split CD]

  Jade Tree Records

  2002

• A Flight and a Crash

  Epitaph

  2001

• No Division

  Some Records

  1999

• Live at the Hardback

  No Idea

  1999

• Fuel for the Hate Game

  No Idea

  1998

• Forever and Counting

  Doghouse

  1997