The Multi-Purpose Solution

The Multi-Purpose Solution

The Multi-Purpose Solution performing live at The Lumberyard in Nutley, New Jersey 2013.
Background information
Origin Jersey City, New Jersey
Genres Rock, art punk
Years active 1999 (1999)
Labels Mint 400 Records
Website themultipurposesolution.com
Members Dave Caldwell
Alan Ten Hoeve
Stephen Mejias
Dan Prochilo
Pete Prochilo

The Multi-Purpose Solution are a five-piece rock band from Jersey City, New Jersey signed to Mint 400 Records.[1] Their music has been characterized by guttural vocals and piercing guitars.[2]

History

In 1999 guitarist Stephen Mejias and vocalist Pete Prochilo met while studying abroad in England, both college seniors attending Fairleigh Dickinson University. Upon returning to the United States, the two enlisted Prochilo's brother Dan Prochilo and friend Dave Caldwell. The Multi-Purpose Solution were a four-piece band for several years before recruiting their friend Alan Ten Hoeve, a bass-player.[3] According to Mejias, shortly after Hoeve joined they began focusing more on songwriting, practicing at an all-purpose space in Jersey City and playing local venues, such as Hoboken's Maxwell's.[3][4] Between 2001 and 2005 The Multi-Purpose Solution released a few EPs and two full-length albums and they appeared on the Weird NJ compilation Local Heroes, Villains, and Artists in 2004.[5] They released How Can a Man Be Tougher Than the World? in 2005, considered by The Star-Ledger's Tris McCall to be The Multi-Purpose Solution's "moody, deranged magnum opus."[1] Later that year, the members took a hiatus,[3] playing their last show for five years in 2006.[5]

In November 2011, The Multi-Purpose Solution reunited to play Maxwells with several other Mint 400 acts.[5][3] They appeared on Mint 400 Records 2013 compilation of the Beach Boys album Pet Sounds, covering "Sloop John B."[2]

Discography

References

  1. 1 2 McCall.
  2. 1 2 Pirate! Radio.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Hortillosa.
  4. ↑ The New York Times.
  5. 1 2 3 Mejias.

Online sources

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