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J Church Links

If you Google "J Church" you'll get over 30,000 results. Many are nothing to do with the band and most of the relevant ones are record stores and distros who have (or had) a couple of albums or singles. The best of the most relevant links are listed here. Please get in touch if you find any new, changed or dead URLs.

Obviously your first stop, if you haven't already been, should be Lance's Honey Bear Records site. This includes his distro, label and band news, a history of his pre-J Church bands and more.

Back in the mists of time (well, 1997-2000), the predecessor of j-church.com was on a Tripod freespace address and there are still a few links to it around - near the top of the Google search above, for a start. Don't bother clicking on them, you'll only get redirected back here. Other J Church sites no longer with us were at blacklist.com (Lance's original, circa 1994-5) and AOL (a short-lived fan site from around 1998).

Many labels have released J Church songs over the years but a lot no longer exist (most significantly, Allied Recordings). Those that can still be found online are:

Snuffy Smile Records have released several J Church singles and albums but they don't have a website or even a public email address so you'll have to write a letter (remember those?) to: 4-1-16-201 Daita / Setagaya-Ku / Tokyo 155-0033 / Japan. Everything they release rocks, so make sure you check it all out.

A Minor Forest featured sometime J Church drummer Andee. Despite its title, this site is not by Lance.
Annalise shared a split single with J Church
Beck had Lance as his touring guitarist in '94/5, J Church covered his song Asshole
Bis's singer Manda appeared on four songs on Cat Food
Cringer, Lance and Gardner's pre-J Church band, a fan site but it's been inactive since at least 2000.
Cringer as described by Lance
Discount shared a split single with J Church
Faye Wong, as in I Want To See...
Fluf shared a split single with J Church
Jawbreaker came out of the same Bay Area scene, Adam played drums for J Church over two separate periods.
Less Than Jake shared a split single with J Church
Minority Blues Band shared a split single with J Church
Monsula were part of the original Bay Area pop-punk crowd; Lance played in one of their line-ups, Gardner did some of their artwork
Nothing Cool feature Jeff, the bass player on One Mississippi
Petrograd shared a split single with J Church
The Moons were Adam's other band at the time of his second stint with J Church

The Austin American-Statesman has a lengthy 'on the road' piece covering six days of the Summer 2003 tour.
Giant Robot did a short interview with Lance just before the Summer 2003 tour
Agouti Music interview w/Lance after One Mississippi came out.
Give Me That Ass & I'll Slap It! zine interviewed Lance in early 2001 about both J Church and Cringer
Friend Of The Devil e-zine has an excellent and fairly lengthy piece w/Lance
Waste Of Mind has an interview from December 2000 and several reviews, all of which are in German

Being Lance's own label, Honey Bear carries quite a few singles and albums, as well as his non-J Church distro. You can also usually contact the labels direct - Broken and Damaged Goods have released a lot and still have much of it in stock, Crackle! only released one single but usually has others for sale. Many other online stores claim to have J Church-related iitems but it's impossible to verify or keep track of all the search engine links. The list below - for information only, not endorsements - includes some obvious major stores but also aims for a geographic spread.

The All Music Guide has entries for both J Church and Lance (you have to search, it's not linkable directly)
Arizona live show picture gallery featuring the J Church / DFI / Storm The Tower show in Club Modified, Phoenix on 25 July 2003
Hawaiian Punk Museum run by Dave, Cringer's original drummer, includes the first ever MRR scene report from Hawaii (written by Lance in pre-Cringer days) and lots of information on Lance and Gardner's early bands
In-store show pics from Sound On Sound records in Austin on 19 May 2005
Photos from the 2004 London gig at a Swedish site
Punk rock picture gallery from Scotland has nine photos from the November 2000 show in Glasgow
Punk lyrics page includes Tide Of Fate and some Cringer tracks
Snakepit zine is a cartoon diary by and about Ben, J Church's bass player