| ABOUT CODEFENDANTS Sam King from Get Dead’s graffiti crew were giving tattoos and making flash art to raise money to help rapper Ceschi Ramos when he was in prison. Months later they met at the Gilman Street Project in Berkeley, California. They bonded, talking about their love of hip-hop and punk rock, over a bottle of Jameson. They didn’t know it yet, but they had just started Codefendants. They began recording songs two years later in Los Angeles with Fat Mike from NOFX as producer. Soon after Fatty joined the band, they decided to make an album that sounded like nothing else – a completely genre-fluid album – a cross between hip hop, new-wave, flamenco, and the Beatles. And thus a whole new genre – Crime Wave was born. That album will be released via Fat Wreck imprint, Bottles To The Ground, this year (more news on that to come soon). The group filmed a five- song video series that will probably not be seen on YouTube due to the subject matter, but will be available at thisiscrimewave.com. The short movie, written by Fat Mike and made up of the five music videos, features the legendary rapper DOC, N8NOFACE, 2Mex, and Stacey Dee from Bad Cop / Bad Cop. All that Fat Mike has to say about the new Codefendants album is, ”Get ready for the best aural sex of your life.” | 
