Measure Up

If Measure Up was a classic TV game show, guitarist and vocalist Alex Babineau says that Halifax straight-edge hardcore punk band would be Hollywood Squares, “but we’d only play as the Xs.” Members of Measure Up had been hoping to put together a straight-edge band for awhile but needed enough people to do it (are there straight-edge classifieds?). Brought together through mutual friends, Babineau, Jason Savoie, Ryan Hull and Braeden Kaulback started making super-heavy fast mosh tracks, and released two demos, one of which was recorded at super-HQ studios at the NSCC.

Babineau says there’s isn’t much musical distinction between straight-edge punk and punk. “But lyrically and from an ideological standpoint, it’s common for a straight-edge band to sing about the lifestyle, the positives derived from living a drug-free life, the ills of substance abuse and unity within the scene,” he says. “We write about what we know and what we hold dear to us. While some bands will preach about straight-edge being the only way to live, we write about the positive effects we’ve seen in our lives from living this way.”

<a href="http://measurexup.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2014" target="_blank">Demo 2014 by MEASURE X UP</a>