THE REBIRTH: BOY HITS CAR REUNION TOUR AND NEW VIDEO

Of all the reunions to take place over the past few years — At the Gates, Carcass, Refused, Sanctuary, Convulse, Quicksand, etc — the regrouping of Los Angeleno quintet Boy Hits Car has got to be one of the strangest. Boy Hits Car were an odd group to begin with — not quite nu-metal, not quite alternate, not quite punk, but with elements of all of those — which might be why so many people dug ’em; they were one of those bands that never quite fit into any one scene. BHC fans reveal themselves in the unlikeliest of places; just the other day I was talking to a dude who listens to Throatplunger on the regs, and when the conversation somehow turned to Boy Hits Car he goes, “Oh yeah, that band is rad!”

Boy Hits Car announced a fall reunion tour with Exotic Animal Petting Zoo last month (dates below), and though I haven’t heard anything about them making a new record they’ve decided to release a new music video for the song “Dreams (Of Foreign Metabolic Circumstance),” from their fourth full-length album Stealing Fire, I suppose as a vehicle to help promote the tour. Peep it:

Listen to Boy Hits Car on Spotify. Their self-titled 2001 jam is my fave.

10/12 Colorado Springs, CO – Sunshine Studios
10/13 North Platte, NE – Sculleys Shooters
10/14 Des Moines, IA – House Of Bricks
10/15 Iowa City, IA – TBA
10/16 Sauget, IL – Pops
10/17 Joliet, IL – Mojoes
10/18 Fort Wayne, IN – Hammerheads
10/19 Flint, MI – The Machine Shop
10/20 Dayton, OH – McGuffys House Of Rock
10/21 Mansfield, OH – Planet Rock
10/22 Toledo, OH – Frankies
10/23 Cleveland, OH – Peabodys
10/24 Altoona, PA – Aldos
10/25 Buffalo, NY – Broadway Joes
10/26 Syracuse, NY – Monirae’s
10/27 Utica, NY – Pier’s And Blake
10/28 Albany, NY – Bogies
10/29 Springfield, VA – Empire
10/30 Fayetteville, NC – The Rock Shop
11/01 Columbia, SC – TBA
11/02 Johnson City, TN – Capones
11/03 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
11/04 Birmingham, AL – TBA
11/05 Nashville, TN – Hard Rock Cafe

-VN