shift

Shift started in New York City, some time around 1990, when we were freshmen and sophmores in high school. Our initial goal was to get our friends to dance during the "mosh parts" of our songs at the high school talent show. They did and we knew we were on to something.



We started to play clubs around town, and recorded a pair of demo tapes that we sold at shows. Soon we signed to Equal Vision Records and released "Pathos" in 1994 and "Spacesuit" in 1995. Next we moved to Columbia Records and put out "Get In" in 1997 before breaking up in 1998.



We toured the U.S. numerous times and Europe twice. We were proud to share the stage with Quicksand, Sick Of It All, Jawbox, Rocket From the Crypt, Foo Fighters, The Offspring, Clutch, Tad, Texas Is The Reason, Shelter, Into Another, Burn, Orange 9mm, 108, Civ, Earth Crisis, The Promise Ring, NOFX, Face To Face, L7, Our Lady Peace, Supertouch, Endpoint, Avail, Killing Time, Local H, Stillsuit, Mind Over Matter and many many other great bands over the years.



Samantha has gone on to play drums for Hole, Motley Crue, Eagles of Death Metal and currently, Peaches.



Josh formed Big Collapse and released 2 albums. He has new project in the works.



We still hear, from time to time, that we were an influential band. while other people have forgotten or maybe never knew we existed. Either way we had a lot of fun. We made this page to reconnect with old friends and fans.