Year of the Rabbit

Year of the Rabbit was Ken Andrews getting his hands dirty again. After his project ON came up short commercially, the former Failure frontman built a proper band: ON's touring drummer Tim Dow, late of Shiner and Season to Risk, brought in his friend Jeff Garber from National Skyline and Castor on lead guitar, and Solomon Snyder of Cupcakes and Dovetail Joint signed on for bass, both men adding backing vocals. ON had mostly been Andrews working alone; this was a four-piece, and it hit much harder, far closer to the old Failure roar.

The Hunted EP, home of "Rabbit Hole", went out only through CD Baby, iTunes and the band itself, and that was enough to get Elektra interested; the label released their self-titled album the following July. Then the ground shifted. Warner Music Group, Elektra's parent, changed hands in February 2004, Elektra got folded into Atlantic, and Year of the Rabbit were among the acts cut loose. Two months later Andrews posted on his website that the band was on indefinite hiatus. He went back to Failure when that band reunited in 2014.

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