Skin Jump, Happy Ending

New Haven bands Skin Jump and Happy Ending share the bill at Best Video Film & Cultural Center on Sat., Nov. 14. The show starts at 7 PM and the cover is $10. Tickets Skin Jump refers to the feeling when you become so immersed in a story you jump into the skin of the character. Connor Rog, Reena Yu, Owen Bigler, and Billy Scovill have discovered the power to become rock n roll alchemists, transporting themselves into stories from different universes and translating them through song. Their first story is set in days of old about a warrior who fights evil, named Ironheart. Enjoy a full play through of Skin Jump’s first psych-rock concept album. Happy Ending has released three albums. The most recent, “Electricity for the Youth of Today,” was recorded live at Best Video Performance Space in December of 2013. The vinyl LP and 45 “Have A Nice Day” came out in 1984 and the compact disc “Smile for the Camera” in 1996. John Foster, editor of Op Magazine, described “Have A Nice Day” in 1984 as a “future cult item for the collectors.” Happy Ending is currently recording new material at InnerSpaceSoundLabs in Durham with engineer Scott Amore. In the music magazine The Big Takeover, editor Jack Rabid wrote of the remastered (by audio engineer Greg DiCrosta) reissue of Happy Ending's first record: “40 years ago underground Connecticut rock thrived, with punk ’n’ roll (Reducers), hardcore (C.I.A.), indie rock, neo-psych, etc., while this New Haven outfit led by guitarist/singers Hank Hoffman and Jay Mundy sidestepped tags on their 1983 long, strange trip of a protest album. Reissued, HaND!—like that acronym?—provides stylistic abundance, beginning with the still-regrettably-relevant ‘Armageddon Dread’’s combination of Chuck Berry/pub rock with the similar moves and sociopolitical consciousness of Back in the USA MC5 (lyrics such as ‘Government and capital are locked in death embrace’). ‘So Blind’ is a hippy-indie refresh of The Band, ‘Sleepwaltzing’ is first album Buffalo…