No-Cash was an American

United States

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 punk rock

Punk rock

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 band that formed in 1999. No-Cash consisted of four members that were as follows: Big C (also known as Chris Cash) on lead vocals and guitar, Judd (lead guitar), The Fang (bass guitar), and Arms Of Fury (Kellen Hathaway) (drums). The latter three also performed backing vocals and have all adopted stage names as shown.
Despite constantly being compared to the Crack Rock Steady Seven and especially Leftöver Crack

Leftöver Crack

Leftöver Crack is an American punk rock band formed in 1998, following the breakup of the ska punk band Choking Victim. Primarily playing an amalgam of ska and hardcore punk, they classify themselves as "crack-rocksteady". The band is currently signed to Fat Wreck Chords for CD releases, and...

 due to musical and lyrical similarities, No-Cash originated in Pennsylvania rather than New York and as such had its own unique members. In 2005, No-Cash disbanded due to "differences within the band" – their website went down and no further explanation was ever given.

History

No-Cash was formed in 1999 in Nazareth, Pennsylvania under Big C, No-Cash's frontman and guitarist. The band began playing locally and soon attracted the attention of the nearby Crack Rock Steady scene in NYC. No-Cash gained even more popularity after releasing a split with Team Spider entitled Summertime In The City. This split was produced by Stza of Leftöver Crack. In 2004, the band released their first (and only) full length album under VMS records, entitled Run Your Pockets

Run Your Pockets

Run Your Pockets is an album from ska punk band No-Cash, released on August 12, 2003. It was their first and only full-length album. The song "Wilkes-Booth Style", along with a picture of U.S...

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That same year, the band broke up under uncertain circumstances. Big C then switched his stage name to MC Devlin and formed a reggae

Reggae

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/hip hop

Hip hop

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 band called The Mad Conductor with producer Dan McKinney, who worked with the band on their split album

Split album

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 with Team Spider.

Legacy

Even though No-Cash had a very short run, the music they have released is still widely celebrated in the punk community and especially by fans of the Crack Rock Steady Seven. Based in industrial Nazareth, Pennsylvania, No-Cash was able to send a direct message through their lyrics to those living in hostile environments and create an understanding. Much like bands coming from the Crack Rock Steady Seven, lyrical topics were anti-racism, anti-religion, anti-authority, etc. but sometimes even covered topics such as domesticity and education since during the band's run all the members were high school age.

Big C's bandmates in No-Cash have always been somewhat mysterious. Aside from their stage names and instruments, their information (real names, whereabouts, current projects, etc.) is not readily available on the internet. There are many people who are actively searching for information about Judd, The Fang, and Arms of Fury, in order to know if they have joined/made other bands or whatever else may have become of them.
Having since moved from the Nazareth, PA area, Big C, now known as MC Devlin, is the frontman for The Mad Conductor.
As of 2011, all of No-Cash's recorded material is available through iTunes

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. Say-10 Records will also be releasing a compilation consisting of the Annihilation Of The Nation EP, O.G. Demo and rarities at some point in Spring 2011.

Other Releases

• Summertime In The City (Split W/ Team Spider) (2001)
• One Man's Trash Comp. (2004) ("Cashless And Pathetic (Live)")