Biography
Singer/songwriter Mark Lind spent his earliest years in Melrose, Massachusetts, until his parents separated, at which point the family left suburban life for Charlestown, the largely Irish Catholic section of Boston. With his brother Rob, Lind soon immersed himself in the city’s insular punk and hardcore circles. In 1995 he co-founded the Ducky Boys alongside Jason Messina, serving as the group’s frontman and bassist while issuing the street-punk albums No Gettin’ Out in 1997 and Dark Days in 1998 on GMM Records. The band earned strong local respect, yet it dissolved in 1999 after additional demos and songs had been prepared but never issued. Lind next joined forces with Rob—who had already established himself on guitar and vocals in the nihilistic hardcore act Blood for Blood—under the name Sinners & Saints, producing the 2002 release The Sky Is Falling. The siblings soon pursued separate paths once more: Rob launched the hardcore band Ramallah, while Mark aligned himself with Dirty Water, a project stylistically close to the Ducky Boys, which delivered a self-titled EP in 2003. Restless to front his own group again, Lind revived the Ducky Boys late that year, resulting in the well-received albums Three Chords and the Truth (2004) and The War Back Home (2006). The band’s profile remained largely confined to Boston because it opted against extensive touring in support of the later material. During this period Lind also began solo work, favoring a lean, acoustic-driven approach shaped by songwriters such as Joe Strummer, Bruce Springsteen, and Paul Westerberg. His debut solo album, Death or Jail, appeared on Sailor’s Grave Records in 2006 and was followed a year later by the EP Compulsive Fuck Up. In early 2007 he again disbanded the Ducky Boys to devote fuller attention to his individual projects.
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