Side Walk Slam

{{short description|Rock band}} {{Multiple issues| {{Notability|music|date=September 2020}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2021}} }} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist  | name = Side Walk Slam | image = | caption = | image_size = | background = group_or_band | alias = | origin = Carmi, Illinois <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/music/Run_Kid_Run_The_punk_rockers_progress_to_a_more_pop_friendly_sound/45956/p1/|title=Run Kid Run: The punk rockers progress to a more pop friendly sound - Run Kid Run|website=www.crossrhythms.co.uk}}</ref> | genre = Punk rock, pop punk, skate punk | years_active = 1998–2003 | label = Tooth & Nail, Boot to Head | website = | current_members = | past_members = David Josiah Curtis<br>Neil Endicott<br>Matt Jackson<br>Marcuss Hall<br>Kevin Hobby }}

'''Side Walk Slam''' was an American three-piece punk rock band, that would later form the band Run Kid Run. The band formed in Southern Illinois in a thriving local punk scene.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://highday.tripod.com/sidewalkslam.html|title=Side Walk Slam|website=highday.tripod.com}}</ref> Originally signed to Boot to Head Records,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boottohead.com/artist_sws.html|title=Boot to Head|website=www.boottohead.com}}</ref> the band was later picked up by Seattle's Tooth and Nail Records.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=http://classic.toothandnail.com/artists/175/Side_Walk_Slam/|title=Side Walk Slam|first=Tooth &|last=Nail|website=Tooth & Nail Records}}</ref> The band is named after the professional wrestling move of the same name, popularized by WCW wrestler, Booker T.<ref name="auto"/>

==History== Side Walk Slam began playing together around 1996, and began touring as a band in 1998. In 1999 they self-released their first album, ''Rock Anthems From The Midwest''. In 2000, the band signed with Boot to Head Records and released ''2 Steps Forward, 5 Steps Back''. In July of that year, the band was set to tour with Kokomo, Indiana's Calibretto 13, who had recently been signed to Tooth and Nail Records. Side Walk Slam asked Calibretto to play a ten minute set at the beginning of Calibretto's Cornerstone Music Festival set. While the band played, Brandon Ebel of Tooth and Nail Records watched them from backstage, and signed them to Tooth and Nail.{{cite podcast | url= https://labeledpodcast.com/blog/swsrkr | title=CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE - SIDE WALK SLAM / RUN KID RUN | website=labeledpodcast.com | publisher= | host= | date= April 28, 2022 | time= | access-date= July 26, 2024 }}

The band worked with Bill Stevenson (Descendants/All) at the Blasting Room in Fort Collins, CO on all three studio albums for Tooth and Nail records. After the release of ''Give Back'', the band's first tour with Tooth and Nail, was with The Dingees and Ghoti Hook.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://labeledpodcast.com/blog/swsrkr | title=Caught in the Middle - Side Walk Slam / Run Kid Run | date=July 2022 }}</ref>

==Discography== *''...And We Drive'', 2003 (Tooth & Nail Records)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.punknews.org/review/2610/side-walk-slam-and-we-drive | title=Side Walk Slam - ...And We Drive | date=23 January 2004 }}</ref> *''Give Back'', 2002 (Tooth & Nail Records)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.punknews.org/review/1149/side-walk-slam-give-back | title=Side Walk Slam - Give Back | date=16 August 2002 }}</ref> *''Past Remains'', 2001 (Tooth & Nail Records)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/cdreviews/PastRemains.asp | title=Side Walk Slam, "Past Remains" Review }}</ref> *''2 Steps Forward, 5 Steps Back'', 2000 (Boot to Head Records) *''Rock Anthems From The Midwest'', 1999 (independent)

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==External links== *[http://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/artists/SideWalkSlam.asp Side Walk Slam | Jesusfreakhideout.com] Side Walk Slam band profile on Jesus Freak Hideout

Category:Tooth & Nail Records artists Category:Christian punk groups Category:American punk rock groups Category:Musical groups disestablished in 2003