Why Can't Hollywood Come Up With Original Stories?

In addition to playing some killer hard rocking bands, this week Lou and Kevin go on a little off topic rant about Hollywood's compulsion to remake classic films. The boys talk about the good the bad and the ugly in the remake world and also give a sneak peak at what classic films are slated for the remake process.  Featured Artists Ash Grunwald,  Blameshift,  Dirty Streets

Ash Grunwald

Ash Grunwald, loved for his crowd frenzied shows and blistering guitar playing, has critics and fans raving about his unique blend of roots, beats and a whole lotta groove for over a decade. Nominated for a swag of awards and winning a few, Ash proves why he is one of Australia’s most loved bluesmen.

Management 

Graham Ashton - Footstomp Music

asho@footstompmusic.com

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BOOKINGS

AUSTRALIA & NZ

Harry Moore

123 Agency

harry@123agency.com.au

BOOKINGS - USA 

Jeremy Holgersen - The Agency Group 

jeremyholgersen@theagencygroup.com

BOOKINGS - CANADA

Darcy Gregoire 

The Agency Group 

(416)368-5599 x 3247

2 Berkeley St. Suite 202

Toronto, ON M5A 4J5

darcygregoire@theagencygroup.com

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PUBLISHING

Mushroom Publishing

www.mushroommusic.com.au​

PUBLICITY - AUSTRALIA

Mel Bampton - Bampton Media

melbampton@gmail.com

PUBLICITY - USA

Laura Goldfarb - Red Boot PR

laura@redbootpr.com

PUBLICITY - CANADA 

Heather Kitching 

heather@heatherkitching.com

General Manager

info@ashgrunwald.com

Press Contact

info@ashgrunwald.com

Blameshift

Blood, Sweat, Tears…and more sweat! For the four members of Blameshift, those words are much more than a cliche, they are real life. The story of Blameshift is as much about overcoming obstacles, letting go of fears, heartbreak and redemption as it is about the music we make. No one ever said it would be easy…but no one could have ever known just how challenging it would be. 

We have toured this country relentlessly for the last 5 years on nothing but hopes, dreams, determination and veggie oil (for a short period). We listened on as we were called crazy and told to give it up. We worked for every piece of equipment, every show, every fan, every dollar we ever made as a band. Resourceful became our middle name. We booked 200 + shows a year by ourselves for 4 years straight. We sold everything we owned to buy our first bus and record our music. We turned that same shuttle bus into a mini RV and have done so 2 other times. We worked 20 hours a day making contacts and honing our craft. We stood our ground as many of our comrades fell from the pressure. We showed our resiliency after the loss of key members and subsequently the loss of hope. We've been on top of the world and at rock bottom all in the same day. We should have changed our name numerous times but miraculously never lost that faith in our one and only love, Blameshift. We grew…we made mistakes…we learned…we never took no for an answer…we turned nothing into something.

As an independent band we have accomplished more than we could have ever imagined. We landed endorsements with the biggest music companies in the world like PRS Guitars, Ampeg, Sennheiser, Schecter Guitars, GHS Strings & Bogner Amps as well as COLDCOCK Whiskey, Venue Magic and Sullen Clothing. We have toured alongside and shared the stage with bands like Pop Evil, Adelita's Way, Sick Puppies, Straight Line Stitch, 12 Stones and Black Stone Cherry to name just a few. We've lived in Los Angeles for months at a time, writing and recording songs with our producer and mentor, Erik Ron (Panic At The Disco, Good Charlotte, We Came As Romans). We have landed dates on the Vans Warped Tour. Our music has been played on TV shows on MTV, Oxygen, E! Network and more. Our songs have charted on Active Rock Radio Charts. Our music has been played on Sirius XM as well as hundreds of other radio stations nationally and internationally. Our dedication, hard work and tenacity continues to pay off.

The journey has only begun for us. With the addition of a new rhythm section there is a fire that seems to burn brighter than the four of us can see. They are the missing pieces that have finally secured and finished this puzzle. What the future holds is endless. Music has never been just about the aural sound that it makes but more about the feelings, emotions and unity that it brings. Our fans are not only friends but family too. We want to share our story with as many people as possible and continue to do what we set out to do. 

Join us for the ride…wherever it goes! 

Blameshift

ADD/FOLLOW US

Jenny Mann - Lead Vocals - https://www.facebook.com/jennyblameshift

Tim Barbour - Guitar/Vocal - https://www.facebook.com/timblameshift

Dirty Streets

Genre

Soul/Blues/Rock

Members

Thomas Storz

Justin Toland

Andrew Denham

Hometown

Memphis, TN

Record Label

Alive NaturalSound/Kozmik Artifactz

About

Our new album "White Horse" is available now on Alive Naturalsound Records.

Biography

The Dirty Streets are a young band from the Memphis area who are an obvious product of digging on the likes of MC5, Rolling Stones, James Brown, Cactus, Humble Pie & the Faces.

Current Location

Soulsville, USA

Influences

Deep Purple, Grand Funk, Pretty Things, James Gang, the Byrds, Sly & the Family Stone, CCR, Leafhound, Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Mountain, King Crimson, Blue Cheer, Free

Press Contact

Tony Bonyata (tony@pavementpr.com)

Booking Agent

US - Angela Mapes 

(angela@tonedeaftouring.com)

EU - Carmen Lamparter

(carmen@blackpikefavorites.com)

Back In Black: One of the Greatest Hard Rock Heavy Metal Albums of All Time

Lou and Katie take you all the way back to 1980 for the release AC/DC's tour de'force; Back In Black. With 6 of the 10 tracks in heavy radio rotation, AC/DC demonstrated to the world that heavy rock is alive and well and here to stay.  Featuring Stitched Up Heart , One-Eyed Doll  , Thundermother

Stitched Up Heart

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER TOUR DATES WITH ICON FOR HIRE CONFIRMED!

We are very pleased to announce the newly confirmed dates for our upcoming tour with our friends Icon For Hire.

Speaking for the band Mixi comments:

“Icon For Hire is a band at the top of our bucket list to tour with. We’ve looked up to them for a while now and blast their music on plenty of long drives. We pretty much all freaked out when we found out that we got the tour. This is going to make us and a lot of mutual fans very happy.”

10/13 Jackson, MI The Foundry

10/14 Indianapolis, IN The Emerson Theater

10/15 Columbus, OH Double Happiness

10/16 Louisville, KY The New Vintage

10/20 Merriam, KS Aftershocklive Musicvenue

10/21 Memphis, TN Hi Tone

10/22 Nashville, TN Exit/In

10/27 Chicago, IL Beat Kitchen

10/28 Springfield, IL Boondocks

10/29 Burnsville, MN THE GARAGE

11/4 Atlanta, GA Center Stage – The Loft – Vinyl

11/5 Charlotte, NC The Rabbit Hole

11/7 New York, NY The Studio at Webster Hall

11/8 Cambridge, MA Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub

11/9 Philadelphia, PA Voltage Lounge

11/10 Washington, DC Songbyrd Music House & Record Cafe

Come rock with us on the road!

One-Eyed Doll

"TOP 20 MOST EXTRAORDINARY FEMALE GUITARISTS"

-Guitar Player Magazine

"Top 5 Most influential Women in Music" and "HOTTEST CHICK IN HARD ROCK"

-Revolver Magazine

"Raucous, in-your-face grunge rock that will kick your ass in a good way, just like the lead singer."

-Austin Soundcheck

"One-Eyed Doll pollinates the world with art."

-Otep Shamaya

 "The most important band of the 21st Century." 

-Kim Fowley, The Runaways

 "I've only seen two bands this year: Roger Waters and One-Eyed Doll; AND I SAW ONE-EYED DOLL TWICE.

- Dave Navarro, Jane's Addiction

Austin, Texas rock duo One-Eyed Doll have gained an exceptionally loyal and rapidly growing fan base since 2006 with consistent touring, a solid memorable live performance, and a DIY connection with the fans. The band's live set featuring just Kimberly Freeman on guitar and vocals and Jason Rufuss Sewell, AKA: "Junior" on drums, is an interactive fan-friendly experience that's both heavy/sinister and sweet/vulnerable. Their darkly humored, intense, sometimes quirky and theatrical rock and roll captures the hearts of metal, rock, goth and punk all-ages audiences night after night.

The band released their latest concept album, "Witches" with Standby Records and is planning a Summer tour of the USA. TOUR DATES

Thundermother

Thundermother started the summer 2010 in Växjö when the guitarist and southern swede Filippa Nässil wanted to play Rock'N'Roll. So with dreams and visions along with the song "Shoot to Kill" humming in her head she started Thundermother. She moved to Stockholm to pursue her dream.

She found her first partner in crime Giorgia Carteri in Stockholm who also followed her own dreams of playing music, coming all the way from Italy, though nowadays she's identified as one of the southern stockholm fellas.

After numerous ordeals with other musicians they have finally found the right group of people with right motives and Rock'N'Roll in their heart. Tilda Stenqvist on drums from Karlstad, Linda Ström from the Smålander woods and Clare Cunningham born and raised on Ireland, nowadays living in Stockholm.

They're having fun and it's noticeable on-stage. Pure enjoyment and Rock'N'Roll deep from their bones. Hardrock-girls from around the world now united to do one sole thing, to play together and travel on the roads.

Thundermother has been playing the Close-Up boat with Turbonegro and Candlemass, they were the opening act for Danko Jones on his Swedish Tour, they were the openers for Metaltown on the Blood Stage in the presence of thousands of people before Clutch and Graveyard, they had played with bands like Bonafide, The Scams & many many others. Thundermother did it themselves the hard way. Without a record they filled pubs and clubs to the brim and played at Sweden Rock Festival and will continue to tour! ROCK N ROLL IS ALIVE!

Loudini interviews Mega X Band

Tracked in an illegal Brooklyn apartment over a two year jaunt, the burnished urban organic art-rock of MXB, transmutes the listener's reality to madcap flights through a cosmic metropolis. Sounding like a glowing multi-colored back room of a dive bar, and you sitting there having imbibed some firey distillate, Diamond Hits mixes up a stylistic cocktail of back beat drum licks, distortion guitar groove, well turned lyrics and layered leather coat vocals. The wackjob behind MegaXBrand, solo recording artist Lester James, has humbly sought to create the great American art-rock masterpiece. Even if such a thing were possible one would first need to gain increased awareness of life, and so he began his endeavor with requisite beatnik trips to Europe, Japan and around the States.

 It was also necessary to delve into the worlds of poetry and literature with a reading list that includes among others, Jack Kerouac, Tolstoy, Kafka, Henry Miller, Anne Sexton, Shelley and T.S. Elliot. "You have to read before you write" quips Lester James. "I want to make the likes of van Gogh, Fellini, Beatles and Neil Young. To do that I needed to learn about the nature of beauty." No doubt a difficult task even for an entire band, LJ has drawn upon the excellence of groups such as, Pavement, Husker Du, The Pixies, The Feellies and of course The Velvet Underground to point him in the right direction. But where VU sings about transvestites and sado masochism, MXB channels the mystical reality of latenight Brooklyn streets, brownstone rooftop overlooks, subway station delerium and the thrumming energy of cosmopolis. Upon hearing MXB's concoction of sound one might think of early Beck crossed with Led Zeppelin; Or perhaps Mgmt's estranged older brother set out to combine the post punk genius of Xtc with futurist Aphex Twin. The careful listener will nevertheless discern something old, something new and the applied ethic of non-conformity. Directly, via sound and lyric, MegaXBrand seeks to communicate the enhanced state whereby human beings experience a more advanced and intense perception of the natural world (pause for effect). Track #7 "Love No Disconnection" tells of an early morning drive down NYC's racetrack like Jackie Robinson Parkway. The idea here is that the listener participates in the mystical journey that the song describes. Superimposed in the mind of the driver are images of the earth "slow revolving", "satellites low flying" and a morning blue twilight colored atmosphere. The juxtaposition of object size, car and planet and the relative speed of those objects along with a landscape washed in blue ether, in theory, conveys transcendental properties to the open mind. In keeping with the idea of a sonic pharmaceutical, track #2 "Thunder and Clover" attempts to energize the withered faculties of heart and mind through precise coloration of sound, suggestive lyric and what might be termed the "super lick". Contained in the opening chorus, the SL is composed of a lead guitar riff, a rhythm guitar progression and a punctuated bass line. Together the three layers form an evolved musical passage containing both melodic trickery and rhythmic counterpoint. The song also enhances listener state through it's lyrical content. The protagonist, on a leisurely stroll about the city park, is struck suddenly by a profound realization and asks, "What just happened?". Obscure yet poetic comparisons allude to a mysterious transaction between ground, sky, thunder and clover. The underlying meaning secretly points the way to open doorways of expanded perception. In this way MegaXBrand has sought to promote eco-beatnik sophistication and freedom from the stranglehold of the capitalist media dystopia. Hack musician L. James plays guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, writes and records all compositions. During his tenure in NYC he has endured muggings, break-ins, suicidal nervosa, a host of vampire frenz, the Kafka-esque city housing authority and worst of all, the mass infestation in NYC of artless yuppies. He claims, among other things, to routinely experience telepathy, precognition and to have had contact with extra-terrestrials. 

megaxbrand@yahoo.com

Loudini Interviews Ryan Kairalla

Ryan Kairalla is a lawyer, writer, podcaster, and teacher. He advises clients in the music industry on a wide range of entertainment and business matters including recording agreements, publishing agreements, management agreements, music licensing, media appearances, live performances, entertainment litigation, copyright and trademark counseling, and corporate matters. He has represented chart-topping hitmakers and up-and-coming musicians alike.

Ryan focuses much of his practice on advising independent musicians on their legal and business issues. His work as an “indie music lawyer” also extends to his writing and podcasting. His new book Break the Business: Declaring Your Independence and Achieving True Success in the Music Industry shines a light on the pitfalls that arise from record label contracts, and provides artists with helpful guidance on achieving music industry success on their own terms. He also hosts the Break the Business Podcast, a weekly discussion of entertainment law, independent music, and popular culture.

Ryan is a graduate of New York University School of Law where he received the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for Excellence in Entertainment Law. He is also a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Miami School of Business. He is licensed to practice in Florida, New York, and California.

Ryan lives in Miami, Florida.

Loudini Interviews Gene the Werewolf

Gene the Werewolf has never paid attention to trends. Nor has the Pittsburgh-

based quintet been part of a scene or the hipster's band of choice. They are iconoclasts by

virtue of their music, rock 'n' roll survivors in thrall to the genre's power and

energy. And they're damn good at it, even if they are a dying breed. "It's strange to

feel like you are one of the last of your own kind," says Gene, the band's dynamic

frontman and lead singer. Thus, "The Loner," Gene the Werewolf's third studio album. 

The band, formed in 2007, is comprised of 5 native Pittsburghers. With self-released albums "Light Me Up" and "Wicked Love" under their belts, as well as 2012's worldwide release of

"Rock 'n' Roll Animal" on Frontiers Records, the band is ready to deliver their

knockout blow with "The Loner". In a perfect world it's music that should be

blasting on car radios from Asbury Park to Hermosa Beach, on jukeboxes in

dives and biker bars. Posters of the hirsute Gene and his band mates--

guitarist Drew Donegan, bassist Tim Schultz, drummer Nick Revak and keyboard player Aaron Mediate--

should be on the walls of kids from Seattle to South Beach. Put

Gene the Werewolf on stage at the Whisky A Go-Go on the Sunset Strip or The

Troubadour in West Hollywood in 1989, and they'd kill. But times have changed.

These guys don't have access to a time machine. The next best thing is an album like

"The Loner" that takes you to those halcyon days when rock 'n' roll was hip

and cool and fearless. If you yearn for rock music that echoes Motley Crue, Alice Co

oper and Guns 'N Roses, with dashes of Whitesnake and Winger in the mix, "The Loner"

deserves your attention.

The album features 10 tracks of uniformly excellent quality. In a musical climate

dominated by drip-feeding content, single-by-single, the band still takes great pride in making a conventional album. "We wrote and demoed close to 25 songs for the

album, so there was a lot of variety and unique ideas being kicked around," Gene

says. Those ideas were fleshed out at Red Medicine Studios in Pittsburgh,

where producer Sean McDonald has become one of Western Pennsylvania's most

respected musical alchemists. Having worked with The Clarks, Jim Donovan

(formerly of Rusted Root) and many other of the best musicians in Pittsburgh,

McDonald helped the band reach its full potential. "It seems a cliche to say

this, but Sean really was a sixth member of the band." Donegan says. "He worked as

a songwriter, engineer and producer, elevating our craft to levels we didn't think were possible."

There are no duds on "The Loner." The first song, "The Walking Dead," is Gene's take

on a zombie apocalypse and features two dazzling guitar solos by Pittsburgh native Reb Beach, who currently performs with Whitesnake and Winger. The final track, "The Best I Can" showcases the honky-tonk piano of Randy Baumann of WDVE-FM and slide guitar by The Clarks' guitar maestro, Rob James. Sandwiched in between

are eight songs that will satisfy the most discriminating rock 'n' roll fan. And then

there's Gene himself, who is merely the best rock 'n' roll singer too many people

have never heard. He sings, he wails, he screams, he hits notes that haven't been

reached since Vince Neil was a pup. In a perfect world, he'd be a star, as would the

band. But we all know the musical world is a fragile, fragmented and dam

aged place where stars are manufactured, not earned. Not that Gene the Werewolf cares about stardom. Give them a stage, let them play. That's all they want to do.

Loudini Interviews Happy Abandon

Happy Abandon is an orchestral indie rock band based in Chapel Hill consisting of Peter Vance, Jake Waits, Alex Thompson, and Justin Ellis. Although the four members met as students at UNC in 2010, Happy Abandon didn’t form until early 2015. The band is currently hard at work writing/recording and booking tours of the Northeast and Canada for August 2016 and the West Coast in early 2017.

Members
Peter - Guitar, vocals, lyricist
Jake - Percussion, back up vocals
Justin - Bass, back up vocals
Alex - Keys, Synth, back up vocals

Our debut EP "Heavy Lines" is now available on bandcamp, soundcloud, and fine record stores across the Triangle.

"As a dynamic first statement, 'Heavy Lines' makes a case that Happy Abandon could break through to the big stages its idols occupy"
- Spencer Griffith, Indy Week

"If I had to pick one North Carolina band that I think could have a breakout year in 2016, it would be Happy Abandon."
- James Willamor, Croquet Records

"With traces of Mumford & Sons and Noah and the Whale, the five tracks blend orchestral touches and shoegaze influences into an EP that builds sonic goodness with each note. The band unleash strong songs, ethereal vibes and well crafted musical lines that mark a super strong debut."
- Ric Gordon, Floorshime Zipper Boots + Russian Winter Records

" ["Love, Like Language"], off a new EP they're finishing up, stood out because I hadn't heard a band before with this specific sound. Plus, with lyrics like the ones in this song, which feels like an experience or moment we can all recall, it felt like this was a young band worth following." -Rafael Barker, West Virginia Gazette-Mail

"There is a strong spirit of dream pop embedded in a gutsy indie rock sound. They achieve a big sound as the production is strong as the guitars ring out steadily. It is the lead vocals that resonate profoundly, as the singer pulls and pushes his words with a dramatic flair with no shortage of grace. This is smart music, well produced, and with lots of heart."
- David Hintz, DC Rock Live
Current Location
Chapel Hill, NC

Influences
Yellow Ostrich, Death Cab for Cutie, Local Natives, Bon Iver, Sigur Ros, Alt-J, Queen, Jeff Buckley

Press Contact
Melissa Nastasi - City Bird Publicity
Melissa@CityBirdPublicity.com
p. 914-318-0164

Booking Agent
Justin Ravary Ellis - Ravary Music
ravarymusic@gmail.com
p. 919-272-8324
http://www.happyabandonmusic.com/

Rush's Moving Pictures 35 Years Later

This week on their 3rd Halloween Spooktacular, Lou and guest host Kevin discuss the classic album Moving Picture's by Rush.  The boys play excerpts from this iconic disc and discuss some little know facts about it's creation and impact.  Featured Loudini Artists:
Black Stone Cherry Volbeat  Texas Hippie Coalition

Black Stone Cherry

They say you can't go home again. But Black Stone Cherry proves otherwise on KENTUCKY, the quartet's fifth album and most diverse and mature -- not to mention dynamically exciting -- effort to date.

A decade ago, Black Stone Cherry made its attention-grabbing self-titled debut at David Barrick's Barrick Recording near their hometown of Edmonton, KY. It proclaimed the arrival of a vibrant and exciting new force in Southern rock 'n’ roll, a group that played with fire, sang with brimstone and had plenty of cajones -- what other young band, after all, is willing to take on something as iconic as the Yardbirds' "Shapes of Things" on its first album?

Flash forward nine years and the BSC crew -- still guitarists Chris Robertson and Ben Wells, bassist Jon Lawhon and drummer John Fred Young -- found themselves back at Barrick, which had relocated and modernized a bit during the intervening years, although its analog mixing board hails from EMI's legendary Abbey Road studios in London. This was hardly the same group of fresh-faced rock nubiles that made the BLACK STONE CHERRY album, either; they'd traveled hundreds of thousands of miles on six continents, written scores more songs and even jousted a bit with the industry. They're family men and homeowners, too -- still rockers to the core but well aware of the "real world" outside the tour bus. So they came into KENTUCKY –- the quartet’s first release for Mascot Records -- more seasoned, battle-savvy and focused, ready to come back home and turn everything they'd learned into a set of ambitious and fearless new music. 

"There's all this freedom because it's just us producing it this time," says Robertson. "We're doing it like we did that first one; people still rave about that record, our fans do. But a decade later we're all older, more mature. We all feel like better musicians and songwriters. But even though we're older now it's got a certain element of youth about it that you just can't escape. It's the most interesting album we've done thus far.”

Young adds that, "Man, it was perfect, the experience of getting to record here at home, being with our families, having the opportunity to record with David Barrick again and with all that amazing gear he has. You can never really go back to, 'Oh, I'm 17 again. I don't know how to perfectly tune a guitar or hit the perfect drum lick.' But you can mix some of that into what you are now. We just had a blast and didn't hold anything back.”

Then again, BSC is hardly known for restraint, something anyone who's seen the group blaze through any of its live shows can attest to. The story starts on June 4, 2001, in Edmonton, KY, when Robertson and Young, musical playmates since they were teens, were joined by Wells and Florida transplant Lawhon. Encouraged by musician relatives (Young's dad Richard and uncle Fred are two of the Kentucky HeadHunters), the fledging troupe cut its musical teeth at the Practice House, a 1940s bungalow -- pictured on the cover of KENTUCKY -- that had been relocated to a remote field by Young's grandparents. Used first by the HeadHunters and then BSC - its walls covered with posters, concert tickets and other memorabilia - it was as much of a learning space as the high school the four attended.

"We'd go there and sit and smoke cigarettes and jam on Nirvana and AC/DC, Skynyrd songs and Pantera, try to play Led Zeppelin songs," Young remembers. "It was perfect, man. The closest neighbor was, like, more than a mile away, so we could make as much noise as we wanted, any time we wanted. It was a great way to become a band."

After releasing the independent “Rock N’ Roll Tape” demo, BSC's burgeoning reputation got the group a label deal, and BLACK STONE CHERRY was followed by FOLKLORE AND SUPERSTITION, BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA and MAGIC MOUNTAIN, which spawned rock radio favorites such as "Lonely Train," "Blind Man," "White Trash Millionaire" and "Me and Mary Jane." The group's muscular style and homespun attitude connected particularly well overseas, where its last three albums hit No. 1 on the U.K. rock charts – MAGIC MOUNTAIN debuted Top 5 on the U.K. album chart overall - making that the perfect place to film and record the scorching concert souvenir "THANK YOU LIVIN' LIVE, BIRMINGHAM UK OCTOBER 30, 2014. 

"For us it's realizing we're a live band -- that's where people are really sold on us and where we cut our teeth," says Wells. "So in writing the riffs and writing the songs for KENTUCKY, we had that in mind. We'd say 'OK, how is this gonna go over live in a festival setting? How is this gonna go over live in a club? Is this what our fans expect?' That was our whole mindset, just to get back to where we were when we first started and 'Let's not overthink this. Let's go in there and make the riffs cool and heavy. Let's just do it.’" 

KENTUCKY does it from the get-go, letting loose with the meaty groove of the appropriately named "The Way of the Future," and fellow heavyweights such as "Shakin' My Cage," "Rescue Me," "Hangman" and the metallic "In Our Dreams," which was co-written with Bob Marlette (Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Seether, Saliva). “We wanted to write a song to show the struggle people faced in a situation of disparity, who when presented with danger and chaos could rise above the physical world and escape to another dimension of peace,” explains the band of “In Our Dreams.” The group's rendition of Edwin Starr's Motown classic "War," besides being eerily timely, features a full brass attack from Jonas Butler and Ryan Stiles, while "Soul Machine" shows that BSC knows how to get a deeply funky groove, complete with backing vocals by Sandra Dye and Toynnia Dye. "Long Ride," meanwhile, is a testament of devotion, whose anthemic chorus will have fists pumping into the air whenever the group pulls it out in concert.

"The songs came off more pure and not forced on this album," says Lawhon. "A lot of bands will get very political about things and be like, 'We need this kind of song' or 'We need this batch of songs for this part of our audience' and so on. With us, we just write. Once we feel like we've got the record, that's when we sit back and think about marketing angles and all that. The songs come first and foremost."

The emotional crucible of the album, meanwhile, comes via the wrenching "When Your Heart Breaks Down," a richly melodic co-write with former Shinedown guitarist Jasin Todd that takes stock of some of the costs that come with BSC's chosen life but also offers comfort to those left back home. "It's just about heartbreak and being a true rebel spirit at heart," explains Young. “We all knew the song was special, and when we were in the studio writing it Chris lost his grandpa, and he got pretty emotional when he was putting his vocal on it. It's a really wonderful song.” 

BSC is particularly proud that KENTUCKY was not only made at home but also features a corps of hometown players adding their magic to the songs, including Chris Carmichael (strings), Paul Hatchett (organ), Chad Lockhart (vocals), Boone Frogget (vocals), and Andrea Tanaro (vocals). "This album IS Kentucky," Robertson says with palpably fierce pride. "Everyone who plays on it is from Kentucky. It's in their blood just like it's in ours, and they added so much to the record."

KENTUCKY will, of course, send BSC away from Kentucky and back to its second home on the road, with a fresh batch of songs Lawhon notes, "were meant to be played live." And it's key to remember that it's the same four guys playing it now as it was in Edmonton, when they were wet behind the ears and ready to put on some miles.

"It's cool we've been able to be the same four guys just doing it, putting out albums. You don't see that many bands who are the same members after all these years," says Wells. "We're friends first, and from the beginning it's always been four equals. That's what's kept us together. We're all in it, all on the team. It takes four of us to lead the band, not just one." And, Robertson adds, everyone in BSC shares the same credo. 

"Music is life, life is music," he says. "It's faith, family and music. Those are the things that are quintessential for my life -- for all our lives."

General Manager

http://www.indegoot.com/blackstonecherry.php

Members

- Chris Robertson - vocals/guitar

- Ben Wells - guitar/vocals

- Jon Lawhon - bass/vocals

- John Fred Young - drums

Genre

Rock

Hometown

EDMONTON, Kentucky

Record Label

Mascot Label Group

Affiliation

http://www.indegoot.com/blackstonecherry.php

About

Kentucky 

BSC Store: http://smarturl.it/BSC-Kentucky

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/BSC-iTunes

Volbeat

Influences

Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Metallica, Slayer, Social Distortion

Members

Michael Poulsen - Guitar/Vocals

Jon Larsen - Drums

Rob Caggiano - Guitar

Kaspar Boye Larsen - Bass

Current Location

Copenhagen, Denmark

Hometown

Copenhagen, Denmark

Record Label

Universal

About

New album SEAL THE DEAL & LET’S BOOGIE out now!

Texas Hippie Coalition

Texas Hippie Coalition are the purveyors of their own patented Red Dirt Metal sound: designing their own line in life and in music. For them, there is no other way. Texas Hippie Coalition are committed to crafting a unique, original and thoroughly raucous brand of music that’s born of both life experience and a respect for rock ‘n’ roll’s forefathers.

What exactly is Red Dirt Metal? Take outlaw country, toss in a dash of Southern-fried classic rock and mix it with some potent Texas power grooves and you’ve got a combustible sonic cocktail on your hands. Texas Hippie Coalition’s third album Peacemaker is a textbook example of Red Dirt Metal, which is the sound the band has been honing and cultivating for its entire existence.

Booking Agent

Phil Battiato | United Talent Agency | phil.battiato@unitedtalent.com

General Manager

Carved Management | phone: 806-452-8071 email: porter@carvedmanagement.com

Influences

ZZtop, Black Label Society, Pantera, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Willie Nelson, too many to name

Press Contact

PR@carvedrecords.com

Members

Big Dad Ritch - Vocals

John Exall - Bass Guitar... See More

Current Location

TEXAS

Genre

Red Dirt Metal

Hometown

Denison, TX

Record Label

Carved Records

About

DARK SIDE OF BLACK available 4/22/16. Preorder your copy at thcofficial.com!