New Artists
2004.01.31
Alright! We've slacked off for two weeks, and you deserve better. So today we've got a slew of new artists for you, including two whose names are all upper-case! We'll be brief, so you can get to the music:
Seattle's Faster Disaster is a driving acid rock band whose lyrics are as likely to twist your brain as their music is likely to twist your head.
NYC's FEFF take their name from the brothers Pfeffer, founders and axwielders of the hard rock band. Their grooving melodic metal stylings remind us of everything from Alice In Chains to Soundgarden.
The Grandsons are an Arlington VA band that combine swing, jazz and honky-tonk into an eminently dancable combination. The trio have several other musicians sit in with them, and have been known to walk through their audience with their tuba, bari sax and snare.
Just in time for the beginning of the Year of the Monkey, Washington DC's Hoover's G-String joins the broadcast with "Chinese New Year" and several other bouncing and irreverent indie-rock ditties.
Baton Rouge's Daniel Lee is a singer-songwriter who draws upon influences ranging from folk to rock to latin to jazz to ragtime to classical music, coming up with a mix that is rootsy but compositionally impressive, and his four-octave range soars from growling to angelic.
LMNOP is a Detroit-area progressive rock band that's part funk, part rock, and all fun. They're new enough that you can still detect different authorship on different songs, but seem joined together by influences from Zappa to Primus and everything in between.
Mesa, AZ boogies into the broadcast with Layden Robinson's anthemic folk stylings. His voice, which sounds like Eddie Vedder mixed with a different Robinson from the Black Crowes, is buttressed by the sweeping acoustic guitar chords backed up by big electric guitar and thundering drums.
The Slow Poisoners continue San Francisco's tradition of psychedlic rock with songs that are part lounge, part surf and always surreal.