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The Rumble Strips

The Rumble Strips

Birdmonster / The Dig

Sat 11/1
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18+

Doors 8pm

$13 adv / $15 day of

The Rumble Strips

  • www.myspace.com/rumblestripsuk
  • http://www.therumblestrips.com/
  • While the "two guitars, bass, and drums" lineup still dominates rock & roll, British quartet the Rumble Strips take a different approach to their music with a fresh sound built around the acoustic guitar and dramatic vocal style of Charlie Waller, the soulful horn work of Henry Clark and Tom Gorbutt, and the sharp, concise drumming of Matthew Wheeler. Named for the narrow-slotted paths on the sides of highways that produce noise and vibrations when weary drivers roll over them, the Rumble Strips were formed by Waller, who grew up in the small town of Tavistock and wanted to follow the lead of his uncle, a musician who played in a rock band. While Waller developed an interest in songwriting as a teenager, things didn't move much further until he moved to London and got a degree from an art college. Dividing his time between painting and decorating, Waller found his desire to make music returning, and when he crossed paths with an old friend from Tavistock, Tom Gorbutt, the two decided to form a band. Waller and Gorbutt recruited fellow Tavistock exiles Clark and Wheeler, and the Rumble Strips were born. The group's organic and soulful approach didn't find an immediate audience, and for a while Waller was doing double duty with another band, Vincent Vincent & the Villains; the pressure of gigging with two different groups (neither of whom knew Waller was playing with the other) became too much to bear and Waller briefly dropped out of music, but the Rumble Strips' fortunes rose anew when a London independent label, Transgressive Records, offered to sign the group. Debuting with the single "Motorcycle," the band began touring the U.K. with the likes of Dirty Pretty Things, the Young Knives, and the Zutons, and they were recruited by the Island-distributed Fallout label in 2006. An EP, Cardboard Coloured Dreams, was released in late 2006, and the Rumble Strips completed recording an album in Los Angeles for a projected 2007 release. That album was their debut Girls and Weather, which was released in September 2007.
    --Mark Deming, allmusic.com

Birdmonster

  • http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=5019603
  • http://www.birdmonstermusic.com/
  • San Francisco quartet Birdmonster are kind of like a Bay Area version of Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, except that where Leo and his group have an undying devotion to first-wave new wave and ska groups like the Jam and the Specials, Birdmonster spike their Fugazi-like indie rock tunes with nods to American Beauty-era Grateful Dead and early Bruce Springsteen. Revved-up and punky rockers share space with country-inflected tunes that feature banjo, melodica, and cello, with singer/songwriter and guitarist Peter Arcuni's lived-in vocals the primary point of connection. Arcuni, a native of San Diego, formed Birdmonster in 2004 with three fellow musicians who lived in his San Francisco neighborhood: his childhood friend bassist Justin Tenuto (who also adds banjo, melodica, and a '70s vintage Fender Rhodes electric piano), guitarist and pianist David Klein, and drummer Zach Winter, who doubles on cello on the quieter songs. Determined to maintain complete D.I.Y. control over their band, Birdmonster released their self-titled debut EP on their own and used the proceeds both to tour the nation and to fund sessions for their full-length debut with the well-known producer Bradley Cook, who had previously worked with Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age. Although the band originally self-released 2006's No Midnight as well, the increasingly positive buzz around Birdmonster led them to sign a distribution deal with noted indie SpinArt Records, which re-released the album in August 2006. For 2008's Americana-tinged From the Mountain to the Sea, the band switched to the Fader label, releasing the album digitally that August and physically a month later.
    -Stewart Mason, allmusic.com

The Dig

  • http://www.myspace.com/thedigisup
  • http://www.thedigmusic.com
  • "With one hand deep in roots rock and roll and live performances that lift you up and leave you ragged, The Dig are building a reputation as one of the best young bands in New York. The songs on their new EP, Good Luck and Games, produced by Bryce Goggin (Pavement, The Ramones) have energy and intelligence matched only by their heartfelt swagger. See them now so you can say that you saw them then." - The Onion

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