Recommended Monday Music: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ Antone’s
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club bring their own mix of garage, blues, folk revival, neo-psychedelia rock to Austin once again on Monday night @ Antones. The band first caught my attention with their self-titled debut in 2001, featuring bluesy, fuzzy psychedelic influenced guitar sounds with a driving rock beat. Two albums into the band’s life, the trio fractured with drummer Nick Jago stepping away from the band. The remaining members Peter Hayes and Robert Levon Been began writing songs with a different approach, stripping away the fuzz and electric feel and replacing it with a warmer acoustic sound. Drummer Jago eventually returned to the band and with the new songs in place, Howl was released in 2005. Howl represented a time for the band that not only touched on a period of transition, but also a period of coming into a band that stood secure in the music that they had progressed in producing, while maintaining the audience. The band is currently touring in support of Baby 81, a recording of material that was developed before and during the time period of Howl.
Why should you see BRMC? Aside from the fact that I’m a fan, the band delivers a solid representation of the newer material as well as venturing into the earlier material that drew most of us to the band to begin with. I don’t have an answer to that question. but I guess the question might be, why shouldn’t you go to see the BRMC? It’s bluesy, it’s rock, these guys have been around the block, and they deliver.
Mp3> BMRC ‘Sympathetic Noose’
Locals
Where: Antones
When: Monday 5.19.08
