Elliott BROOD - SXSW 2008, New Album Coming
Published by Kevin February 18th, 2008 in MP3's, SXSW 2008.
Prefixes are fun. Everyone loves throwing out a “faux-” or “contra-” occasionally. They’re even more fun in music when some critic, quick to over classify new music, slap on 3 or 4 before “rock.” I never know what to expect when some band’s sound is described as “neo-soul-indie-alt-rock.” Yet when a band is describe as “death-bluegrass,” I am immediately interested. Such is the case with Elliott BROOD.
Toronto natives, Elliott BROOD (much like Frank Smith, that’s the band’s name and not any one person’s), play a mix of bluegrass and rock, and throw in a whole bunch of distortion. The band consists of 3 members, a banjo, acoustic guitar, and a drum-set (by the way, instead of a bass drum, they use an old suitcase). Singer and banjo player, Mark Sasso, sounds as though he has been drinking the driest whiskey for hours before shows and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
They’ve only released an EP, Tin Type in 2004 and the full length Ambassador in 2005, but another full length is apparently in the works. They’ll be appearing at SXSW 2008, followed by a Australian tour in late March.
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Eliott BROOD - Second Son
Kick Ass!!!! These guys are great and have been added to my must-see list at SXSW.
There is a killer version of Powderfinger on their myspace page.
They’ve been getting tons of airplay on XM Radio also. I looked around and it seems that they haven’t posted any dates/times/locations for SXSW yet.
These guys are awesome! After seeing them late one blustery night at the Amplify series hosted by UR Chicago at Schubas, these guys came down for a live session at my studio. It was a lot of fun. Mark, Casey and Stephen are all really cool guys and great musicians. Casey and Mark’s voices blend so well you’d think they were brothers or something. Stephen lays it down solid on the kit…sometimes using an American Tourist suitcase instead of a traditional kick drum. Mark trades off between acoustic gtr and banjo. And Casey covers the acoustic and bass pedals. The sound is never straight ahead folky acoustic though. Mark’s always playing the acoustic and banjo through a tube amp and Casey sends his acoustic through a couple stomp boxes then DI right to the mix, which delivers a blistering tone.
The tracks should be coming up on the UR Chicago site sometime this week, I think. Definietly worth checking these guys out. Great band!
AS far as the newe album goes…The guys were going to stick around for a day after that and do some mixing of tracks for their new record, but it didn’t work out. More work still needed to be done before mixing. Can’t wait ot hear the new stuff.