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July 2007
2MGB still on the road, headed to Pickathon Festival, are all over You Tube
Everyone loves a Gentleman. You agree. Ladies especially agree. Right, ladies?
Our heroes the Two Man Gentlemen Band continue to plow through the U.S.A. bringing joy to stunned and delighted onlookers. This week they work their way through California and up to Oregon where they'll participate in Pickathon just outside Portland. Pickathon is basically the Lollapalooza of roots/Americana music. The Gents are one...
The Two Man Gentlemen Band is currently being featured on Fuzz's Americana page.
The Gentlemen are also currently number four on the top 10 Americana artists with The Unsacred Hearts at number seven.
How very neat.
KICKSTART will be opening for legendary Aussie garage-punks the SAINTS at the Mercury Lounge in NYC on Sun July 29. Also on the bill are local favorite raw-dog garage freaks The Choke. GREAT BILL. DO NOT MISS THIS!
7/29/07 - KICKSTART w/ The Choke and The Saints - Mercury Lounge, NYC. - 10:00 - The Saints, - 9:00 - The Choke, - 8:00 - Kickstart, - 7:00 - Pete Galub and the Annuals.
New free MP3 download also available from KICKSTART. Insanely bad-ass garage rock fun-times! DOWNLOAD:...
The Octagon's second album is called "Nothing But Change."
The record was engineered by the infamous Jerry Kee in his studio outside Chapel Hill, NC. Jerry is a very talented engineer who has previously worked on amazing records by Superchunk and Polvo.
The Octagon recorded and mixed the album over a period of three days. Almost all of the songs were recorded live; there are very few vocal overdubs. The Octagon wanted to capture the sound of an actual band in an actual room all...
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BENJI COSSA DOWNLOAD: "Sunset" [MP3] from Between the Blue and the Green(SBR13)
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