Further proof (if needed) how utterly uncool I am ...

[uwe]

... but I discovered these guys only now:



My, that is awesome music, I haven't been as impressed by a band that I knew absolutely nothing of in a heck of a long time. The music is at the same time organic and gutsy like Americana, yet clever like prog (kind of Black Crowes and Von Hertzen Brothers having an orgy together), it has thicky layered backing vocals (reminiscent of Uriah Heep at times) and a leadsinger with a scrotum-ripping range, guitars that sound like The Band in one moment and like Wishbone Ash in the next, great, playful keyboards ... I hear Doobies and Santana, CSN&Y ...

We write the year 2012 and someone releases a single that at 4.07 does this   :



I want to be their roadie and have children with all of them!!!

[Basvarken]

Yeah I dig them too! very Cool.


If you like Howlin Rain
also check out:

Dirty Sweet
Dirty York
The Union

[gweimer]

I like them.  The singer looks homeless.  Typical...

[gweimer]

FWIW - I am seeing a lot of newer bands looking back to the '70s and rediscovering some great styles and sounds.

[Basvarken]

When I first heard Howlin' rain they reminded me a lot of The Badloves. And like Uwe I also hear some CSNY

[uwe]

Not quite the same musicianly giftedness - MM (looking as if he was auditioning for the Black Veil Brides on the cover of his new outing) is a bit of a one-trick-pony and a better interview partner than singer - but the new (relatively sparsely arranged) Manson release is fun to listen to. I find him entertainingly disturbing.  Perhaps something for The Nasty Habits to interpret?

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY1N40fN7e0&feature=related

Imagining Warren Beatty (allegedly the vain guy in Carly's song) and Marilyn Manson in bed together takes something!

[PhilT]

I've always seen Manson as the one true heir of Screamin Jay Hawkins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKxVa7-ZRRo&feature=related

[gweimer]

Anyone ever see the American Bandstand show where a young Brian Warner (Marilyn Manson) was in the audience with his Britney Spears lunchbox?