Listening to SunGhosts you have no choice but to be happy!” All true, and I couldn’t have stated it any better myself. As the band states on their website, they play “ the best surf rock sock hop punk rock your ears can taste! Serving up hot and fresh vibes of aggressive positivity. The charismatic four-man band includes Nik Balsiero (lead guitar,vocals), Jared Steingold (bass), Arminio Rivero (guitar, backing vocals) and Luis Estopinan (drums, backing vocals). These guys rip their guitars to shreds, clearly having fun in the process. You know those times when you first hear a song and are hit by a blast of adrenalin that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand straight up? Well, that’s what I felt after clicking on a link to a Tweet by the Miami-based indie rock band SunGhosts, which led me to a video of them performing their song “Indecision Incision.” Immediately, I was blown away by their electrifying energy and lead singer Nik Balsiero’s fierce vocals. Behind the wheel she’s everything she’s not.” Rubber Clown Car’s latest album Let’s Pretend is a collection of 14 songs that really showcase the band’s wide stylistic range, from the introspective acoustic track “Vampire Polo Hats,” the hard-hitting “Send the Kids to War,” to the funky, danceable “Go, Go Girl.” I love the lyrics “Daddy’s little princess never does nothing wrong. But now we spend so much time together, when the kids put us away in a retirement home.” Worked so hard to build our future, you spend so much time all alone. Just 30 more years, and all of this will be ours. Band frontman Dirk Prysby stated the song was “about my parent’s dream of the suburbs and how it would solve all our problems (it didn’t).” The song’s powerful, thought-provoking lyrics are incredibly honest from beginning to end: “ Darling, look at the flowers. One of the first songs the band wrote was “Home in the Suburbs,” featured on their debut album Make the Noise. Many of their songs have deeper meanings, laying bare the sometimes harsh realities of life, love and relationships. But don’t let the fun, catchy melodies and deft guitar riffs fool you into thinking their music is as whimsical as their name. Their quirky sound is an entertaining mashup of punk, grunge and 60s pop/rock, sort of a Guided By Voices meets The Kinks meets Barenaked Ladies. Undeniably, one of the best band names ever! Making the music are Dirk Prysby (guitar, lead vocals), Fred Beasley (drums, backing vocals, guitar) and Tony Pantalones (bass, keyboards and everything else). I was recently turned on to Rubber Clown Car, a three-man band hailing from Illinois. Check out more of her music on Spotify or purchase on itunes.
Support CelloVein by following on Twitter or facebook. Other than the acoustic guitar of Jon Finn, the rest of the strings are cello, which sound amazing!
The beautiful cover of the Led Zeppelin epic “Stairway to Heaven” does justice to my all-time favorite song. “Bleus” is a superb instrumental that weaves back and forth between languid bluesy interludes and sensual, scratchy jazz riffs demanding your attention. The song “Isle of Apollo,” a bombastic barrage of screaming cello and wobbly bass, is metalcore confection and one of my favorites on the album. Other than the two rock classics she covers on the album – “White Rabbit” and “Stairway to Heaven” – Feaster wrote the music and lyrics for all songs, which range from mellow, folksy tunes to heavy metal. She and her husband Michael built their own recording studio and, with her father’s assistance, produced this work of musical art. But realizing her music style was not the radio-friendly stuff that most music studios seem to demand, she founded her own music production company, Rock Solid Productions.
While working at other jobs to make a living, Feaster wrote songs and perfected her craft by playing cello with cover bands, pit orchestras and local symphonies, and recording as backup to several artists. By bucking convention, Feaster was being “bad.” This album is the culmination of nearly 10 years of hard work and dedication to her passion: making music steeped in rock, metal and blues, all with her acoustic cello and 6-string electric cello. She started playing the cello at the age of nine, but deep down just couldn’t imagine herself becoming a classical cellist – “much to the dismay and confusion of some of her teachers” she notes on her website. How can a cellist be bad, you might ask? “Bad Cellist” is the name of the debut album from CelloVein, the alter ego of Halley Feaster, a gifted cellist who really wanted to be a badass rocker.
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