{"id":27600,"date":"2018-02-24T08:24:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T13:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=27600"},"modified":"2018-02-24T08:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T13:24:19","slug":"on-stage-budderside-kicks-butt-and-takes-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=27600","title":{"rendered":"On Stage: Budderside kicks butt and takes names"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff,<\/strong> Entertainment Editor, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The world of rock music will always open its doors to welcome to a new, straight-up, hard-rocking, kickass band that can play at a really high level.<\/p>\n

That statement is the cue for Budderside to make its entrance and to move to center stage.<\/p>\n

Budderside — Patrick Stone, vocals; Colin Reid, guitar; Michael \u201cStoneman\u201d Stone, bass; Rich Sacco, drums \u2013 plays powerful rock with a variety of influences and plays it with enough swagger and intensity to overwhelm listeners.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles-based band released its self-titled album last year via Mot\u00f6rhead Music and has been touring with L.A. Guns almost non-stop since. The tour brings them to the area for a show on February 24 at Reverb (<\/strong>1402 North Ninth Street, Reading, <\/strong>610-743-3069, www.reverbconcerts.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been a nine-month tour with those guys,\u201d said Patrick Stone, during a phone interview Wednesday afternoon from a tour stop in Asheville, North Carolina. \u201cThis is the fourth leg. We finish with them on March 2. Then, we go home for a few days before we\u2019re off to the U.K. for our own tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Budderside formed and grew in an area ruled by debauchery \u2013 the drug-filled streets of late night Hollywood where anything goes where life is not sacred but no-one is scared \u2013 a realm of addiction and Hollywood\u2019s underground.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe met on the streets of Hollywood,\u201d said Stone. \u201cStoneman was from New Hampshire, Rich from Buffalo, Colin from Vancouver and me from northern California.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started playing together and there was definite chemistry. Everything we\u2019ve done, we\u2019ve written together as Budderside. In addition to this band, we\u2019ve all done other projects on our own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stone has managed to survive \u2013 against the odds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was heavy into drugs \u2013 you name it, I had it in my backpack,\u201d said Stone. \u201cAt one point, everybody thought I was going to die \u2013 and so did I. It\u2019s really a miracle that I survived.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen, about two-and-a-half years ago, a few things happened \u2013 like my father having a heart attack \u2013 and I decided to get sober.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was also about two-and-a-half years ago that I decided to stop singing other people\u2019s music. I had always been in other people\u2019s bands. I wanted a band of my own.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when Budderside was born.<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s first big break came when Lemmy Kilmister signed the band to Mot\u00f6rhead Music.<\/p>\n

Then, Budderside went into Rosewood Strat Studio with producer Paul Inder Kilmister (son of Lemmy, Mot\u00f6rhead\u2019s sadly-departed icon). After that, the hard-hitting band from L.A. toured Europe and played the prestigious Wacken Open Air (an annual metal music festival near Hamburg, Germany).<\/p>\n

\u201cBudderside was actually formed two-and-a-half years ago when we went in the studio with Paul,\u201d said Stone. \u201cAt first, we met up with Lemmy and Phil (Mot\u00f6rhead guitarist Phil Campbell).\u00a0 I\u2019ve always looked up to Lemmy as a model.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started dabbling in the studio. Within a year, we were committed to doing the album with Paul. Right off the bat, good things started happening. We went to Europe and played Wacken. Then, the album dropped on September 23.\u201d<\/p>\n

Budderside is ready to keep taking it to higher levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want new high energy rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, we\u2019re what you need,\u201d said Stone. \u201cWe\u2019ve survived hell to live a life to die for, and we\u2019re just getting started. We\u2019re about ready to go in and record the second album. Most of all, we\u2019re just going to keep kicking ass.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for Budderside — https:\/\/youtu.be\/yp-dWq9Oazk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at Reverb, which also features Timebomb, Red Halo, Ozmium 76 and headliner L.A. Guns, will start at 6 p.m. Tickets are $20.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

The Oh Hellos<\/p><\/div>\n

If you\u2019re in the mood for softer music, you can head east instead of west \u2013 head into Philadelphia to catch a show by the Oh Hellos at Union Transfer (1026 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, 215-232-2100, www.utphilly.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Acclaimed brother-sister duo\u00a0The\u00a0Oh\u00a0Hellos\u00a0\u2013 Maggie and Tyler Heath — will be performing songs off their new EP, \u201cEurus\u201d in the show at Union Transfer. They will also be focusing on songs from their recent EP, \u201cNotos.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Notos\u2019 was released on December 8, 2017,\u201d said Tyler Heath, during a phone interview Wednesday from a tour stop in Washington, D.C. \u201cThen, \u2018Eurus\u2019 was just released on February 9. The other two are in progress.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNotos\u201d was the first EP in a series of four that will be released in the coming months.\u00a0Each EP is named after one of\u00a0the\u00a0four Greek mythological wind deities that\u00a0bring\u00a0the\u00a0seasons. Throughout\u00a0the\u00a0series, there\u2019s an overarching question being asked \u2013 \u201cWhere did my ideas come from?\u201d.<\/p>\n

With each EP in the series and\u00a0the\u00a0\u201cwind\u201d it\u00a0represents, Tyler and\u00a0Maggie Heath\u00a0are exploring\u00a0the\u00a0stages of answering that question.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this era of Netflix and binge watching, we wanted to try someth8ing with an episodic basis,\u201d said Tyler. \u201cWe had ideas and music parts that fit well together. It was too much for an album and we didn\u2019t want to make a double album. So, we decided to do four EPs and tie them to these gods from Greek mythology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of\u00a0\u201cNotos\u201d\u00a0is about the siblings reflecting on a time when they weren\u2019t even aware there was a question to ask.<\/p>\n

Musically, they wanted to recreate\u00a0the\u00a0feeling of\u00a0the\u00a0summers spent exploring\u00a0the\u00a0Pacific Northwest with their grandparents when they were kids as well as their experience growing up on\u00a0the\u00a0Texas Gulf Coast and dealing with\u00a0the\u00a0frequent threats of evacuations from hurricanes Because\u00a0Notos\u00a0is\u00a0the\u00a0wind that brought violent summer storms, they felt it was a good thematic parallel to\u00a0the\u00a0backfire effect you experience when you\u2019re confronted with new information for\u00a0the\u00a0first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought \u2013 how can we do a project inspired by the four seasons without doing what everybody else had done?,\u201d said Maggie. \u201cWe dug into mythology. Our songwriting had already been aligned with folklore and mythology. For this project, we spent a lot of time researching mythology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notos was the god of the south wind, one of the four directional Anemoi (Wind-Gods). He was the wet, storm-bringing wind of late summer and early autumn. The \u201cNotos\u201d EP came out in December.<\/p>\n

Eurus was the god of the east wind, also one of the four directional Anemoi. He was associated with the season of autumn. The \u201cEurus\u201d EP came out in February.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe process of writing and recording didn\u2019t match with the season,\u201d said Tyler. \u201cThat wasn\u2019t something that rewally concerned us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Oh Hellos began in a cluttered bedroom, where siblings Maggie and Tyler Heath (born and raised in southern Texas) recorded their self-titled EP in 2011. In the fall of 2012, the duo released their debut full-length record Through the Deep, Dark Valley, an album full of regret and redemption, which they wrote, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered themselves.
\nWhen the time came in early 2013 to bring the music to the stage, the Heaths reached out to friends both new and old and gathered together an ensemble of touring musicians the size of a circus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still have a big touring band,\u201d said Maggie. \u201cThere are eight of us on stage. It\u2019s a big show \u2013 big sound, big band and a lot of emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for the Oh Hellos \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ms-b3kYp1dQ<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at Union Transfer, which has Lowland Hum as the opening act, will start at 9 p.m. Tickets are $20.<\/p>\n

Other upcoming shows at Union Transfer are Jonathan Richman on February 25 and Rhye<\/a> on February 27.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

SIMO<\/p><\/div>\n

SIMO sounds like a band you might have heard playing on a multi-act bill at the Fillmore Auditorium or the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco in the late 1960s.<\/p>\n

That vibe is definitely there on SIMO\u2019s new album \u201cRise & Shine,\u201d which was released in September 2017 on Provogue. SIMO will put that vibe on display on February 25 in a show at Sellersville Theater (24 West Temple Avenue, Sellersville, 215-257-5808,\u00a0www.st94.com<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n

SIMO — singer, guitarist and frontman JD Simo; drummer Adam Abrashoff; and bassist Adam Bednarik — is based in Nashville and named for its founder.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in Chicago\u2019s North Side and moved to Nashville 10 years ago,\u201d said Simo, during a phone interview Tuesday afternoon from a tour stop in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cI dropped out of high school when I was 15 to tour the world playing music and was in bands the rest of my teens. When I was in my 20s, I wanted to move to a place with better opportunities for music \u2013 either Austin or Nashville.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoving to Nashville was a cultural shock. It\u2019s a place with the best of every small town and big town compressed into a tight music community. I\u2019m very happy here.\u201d<\/p>\n

SIMO has been described as a psychedelic soul modern rock band that also incorporates extended improvisation into its live sets \u2013 a band with a sound filled with slow-smoked soul ballads,\u00a0psychedelic desert-rock instrumentals, hard-edged, bluesy barn burners and Stax-worthy funk rockers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe band came together in a relatively slow manner,\u201d said Simo. \u201cIt started six years ago as something to do for fun. I was a session musician. We met through the community and it\u2019s grown from that. Two years ago, it got really serious. We signed a record contract and then went out for 300 dates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRise & Shine\u201d finds the band stretching beyond preconceived notions and producing a nuanced record. It introduces SIMO\u2019s elastic, expanded sound, which blurs the lines between genres and generations throughout the album\u2019s 11 tracks.<\/p>\n

IMO\u2019s previous release,\u00a0\u201cLet Love Show the Way,\u201d reflected the band\u2019s rock-and-roll influences — full of big amplifiers,<\/p>\n

vintage vibe, and plenty of volume.\u00a0\u201cRise & Shine\u201d honors those roots and pushes toward something new.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our third album,\u201d said Simo. \u201cOur first album was self-made and self-financed. \u2018Let Love Show the Way\u2019 and \u2018Rise & Shine\u2019 are the two we made for record labels. Now, we\u2019re almost done recording our next album. Lately, we\u2019ve enjoyed writing at home in Nashville.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simo offered his description of \u201cRise & Shine\u201d<\/p>\n

The new album is a natural growth of where I am and where we are,\u201d said Simo. \u201cWe had four months dedicated to recording. We produced the album themselves in Nashville\u2019s House of Blues Studio D. In January 2017, we did pre-production. We recorded in February and spent March and April mixing and doing overdubs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the first time we had time to focus on making a record. In 2106, we spent 300 days on the road. In 2017, it was down to 120.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re pretty avid listeners to a lot of different stuff. But, it\u2019s difficult to incorporate a lot of different things you like. We\u2019re trying to grow as much as possible. There is a lot of free form in what we do. \u00a0Our goal is to keep it spontaneous.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith our live shows, every night is different. We don\u2019t write a set list. Lately, we\u2019re doing a lot of stuff form \u2018Rise & Shine\u2019 because we enjoy it. We\u2019re also doing a lot of stuff from our first two albums.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for SIMO \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/8fTq-KrvzVc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at Sellersville Theater (24 West Temple Avenue, Sellersville, 215-257-5808,\u00a0www.st94.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Other upcoming shows at the venue are Jaimoe\u2019s Jasssz Band on February 24, Howard Jones and Rachael Sage on February 26 and Cherish the Ladies on February 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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