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Above the Radar Productions presents The Authors along with Ladycop (NYC) and Western Giants (Denton) at Lambert's BBQ.
Singer/guitarist Justin Prater writes lyrics with social a conscious and a wounded heart, while guitarist/keyboardist Ben Meza weaves a sonic tapestry of reverb drenched guitars and haunting keys. With a mix of danceable beats supplied by drummer Angela Stroud and bass heavy melodies by Jon Haben, The Authors have created a sound that they can call their own.
While The Authors eponymous 2009 debut “EP” was born in a sweaty garage, the band’s debut release “Get Haunted” found it’s home in the Elmwood Recording Studio located in Dallas, TX. While staying focused on it’s tight, beat driven backbone, the band set out to capture the feel of the live performance, enlisting the expertise of Grammy Award winning producer/engineer Stuart Sikes (Cat Power, The Walkmen, White Stripes, Lorretta Lynn) at his Elmwood Recordings studio in Dallas, TX. Get Haunted fuses new wave with a raw garage rock sound, tempting disco beats, while fleshing out new melodies at every turn.Clocking in at just over 30 min, Get Haunted sets a furious pace of raucous beats and hooks, taking you from the fuzzed out surf garage opening track “Timebomb” through 12 garage-y, dance inducing tracks that end up in the lush, dreamy comforts of closing number “The Night”.
Ladycop is the brainchild of New York City musicians Cliff Rawson and Kolby Wade, whose past projects include Boston cult faves Araby, (Rawson), and California transplants The Symphony Case (Wade). The band grew out of a collaborative recording project featuring Kolby on electronics and Cliff on vocals and various instruments. This eventually blossomed into a full band with the addition of multi-instrumentalists Josh Ricchio (The Symphony Case) and Josh Collins. Combining virtuosic vocals and glitchy beats with big rock, Ladycop is quickly developing a reputation as one of NYC's most exciting live bands.
My Denton Music says Western Giants "are quickly establishing themselves as an alt-country force in the Denton music scene, the Americana twang and swirling keyboards of their debut E.P. gave way to a more straightforward indie rock feel." The band released "Long Live the Live Long Day" in March of 2010 at Denton's second NX35 music festival, who said "'Long Live the Live Long Day' strips the country-rock conventions of the previous EP in favor for more atmospheric instrumentation and wide-open arrangements that resemble movements more than the standard verse-chorus-verse format... Throughout, the band sounds like they could be playing your living room, and Kennon Talley’s thin but inviting voice sings like he’s whispering secrets right in your ear."
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