Thank you to all the radio programmers, music directors, listeners, fans, and friends for all your support! Our latest record, “Stay Gold”, which we released last June, finished 2018 at #93 on the !earshot National Top 200 Albums of the Year! In addition, we now have a new lineup featuring a new drummer/percussionist as well as trumpet, saxophone, keys, pedal steel guitar, and, oh yes, vocals!
Pic by Adam Cormier
It’s a cold winter’s night and beautiful burlesque dancer Roxanne Summers has been murdered. Found dead in a good neighbourhood to have bad habits in, Detectives Richard Taylor and Jim Stark are assigned to the case. They needed a drink, a lot of life insurance, and a vacation. What they had was a coat, a hat, and a gun… Help them crack the case through link here: https://www.storyhive.com/project/show/id/4303
If winter was an endurance race, well, we can finally see the checkered flag. We’ve spent the past few months of northern darkness hibernating in the studio, writing and recording our new album, and with the sun once again beginning to thaw the ground we’re getting excited to provide the soundtrack for the summer. “Stay Gold” is fourteen songs inspired by the swinging 60s, surf music, film noir, bossa nova, rockabilly, exotica, and spy movies guaranteed to liven up your days and heat up your nights. It’s time to put the top down, put the pedal to the floor, and put winter in the rearview mirror. “Stay Gold”: available June 2018 everywhere fine music is streamed.
They told us we wouldn’t need a gun, so we brought four. One for MKULTRA, one for the Liberty Belle, one for The Big Sleep, and one for our Escape from Hell. They went down too easy; like a boxer with a gambling debt. We could’ve kept going, but decided to trade bullets for bourbon and leave the pleasantries to someone else. Someone with more time, more money, more banked holidays, and more life insurance. We were just doing a favor for a preferred client. Besides, dead men are heavier than broken hearts…
Summer is quickly coming to a close and, as has become something of a tradition for the band, the change of seasons means the release of our new music video. Directed by the ever-talented Andrew Young and featuring everyone’s favorite instrumental surf rock band, The 427′s, Urchin Stomp tells the tale of how the band was formed. We don’t recruit members, we create them. There’s always room for one more…
It’s still the pre-dawn of this foul Age of Aquarius and to commemorate this we’ve been writing our most rock star, post-film noir, neo-psychedelic songs to date. With titles such as MKULTRA, The Big Sleep, and Anger in Babylon we invite our listeners to create their own “mind-movies” with our music being the soundtrack. Every song we write has meaning. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to discover it. Don’t try too hard or you’ll be bound to fail. We don’t try anything; we just do it. Wanna try us?
Photo credit: Mark Preston
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We enjoyed making the video for “The Spy Invasion” so much we decided to do it again! From the lens of the ever-talented Andrew Young, here comes “Fake Betty”! Featuring:
Chris van Keir - Guitar
Rob Day - Guitar
Eve Hell - Bass
Lorne Petersen - Drums
Well, here we are. 2016. We made it. We made it through breakdowns. We made it through bars. We made it with drums and with bass and guitars. We released a new album. A video we shot. We met some new friends (and some who were not). We wrote many songs, not one with a rhyme, but we knew our great drummer was keeping good time. And as we rang in the new year, two-thousand-one-six, we vowed that the world would get its surf fix.
We are pleased to release “The Spy Invasion”, which tells the story of Detectives Jim Stark and Richard Taylor as they hunt down the nefarious Lola Brigida and her associate Count Kilmeister. It is a tale of intrigue, back-handed romance, and broken alliances told in stunning 16mm by up-and-coming filmmaker Andrew Young. Will Lola and The Count make their escape? Or will the dashing duo of detectives become Byronic heroes? Who will remain and what will be left of them? Stay tuned!