The fine folk at B3nson bring you the best darn party of the year this weekend… Yes, friends, it’s the 5th annual Restoration Festival this weekend at Troy’s CAC Woodside! 2 days, 2 stages, 20 killer bands, one low price. Catch Built4BBQ’s own The Slaughterhouse Chorus and Kimono Dragons, buddies and Entree stars Rival Galaxies and Hammer Hawk, and 518 faves like Rebel Darling, the Parlor, Eastbound Jesus, Wild Adriatic, and so many more it’s crazy, man! All in what is hands down the coolest, best sounding venue to ever allow rock music to happen in the Capital Region, and for a good cause! Find all the details and get cheap advance tickets at restfest.net or do the Facebook thing.

The Slaughterhouse Chorus last year, ridiculously awesome photo by
Pat Dodson of the Daily Gazette.

Don’t ya miss this one! Pauly’s Hotel hosts a wild night of real deal roots music Thursday, August 7 with Urban Pioneers & Henry’s Rifle!

With a lifetime of music between them and half a decade of music played together, Liz Sloan and Jared McGovern have been the backbone of some of today’s greatest underground roots bands. Currently both members of Jayke Orvis and The Broken Band, the pair have shined light on many other acts such as Bob Wayne & The Outlaw Carnies and Filthy Still.

Most recently, Liz and Jared have been touring the United States and a healthy portion of Europe as the old-timey Americana act Urban Pioneers. Liz’s awe-inspiring fiddle combined with Jared’s claw-hammer banjo and storytelling lyrics recall the pure Appalachian sounds of yesterday, light-heartedly summed up by the band as “hillbilly music”.

Now with Guido Greaserag on upright bass (we believe that to be his Christian name), the three-piece stick to their motto, “on tour now, on tour always”, as they trek their way through the Northeast in support of their new album, Addicted to the Road.
See Urban Pioneers perform live Thursday, August 7th at Pauly’s Hotel (337 Central Ave Albany NY) with Built4BBQ’s own Henry’s Rifle. Doors 8pm. Admission is $5.

Get a taste:

Built4BBQ and the good folks at WEQX and The Hollow Bar & Kitchen are bringing you one ripper of a show this Saturday! Ride a wave of surfy twang with Party Boat, The Kimono Dragons and Henry’s Rifle at downtown Albany’s finest establishment for one low, low price! You heard all three artists on the Built4BBQ Entree Comp, now catch ’em live, loud and in person. And in case you missed it, the mighty Dragons recently released their debut 3-song demo… give it a listen, we guarantee the best 10 minutes of your day.

More tunes!

PARTY BOAT:

HENRY’S RIFLE:

We’ll also have plenty of CD copies of the Entree out on Saturday if you were out grillin’ on the 4th! Come on out, get yourself a classy beer and a cheeseburger with a fried egg on it, and hang ten with three of the finest in all the 518!

Built4BBQ’s second sampler, The Entree, is now live for your internet consumption. Featuring 19 tracks of new, unreleased and rare music from our favorite bands and yours, nearly 70 minutes of righteousness is available for streaming, name-your-price download or on a $5, handcrafted compact disc. Enjoy.

Today’s the day! Spend America Day with Built4BBQ at the Star Spangled Bonanza, featuring 8 awesome bands and the release of our second compilation album, The Entree! Come and get it!

We’re one week from the Star Spangled Bonanza and the release of Built4BBQ’s second sampler album, The Entree! Check out The Entree menu and get a taste with new tracks by The Lucky Jukebox Brigade, The Kimono Dragons and Hammer Hawk!

1. The Slaughterhouse Chorus – Pedestrians *
2. The Pistolwhips – Law T-Rex *
3. Charmboy – Your Guy Fawkes Mask
4. Straitjacket Escape – On & On *
5. The Kimono Dragons – Freddie, It’s OK *
6. The End Men – The Wolves (live) *
7. Henry’s Rifle – Don’t Your Worry (demo) *
8. The Lucky Jukebox Brigade – The Shroud *
9. The Radicals – Toss Me a Shovel, Pt. II *
10. Hammer Hawk – Deep Breath *
11. Linear North – Been to the Deep
12. Bad Friends – Holy Vivisection
13. Stuck Lucky – Isolato *
14. Bridge Under Fire – Previously on the West Wing *
15. Broken Field Runner – Peace Offerings *
16. Henry’s Rifle – Hammer and Nails *
17. Party Boat – Catchy & Contrived
18. Rival Galaxies – Faxes on a Yacht
19. The Pistolwhips – Space Boner

* previously unreleased track!

We want to talk to you about Caddywhompus.

Flashback to summer, 20 aught 13, a Thursday night in a sweaty basement in Albany. A small crowd is gathered, canned beers clutched tightly. Two skinny, unassuming dudes from New Orleans set up a strange tower of small amps and a drum set facing the wrong direction. A couple thuds of a kick drum, a couple twists of a couple knobs, and all of a sudden the entirety of Pine Hills is flooded with waves of sound that are somehow abrasive and beautiful at the same time, like a symphony played exclusively on broken fuzz pedals. Look around the room and everyone’s transfixed. Jaws actually hang open. No one’s totally sure what they’re witnessing, but they know it’s awesome. That’s Caddywhompus, and that’s what they do.

Maybe their official bio by Derek Zimmer sums it up best: “The colloquialism “caddywhompus” is defined by such adjectives as “uneven,” “crooked” and “out of whack”—a list which could, in some instances, allude to the mind-bending sounds of the experimental noise-pop band who bears said name but whom can otherwise be described thus: spot on. Quasi-fraternal twins Sean Hart (drums) and Chris Rehm (guitar/vocals) have been playing music together since their middle school days, establishing their most serious project to date in September of 2008. Since then, they have played over 150 shows, the majority of them outside their native waters. With a daunting assortment of amplifiers and effects-pedal tweakery, the duo executes its incredibly loud and at times nearly overwhelming sets with an impeccable musicianship and live presence. Song structures alternate between sweet psychedelic indie ballads to the most intense, ear-splitting of noise-driven crescendos. Showcasing such raw emotion everywhere from cramped basements to the swankest of clubs, delivering sonic rapture to both veteran punks and seasoned hipsters alike.

Caddywhompus has shared the stage with such acts as Zach Hill, The Antlers, Japanther, Cursive, Givers, Tera Melos, and a long list of other local and national performers. They have two EPs and an LP worth of material under their belts, as well as a new EP, all of which—true to their D.I.Y. roots—were composed and recorded themselves, and can be downloaded for free at communityrecords.org. Their new EP [The Weight], released on New Orleans-based labels Chinquapin Records & Community Records, has proven itself a more focused and cohesive representation of their unique sound, and these young men have completed two full months of touring in support of it. Shit’s dope.”

Catch Caddywhompus destroying everything in sight at 9:45pm on the Pauly’s Hotel stage at the Star Spangled Bonanza!

Friends, we’re just two short weeks away from Built4BBQ’s Star Spangled Bonanza, our dual stage, Independence Day blowout and compilation album release! We couldn’t be more excited about this lineup or the way the brand new Entree sampler is shaping up. You guys are in for it. We expect that you’ll show up early and stay late, but in the interest of your busy 4th of July itinerary, we present to you the Star Spangled Schedule:

7:00pm: Straight Jacket Escape @ Pauly’s
7:45pm: Kimono Dragons @ Low Beat
8:15pm: Henry’s Rifle @ Pauly’s
9:00pm: The Pistolwhips @ Low Beat
9:45pm: Caddywhompus @ Pauly’s
10:30: The End Men @ Low Beat
11:15pm: The Slaughterhouse Chorus @ Pauly’s
MIDNIGHT: Charmboy @ Low Beat

That’s 8 bands, almost 6 straight hours of continuous rock ‘n’ roll and 1 monster of a compilation CD, all available to you for a Lincoln and two Washingtons. You can’t beat that kind of American value. See you on the 4th.

Don’t call it a comeback, because Straight Jacket Escape never really went away. After rising from the aftermath of high school punk rock heroes Mr! Wednesday sometime in the mid-2000s, Straight Jacket Escape honed their previous band’s ‘80s-inspired hardcore into something catchier but no less invigorating. They played a few shows, recorded a demo, and faded into the background as the all-ages venues closed down and the real world came calling. It’s a familiar story.

But while a lesser band would have hung it up, Straight Jacket Escape kept making noise for fun, eventually re-emerging from their basement this year to play their first show in over half a decade (in a basement) and record their first track in even longer (in a different basement). Seeing these dudes in a legitimate venue is like spotting a bald eagle in the wild, so Built4BBQ is obviously thrilled to host the elusive SJE’s first above-ground show since like 2007 at the Star Spangled Bonanza. They’ll kick off the 4th of July festivities on the Pauly’s Hotel stage at 7pm. You can catch their brand new track, “On & On”, on the Entrée sampler – it’s a slice of speedy, catchy punk rock that might seem like a throwback if these guys hadn’t been playing music like this since the early aughts. A new EP is in the works and we can’t wait to hear it. Of course, Straight Jacket Escape is too punk for a website, so you’ll have to track them down the way you found bands when you were 15… onstage at a sweaty club or dingy basement, or maybe on a cheap compact disc compilation album. Recommended if you like Lagwagon, Lifetime, NOFX, skateboarding or circle pits.

Built4BBQ, The Low Beat, Pauly’s Hotel & Exit 97.7 proudly present THE STAR SPANGLED BONANZA on Friday July 4!

Celebrate the US of A and the release of our second Built4BBQ sampler, THE ENTREE, with an 8-band, dual-stage blowout, featuring:
CHARMBOY
THE END MEN
THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE CHORUS
HENRY’S RIFLE
CADDYWHOMPUS (New Orleans!)
THE PISTOLWHIPS
THE KIMONO DRAGONS
STRAIGHT JACKET ESCAPE

$7 gets you BOTH doors and puts a copy of the brand new sampler in your hands! The Entree boasts new, unreleased and/or righteous tracks by all your favorite Built4BBQ bands and buds like Bad Friends, The Lucky Jukebox Brigade and The Radicals!

USA! USA!