Dead Confederate

Monday, December 03, 2007

Dead Confederate

Dead Confederate are from Athens, Joeja (that’s my southern accent) and the first band to be signed to the The Artist’s Organization with their deal through Razor And Tie, the marvelously eclectic folks who have brought you Kidz Bop, Dar Williams, Sam Champion and Ryan Shaw (among others).

Dead Confederate will bring new meaning to notion that the “the South’s gonna do it again.” Shit, the South never actually stopped doing it. It just became uncool to actually like what they’ve been doing, and now DC are gonna change that. Imagine a brooding intense mix of guitar rock that wails like Neil Young’s “Like A Hurricane,” MMJ at their most fiercest with a little Sonic Youth and The Verve thrown in for good measure. Damn, makes me want to smoke pot or start drinking that cough syrup I was hooked on for so many years.

Seriously though – cinematic and atmospheric, loud and beautiful, DC could be your next new favorite drug. They’ve got a new EP out now and a full length to come out sometime in 2008. Dig the new Wall of Sound.

~ by Andrew on December 17, 2007.