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Filed under: Emma, New Music, Uncategorized | Tags: csc funk band, drug rug, homegrown II, jeff the brotherhood, nashville, the temple, truman peyote
Homegrown II was a well oiled machine: There was genre variety, there were rapid fire sets, there were even really cool hand stamps. We did not end up at the Temple all day, everyday, all weekend like some troopers out there surely did, but our Saturday night experience started out funky with Brooklyn’s CSC Funk Band. We washed down all those horns with Drug Rug‘s tranquilizing grungy yet spaced out tunes and then got a nice dose of psychedelia courtesy of Truman Peyote.
The Temple was set up with two stages, and while the “stage stage” was being tripped out with lights and wayward sounds, little did we know JEFF the Brotherhood was getting ready to amp our brains out from the “floor stage.” Just as we sat down on the nice leather couch at the back of the room, the brothers of the Brotherhood started making the wood floor shake… and that wood floor, for future reference, has just the right amount of slip to it for badass guitarists to knee-slide. The Nashville-raised Orrall brothers were billed as futuristic classic rock which I admittedly scowled out until they melted my face off 20 minutes later. The Temple gets hot when people actually dance, and dance we fucking did. (For me, that meant kicking like Molly Ringwald in the part of The Breakfast Club where they all break it down in the library, boots and all).
Point is, listen to JEFF the Brotherhood (blog link) if you like that old school riff rock sound with new school flare. They’ve got some punk to them, with a garage rock backdrop and a little blues thrown in. Plus, the dudes dress like its 1975, and Jake, the guitarist, even has the haircut to match. They’ve been around since 2002 but are starting to grab a larger audience with their sixth album Heavy Days, as they should.
Oh, and their drumset says JEFFRO TULL. Awesome.
Enjoy.
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