October 27, 2005

Upcoming In-Store: LIMBECK

LIMBECK Thursday, October 27th – 7:00pm

Once upon a time, when you saw the logo for Doghouse Records on the back of an album you could pretty much guess what you were gonna get; confessional punk rock (emo sounds so dated). Who would have thought there would come a time when we’d see a Doghouse band listing Tom Petty and Wilco as an influence? Orange County’s Limbeck have fashioned themselves as the Kerouac of rock and roll, inheriting the hard work ethic of our best touring bands: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Fugazi. Anyhow rock and roll is about dust and grit and gasoline, and the people you meet along the way, and maybe that’s why Limbeck’s songs seem like a hello from someplace else, a postcard from an old friend. The Limbeck boys are no longer the punk rock progeny of their debut, This Chapter Is Called Titles. They built a foundation of Big Star and Tom Petty-inflected power pop for Hi, Everything’s Great that has evolved into their own take on classic rock – a hat tip to the Southern California sound of the early 70s combined with loose, laid back and rollicking blasts of Gram Parsons, the Beach Boys on Sunflower and Friends, the Faces, the Stones and, most of all, the Replacements. This will be a stripped down, acoustic guitar and mandolin affair. How punk is that?

Recent Press:
(Gary Louris of the Jayhawks) “has helped deliver the California country album the band wanted to make. The changes are subtle: MacLean’s vocals are rougher, as is the band’s playing; mandolins and organs augment the standard-three rock instrumentation; any residual naivete from the band’s indie rock beginnings has eroded. Limbeck has truly arrived!" - Harp Magazine