Big Rock Candy Mountain… a song about the sweeter things in life for the down and out. The concept that a land filled with your uttermost desires is what is considered paradise. Big Rock Candy Mountain...a band that takes this concept and translates it into their own paradise of fuzzy guitars, square-waved keyboards, cavity inducing harmonies, distorted bass-lines, and four on the floor drum beats. Creating the foundation of what they consider fun, euphoric, and loud, BRCM’s goal is to share this utopia to the masses. With their debut EP, "Hey Kid", being released Sept 22nd, BRCM draws the powers of rock bands and other celestial entities such as Led Zeppelin, black holes, Daft Punk, Death Cab for Cutie, Queens of the Stoneage, the big bang, and banging in general... As the great provider says, stay tuned for more touring, and more rambunctiousness.
What do people say about us?
"A nerve-wracking amalgam of lo-fi, hysteria and high-flying histrionics, this prog-pop treat is sure to drive you
batty… and straight to the dance floor."
- Groovescapes 3.3.09
“Big Rock's sound is defined by both by its sparkling, effervescent melodies and its raw rhythmic sensibility. They demonstrate their drama by whipping back and forth between frenetic, distorted charges and delicate, self-aware passages that aren't afraid to retreat a little. It is a pinpoint reflection of their New Orleans home town, a city that wears all of its colors on its sleeve, from vibrant highs to grittiest lows.”
–Brett Cooper, SomeAmerican.com - Washington D.C. and New Orleans Blog
"Its like Queens of the Stoneage meets the Beach Boys with synthesizers." - Some girl.
"The opening number 'Rocketship' is pure sensory overload—chaotic, euphoric, overpowering and inescapable. The rest of the songs on Hey Kid are just as maddening. The hysterical opus, 'I Am the Storm,' swims through a sea of feedback and trippy art punk, while the pulsating distortion of 'Hey Kid Give Me Your Money' erupts into a vehement, overdriven freakout."
- Aaron Lafont, Offbeat Magazine
"Big Rock Candy Mountain will mix it up for you—give you a spin on life from a variety of gears, and ‘get you off’.
They’ve got a contagious energy that permeates almost every bar of their musical profundity."
- Southside Sanctuary 6.26.09
"By turns celestial and intensely earthy, Big Rock Candy Mountain is a modern band with seemingly equal enthusiasm for classic rock and angular, post-Pavement flavors, with each tune on this saucy debut slapping these currents together with smashing results."
- Dennis Cook, Jambase 9/22/09
"Is it too early to call this the post Dirty Projectors era? If so, Big Rock Candy Mountain carries the curious dischording harmonies to its own world of alternating power riffs and introspective blank spaces. This is certainly not simple music."
- IndieFeed 10/01/09
"first off, they’re loud, but loud with a purpose. they’re not just wailing on guitars and hopefully making some kind of sense. they’re loud but the melodies remain fully intact. secondly, they were fun as hell."
- Captains Dead Blog
"Their sound was sharp and concussive – more intense, focused and rambunctious that I ever would have predicted. Songs like “Rocket Ship” and “Lover” crammed the perverse delirium and glorious bombast of classic prog rock into the swirling spirals and sinuous pulse of choice new wave."
- Groovescapes Oct '09
"Big Rock contrasts the gentle and rugged in persistent switches from quiet to forceful in titles like, “Rocketship” and “Bang Bang,” showcasing their sparkling melodies and a playful aggression."
- Ashcan Magazine 10/5/09
You will go to the Haunted Treehouse Party on 1614 Esplanade and you will like it! It's 10$ cover, BYOB, a bloodbath, waterslide, awesome DJ's, costumes preferred!
Hey! Come on out to The Republic in New Orleans on Tuesday, Sept. 29th! We will be opening for The Toadies! Doors open at 8pm, and the show starts at 9pm! Hope you can make it!
I had so much fun at the show last night. I'm listening to your cd right now :) Soooo ya'll should play a show Voodoo fest weekend since I'm gonna be in town. Or yall could just go ahead and come back to Mobile cause I missed ya'll last time.
Hey guys! The show was amazing tonite as it always is erytime I come out to see you!! It makes me happy im new orleans! keep it up! love the music lots!
Hey there! Come out to Le Bon Temps on Magazine in New Orleans, Saturday, September 19th! We'll have an early show with special guests Shotgun Party, from Austin! It all starts at 10pm, and it's free! Hope to see you there!
Likewise! By the way...the after-party's gonna be late as hell, and it looks like it will be outside, so the whole DJ thing could get the cops called. So, we'll have to keep the music down a bit, but we'll let you know if things change. Peace!
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