Coyote Scott Jones is the panhandle slim manhandling the bass guitar and providing backing vocals.
Mike McCullagh is the crooning, multi-talented vocalist, guitarist, and lap steel..ist.
Matt Snow is the red-haired guy who plays the drum kit, sings backing vocals, and lives amongst the carparts and bungalows.
Glenn Yoder sings while playing guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and whatever else he found as a substitute for friends while spending too much time in his room as a child.
Superdrag, Neil Young, Wilco, The Band, Ryan Adams / Whiskeytown, The Who, Simon & Garfunkel, Old 97s, Royal City, Toadies, Elvis Costello, The Jayhawks, Karate, Lemonheads, The Smiths, Drag the River, Nada Surf, Songs: Ohia/Magnolia Electric Co., The Beatles, Centro-matic / South San Gabriel, ELO, The Replacements, Alejandro Escovedo, Teenage Fanclub, The Rolling Stones, Duffer, etc.
Sounds Like
An ocean of jazz leads and country acoustics making love to a shoreline of sweet vocals, and all the fish and sea mammals can do is sit there, grooving on it. The noble sea-veterans also know to beware the inevitable daily ROCK TEMPEST, and have learned to enjoy the change in tide immensely.
CASSAVETTES: Pronounced kass-UH-vets (like Cassanova and Corvette).
A BRIEF HISTORY
A Boston-based rock band with a roots flavor that hints at their Texas heritage, CASSAVETTES often draws comparisons to Neil Young and The Band for the its ability to switch from distorted, guitar-driven rock to clean, sweet folk-rock.
Since three Texan friends reunited north of the Mason-Dixon line in 2005, Cassavettes has turned more than a few heads -- scooping up “Best Local Band” in the 2006 Boston Phoenix reader’s poll, nabbing a 2006 Boston Music Award nod for “Outstanding Americana Act,” and making a splash at South By Southwest 2007 in Austin, Texas, the Midpoint Music Festival 2007 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Dewey Beach Americana Festival 2007 and Dewey Beach Popfest 2008 in Dewey Beach, Delaware. They have toured extensively from the northeast to Nashville and back to their native Texas.
Crossbreeding a deep love of The Band, Neil Young, and The Beatles with contemporary favorites like Royal City, The Jayhawks, The Lemonheads, and Whiskeytown, the band also mixes in specks of rock, jazz, folk, and country.
While they’ve drawn comparisons to everyone from The Byrds to Tom Petty to Young himself, the Weekly Dig called Cassavettes’ music difficult to “pin down” -- and that’s exactly how the band likes it. Using an eclectic range of instruments and sounds, the band blurs genres musically, while keeping the storytelling element prominent in folk and country lyrics. The Boston Globe said this gives Cassavettes "charm to spare."
The Boston Metro described the group thusly: "By taking the Beatles' 'Revolver'-stomp to the saloon and getting it high on jazz in the backroom… Cassavettes mosey away from the same old tear-in-my-beer twang and provide an alternative to alternative-country (Alt-alt-country?)."
With three releases under its belt, including the just-release live record Animal Friends, Cassavettes continues to pick up steam. Expect your heart to be broken, but more importantly, expect further quality tunes from these debonair young roustabouts.
"There's charm to spare on the first full-length from urban cowboys Cassavettes. The Boston band...hangs fragile melodies, gloomy strings, and casually chiming guitar figures over a series of lived-in acoustic shuffles, swampy open-road stompers, and broken-down breakdowns."
"By taking the Beatles' 'Revolver'-stomp to the saloon and getting it high on jazz in the backroom, four Texas ex-pats known as Cassavettes mosey away from the same old tear-in-my-beer twang and provide an alternative to alternative-country (Alt-alt-country?)."
-Boston Metro
"In a city thats overrun with Bauhaus and Interpol soundalikes, this alternative, folk-rock band stands out like an oil rig in open land. ... The sound is far beyond Donny and Marie, but they are a little bit country and a little bit rock n roll."
"The music is tight and poppy, rooted in good ole ass kickin’ rock ’n’ roll. The riffs are off-kilter enough so that while it’s radio friendly, it’s not TOO radio friendly—like an Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, and Mojo Nixon love child."
"It's probably not a good idea to pin down Cassavettes' sound just yet. ... The symmetry they strike is between the only two things a band like this knows how to do: sing about hard times and have a blast doing it."
"Hauled in from Texas, Glenn Yoder brings exceptional songwriting and stellar musical performances to a city not short on talent. His band, the up and coming Cassavettes, have been touring the Northeast viciously and turning a lot of heads in the college club circuit with their own unique style of country folk and rock."
"The place where pop music intersects alternative country only blocks away from where all the rock and roll bad-asses hang out ... Guaranteed good times that will have you singing their melodies all the way to the grave."
"Boston Phoenix's readers poll voted them the best band. We haven't figured out quite what to call them or who to compare them to. We do know the live show is always a good time and they're looking to the future with a new album on the way."
I think I see Cassavettes people... That was one of the most fun shows in recent memory, maybe ever, hell of a time and congrats on everything! Keep rockin' it 'til the wheels fall off!!
Holy shit, we are stoked for your show at the Paradise saturday!
For the true, hardcore music fans, we are rockin a 4th of July bash at the Lizard Lounge friday...consider it a "pregame" for the 'dise show. You dudes should come and grab a virgin bloody mary! Cheers,
Tab The Band slick old school rolling stones style rock n roll soon to release a new record, mixed by Kevin Ennis (Milkhouse Recording Studio)
Cassavettes Neil Young style southern rock Recently recorded a "live in studio" album (with a very enthusiastic audience) Engineered by Shane O'Connor (me!)
HAIRCUT sound like dinojunior / ted leo recorded a demo at The Milkhouse and they were awesome so I put em on a show.
