About me: 06/12/08 BIG NEWS!!! Forty Acres has signed to ELEVEN SEVEN MUSIC and changed their name to: CHARM CITY DEVILS! Check out the new video for "Let's Rock-N-Roll" below.
Forty Acres "Burn Baby Burn"
"Forty Acres as a band just started to form in February of 2006. Forty Acres as a concept started about a year ago while I was playing drums on tour for Mitch Allan and SR-71" says frontman/singer/songwriter John Allen. "I realized that banging on a non-melodic instrument was only going to influence our music to a certain degree. So, I wrote a bunch of songs, played all the instruments, except for a few, and made a video. WHFS saw the video and then DEMANDED I form a band so I could play their legendary WHFS-Tival in May of 06!!!" WIYY 98 Rock started playing "Burn Baby Burn" and needless to say John put the band together. "It's just back to the basics... rocking the fuck out! I just want to get in a van and play music. I would love to play all over the globe - no matter if it's for 5000 or 5 people. I can't wait to step out on stage behind the microphone instead of being behind the drumkit. Just doing stuff that I love, and having a kick-ass band, that's the most important thing to me right now." Joining John onstage is Jason Heiser on drums and longtime friends and former bandmates Nick Kay on guitar, Anthony Arambula and brother Vic Karrera , bass and guitar respectively.
Forty Acres' music has been described by www.away-team.com magazine as: " ...this killer new band that resembles Jet on an asphalt diet with a little Iggy Pop & The Stooges thrown in for extra salt! Forty Acres is every bit as relevant as bands like The White Stripes, The Hives, and the aforementioned Jet are today, but they have an appealing and very edgy punk tendency to them that makes them a bit more enjoyable for harder rockers like myself. The album kicks off with a soon-to-be Ipod classic, “Burn Baby Burn”. In less than three minutes, this song establishes the pace of where Broken Promise is headed; a road paved with nothing but an alcohol induced, shit-kicking, tire burning bar fight that would make Jack Nicholson piss his pants! It’s got songs about prostitutes (“Lil’ Girls) and even self-loathing (“Pour Me Another”), but more than anything else, it’s bringing back the raw, unbridled stuff that made music fun in the late 70’s and early 80’s. John has forged a killer lineup from veteran talent that equals his brilliance as a songwriter and lead vocalist. Check out this cool collection of punk-n-roll mayhem".
