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frontier ruckus
Indie / Folk / Bluegrass

it's as though the whole world's my halo



Orion Town, Michigan
United States

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Last Login:  7/15/2009
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Member Since7/14/2005
Band Websitewww.frontierruckus.com
Band MembersMatthew Milia
songs, voice, guitar, harmonica, pedal steel
David W. Jones
banjo, dobro, voice
Zachary Nichols
singing-saw, trumpet, melodica
Ryan "Smalls" Etzcorn
drums, percussion
Anna Burch
voice, harmonium, guitar

management:
Dolphus Ramseur
Ramseur Records

booking:
New Frontier Touring

publicist:
Brooke Black
Big Hassle

dear frontier ruckus:
frontierruckus@gmail.com

InfluencesStephen Collins Foster, William Carlos Williams, Diane Wakoski
Sounds Like"...and there was them kind of faint dronings of bugs and flies in the air that makes it seem so lonesome and like everybody's dead and gone."
-HUCKLEBERRY FINN




here is some press
Record LabelRamseur Records
Quite Scientific Records
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 16 2009 4:00P
Slottsfjell Festival Tønsberg, Norway
Jul 17 2009 4:00P
Slottsfjell Festival Tønsberg, Norway
Jul 18 2009 7:00P
Woody Bash Festival @ Hasenschaukel Hamburg, Germany
Jul 19 2009 8:00P
CANCELED (not our doing, sorry!) Utrecht, Netherlands
Jul 22 2009 8:00P
The Slaughtered Lamb London, England
Jul 23 2009 8:00P
The Windmill London, England
Jul 25 2009 8:00P
The Ark Ann Arbor, Michigan
Aug 22 2009 4:00P
Hoxeyville Music Festival Cadillac, Michigan
Oct 3 2009 8:30P
Moe’s Englewood, Colorado
Oct 10 2009 5:00P
Joshua Tree Music Festival Joshua Tree, California

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come get THE ORION SONGBOOK and enter the large and dusky world of ORION TOWN right now at:

...most usually in a perpetual state of waiting--limbo. This is an enormous place to be, it is seen clearly in the modern space of the "dead mall;" it's like this, buildings and towns and counties are containers that gradually show the glowing life or death of the things within them. The existence of locality, and the connection of all the spaces or people you engulf via bodies and via breath, that expansiveness of breath, is where Frontier Ruckus resides, and it is past that county-line-frontier where knowledge and affection blur into nothing. Every space/place/winter gas station lot/anonymous-dim-white-metal-highwayside-dome/etc. that you've known and eye-gulped compulsively throughout a lifetime is a container of memory and affect, and the faces of these places, these containers, are slowly exhibiting explicit portrayals of that which they hold--body and breath and horrible nighttime cosmos. When Frontier Ruckus is in song, the dynamism throatily throttles out of idle and the container spills all of its fluid out onto the bashful and awful hands of anything that does the pumping.

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Jul 14 2009 6:44 PM

jsut wanted to say how wonderful it was to open for you guys at the pike room. and i hope that you are all having a wonderful tour!
Alexander Burnet & The Proud Flesh





Jul 14 2009 5:32 PM

i miss you.
Paul





Jul 13 2009 12:43 AM

i just heard "driving home, christmas eve" and it reminded me of simon joyner.

anyway, great show at the crofoot. i didn't even stay for the headliner. you guys were the headliner. kind of pissed that i have to go to the ark to see you as an "opening act". ugh.
The Mantons





Jul 11 2009 6:52 AM

you guys are welcome to stop by after Wyandotte; if it's do-able, it would be a pleasure to see yous!
CD Release for Squeeze The Fish

..and yes, there WILL be vegan cookies!
sasha's just another bag of bones





Jul 11 2009 4:28 AM

I was pretty excited while standing in a candy shop, in wyandotte MI I saw a flyer saying you'd be playing tomorrow =)
Taylor





Jul 5 2009 5:12 AM

Out of curiousness, does Ryan have a girlfriend?
Windmill Brixton





Jul 2 2009 9:43 AM

Looking forward to 23 July in a big way!

Kevin Fein





Jun 25 2009 1:09 AM

Miss you guys...rested up for a night out to the bar yet?
Travis





Jun 23 2009 4:42 AM

I finally got the vinyl. New songs are great.
Black Eagle





Jun 20 2009 9:58 PM

killer show in ptld me. have a fab tour!
black
Turn It Down! Lansing Music! in CITY PULSE





Jun 19 2009 1:49 AM

the double LP looks NIIIiiiiiiIIiice!
Michael





Jun 13 2009 9:14 PM

Thank you for adding me as a friend. Like to see you all back in New Jersey.
Cheers.
sasha's just another bag of bones





Jun 12 2009 5:41 PM

how is something so sweet and howling coming from somewhere so near to here. You are all amazing at what you are doing. The lyrics fill my ears with warmth and send goose bumps down my arms. Come to tiny monroe for a show. It will be a good time :)
Drew





Jun 5 2009 5:42 PM

You guys were awesome at The Saint!
It Takes A Village To Make Records





Jun 5 2009 1:52 PM

Thought you might be interested: we've begun work on our next comp CD, "In The Orchard Of Osiris." There's blogs & bulletins being issued! We'd love to have you aboard. Hope you're enjoying your tour,

- Peter
Jeff and Benares





Jun 5 2009 12:03 PM

we're looking forward to seeing you in boston next friday!
Nicolas





Jun 4 2009 9:50 AM


thanks & welcome FR, love, peace, vibes & doodeloo from Bruges!!!
;n
MacGregor Burns





Jun 3 2009 4:11 AM

awesome show guys! glad I got the cd
Matthew Mendel





May 30 2009 1:23 AM

hey guys, the new album is great, really diggin it. sorry i didn't make it to jax, the orlando magic are almost in the finals and had to watch the game, i hope to see you all soon though. and if davie reads this, i have some banjo questions for him. take care guys.
Donelle





May 29 2009 12:29 PM


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Thanks for adding me :)
moor hound





May 28 2009 10:12 PM

Hey guys. Once again, it was awesome playing with all of you.


I'm sure I'll be listening to you guys' cd for a long freakin time.


Hope the rest of the tour goes well!
Seán Cook





May 28 2009 4:46 AM

Hey, 'member like... a year ago when I was taking pictures at Scene with a big fat film camera? I finally scanned the negatives. Here's one of the better ones. I'll upload some film strips soon. I think y'all will like the look of them.

Frontier Ruckus
Gutshot and Thirsty





May 27 2009 11:46 PM

hope athens was good to ya!
Tobacco Pat





May 27 2009 11:04 PM

looking forward to it..

Photobucket
dilly dilly





May 27 2009 7:08 PM

Frontier Ruckus promo for the Portland Maine show!

We can't wait to see you!

xo
~dilly

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