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  • Genre: Blues / Punk / Rock

    Location Philadelphia/Brooklyn, Un

    Profile Views: 29638

    Last Login: 5/17/2012

    Member Since 10/24/2005

    Website www.grubbies.net

    Record Label http://www.ninemilerecords.com/

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Grubstake has been a longstanding underground presence in the East Coast scene from Boston to Philadelphia for the past 10 years, garnering praise from local zines (The Noise, The Deli, PA Musician) to regional mainstream (Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe) and alternative press (Philly Weekly, Philadelphia Citypaper, Boston's Weekly Dig , Boston Phoenix). We've been well received by radio & digital dj's, showing up in the mix on stations like Philadelphia's WKDU 91.7fm Drexel radio and YRock on XPN (as well as live sessions at both), DJ Shred on WBCN 104fm Boston, MIT's WMBR 88.1fm Cambridge, and Jon Solomon's influential podcast Local Support, as well as others all over the country. This is not only post post-punk, it's post post post post-punk. It's so post-everything it sounds like Paul McCartney having a lazy writing session with Jandek and Tom Waits. -Roctober "Speaking of rustic and not elegant (that's fine): Grubstake, Paddy Wax McHugh's accordion-fueled pub-punk cabaret act (think Pogues meet Black Lips) has a new album Anyhow that gets a release bash at Tritone Nov. 18. For those of you unfamiliar with McHugh, he's a deliciously gnarly storyteller and a brusque singer and the Grubbies are always up for a damn rough good bad time as the groove drifts from skiffle country swing to pounding rawk out. Go man go." -Philadelphia Citypaper from BabySue, January 2012: These guys play fun, upbeat guitar-driven pop/rock. You can tell by the energy on this album that the main emphasis is on having a good time playing. None of that ultra cool hipster shit going down here...What's the Point in a New C.D. Anyhow is a pure upbeat experience delivered with a sense of humor. While the bulk of the album consists of originals, the band also includes covers of "I Wanna Be Well" (The Ramones) and "History Lesson Pt. II" (The Minutemen). Our favorite tracks include "The Great Escape," "The Guy Who Doesn't Get It," "Spirit of Dublin," and "Slowlo Astronaut (Safe Return)." Unconventional, but unarguably punk Grubstake is a punk band in the truest sense of the word. Not that they play simple three-chord songs with buzzsaw guitar distortion and no solos—there's some of that, but not much—but on a deeper level they embody a kind of DYI ethic that doesn't worry too much about, y'know, sound quality or musical proficiency. Violin, accordion and toy piano aren't exactly staples of the punk aesthetic, and their inclusion should let you know that you're not entering typical Ramones/Bad Religion/Blink 182 territory. "The Great Escape" kicks things off with murky guitar noodling and a marked absence of power-chord bashing, which is taken up in subsequent tunes like "Spirit of Dublin" and "Telephone Message from Cadillac Franky Z." -PopMatters

  • Members

    **PW McHugh - guitar, vocals, bass, claps**.. **Charlie Mayer -accordion, hooter/melodica**.. **John Coursey-violin**.. **Dave McMullin - drums, vocals**.. **Stanislav Ostrikov - token ex-soviet**.. .. miscreant associates:.. **Lex Marburger - electronic interphasings**.. **Rocket1000 - drums, backup vocals**.. **Steve NOTV - drums, percussions & objects, claps, glockenspiel, microphones** ..

  • Influences

    T Rex, Come, Talking Heads, Dirtbombs, Low Budgets, Calexico, Elmore James, RL Burnside, Bob Log III, Black Eyed Snakes, The Minutemen, Richard Hell, warehouse machinery late at night, my brother Jer, Mudhoney, Jim Kweskin, Gogol Bordello, The Muppets

  • Sounds Like

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