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
!!New cd "Make An Animal Noise" now available online & in stores!!
MP3's AVAILABLE AT AMAZON.COM, NAPSTER.COM, & ITUNES.COM/GRUBSTAKE
HANDMADE CD's AVAILABLE VIA: WWW.CDBABY.COM/GRUBSTAKE5
"Named for an arcane mining term, Grubstake have been hammering out mud–caked guitar–drum blues for about a decade now. Patrick McHugh led the band in Boston for much of that time before returning to his old stomping grounds in Philly and nabbing drummer/engineer Steve Bozzone to make a fifth album, Make An Animal Noise. It’s another gritty, ground–down outing, with McHugh hollering about TV dinners and other mundane miseries on ”Delaware” and trafficking heavily in spite on ”Sophisticated Whore.” Most garage–rock duos putter out when they cease to mix things up musically, but McHugh’s been around long enough to know when to throw a wrench into the works. -Doug Wallen/Philadelphia Weekly
"Post punk rock from Philly sounds like The Talking Heads, Thin Lizzy, with Minutemen style fast driven riffs, and Pixies-esque vocal harmonies. Great Stuff." -Jake Rabid/Y-Rock on WXPN
"Essential listening, and for the late-night partying crowd, the jam of the summer." -CHORD Magazine
"While many journalists have heralded The Black Keys and The White Stripes as the coming of “blues for the 21st Century” or “nu” blues my vote is cast for Grubstakes as the bearers of that title. This is NOT for traditional blues fans but for the adventurous listener looking to see where the blues will go in this century and who will take it there. - PA Musician Magazine
"We really like Grubstake, based on their fine CD The Bestest, with its great cover of Neil Young's "Albuquerque" and some original deconstructionist blues." - Philadelphia Inquirer
Grubstake's ethos is simple: keep it dirty, sing about zombies & paranoia, and include plenty of scuzzy blues licks. They've shredded clubs all over the Northeast US with their gutteral, raw sound. Critics have noticed:
The Noise magazine calls Grubstake "Indie rock at it's best" and Amanda Nichols of The Weekly Dig says, "Like Andy Warhol attempting an Impressionist portrait of Elvis, Grubstake manages to mix the humor of Ween, Richard Hell's punk snickers and the 'dropout blues' of early Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band with charm, skill, and reckless abandon."
Since relocating back to his hometown of Philadelphia, head 'staker Patrick McHugh has been moving away from the studio polish of 2007's The Bestest, and putting the focus back on the lean and mean guitar & drums boogie of the band's 2008 release "Make An Animal Noise".
Come join us Friday May 15th @ 9:00 PM @ Club Risque! All Out Friday Night featuring Dive, Even The Res, and Spy The Thinker - $10 gets you into the show upstairs and the gentleman's club downstairs. For updates check www.myspace.com/risquelive.
THANKS FOR THE ADD IF YOU CLICK ON THESE LINKS YOU CAN LISTEN TO TWO MINUTES OF EVERY SONG ON THE CD IT DOES NOT FORCE YOU TO BUY IT BUT IT WOULD BE ALOT COOLER IF YOU DID! HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY!
If you haven't heard the tracks GRUBSTAKE recorded at Y-Rock On XPN for Y-Rock's LOCAL TRACKS SESSIONS this is your warning...
The session was recorded back on July 27 ,2008, and the songs "Tuesday Evening", "Kill Your Boss” “Meteor Shower,” & “Get Rid Of The Signer” were performed live in our studio by< b> GRUBSTAKE .. members PaddyWacks McHugh, & Steve NoTV in a rare acoustic performance .
Have you heard the tracks yet from this incredible live performance?!
If not,this here is your chance, because right now you can download the tracks from GRUBSTAKES's Y-Rock Local Tracks Session for free at the official myspace site of the Y-Rock Philly Local www. myspace. com/YRockOnXPNLocalMusicShow
Don't slack because the tracks are only available for a limited time, and soon those tracks will be pulled from myspace and returned to the Y-Rock archives....
So this is it, your chance to hear the tracks theY-Rock Local Tracks Session recorded by GRUBSTAKE
Give them a listen, or get the tracks for yourself.
Hey Grubstake! We're playing in Philly at the World Cafe Live next Wednesday. Hope you can make it! And did you see our new video? It's on our page, check it out. XO, CORDERO
So, yeah the minions are comin' up, and proud we are of all of them, but we need a break from them. That's why we're stoked that it's Tomb Sweeping Day! 3-Day weekend yo!
Sorry to be so long getting back to you. Taiwan is alright, but the good music is few and far between, the most popular of it being pop ballads so processed I get diabetes just thinking about them. We are thankful for the Internets and the likes of Grubstake who use them. I hung up my axe when we got here, not just because of the dearth of good musicians, but because I'm so busy every day I don't have time to practice. Dee is thrivin'. She's got scores of little English student minions singing her praises.
