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Hubcap City
Concrete / Acousmatic / Tape music / Religious

(From Belgium)



ATLANTA, Georgia
United States

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Member Since11/6/2005
Band Websitewww.tastygrits.com/higrecords/hubcapcity.html
Band Members
Bill Taft
Will Fratesi
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Kat H.
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Mathew DoyaL
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InfluencesMississippi John Hurt, Blind Willie McTell, Uncle Dave Macon, Velvet Underground, Dainty Jack Pendarvis, early Beck, Benjamin, Smoke, The Jody Grind, Front Street, Greg Connors, Joseph Arthur, Kelly "the hammer" Hogan, Isabelle Eberhardt
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Smoke, cannons, shuffling along the railroad tracks, beating sticks with sticks, squids, big chickens, hobos, taps, marches, cemetaries, a downpour from under the tressel, rusty iron spikes, crying, starving whispers, dusty ramshackle outback buildings

Record LabelUnknown Indie
Type of LabelIndie


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New CD out on Ponce de Leon Records and Table of the Elements Records

New multi-colored vinyl 7" single now available on Ponce de Leon Records

Under the bridge

BY CHAD RADFORD

In between and underneath Atlanta's rapidly gentrifying cityscape lies the withering remains of a much older Southern city. In this sagging post-urban panorama is where local trio Hubcap City (From Belgium) finds refuge. Since 2000, the rickety outfit has drawn inspiration from its surroundings, fashioning desolate and deranged junkyard folk songs. Made up of singer/guitarist Bill Taft (formerly of Smoke, the Jody Grind), guitarist Matthew Proctor, and drummer Will Fratesi (Cat Power, Smoke), the group makes music that is a cluttered and verdant anomaly. Taft's unwavering voice mixes with a percussive rattle pounded out on large bits of found metal debris from loosely tuned steel strings to a metal I-beam. All of these elements add force to Taft's apocalyptically Dylan-esque laments.

An array of battery-powered recording devices, including a Walkman cassette recorder, a mini-disc recorder and a cell phone bring textures to the group's recordings. This is a technique Taft compares to juxtaposing photos from a 35 mm lens next to Polaroid pictures. The most striking examples of these textures come to light with A Tour of Southern Homes, a patchwork of poetry interspersed with field recordings.

As for performing live, the group is less inclined to book a show at a traditional music venue than to set up and play in a half-demolished building or a drainage tunnel underneath Moreland Avenue. Playing and recording in such unorthodox locations forms an intense link between Hubcap City's sound and its surroundings, translating to an uncanny character in the music. "We don't fit into the rock club world," says Taft. "The less electricity we use, the better we sound."

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May 3 2009 2:39 AM

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Apr 30 2009 11:34 PM

I <3 hub cap city!!!!!!
i played you guys on my radio show this past year~~~& i uploaded hub cap city songs into the GCSU radio station libray so yr in rotation there!!!!

i'm play'in a show the sat @ KaVaRna.....
LOVE 2 c U FoLks!!!!!

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Dec 18 2008 3:13 AM

Thanks for getting back guys!
We got that show covered now.
We'll definitely look you guys up next time we're in the area. Probably on a more opportune date.
Happy New Year!
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Dec 9 2008 10:02 PM

Hey fellas!
We're at the Caledonia on New Years Day, do you have nay interest in playing that show with us?
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Dec 5 2008 1:26 AM

Thanks for adding me, nice to meet you xx
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