Adam White: Vocals, Guitar
John Brookhouse: Guitar
Brendan Reilly: Bass
Chris Keene: Drums
Elio DeLuca: Organ
Influences
We try not to think "genre," but most people say we have an alt-country or roots kind of sound. While we have some mellower numbers, we are definitely not a soft and easy kind of band. sure, there is some twang in there, but there is some fire and brimstone in there too. We're loud, yet subtle at times.
With Adam's vocal/lyrical influences spanning the gammut from M. Doughty to Loudon Wainright III, Mountain Goats to Bob Dylan, it's easy to see where he gets his clever, yet pithy wit and wordplay. The whole band has extremely varied taste in music, so everyone brings something of their own to the table. But, the basic templates of the Stones, the Who, Tom Petty, Big Star, the Replacements, and the Soft boys all come into play at one point or another, some more than others.
Sounds Like
Tom Petty, Big Star, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Uncle Tupelo, Rolling Stones, The Stooges, The Dead Kennedys, Replacements, Kevin Salem, The Soft Boys, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Bros., The Byrds, Elvis Costello, The Irreverends, Built to Spill, Matthew Sweet, Robyn Hitchcock, Mark Eitzel, The Faces, Lucero, Corey Brannan, Slobberbone, Jason and The Scorchers, Neil Young, Paul Westerberg, Wilco, Son Volt, Jay Farrar, Bash and Pop, Tommy Stinson, Perfect, AC Newman, New Pornographers
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The Irreverends walk the line between roots rock and populist pop with some indie singer/songwriter mentality tossed into the mix for good measure. John Brookhouse (guitar), Brendan Reilly (bass) and Adam White (vocals, guitar) have been playing together in various lineups for several years, and together with veteran indie-rock drummer Chris Keene (formerly of Boston's punk-noir band The Takers) and organist Elio DeLuca (also of Keys to the Streets of Fear), we play rock and roll with the passion it deserves but too often lacks.
Although birthed in Boston, we were individually reared in various spots in Maine, farming towns and little cities long past their glory days that inconspicuously dot Interstate 95 to the West and to the East, and it's places like these where many of our songs take place. Cradled in a culture of desperation, alcoholism and poverty, we consciously decided to pack it up and move to the more fertile fields of Boston, a choice that carried its own rewards and consequences, but ultimately allowed us to pursue the band as more than just a regional diversion.
The aggressive soloing on Evangeline, gritty riffs on Ghettos on Fire and twin guitar lines on Annalise lead the band through songs that update the American rock sound while acknowledging its forbearers. The group marries the lyrical concerns of the characters with music that, while modern, carries echoes of the rock and roll they might hear from their speakers, and that the listener might appreciate the combination of the visceral and the cerebral.
Recently the Irreverends put out a self-released eponymously titled 4-song EP. Brian Brown (Bill Janovitz, Juliana Hatfield) formerly of the renowned Fort Apache Studios, recorded it to 2" 24-track analog and mixed to 24-bit digital at Analog Divide Studios in Allston, MA.
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Hey guys, cool page you have here and great tunes! You guys rock. I went to school with John Brookhouse, I was class of '94. Great stuff, guys, thanks for adding me!
