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the Magpies
Indie / Folk / Rock

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CLEVELAND, Ohio
United States

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Last Login:  11/21/2009
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   the Magpies: General Info
Member Since8/15/2007
Band Websitewww.the-magpies.com
Band Members
Justin Gorski - accordian, piano, organ, vocals
Roger Hoover - vocals, guitar
Dave McKean - drums, vocals
Doug McKean - bass, vocals
Record Labelunsigned
Type of LabelUnsigned


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Nov 6 2009 10:00P
Hone’s Corner Cafe Barberton, Ohio
Nov 7 2009 9:00P
The Happy Dog Cleveland, Ohio
Nov 20 2009 10:00P
The Northside Akron, Ohio
Nov 25 2009 6:00P
Canton Palace Theater Canton, Ohio
Nov 27 2009 9:00P
5 o clock lakewood, Ohio
Nov 28 2009 10:00P
The Northside Akron, Ohio
Dec 4 2009 7:00P
Water St. Tavern Kent, Ohio
Dec 5 2009 9:00P
The Happy Dog Cleveland, Ohio
Dec 11 2009 10:00P
Hone’s Corner Cafe Barberton, Ohio
Dec 18 2009 9:00P
Brother’s Lounge Cleveland, Ohio

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   About the Magpies

PRESS FOR EASTERN STANDARD TIME:

“The Magpies' new album is energetic and sublime, and their live show is always mind-blowing.” – LocaList Magazine


”…a smart, confident release overflowing with well-written songs and wistfulness.” – Nashville Scene


”…getting to see them live is an absolutely moving and… a potentially life-changing event… the Magpies have rounded out a more contoured geography of American songscape than most artists could manage in an entire career.” – Arkansas Times

“These boys are that perfect mash of rock, folk and that bit of twang…” – Hardcore-Troubadours.com




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The Magpies bring a new reverent energy to roots music performance. The Ohio four-piece formerly known as Roger Hoover & The Whiskeyhounds are now four albums into a career that has taken them all over the country, preaching a rowdy gospel of sin, redemption, love, and death — it's indiefolkrockrevivalism.

Without label or professional representation, the Magpies have released four outstanding collections of unusual musical breadth and lyrical diversity. Roger Hoover's career as a writer has all the hallmarks of a great American epic. He came into his own after the death of his father, leaving the family business to follow his creative calling.Teaming up with friend and touring punk veteran Dave McKean (GC5), he started putting his words to music and his music on the road. Hoover & The Whiskeyhounds put out two albums (Golden Gloves, PanicBlues) that challenged the Americana scene's complacency with cliché. Even then, Hoover's words stepped beyond the forced eccentricity of alot of roots music. Having grown up around storytellers lends Hoover's writing style a particular universalism, even as many of his stories seem to come from some unknown, but very specific, time and place. His settings are a combination of words and music that evokes thought and action with the cinematic imagination of Tom Waits and Gillian Welch.

With the addition of Justin Gorski, who jumped onstage with his accordion one night in Cleveland and wound up being asked to join the band, the band's sound took a more imaginative turn. Gorski's piano, organ, and accordion turned Hoover's reflective words into prophecy, his confessions into testimony. The resultant album, Jukebox Manifesto, was an album of impressive breadth and detail—from political dissent and seductive passion to stark loneliness and funereal realism, Jukebox Manifesto ran the gamut of the roots tradition.

To reflect the more collaborative nature of their music-writing process, Hoover & The Whiskeyhounds changed their name to the Magpies for the release of their fourth album, Eastern Standard Time. This newest collection, like Jukebox, is alive with characters of multi-faceted tragedy. Unlike Jukebox, however, stark and lonely introspection is set aside for Springsteen-sized roots anthems of raucous resignation to the pangs of human folly. It is perhaps the closest the band has come to fully representing its live energy in a recording.

The Magpies' live shows are a spectacle of rare energy, with intimate verse and fist-pumping chorus taking turns across the spectrum of blues, gospel, folk, and rock. Hoover's electric tenor is as captivating as the words he sings — he whispers with the same urgency as he screams, while sweating out dirty slide guitar solos plucked right out of the Mississippi River. And Gorski holds his audience in rapt attention, squeezing and shaking out accordion and keyboard melodies with all the charisma of a hexed snakehandler. As writers, The Magpies are twisting Americana's calloused chords into a redemptive hook that at once recalls the first notes of rock-n-roll and resets the boundaries of what we know as roots music.

As entertainers, they present lyrically heavy, searing American rock-n-roll with a contagious fervor that lifts ghosts from the floorboards and hands them a microphone. They are breathing new life into roots music. Wherever they find themselves, it's the most unforgettable show in town.


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ysabel

ysabel



Nov 19 2009 2:24 PM

Looking forward to see ya'll tomorrow night!
Luke

Luke Wise



Nov 3 2009 7:17 PM

Yall need a live album. The studio recordings are great, but the Magpies live are out of this world.
STMS (Final show 11/25)

STMS (Final show 11/25)



Nov 2 2009 11:20 AM

YEs that is Cory...Don't vamp out on us!
Ramblin Trash

Ramblin Trash



Oct 11 2009 5:36 PM

Dropping in to show some lovin for my favorite Indiefolkrockrevivalist! When you coming back down this way? I got people itching to see you guys!
mary

mary mosher



Oct 1 2009 6:29 PM

hope to see you tomorrow 10-2 at the Kent Stage for the Sun Records Tribute. If you say the secret passwords: 88.9 sunday oldies jukebox
you get $2 off
JD

JD



Sep 26 2009 8:01 PM

digging the revamped songs guys! when are you going to grace the southeast again?
Ninjuh!

Ninjuh!



Sep 1 2009 11:19 PM

Thanks for the add. Saw you guys at colony last night way too small a venue for you....just sayin!!!
Mickie

Mickie Crockett



Aug 13 2009 6:23 AM

Less than a week!  Totally excited...you have been one of the 2 marquee spots on our playbill in the restaurant and in the Dallas Observer for several weeks!  I really believe in you guys!  I am doing all I can to pack the house for you!

Mickie 
Dinosaurus Rex

Dinosaurus Rex



Aug 11 2009 5:01 PM

Thanks for adding us!  We caught some of your set at the Water Street last weekend and you guys were really good. 
Luke

Luke Wise



Aug 4 2009 4:57 PM

Just wanted to tell yall again like I did in Cincinnati - yall rock. So
glad Ragweed led me to yall. As soon as I get some cash I'm gonna get
some of yalls tunes. I love the sound, hard driven rootsy music is just
my kinda thing. Would love to see the Newport show, but I can't take
off from work anymore this year. I will see yall live again though.
Thanks for the add and the true music.
lazy susan

lazy susan



Jul 29 2009 6:57 PM

Post a new song from the "Strangers" record. We need a teaser.
ryan

Ryan Mollric



Jul 29 2009 1:36 AM

We need a Akron/Barberton show before ya'll hit the road again!!
MELISSA

melissa largent



Jul 27 2009 5:18 PM

So I went to Hookah Fest this weekend at Nelsons Ledges and the only thing missing were you guys!! You should check into that. The Magpies would be a huge hit there. Have you ever played there before, for any event? I think you guys would have a great time out there too!
BRETT DILLON KHYI OFFICIAL SITE

BRETT DILLON



Jul 11 2009 8:50 PM

Hey Magpies, Lookin' forward to y'all comin' back to Dallas in August. Peace, Brett and Diana.Photobucket
Vinnie

Vinnie Morana



Jul 11 2009 5:34 AM

Great show at Brothers tonight!
Let's do that fishing thing tomorrow.
Call me.
Ramblin Trash

Ramblin Trash



Jul 5 2009 4:09 PM

Dropping by to give you guys a holler!
Wood

Joey Ellwood



Jul 2 2009 6:16 PM

As a cousin of Patrick Vaughan's I'm proud to say I've heard you guys a couple of times and can't get enough of your vibe. I've got several of your CDs and look to own a few more after this weekend. I'm doing everything within my power to see that I make it this Friday to watch Pat share the same stage.
Mickie

Mickie Crockett



Jun 28 2009 3:24 PM

see you in Dallas soon!
The Grisly Hand

The Grisly Hand



Jun 23 2009 5:37 PM

love gegaw girl! miss you dudes!
Bob, Jr.

Bob, Jr.



Jun 7 2009 1:38 AM

Great show in Joplin! Wish there had been more people there, but you made converts of everyone who saw you! Been spinning your CD, and preaching the good word of The Magpies. Hope you come around the area again - I'll be there!
BRETT DILLON KHYI OFFICIAL SITE

BRETT DILLON



Jun 6 2009 3:39 PM

Hey Guys, great meeting ya'll, you guys rocked Dallas Monday night. I need my Magpies fix. Peace, Dillon.
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Jun 5 2009 3:33 PM

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~dede~

~dede~



Jun 4 2009 8:54 PM

loved loved LOVED you guys at Stingaree! Next year!!!! maybe 2 hours of Magpies!
DILLON'S BAND OF MONKEYS

DILLON'S BAND OF MONKEYS



Jun 4 2009 4:30 AM

I miss y'all already. PLEEZE come back to Texas?! Caddy Ranch party was too cool. Photos coming soon, from Brett & Diana. bee=safe, luv, DBOM
Vinnie

Vinnie Morana



Jun 4 2009 3:50 AM

How was the road dudes?
Did you tell Hayes we were coming to see him?
Are we still?
Lemme know.
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