Makers, Dangria, Tube Amps, sad songs that are swung, fog and rain, vinyl
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check out my first experience with podcasting, www.sessionsfromthebox.com. I had a great time hanging with James and Jimi. This is the first part of a two part show.
"stumbling around a scuzzy bar's back alley in a gin haze, lost and bewildered by the hand life has delt you"-Don Campbell, the Oregonian.
You learn a lot about yourself when you're recording an album. Especially when you're 2,380 miles away from home, living in a cheap hotel, eating bourbon for dinner , and spending every moment with a group of guys that are playing together for the very first time. Matthew Kendall, the primary songwriter of Rogue Motel, knows this feeling well. He met producer Duane Lundy (Vandaveer, Scourge of the Sea, Ben Sollee) and blindly followed his gut to Lundy's studio in Lexington, Kentucky. "We recorded in a warehouse in a run-down industrial part of town. It sat right against the train tracks and you could feel the trains in the floor as they passed", recalls Kendall. Daylight Breaking is the result of that time in Kentucky and serves as the new album from Portland's Rogue Motel. Along with Kendall are Jeremy Kaplan, Michael Wehling, Adam Hill, and Reginald Bradley completing a five-some that had never played together until that first night in Kentucky. "We cut Fault that night", Kendall remembers, "and I think you can hear it in the energy of that track, everyone was working really hard to find the right place, getting to know each other musically through recording was really special". Drummer Jeremy Kaplan recalls,"Once we got in the studio and started playing, expectations evaporated and a deeper group process took over". While in Portland, singer Kendall envisioned an album of new songs and a process of bringing in new players to make it. Along with Kaplan they crafted the material just enough, and then let producer, band and a world of possibilities collide.
**What people are saying about "Daylight Breaking"**
"Daylight Breaking could arguably be one of the best indie releases of 2008...an immaculate journey through love, despair, and everything in-between."
- Fensepost 12/19/2008
"Daylight Breaking demonstrates that they are a strong unit capable of crafting catchy songs. In fact, there’s nary a clunker on the CD, and that’s quite something from a debut" - Sequenza21 9/03/2008
"Daylight Breaking is the best self-released debut I've heard in a long time...These are hideously well-written pop tunes - the sort of gems that are virtually unheard of on a self-released title such as this" - Indieville.com 9/02/2008
"Pure, unadulterated rock. The sounds of the 70s bands like The Who and Led Zeppelin mixed with the fast riffs and unique groove of Rogue Motel." - PopSyndicate.com 8/25/2008
"Sometimes a little like R.E.M., Rogue Motel carry the slow, melodic introspective style of college rock to a level that fans of such bands as Radiohead can really appreciate. Often slow and moving, "Daylight Breaking" assaults the senses with emotional, contemplative, and beautifully crafted songs." -Metro Spirit 8/13/2008
"These fellas are full of exciting surprises"
"This is a performance you need to hear" -Eartaste.com 7/29/2008
"Singer Matthew Kendall offers up a wellspring of edginess and intensity" BullzEye.com 8/27/2008
read the full reviews at our website
New Video! "Marie", Live at Pops Blue Moon, St. Louis, 5/01/09
Thank you so much Rogue Motel for honoring us with your precious friendship.... We hope your morning is blessed with Love and that the adventures of your Life feel like a ride on the mystery train of Pure Joy.....Thanks again !!
Hey guys, we were just thinking about you today. Thanks again for having us play with you at Bernie's. You guys rock! We hope to see you again in the fall!
Hey rogue motel! Just want to stop by to say thanks for being friends! Keep me in mind if you need any mastering done. All of the info is on my page and feel free to email me anytime. Only $25 per song and $100 for an EP, mix-tape, or full CD! Thanks!! Jim Wavelength MD
Thanks for nice words! Glad you dig the CD. Our new album will be out on the new northwoodsmusic.com by the end of next week. Stop by the page a week from now for some new tunes! dude next show is all you with helplessly hoping! loving your music. best of luck!
Hey guys! One of our favorite bands. You guys are some of the nicest guys in the business. We really, really, enjoyed your music. Thanks again for sharing the stage with us and allowing us the opportunity to open for such a talented group of musicians. Rogue Motel is a class act.....a must see!
Nice page...Comin thru 2 show sum luv..Please... feel free to check out my music your time is appreciated, and please show some luv and leave a comment.. thanks alot -Yung Royal-
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