Daryl Jenkins - Grant Cronyn - Arti Kaushal - Jim DeRoche
Influences
Ginger Jacks, Swears, Drive By Truckers, The Pixies and Thunderdust. Can't get enough of My Morning Jacket, Gomez, The Replacements, Fugazi, Tool, Broken Social Scene, Dinosaur Jr., Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Iggy Pop, The Ramones, Buffalo Tom, Joy Division, Teenage Fanclub, Monster Magnet, Pavement, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Raising The Fawn, Sebadoh, Wedding Present, Mclusky (R.I.P), Wilco, Radiohead, Great Lake Swimmers, Black Sabbath, Bo Deans, The Sadies, Sparklehorse, Tom Waits, David Lynch, Sarah Silverman
Sounds Like
A band that got blind drunk on Rebel Yell, and are fixin' to melt a few faces.
Bred from a total boredom and lust for loud noises, Shemp is a 4-piece aural assault unit. A happy darkness rich with dramatic guitar heavy rhythms that drive one to slow dancing and straight bourbon. Just like the fourth Stooge, always a little late, yet droll and invariably polite. The sound is defiant and pure, free of apology, free of pretension, free of limitation. Pounding drums give way to shaker eggs, screaming guitars synch into soft choral echoes, a bass hums from a smooth rolling walk into an angry growling run. Shemp will surprise, Shemp will delight, Shemp will intimidate, Shemp will ignite. For the rock apocalypse is upon us... ... and these four horsemen are ready to ride.
