"10w40 is a great mash-up of the Stooges and Mr. Bungle." -- The Legendary Shack Shakers
"FUCK. YES!! Your shit is like being force fed crystal meth, tied up and stripped down, and getting fucked in the ass by rock 'n' roll sans lubricant. Ummmm, I think that means I like it." -- Gus Lynch, "Laugh. Rock. Repeat!" Stand-up Comedian/Producer Extraordinaire
"10w40's 'Rooster in the Henhouse' is full moon ballzee bar room thrash! Makes me want to share a plastic bottle of grocery store with a cake faced hooker!" -- Gary Wyatt
"Southern-fried Sabbath with a side order of batter-fried evil. Ya'll should be booking next year's shows in Sturgis!" -- Dan Leary (now-defunct Jackass, Monuments of Leisure)
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10w40 credits “old rusted out cars and catfish bait” as primary musical influences. The band has just finished a 21-song, two-album release called Rooster in the Henhouse, recorded by Gary Burger of ‘60s proto-punk legends The Monks. It was mixed by Bill Racine, known for his work with the Flaming Lips, Sparklehorse, and Mogwai. Rooster in the Henhouse is scheduled to hit the street December 19th, 2009. Advance copies are currently available for members of the press.
10w40 is a rambling, raucous, spitting beast of a band that hitches howling guitar to a rhythm train rusted to the tracks of Civil War history and wayward preachers, belching black smoke, crippled truckers, and shotguns. Rye whiskey and sideshow-geek sweethears spill out sideways from the ensuing dirtbag-trailer-boogie mayhem. Think Captain Beefheart meets The Bad Seeds, Pere Ubu and Crazy Horse.
The band has shared the stage with the likes of Joe Buck (of Hank III), Jawbone, Captain Beefheart/Jeff Buckley alum Gary Lucas, and Billy Ficca of Television.
BAND MEMBER BIOS
vocals. guitars. horse's teeth. harp.
Jim Edlund celebrated the turn of the millennium with a stint at a maximum-security prison in the midwest—teaching English this time instead of bucking for probation. Drawing from a childhood spent trapping leeches and minnows for his dad’s bait shop—and working the family’s flea market—his narratives spill over with images, characters and experiences broadcast from backwoods America on a crappy a.m. radio. Currently, however, Edlund has been busy building a bomb shelter; stockpiling guns, food and water underneath the neighbor's yard.
drums. accordion. vibraphone. Derek Trost recently relocated to Minneapolis from Portland, Oregon, where he hit with the likes of Tracker, The Danged, Mood Area 52, M. Ward, and members of The Decemberists. After 20 years plying earholes up and down the west coast with everything from shoe-gazing emo epic's to blistering punkabilly or sideways tangos, Derek is back in the midwest, handcuffed to the hood ornament and bringin' 'em in close for the left hook.
electric bass. stand-up bass. Jim Michels has made a career out of a grumbling, iron grip on his slack-tuned 4-string, anchoring countless bands on both sides of the Atlantic in two-plus decades of old-school Minneapolis rock, including blue-black dyed-hair Sonny Vincent's Shotgun Rationale (once confused as the band Skinny Puppy when touring through Milwaukee) with Bob Stinson, Go Great Guns, The Mixers, Three Below with Paul Holland of SupaFuzz, Armed and Hammered with Sam Osteen and The Fragments.
Hey James & co.!! Just lettin' ya know we gave Rooster In The Henhouse a kick-ass review in the recent issue of 'Round The Dial Magazine- you or your fans can check it out by following the link on our page to the new online, digital pfd version! Great album, can't wait 4 yr next live gig! Happy Thanksgiving & keep up the great work!
Cheers,
Tom Hallett Publisher/Editor-In-Chief 'Round The Dial Magazine Twin Cities, MN
"SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SCENE- LIVE MUSIC IS BETTER!!"
The new issue of Juice Magazine - Issue 66 - featuring ANDY KESSLER (R.I.P.) skating the streets of NYC on the cover (Photo by Ivory Serra) is available now. www.juicemagazine.com.
JUICE MAGAZINE ISSUE 66 features:
ANDY KESSLER interview by STEVE OLSON BEBE BUELL interview by STEVE OLSON BOOTSY COLLINS interview by STEVE OLSON CRAIG JOHNSON interview by JIM MURPHY FRITZ MEAD interview by JIM MURPHY KALANI DAVID interview by JAY ADAMS MIKE WEED interview by STEVE OLSON NATAS KAUPAS interview by STEVE OLSON OMAR SALAZAR interview by STEVE OLSON PAUL SCHMITT interview by STEVE OLSON PETER GUNN interview by MARK "RED" SCOTT and THE CONFESSOR ROB PALMER interview by JIM MURPHY SCOTT CAAN interview by STEVE OLSON JACK GRISHAM of T.S.O.L. interview by STEVE OLSON TIM JACKSON interview by AARON MURRAY WADE SPEYER interview by JIM MURPHY YANIV EVAN interview by STEVE OLSON VENICE SK8 WALL OF FAME features interviews with AARON “FINGERS” MURRAY, BART SARIC, BOB "THE BULLET" BINIAK, C.R. STEYCK III, CESARIO “BLOCK” MONTANO, CHRISTIAN HOSOI, CHUCK KATZ, CRIS DAWSON, DANNY BEARER, DOUG SMITH, ERIC “TUMA” BRITTON, ERIC DRESSEN, GEORGE WILSON, GER-I LEWIS, JAMES "RED DOG" MUIR, JEFF HO, JOEY TRAN, JOSH “BAGEL” KLASSMAN, LANCE LEMOND, MARK MUNSKI, JAY ADAMS, JEF HARTSEL, JESSE MARTINEZ, KELLY JACKSON, PAT BAREIS, PAUL CONSTANTINEAU, PAUL HOFFMAN, PEGGY OKI, RAY FLORES, SKIP ENGBLOM, SUSANNE MELANIE BERRY, TIM JACKSON, WENTZLE RUML IV, WES HUMPSTON.
Thanks for supporting an original 100% independant touring honkytonk band! I'm always looking for new tour stops, so let me know if you know a place to start hitting up on the road. Please encourage your friends to take a listen, and help spread the word. Here's a video of a song that I wrote called "Flathead 8" -Peewee Moore & The Awful Dreadful Snakes
Just letting you know I posted the info about your Saturday, Aug. 29th gig at The 400 Bar in my local weekly music column, 'Round The Dial today. Fans & The curious can check it out at www.myspace.com/roundthedial. Show is gonna be BOMB!! Loving the new album, too- GREAT rawk, man! Cheers- Tom Hallett 'Round The Dial/PASTE/Elmore Magazine Twin Cities, MN USA
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