Hartford Advocate Tuesday, May 05, 2009 By Dan Barry
The Knuckledusters threaten to slash your tires and steal your girl!
This past Saturday I stopped in to catch a few jams from the Knuckledusters, from Somerville, Mass. Sporting a guitar, a stand-up bass, a freaky-looking stand-up drumkit, and two saxes, the Knuckledusters were like nothing I've ever heard before. Sounding like a cross between Morphine and the Voodoo Glow Skulls, the 'Dusters played a demented form of hot-rod rock that was grungy but well-practiced. With bouncing rhythms and huge, lurching chord changes, they paid homage to vintage cars and legendary moonshine brewers. The one-two punch of their stand-up bass and their doubled-up sax section loaded them with a violent growl.
The Patriot Ledger, Feb 27, 2009. MUSIC SCENE: From grunge to rockabilly without missing a beat, by JAY N. MILLER. The Knuckledusters’ songs tend to feature familiar rock themes, hot rods and pretty girls and the endless pursuit of same, but with a kind of winking wisdom behind them. Tunes like the effervescent ....Moonshine Martini'' evoke rockabilly’s wild and woolly past, but the title cut from the new record, ....Las Vegas Bound,'' is a more mid-tempo ode to all the trouble – and possible redemption – one can find in Sin City. ....A Ghost Named Mary'' is a real departure, a five-minute late-night ballad where the sax provides bluesy atmosphere and the guitar adds bite, and a mysterious coda of wind chimes gives it all a weird aura. In most Knuckledusters outings, the interplay between sax and guitar is compelling, and ....Hot Rod ’59'' features a startling cascade of sax-and-guitar unison lines that set the rhythm.
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