in the past, sidemen
Paddy Reagan
Jake Hoffman
Pete Winne
Steven Maroti
CONTACT THE BAND, BOOKING thepowderkegs@gmail.com
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Influences
Yo La Tengo, The Beatles, The White Noise, The Beta Band, Wilco, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Miles Davis, Rolling Stones, Brahms, Tom Waits, Feist, The Decemberists, Talking Heads, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Radiohead, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sublime, The White Stripes, The Band, Grateful Dead, Beethoven, Peggy Seeger, Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Tommy Jarrell, Clarence White, Robert Sarazin Blake, Devendra Banhart, Beck, Rimbaud, Ram Dass, Elizabeth Bishop, Kurt Vonnegut, Hermann Hesse, Apple Cider, Cigarettes, the Milky Way, Whiskey in the Winter, MGR, Eddie Murphy, Daniel Day Lewis, Henry Miller, Will Ferrell, Andre Agassi, Cicero, Ovid, Virginia Woolf...
The Powder Kegs currently hail from Philadelphia, PA. Sam, Dan and Ryan started playing music as a string band. They learned music playing folk music at old-time jams in bars in downtown Manhattan - got involved in the scene in high school and started a bluegrass band. A few years down the road they got a few other guys and started a nationally successful Old-Time band - to the point when they were making a living at it, playing up and down the eastern coast on street corners, in bars, clubs, and at festivals. In the spring of 2007 they were invited to perform live on Garrison Keillor's 'A Prairie Home Companion' as finalists in its "People in Their 20's" contest and they won.
After that the band started making records. They began to hone in on the original material written by Dan and Ryan, plugged in their instruments, and released "You and Your Right Now," recorded with Jeremy Backofen, producer of albums by The Felice Brothers, The Walkmen, Frightened Rabbit, & Mice Parade.
This fall, the Powder Kegs relocated from Vermont to Philadelphia. When they're not rehearsing and playing shows, they are writers, photography students, lab technicians. When they are, they're playing mostly material no one's ever heard, that is exploring more and more forms they still fancy, in the end, as some kind of urban folk.
In December, they will be recording a follow-up E.P to their first album, which will feature their latest findings in the world of music, and they look forward to the next phase of their career, the many travels and travailles which it inspires.
"...a remarkable thing has emerged: one of the finer local(ish) pop-rock groups in recent memory. And the irrefutable evidence of that marvelous transformation is You and Your Right Now." Seven Days
"...a starry eyed trio reminiscent of My Morning Jacket and Band of Horses." Vermont Cynic, UVM student newspaper
"The Powder Kegs have become something of local lore simply due to the fact that they were killing it as a string band, and up and decided that its not what they wanted to do. SO they decided to switch instruments and write songs that made them happy to play. And, they made a great album at that. Angioplasty Media, Blog
"They just have the most life and energy. They're amazing." Garrison Keillor
After spending the last month driving 4000 miles around the southwest, I arrived back in Los Angeles to discover that my new album 'Anitya' has been released. Its currently available on amazon, napster and emusic...or you can listen to most of streaming for free on reverbnation.com/tullymackaytisbert. If you enjoy it I for sure appreciate the support. The album is 10 songs that involve the idea of anitya in Buddhism that all things are impermanent. The album is acoustic folk rock that also integrates traditional east asian sounds and uses the chinese lute the pipa. Thank you for listening!
Hey there- DC gal banjo rock at the Mercury Lounge thursday night with special guest Erik Lawrence of the Levon Helm Band- April 30 7pm- hope you can make it out! cheers, Junior League Band
Hey guys, did you ever see any footage from the guys who taped some of the show at Sullivan hall last August? Weren't they Sweedish filmakers or so? If you or Dustin know the guys name or contact, let me know. I'd love to send him an email.
Yo, Would yall wanna play an acoustic set at my night in Brooklyn in April? I book shows at a cozy little spot in Bushwick. Totally unamplified, w/ some exceptions. I'd love to have ya. April 2, 16 or 30.
Hey boys! I'm gonna be up in New Hampshire for the weekend of March 28th. Would yall wanna set up a show together in VT for that weekend? I'd love to see yall. Love, Frank.
