Trwst Keating - lead vocals, acoustic/electric guitar + Kimo Muraki- lead/rhythm guitar, vocals, saxophones + Cameron Brownfield- lead guitar, keyboard, vocals + Jeremy Lightfoot- BASS!, drums, vocals.
Influences
Beatles, Wilco, Weezer, Beck, Eminem, Edith Piaf, Beach Boys, Flaming Lips, Ween, The Pixies, Sly and Family Stone, 2-pac, Built to Spill, Tom Waits, The Smiths, Nirvana, The Cars, Stone Roses, Iggy Pop, Pavement, The Dirt Fishermen, Beat Happening, The Police, Ramones, Echo & the Bunnymen, Pink Floyd, Merle Haggard, The Zombies, Art of Noise, Johnny Cash
Sounds Like
Imagine the feeling when ordering food from one of those street vendors in some distant asian country and the excitement when about to take that first bite and having absolutely no idea what it is that you are about to ingest!
TRWST is a rock ensemble that's been providing the greater Puget Sound with a stew of songs and musical flavors over the last five years. The group is headed up by Trwst Keating and backed by a consordium of musicians and artists duely named "the Puget Sound Machine." The band released it's debut album, "Reactor" in 2005 with a second release due out late 2007. Reator can be found in a handfull of Seattle record stores right now but we should have our songs up on itunes by this August. Till then keep checkin out this page for new songs we've posted and send us feedback on what you think!
Introducing THE SINISTER SURGEONS featuring members of; The Screaming Trees, Big High, and Mctuff (barrett, ari, van, and joe) at the Seamonster this Saturday October 10th no cover! 21+ 9:30 till close
See The Staxx Brothers fresh off the Bumbershoot Fisher stage this September 13th at The Jet Bar in Mill Creek. It's gonna' be one of the biggest Saturday nights the Jet has ever seen, with Portland's funk brigade Lowenbad joining 90.7 KSER's DJ Nanino on a bill Richard Grieco calls the biggest project he's been a part of since Jump Street.
Visit The Staxx Brothers at myspace. com/thestaxxbrothers and download their debut album The 12th Street Blues for FREE for a limited time at staxxbrothers. com, before they wise up and start selling the album The Seattle P.I. calls:
". . .something distinct and genuine, a road map of a diverse musical Odyssey"
-Seattle Post Intelligencer 3.15.08
Discover Lowenbad and listen to tracks from their new album at myspace. com/lowenbad
come on out for the big party this Saturday at The Jet. We're celebrating Caleb from Lionheart and Angie from The Staxx Brothers' birthday. And for your belated birthday we're giving you The Staxx Brothers' album 12th Street Blues. Download it FREE now at staxxbrothers. com.
We're at ToST tomorrow with the Funkscribe's Family Affair ($4) and at the J&M on Sunday (No cover! Drink specials!)... Come get your groove on with us!