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T
he Cab is anAmerican band formed
in LasVegas in 2005, and consists of
lead singer Alex DeLeon, guitarist
and keyboardist Alex Marshall, bass
guitarist Joey Thunder, and drummer
Dave Briggs. It was the band’s move to
California that got them on the road to a
career in music.
The band is getting ready to release
their second album,
Symphony Soldier
in
the UK, having already been released in
the US back in August 2011. It has been
produced by John Feldman, who has in
the past produced for the likes of Good
Charlotte, The Used, and Panic! at the
Disco. Also making appearances on the
album are artists such as Bruno Mars, Boy
Like Girls’ Martin Johnson, and Maroon
5’
s Adam Levine. On the strength of its
US release alone, the album has already
reached the top ten of the iTunes chart,
peaking at number six.
Preceding the UK release of
Symphony
Soldier,
lead single‘Bad’ is due tobe released
shortly.The song begins deceptively slow
and sweet, before building up into a
stomping,rhythmic anthem that would not
THE CAB - BAD
Images courtesy of Digital Rebel PR
T
he Struts are a band that formed
in 2009 in the East Midlands city
of Derby. The members consist
of vocalist Luke Spiller, guitarist Adam
Slack, bassist Jed Elliot, and drummer
Gethin Davies. Their listed influences
include sixties and seventies rock and
roll, as well as Soul and Motown, and
they themselves have been described
as a blend between Hard-Fi and Primal
Scream.They’ve already supported McFly
on tour, and the music video to their song
‘
I Just Know’ has acquired, at the time of
writing, over 11,000 views on YouTube,
and mirroring that quantity, over 11,000
likes on Facebook.
‘
I Just Know’ is a gritty and intense
two and a half minutes worth of an
anthem, with a pleasantly surprising mix
of contrasting vocals; Luke Spiller’s voice
has a distinct 1970s rock vocalist sound,
perhaps even sounding not at all out of
place in an old episode of
The Old Grey
Whistle Test.
Meanwhile, backing vocals
sound out of place in a sold-out stadium.
Lyrically, the song tells of boredom with
“
good girls”, and wanting the excitement
that comes with “bad girls”. No doubt a
tongue-in-cheek, poking fun set of lyrics,
but not necessarily ones that will make
so-called “good girls” feel good about
themselves. Either way, the song has had
over five million views on YouTube, and
the band themselves have accumulated
200,000
followers onTwitter and 190,000
Facebook likes, so there is no doubt that
the group will achieve greater success.
The band made a visit to our shores in
September to promote their new single
and album, and probably had these same
Twitter followers and Facebook fans
dancing in the crowd.
Watch the ‘Bad’ video on:
can be heard intertwining with Spiller
as he growls his confidently masculine
lead vocals, manipulated to sound soulful
and ambiguous, coming across as neither
entirely male nor female.Another contrast
comes from the music itself, which has a
very modern,
21
st
Century
rock vibe.
The
band
has played this
year at the
Und e r g rou nd
Festival, Oxford
Street’s famous
100
Club on
We d n e s d a y
26
th
September,
and also at the
G l o u c e s t e r
Guildhall
on
Saturday 29
th
September.Their song,‘I Just
Know’ is available to download for free
from their Facebook page.
Watch the ‘I Just Know’ video on:
The Struts - I Just Know
Images courtesy of Digital Rebel PR
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