Nashville has oft been labeled the rock-free music city. Both last week and this week’s artists are proving that to be dead wrong. Six years ago the Clutters broke into the music scene with their 60’s inspired garage rock and with the release of their latest album Breaking Bones it sounds like they’re still ready and willing to rock your face off.
The band, taking their name from the true event turned Capote novel, are Doug Lehmann, Jake Rosswog, Stephanie Filippini, and Todd Kemp and you may remember them from June 14th’s free download. The Clutters, like many bands, are looking to the past to pave the way of the future. They have established themselves as a Vines, Hives, Mooney Suzuki contemporary and put out the catchy, mosh-pit inducing sound that deserves more of a spotlight in today’s music industry.
Though none of the members are originally from Nashville, the group have somehow made the rock-free music city their home where they deal with a critical music industry and somehow they’re making it. With three studio albums featuring their fist-pumping energy, the Clutters are doing what they love and doing it for the fun of it. And if that isn’t good enough fun, their label, Chicken Ranch, has been sending them to South by Southwest for five years where there can only be fun and name-spreading.
The Clutters often cite the Sonics and the Pixies as their musical influences, but also send some love to artists like the Rolling Stones and the Who. When listening to their intense tracks of face-splitting rock, you can hear the influences come out in full force with their three-minute songs about fun, drinking, women, and all that good stuff that makes music timeless, doing great justice to an era of music that never should have lost its flavor and should never be forgotten.
The Clutters are currently finishing up a tour in the Midwest, but if you can’t make those shows, you can pick up their latest album, Broken Bones, (and their two others) on Chicken Ranch’s website. Best of luck to the Clutters and hopefully they will make their way out west so that all of you L.A. proper citizens can get rockin’ the way you were meant to. Check out the links below for your dose of the Clutters!
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