Band 13
Independence, Missouri, United States
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Kansas City group Band 13 attacks with a shotgun style approach on Signal Shift. They switch gears often going from hard rock to funky grooves and even take a trip to the farm for a little down home country. The album shows the band’s range and also shows how much they aren’t content to stick within one well formed rut.
The smooth Red Hot Chili Pepper grooves on “The Sweet Majestic” and “Deja Vu” is an odd combination to be so close to the intentionally tongue-in-cheek country-fried “Beastboy Shindig” but neither style is where Band 13 is best heard. The majority of the album is made up of songs like ”The Last Living Dinosaur” with its loungey groove that sounds like it was spawned on a southern California beach. When you hear the Nirvana style feedback at the beginning of “All Night Long” and hear the Zeppelin sounding guitars on “Zero Warning” you can tell that the band is honed in. The Iron Maiden style vocals that adorn “Zero Warning” and “Light Years” show that Band 13's influences flow far deeper than the Chili Peppers and make for the better songs on Signal Shift.
When the distortion is buzzing and crunchy riffs adorn the lyrics you’ll see the true Band 13; the album shows that country twang and funk are in the arsenal as well but the rock is what will keep you listening.
Key Tracks: “Zero Warning” “Light Years”
- 250 word album reveiws
Kansas City group Band 13 attacks with a shotgun style approach on Signal Shift. They switch gears often going from hard rock to funky grooves and even take a trip to the farm for a little down home country. The album shows the band’s range and also shows how much they aren’t content to stick within one well formed rut.
The smooth Red Hot Chili Pepper grooves on “The Sweet Majestic” and “Deja Vu” is an odd combination to be so close to the intentionally tongue-in-cheek country-fried “Beastboy Shindig” but neither style is where Band 13 is best heard. The majority of the album is made up of songs like ”The Last Living Dinosaur” with its loungey groove that sounds like it was spawned on a southern California beach. When you hear the Nirvana style feedback at the beginning of “All Night Long” and hear the Zeppelin sounding guitars on “Zero Warning” you can tell that the band is honed in. The Iron Maiden style vocals that adorn “Zero Warning” and “Light Years” show that Band 13's influences flow far deeper than the Chili Peppers and make for the better songs on Signal Shift.
When the distortion is buzzing and crunchy riffs adorn the lyrics you’ll see the true Band 13; the album shows that country twang and funk are in the arsenal as well but the rock is what will keep you listening.
Key Tracks: “Zero Warning” “Light Years”
- 250 word album reveiws
Discography
Transmission from Exile (2011)
1. Into the Blue
2. Broken Brains
3. Status Quo
4. Mine to Me
5. Threw it Away
6. 11:59
7. Big Tree
8. A Salesman at Heaven's Gate
9. Letters from Japan
10. Smoke over a Ghost
11. Gas Station Rose
12. Portals
13. Space Walker
14. Transmission from Exile
15. Galaxy Seed
16. Lost in Atomic Passion
17. Son of Saint Starkiller
Signal Shift (2013)
1. Last New Mystery
2. Sweet Majestic
3. Zero Warning
4. Nobody Knows
5. Last living Dinosaur
6. Beast Boy Shindig
7. All night long
8. Light years
9. Carry me out in pieces
10. Fat Rats (well fed cats)
11. Deja Vu
12. Ocean Reeds
13. Thirteen times a day
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Band13 is an Alternative rock trio from Kansas City, Missouri. Writing music is what drives us. The fun we have crafting tunes compels us to play them live for anyone, anywhere. If it sounds cool and it comes from an honest place, then we will play it, and we will love every minute of it.
Shaun Lindsey and Russ Bright played together for years in the K.C. music scene, and Band13 was formed after the two met drummer, Darin Watson, who's roots lie in Minneapolis punk and surf bands such as "Swap Meet",and "Sockless. These three individuals have come together to deliver a sound that reflects the diversity of each player merging into a fluid mesh of the stylistic experimentation, humor, sincerity, and honest excitability that makes, Band13
Band 13 knows how best to present their lyrical intentions. Staying true to many of their noted influences, they successfully wove shades of 70s-era fusion and a touch of throwback ska throughout the nights setsetting them apart from more typical power-trio fare.
--Mark Johnson (the deli KC)
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