Rooftop Love Club
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Rooftop Love Club

Toronto, Canada | Established. Jan 01, 2015 | SELF | AFM

Toronto, Canada | SELF | AFM
Established on Jan, 2015
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"PREMIERE: Suits, ninjas and white powder: get your fix in Rooftop Love Club’s new clip White Collar"

Hailing from Toronto, duo Rooftop Love Club are whipping up authentic blues-tinged tunes thick with reverb and an undeniable inkling to shake your hair around.

The pair have returned with a brand new music video to get you your fix. Fresh number White Collar is Rooftop Love Club’s latest riff-rock masterpiece, heavy with baritone guitar and catchy hooks.

Visceral and loud like much of their previous work, White Collar is a compelling track that conveys the incredible power and ability in Hock’s charismatic vocals. Accompanying the track is a three minute clip that resonates with catchy lyrics, “You’re gonna take over son. You’re gonna take over, well done.”

Starring Marc Hazel and Michael Boroda and written and directed by Henri Meleqi, the video kicks off with a man in a suit, standing alone in the night. As the video progresses so does our curiosity, the man beginning to itch himself nervously. Out of nowhere comes a mysterious man with a bag full of ‘goodies’, and it’s evident this pen-pusher is in need of his fix.

Removing his clothes, he changes into a ninja outfit before lighting his old get-up on fire and watching them turn to ash. Taking a sniff of some questionable white powder, the true ninja within ‘takes over’.

If White Collar was right up your alley, you’ll be happy to know there’s more where that came from. Check out Rooftop Love Club’s 11-track banger of an album, Jejune below. - Jacinta Rets


"ROOFTOP LOVE CLUB - DOOM BLUES ROCK"

Watch out folks...I think we got some stoners playin' music here. Rooftop Love Club are a two piece dirty blues rock band. Lo-fi fuzzy guitars and Sabbath-like drums. There's nothing not to like. The guitars laid down by Jake Hock are DEEP to a doom-rock level. Along with drummer Jacob Weiss they may have invented Doom Blues Rock. I dunno but I hope they tell me when their next show is. The album "Get Outside" is available now on their bandcamp page. - Kris Gies


"‘Til Tuesday…Groundhog Day Edition"

...Looking around the room, I am surprised how full it is! A couple dances to the blues instrumental playing between sets across the familiar checkered floor in front of the stage. I peeped into some of Rooftop Love Club’s songs before I arrived and it was promising but I’m tired. I wonder if I should cut out now.

Oooooooooooooh shit! ARE YOU SERIOUS?! Wait a second.

Sorry! Okay, let me explain. MY GOD! This is not what I was expecting. I wasn’t ready at all. Okay, they have the tried-and-true Black Keys/White Stripes formula – I’m looking at a guitarist on lead vocal and a drummer. These kids are special with a capital WHAT-IS-HAPPENING-RIGHT-NOW! The pipes on this singer are everything – it did not come across like this in the few songs I heard online. It was all cute but this is impressive. It’s crazy how much a good vocal can change an entire atmosphere; I am wide awake. Oh my god, this just got me incredibly hyped. Not only is he giving me everything I need vocally, he’s playing this guitar like a young Jonny Lang.

Alright, I have to give it to Rooftop Love Club for slaying this evening. THIS is what I’m talking about when I say the Horseshoe is a magical place. I wouldn’t have thought the night was a failure if I only saw the first two bands but discovering RLC and knowing they were bred from the city I call home gives me so much hope. Real music is still being made, the purest forms of music are still influencing youths, this goodness will not die as long as we keep supporting artists like this.

Til Tuesday… - Arianne Young


"SPILL TRACK OF THE DAY: ROOFTOP LOVE CLUB – “OSCILLATE”"

Toronto garage blues duo, Rooftop Love Club, thicken their reverberant riff-rock with Jake’s fuzzed-out baritone guitar and Jacob’s versatile, swampy drums. Catchy hooks and vibrant colours pair a mod-pop sensibility with stadium-worthy raw, authentic rock. They are visceral and loud, to say the least. - Spill Magazine


Discography

EP: GET OUTSIDE! (2015)
Single: Bennie & the KIDS (2016)
Album: Jejune (2017)

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Toronto garage blues duo, Rooftop Love Club, thicken their reverberant riff-rock with Jake's fuzzed-out baritone guitar and Jacob's versatile, swampy drums. Catchy hooks and vibrant colours pair a mod-pop sensibility with stadium-worthy raw, authentic rock. They are visceral and loud, to say the least.

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