When posting a couple of tracks from Roadside Graves' excellent 18-track song cycle My Son's Home, I mentioned that in my Quit Your Day Job interview with frontman (and, as a full disclosure, old old friend) John Gleason told me... CONTINUE READING NEW ROADSIDE GRAVES - "WORK ITSELF OUT"»
Posted on July 23, 2009 in , (1 comments)
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By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy Yesterday started off bright, early, and ecstatic with NJ's Roadside Graves at Peckerheads. The band seduced a 2PM crowd into hooting, hollering, do-sa-do-ing, and otherwise pretending it was after midnight to tracks both new... CONTINUE READING SXSW 2009: THURSDAY IN PHOTOS»
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Metuchen, New Jersey expatriates the Roadside Graves are following up 2007's great (and greatly underappreciated) No One Will Know Where You've Been with the epic, amazing 18-track My Son's Home. It has narrative substance (like a door stopper-sized book) and... CONTINUE READING NEW ROADSIDE GRAVES - "I CARRIED MYSELF" & "TAKE A TRAIN"»
Posted on February 5, 2009 in , (6 comments)
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Roadside Graves are a great band. Besides John Gleason's intimate and idiosyncratic, landscape-sketching lyricism (as previously mentioned, like Matt Berninger drinking cheap beer instead of whiskey and Coke) and his unmistakable talk-sung vocal quaver, there's the tight expansive, double-drumming, bowing,... CONTINUE READING NEW ROADSIDE GRAVES - "RUBY"»
Posted on June 30, 2008 in , (4 comments)
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As the year slowly draws to a close and folks stay up late making lists, we found ourselves thinking of (and listening to) Roadside Graves, a countrified and Boss-y septet from New Jersey, who released the excellent No One Will... CONTINUE READING NEW OLD ROADSIDE GRAVES»
Posted on November 2, 2007 (6 comments)
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