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There’s no special treatment for the most
watched after band to spring from Colorado in years.
Rose Hill Drive earns every bit
of there credibility—from making Rolling Stone’s
“10 Artists to Watch” list to being
hand-selected by Pete Townshend to open for the
Who on their recent US tour.
The Boulder-based trio proves that a hippy town
in the gateway to the west can produce some fierce-ass
rock. These guys combine the fierce force of Wolfmother
and the just-enough-to-be-cute juvenile stoner
rock of Queens of the Stone Age. Best examples
of this are “Sneak Out” and “Trans
Am.” There’s nothing more ‘high’
school that meeting a girl in a park at midnight
on a school night isn a sports car.
Don’t get the impression that these kids
are too young to make it, though. With a voice
that slays like Bon Scott, Jacob Sproul
matches his vocal talent jamming on the bass as
well; and his brother Daniel
is a fucking wildfire on guitar. Who raised these
two?! Their parents must be the meekest of right-wing
Christian conservatives to spawn such an incredible
pair of rock rebels. Rounded out with the stab-wound
power of drummer Nathan Barnes,
these guys truly are a force to be reckoned with.
This is, hands down, the coolest new band I’ve
heard thus far in 2008; and I wouldn’t be
surprised if that remains a fact all year long.
www.rosehilldrive.com
www.megaforcerecords.com
-Jef Hoskins, August 8, 2008
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