Spin has an mp3 from Rogue Wave's upcoming album, Asleep at Heaven's Gate, which is coming out on September 18th.
The song, "Lake Michigan" is also streamable at RW's myspace page, and there's also a "making of Asleep At Heaven's Gate" video up on youtube.
Last year was an up and down ride for the Wave – drummer Pat Spurgeon had a kidney transplant, keyboardist Gram Lebron lost his father, singer Zach Rogue had a daughter and the band recruited a new bass player (or "newfound low-ender" as Spin put it, ugh!), Patrick Abernethy, formerly of Beulah. They also left Sub Pop and signed with Jack Johnson's Brushfire label.
With all those changes they still managed to put out a new album on schedule, which based on the live songs I heard recently, should be a good one.
2 comments:
Someone should come up with a list of horrible music-review euphemisms, like "knob-twiddler" (producer), "skinsman" or "stickman" (drummer), and "axeman" (guitarist). "Low-ender" is especially bad. Lovely song, though, particularly since I grew up near LM.
"Fret jockey" (guitarist) is pretty bad, but I can't remember if I actually read that somewhere or if I made it up.
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