Rolling Blackout

The Second Coming --Release Party

at O'Reilly's Pub

The new album is a musical tour de force for the boys in the band.

This collection traverses from classic metal and jazzy grooves, to expressive openness and raging jam band funktaculars. And they pay homage to the flaming 80s guitars that anchored the bands development. You can hear the influences late-60s-70s-80s AOR throughout the record. Yet at the time you can hear the influences of jazz, classical and music theory throughout. The band moves gracefully from one style to the next sometimes within the tracks. Each song totally flows naturally to the next,. Tempos are mellower than the last release but in a very intentional way. This album feels good. As usual there are just enough time signature changes to earn the progessive label, particularly with synthesizers drifitng in and out of tracks.

As a trio, Rolling Blackout was wildly improvisational. But after 4 years as a 4 piece band focusing on making room and crafting dual melody lines, a maturation of the new sounds has set in. There is less gain, more comfort with just layering and slowing it down. The songs flow from different period or musically seemlessly. The lyrics range from whimsical to spiritual to storytelling and are filled with love, pain and all the emotions that surface, reflecting on life.

The songwriting, studio and engineering time is when we push ourselves to new musical heights. It is a challenge and a joy. But 50% of being in a band is being with the audience. This mini site is dedicated to giving everyone a peak at what is involved in being an independent artist these days. The tools are incredible but so is the time. Now it's time get back out and share what we've been working on.