Pickathon 2010: Artist Spotlight – Roadside Graves

The Roadside Graves are a well seasoned touring act that is destine to make waves at this year’s festival. The New Jersey based-band is currently touring behind it’s new release on Autumn Tone Records, You Won’t Be Happy With Me, and will be on the road for the rest of the August supporting this release. The Roadside Graves will play on Saturday (8/7) at the Fir Meadow Stage (5:15-6pm) & Sunday (8/8) at the Galaxy Barn (5:30-6:30pm). You can view the complete schedule Pickathon here.

BIO: The players are the Roadside Graves – John, Colin, Rich, Mike, Jeremy, and Dave, along with special guests like Fun Machine’s virtuoso keyboardist Johnny Piatkowski on the farfisa and mellotron. The sound is that of the teetering ramshackle wall of sound, the sparse and tenderly haunted finger-picked ballad, Irish table chantey, the harmonium soaked funeral march, dark rumbling surf-folk, the ocean floor.

Our goal is to create music for people who love music, in all its many facets and faces. The music traverses a wide landscape of topics and sounds, and it is the hope of the group that it will prove as good of company to our listeners in their lives as it has to us in ours as we wrote and performed it, for it’s yours now.

MP3: Roadside Graves – Holiday Road
MP3: Roadside Graves – Liv Tyler

some recent press…

“”My Son’s Home is well-stocked with stirring narratives and sketches that just happen to be almost unremittingly obsessed with the crypt. Yet what’s really remarkable about the record is the band’s ability to treat death from so many different perspectives and with such a widely divergent range of moods and sympathies.There are moments of haunting, fragile stillness here…Perhaps most admirably of all, the Roadside Graves excel at the brave and difficult paradox of suffusing death with life, injecting vivacity and humor into their reflections on mortality.”-Pitchfork

“It has narrative substance (like a door stopper-sized book) and just as many hooks, tons of heart. Or, in other words, and to carry the book metaphor way too far, this one’s going to make a lot of noise when it drops.”-Stereogum

“Like The Band before them, the New Jersey group pull from several different genres – country, folk, Cajun, southern gospel, and big-time rock ‘n’ roll – to produce something that can maybe only be called American Music.”-Aquarium Drunkard