Crew Licks by Dead Rider

A monster! A damned chimera, reconflecting man in pieces — audio-verite dance and blues, pop and rock varieties. Not created but lived, with parts of life on the run reused to facilitate other parts; not whole, but fully animate. Brutal and beautiful. Even if they didn't invent this wheel, they brought some bad-ass spinner rims to the table....

Since 2009, this combo’s peerless stage show and lights-out recordings have made them the undisputed rock and roll masters of negative space (and positive space, too, hey c'mon) anywhere. Todd Rittmann, late of U.S. Maple, has led the troops through five albums and several lineup changes, but now it seems like he, Matt Espy and White Christmas are here to stay. Which is good, they're killing it