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We are The Wild! & We are fucking crazy!

Former bandmates of the successful independent act, Bucknife, Dylan Villain (guitar/vocals), Lucas ‘Boozus’ Jancikic (bass/vocals) and Rowdy Rick Riegs (drums) amalgamated to create a sound that is properly described as “the bastard son of AC/DC and ZZ Top”.
Hailing from Kelowna, British Columbia, The Wild! are living anything but the cliché faux-California lifestyle the Okanagan is known for. Instead, they are ripe with grit, Southern-fried twang and a give-‘em-hell attitude that has struck a chord with listeners everywhere. Blending a bold mixture of supercharged rock and roll, blues and equipped punkrock attitude, The Wild! is recognized as being a reckless group of individuals who write music for reckless groups of individuals. “We aim to write music that makes people feel something” says frontman, Dylan Villain. “Whether it’s to dance, yell, fight or just get straight up fuckin' crazy, we’re writing this music with strong conviction for what we stand for; having a good time in the name of the party and in the name Rock and Roll.” Further to the point, The Wild! is quick to admit that they draw their influence from their troubled pasts, the road, and good old fashioned parties. Backed by the gratuitous citing by Raw Dog (The Jason Ellis Show) that legitimately labels The Wild! as “Shitkicker Rock”, the band embodies the unpolished backwoods with a sincerity to produce a musical experience that is nothing short of fucking brilliant.
2012 proved to be an eventful year for The Wild! with their first single, Road House, released. Road House was then featured on The Jason Ellis Show on FACTION (Sirius/XM) and is in current rotation in the UK (Steve Taylor’s show ‘Retro Rock’ on 102.5FM – Stourbridge), Canada (Power 104.7FM – Kelowna) and on various online stations such as Punkradiocast.ca and Hotshotbands.com. After teaming up with Vancouver hip-hop music video director, Stuey Kubrick, the Road House music video received more than 10,000 views in its first week and an additional 20,000 views within the first month. Backing the vision, sound and attitude of The Wild! Adrian Grenier, star of Entourage and owner of Wreckroom Records in NYC, posted a link to the Road House video on his Twitter feed. 

Maintaining the momentum of the past year, The Wild! is currently working on their EP, Wild at Heart, slated for an early 2013 release. Following up Road House, Party ‘til You’re Dead is expected to be the next single to go viral. The Wild! hasn’t only garnered a reputation for their vocals, but also their stage presence and with plans for a spring tour in the works, The Wild! delivers fans straight-up good-time parties celebrating a no-bullshit approach to music and entertainment.

For more information visit: www.facebook.com/thewildrocknroll 

A band from the Cleveland, Ohio area that rocks and takes no prisoners!
Set List:
Aerosmith	- Sweet Emotion
Allman Bros	- One Way Out
Big and Rich	- Save a horse
Billy Idol	        - Rebel Yell
Black Crowes	- Hard To Handle
Bowie	        - Ziggy Stardust
CeeLo Green  - F-U
Chuck Berry	- JB Goode
Commodores	- Brick House
Creedence	 - Fortunate Son
David Bowie	 - Fame
Deadeye Dick	 - New Age Girl
Def Leppard	 - Pour Some Sugar On Me
Duran Duran	 - Hungry Like the Wolf
Eagles	         - Life In The Fast Lane
Eric Clapton	 - Cocaine
Everclear	 - Santa Monica
Foriegner	 - Double Vision
Frank Turner	 - Recovery
Georgia Sattelites	- Keep Your Hands To Yourself
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Golden Earring - Twilight Zone
Harvey Danger  - Flagpole Sitta
Honeymoon Suite	- I got a new girl now
Ides of March	  - Vehicle
Jason Aldean	  - She's Country
Jimmy Buffett  - Margaritaville
Luke Bryan	   - Country Girl (Shake it for me)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Men At Work	    - Down Under
Michael Stanley - My Town
Modern English  - Melt With You
Montell Jordan   - This is how we do it
Neil Diamond	     - Sweet Caroline
Neon Trees	     - Everybody Talks
One Republic	     - Counting Stars
Peter Frampton  - Do You Feel Like We Do
Robert Palmer    - Simply Irresistable
Rolling Stones    - Brown Sugar
Rolling Stones    - Honkytonk Woman
Rolling Stones    - Miss You
Social D	             - Ball and Chain
Social D	              - Story of My Life
Spin Doctors	      - Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
Steve Miller Band	- Jet Airliner
Steve Miller Band	- The Joker (Sweater Song)
Sublime	                - Santeria
The Clash	        - Rock the Casbah
The Doors	        - Roadhouse Blues
The McCoys	        - Hang On Sloopy
The Proclaimers	- 500 Miles
The Ramones	        - Sedated
The Romantics	- What I Like About You - Cherry Cherry
The Young Rascals  - Good Lovin'
Thin Lizzy	         - The Boys are Back In Town
Tom Petty	         - Running Down A Dream
Tommy Tutone	 - Jenny 8675309
Trooper	                 - Raise a Little hell
Van Morrison	         - Brown Eyed Girl
Violent Femmes	 - Blister In The Sun
Wild Cherry	          - Play That Funky Music
ZZ Top	                  - La Grange

Vox - Sean Dailey
Guitar - Ed McMahon
Bass - Ricky Wolking
Drums - Danny Handler

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” - Leonardo da Vinci

In 2008, The Better Death started playing together as a band. Bassist, Ricky Wolking, and drummer, Danny Handler, lived across the street from each other and started making crushing grooves to keep their neighbors on edge. Handler knew guitarist Ed McMahon from school, and McMahon soon began adding to the miasma of sound. Ricky knew vocalist Sean Dailey from his time in the L.A. music scene and invited him to fly to Texas and yell over the radiant noise. Soon the sounds took on a life of their own and demanded to be set free.

Trying desperately to get to the nougaty center of the music they loved, “The Better Death” began writing. Creating a style that mixed hard rock, ethereal textures, advanced rhythmic ideas and deep harmonic structure, they gave up on genre and aimed at music. This has been dubbed “Muzika Originale.”

Finding other swimmers in a sea of floaters:

The first album was released in 2009 on Do For It records. Do For It Records is not a label but more of a collective of musicians dedicated to their own visions of music and based on mutual respect of the ability to make something beautiful and ridiculous.

The band began playing around Texas.

Many people were impressed by the hand, leg, and voice oriented acrobatics of the quartet. Some were deeply moved by the combination of subtle aggression and wild joy. Others felt hurt and confused by the surprising sounds dancing in their ears… many did not get to hear. Shows with national acts like Steel Panther, Electric Six, Polysics and others opened them to a wider audience. In Houston, Texas Buzz magazine nominated them for live act of the year. Dallas webzine Pegasus listed the band in their 10 must see bands of 2010. Indie Music Review said “easily one of the best albums we’ve ever heard, a clear nomination for album of the year.”

In 2011 the band took a hiatus from live shows to deal with personal issues. In January of that year, drummer Danny Handler was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, an incurable inflammatory bowel disease. His struggles with this disease landed him in the hospital several times and made it impossible to perform live. While Danny began recovering, the band concentrated on writing and recording a new album.

On November 2, 2012, the band released their newest album “Day of the Death.”

Even when she’s on East Coast domestic duty raising three kids, Amanda Jo Williams remains an enigmatic L.A. musical mainstay. Over a decade into her wild tenure, most are at a loss of where to put her, how to describe her, and how to process such lines as “I need a fire in my chest and blood in my pee to urinate.” Known to scoff at tags like “freak-folk” and “alt-country” by merely starring at you in scolding confusion with the same steely eyes that were once captured by flashbulbs in the NYC modeling world, she proves over again that she’s far too feral for the easily digestible grooming of genre shackles. But one eyeball/ear full of the dust her and her gang kick up at such off the beaten left-hand path venues like The Echo Country Outpost (where she has taken the role of undisputed mascot and spiritual leader) is all one needs to connect the quivering dots. 

On her fourth LP, “You’re The Father Of My Songs”, AJW returns armed with her trusty Olvera Street-kiddy guitar, the psychedelic traced guitars of 5-track (AJW, Glass Goblin), tribal percussion of Lauren Fay (AJW, Raw Geronimo), and this time, some cream of the crop L.A. stalwarts - John Frusciante, Fool’s Gold multi-instrumentalist Brad Caulkins, and Laena Geronimo of Raw Geronimo and Dante Vs. Zombies. And to help flesh out the most refined exhibition of her unmistakable sound to date, it’s all driven home by the production of Swahili Blonde mastermind/Neurotic Yell CEO Nicole Turley. 

AJW maintains her classic vocal chirp of a little Southern girl with a flashlight under the blanket telling ghost stories, but on “You’re The Father of My Songs” we see the stories turn considerably antagonistic. There’s the Dada-dance warning of impending brimstone on the album’s opener “2000Hell” that segues into the Roky Erikson-esque scorn/minimalist Bad Seeds dirge of “Animal Dog” getting your feet wet in murkier waters, before the reggae infused hoedown of “Holster, The Gun It Hangs In There” and psychedelic seasick shanty “Suppose I Did Mean Love.” 

Ladled with generous helpings of country/gospel back up vocals, wind-thrown seasoning’s of onomonopias, and sidewinding Beefheartening rhythmic risks, perhaps the gutsiest moment is her delving into the straight pop territory of “Goddamn Muse” which could very well be AJW and crew’s triumphant steeling back of the dreaded omnipresent (but never failing radio hit formula) Am/F/C/G progression, back to the punk roots from which it was spawned? In a perfect world this would be bullet status on Billboard, and it may be good news for all of us that despite all her occasional communing with darker hues, AJW is an unabashed utopian at heart.
credits
released 21 May 2013 
All songs written by Amanda Jo Williams 
Published by Songs Of Heyday a/c Gingerhominyjack Publishing (BMI) 

Performed by... 
Amanda Jo Williams - acoustic guitar, vocals 
5-Track - bass, lead guitars 
Nicole Turley - drums 
Lauren "Feather" Fay - percussion 
Laena Geronimo - violin, backing vocals 
John Frusciante - piano, organ 
Brad Caulkins - saxophone 
- Trumpet arrangements by... 
Nicole Turley & Brad Caulkins 

Recorded, mixed, produced, and mastered by Nicole Turley 

Cover photograph of Amanda & Mona by Mark Escribano 
Back cover photograph by Mackenzie Parker 

Album art design by Nicole Turley & Amanda Jo Williams

Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job.The dollar buys a nickel's worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere that seems to know what to do and there's no end to it! We know the air is unfit to breathe, our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad. Worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy so we don't go out anymore. We sit in a house as slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster, and my TV, and my steel belted radials and I won't say anything." Well I'm not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad! 

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crimes in the streets. All I know is first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, "I'm a human being, God Dammit! My life has value!" So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

eclectic - rave - industrial - post-punk.

guttural,   ... Dub-inflected - nostalgia.“ 
neglected and abandoned,
 in an agit core or spiteful way                
psychosis driven      rudimentary electronics

D-Bone Franklin is known by many names: Jean-Claude Goddame Bruce Mohammed A-Lee, Wild Rebel Yell on the front line, Smooth Walkin', Honky Tonkin', Jukebox Sometimes-do, Sometimes-don't be Rockin', Field-chantin' John Henry Hamma-Swingin', Rugged, Rough, and Always a Long Time Gettin' Fashionably Late Ready, Fine Design Wine, Chasin' Mountain Whiskey Moonshine, Guitar been drinkin'--not me-- I have 2 guns, 1 for the each of ya shootin', Lookin' good without a shirt on wearin', Cherokee-Scotch-Chickasaw Southern Dixie Gentleman, Karate Choppin', Voodoo Too Spittin', chiseled from God Rock Mountain Specimen of a Man's Man Divine-Sapien...

Music that aspires to please the ear, explore the spirit and emotions within people, sometimes just feeling funky, diversify in multiple cultures, instruments, and languages; while weaving and fusing different genres within the Americana Roots--with a touch of sundry Folk Art traditions throughout the World--steeped in the sunny mint julep shine of a Dixie Summer.

Roots Americana is a genre that highlights, and pays tribute to, the tradition that is the American Experience, and the spirit of America that has produced art and music that changed the world. These songs can be new, old, newly arranged old, anything that is centered on any of the Root genres that is Americana.
There are many names: Blues, Rock, Country, Jazz, Folk, Bluegrass, Western, Roots, Americana...
Thank you for listening! I hope you enjoy some! 

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