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| The core of any rock band worth their salt is a deep respect for the fundamentals – a feel that’s redolent of the scare-the-parents, back country, wild juke joint origins – and an abiding drive to carve out one’s own unique territory. The friction between these impulses is where good things happen, and it’s the place San Francisco’s The Stone Foxes - Shannon Koehler (drums, harp, vocals), Aaron Mort, (bass, guitar, vocals), Spence Koehler (lead guitar, vocals) & Elliott Peltzman (Rhodes, organ, piano) - have resided since their 2008 debut, young men dedicated to keeping rock engaged and succulently alive.
“The best classic rock bands are all anomalies. They got away with doing things that hadn’t been done before even if they started playing basic blues. It’s when they started experimenting that they took on their own identities,” says Aaron. “We’re trying to do the same thing. You have to, and it feels like something that had to happen and happened very naturally.” “You do what the song needs you to do. That’s how this band does it,” says Shannon. “Hell, that’s how The Band did it! You can go back to Muddy Waters and further for examples of this. With us, there’s this filter of blues and roots that we’ve created by soaking up that music, and when we write everything gets put through that filter. It comes out as who we are today, but everything we do goes through that filter, this cultural fuzzbox.” The band’s third record, Small Fires (arriving February 12, 2013), is a cohesive, compelling distillation of all the learning the quartet has been doing on the road the past two years since 2010’s Bears & Bulls, an evolution that harnesses their significant firepower with “less party rock and less ballads” (according to Aaron) to wrestle with the idea of conflicts, big and small. “For sure it’s economically and politically driven, but there are still a few relationship songs in there,” chuckles Shannon. “With earlier albums, we were more concerned with how the music sounded than any underlying themes. This time we took the lyric writing to a new place. I think we’re getting better at defining who we are.” With producer Doug Boehm (Girls, Dr. Dog, The Vines), The Stone Foxes cut 12 songs in 12 days at Los Angeles’ Carriage House, a whirlwind pace that kept things popping in real time, ideas coming fast and furious, bits of lightning captured in whatever bottle was handy. “We had to seriously bust ass,” says Shannon. “We dove way deeper into what we could do recording wise than we ever had in the past, and we had way less time. I think intentionally recording 12 songs in 12 days kept us really focused. It was a small space, but we really like to play together, get a little bleed and all that. So, it’s more polished – this is our first album captured in a studio instead of a garage – but not too polished [laughs]. We’re finding our own niche, our own tone, what we are, and Doug helped hone that in.” “We got Doug because we love Dr. Dog’s sound, but mainly because we wanted to make a rock ‘n’ roll record, and he got that,” says Shannon. “He said he hadn’t worked with a band in 10 years that didn’t use a click track. Well, I have no idea how to work with a click. We’d use one to count in but playing with it is pure insanity if you’re not practiced at it. We want to sound like we’re in the same room doing the same thing. The guitars, the keys, it’s all just in your face!” Like the band itself, Small Fires reflects the times we live in and what lies before this moment, history and choices made bumping up against all the things one can’t control. It’s the sound of a resoundingly great live band brought into the more nuanced studio spaces, a mature work that places them shoulder to shoulder with contemporaries like It Still Moves-era My Morning Jacket. “We’re finding our sound in rock ‘n’ roll now,” says Aaron. “There’s no more blues covers or fairly obvious moves. We’ve gotten to the point where we’re experimenting outside our influences and carving out our own thing. We’ve really got something to say now.” Bio By Dennis Cook |
| “The four San Franciscans in The Stone Foxes have an energetic style that’s rooted in swampy, foot-stomping blues-rock. Their freshly released sophomore album,Bears and Bulls, tackles ambitious arrangements with diverse moods ranging from acoustic twang to thunderous electric-guitar riffs.” NPR "Mr. Hangman - The Stone Foxes...this ripping jam, a rant against the death penalty, is irresistible." USA Today "Bears and Bulls, their latest release, rules...Catchy songs like ‘Young Man’ and ‘Patience’ will have you playin' air guitar in front of your mirror. Then they break it down to a very bluesy song ‘Easy,’ with so much emotion behind the arrangement and singing that it may provoke a tear." San Francisco Chronicle |
"The Black Keys' new album...Dead Weather's Sea of Cowards...The Stone Foxes' Sophmore album...these groups' popularity may be the most exciting thing in music since Zeppelin." Elmore "In a time of laptops and drum machines, the roots-blues the band plays is a welcome change. Enthusiastic and talented, the Stone Foxes knocked it out of the park for the release of Bears & Bulls." Relix "One wouldn't expect this NoCal quartet to outdo their self-titled debut but with Bears and Bulls they most assuredly have. Brimming with confidence, precision and enough scruff and git to make Mick Jagger smile, Bears and Bulls is a scuzzy, greasy, summer opus and just the kind of thing to keep this band on the national radar. If this doesn't turn some heads, what the fuck will?" Absolute Punk |
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Small Fires To be released in February 2013 Produced by Doug Boehm & The Stone Foxes Mixed & Engineered by Doug Boehm Assistant Engineered by Morgan Stratton Mastered by Pete Lyman Recorded at The Carriage House (LA, CA) Photo by Clean White Lines Design & Layout by Aaron Mort |
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Bears & Bulls Released: July 6, 2010 01: Stomp 02: Patience 03: I Killed Robert Johnson 04: Passenger Train 05: Young Man 06: Easy 07: Reno 08: Through The Fire 09: Little Red Rooster 10: Hyde & Pine 11: Mr. Hangman 12: Come Again Produced by The Stone Foxes Mixed by Alex Newport Mastered by John Cuniberti |
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The Stone Foxes Released: August 1, 2008 01: Beneath Mt. Sinai 02: Mercury 03: Rollin' and Tumblin' 04: Sweep A Road 05: Lookin' Pretty Good 06: Take A Breath 07: Walk On Down 08: Under The Gun 09: Black Rolling Thunder 10: Spoonful 11: Tin Stars 12: Record Machine Produced by The Stone Foxes Mastered by John Cuniberti |
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Everybody Knows b/w Too Hard For The Living (Vinyl 7" Single) Released: November 2, 2012 01: Everybody Knows 02: Too Hard For The Living Produced by Doug Boehm & The Stone Foxes Mixed & Engineered by Doug Boehm Assistant Engineered by Morgan Stratton Mastered by Pete Lyman Recorded at The Carriage House (LA, CA) Photo by Clean White Lines Design & Layout by Aaron Mort |
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Psycho b/w Serious People (Vinyl 7" Single) Released: July 26, 2011 01: Psycho 02: Serious People Produced by The Stone Foxes Recorded and Mixed by Scott McDowell at Hyde Street Studio C & Tiny Telephone in San Francisco, CA Mastered by John Greenham |
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I'm A King Bee (Single) Released: April 26, 2011 01: I'm A King Bee 02: I'm A King Bee (Alt. Romp Ver.) Produced by The Stone Foxes Recorded and Mixed by Scott McDowell at Hyde Street Studio C in San Francisco, CA Romp Ver. Recorded and Mixed by Brad Dollar at The Site in Marin County, CA Mastered by John Greenham |
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Christmas Wave (Single) Released: December 13, 2011 01: Christmas Wave Produced by The Stone Foxes Recorded by George Rosenthal at The Complex in San Francisco, CA Mixed by DUCKS! |
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| Management Wingman Music Joe Barham (SF, CA) joe-rock@hotmail.com Rob Weldon (LA, CA) (310) 503-2595 rob.weldon@gmail.com |
Booking The Rosebud Agency Michael Morris (415) 386-3456 michaelm@rosebudus.com |
Publicist Sacks & Co. Mary Moyer (212) 741-1000 mary@sacksco.com |
Online Marketing Sideways Media Nicole Poulos (310) 908-3812 nicole@sideways-media.com |
Radio Substance, Co. Rich Michalowski (213) 494-7362 rich@substanceco.com |
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