Bigbang Performs With Year Long Disaster at Troubadour and Slide Bar
February 14, 2010
“A nice blend of flowing, Tom Petty/Neil Young-esque balladry and explosive ‘70s bar-band shake, Edendale is a vintage slice of freedom rock, with hot licks and angelic harmonies framing the warm, yearning vocals of frontman Oystein Greni. Bang on!” — Amoeba Records, February 2, 2010
In support of their new release Edendale, Norway’s Bigbang will be playing two shows with Year Long Disaster. First is an all-ages show on Monday, March 8 at The Troubadour (9081 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood). Doors open at 7:30 pm. Year Long Disaster, National Dust and Normandie also perform. Free for 21+ w/valid ID. $3 food/drink ticket purchase at the door if under 21. For additional show information, please visit http://www.troubadour.com.
Then they hit The Slide Bar (122 E. Commonwealth Ave. Fullerton) on Wednesday, March 10 for a free, 21+ show at 9 pm. For more info, please visit http://www.myspace.com/theslidebarlocalmusicshowcase.
Having gone platinum in Norway where it was released last year, Edendale has been garnering rave reviews and gathering strength at college radio in the U.S. Trade magazine Music Connection praised it as “instantly and relentlessly catchy blues-based, guitar driven rock & roll” and Metromix NY declared the band “just an accent apart from the American Top 40″.
On the college radio front this week, 15 stations charted the album, and 6 of them were Priority-1 stations! Spins came from WITR (Rochester NY), KXCI (Tucson AZ), WCLH (Scranton PA), WRFL (Lexington KY), WDBM (Lansing MI) and KWVA (Eugene OR), among others.
Bigbang has released a new video for the single “Isabel”. Blog download is at this link: http://thebigbangweb.com/media/isabel.mov.
