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ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER – ” French Press “

Posted: February 3, 2017 in MUSIC
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Their name is a bit of a mouthful, but don’t let that deter you from this earful of bliss. This Melbourne band just announced their new EP The French Press will drop in March, and here’s the title track.

Describing their musical formula as “tough pop/soft punk,” Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever churn out bright, energetic rock & roll with lively guitar lines, pop hooks, and dry wit. Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, the band was formed in 2013 by guitarist and singer Fran Keaney. Over the course of a long summer, Keaney and his friends Tom Russo (guitar and vocals) and Joe Russo (bass) spent weeks bashing songs into shape over pizza. Fran and the Russos decided to form a band to play their brand of punky jangle pop, and brought aboard third guitarist Joe White and drummer Marcel Tussie. Inspired by classic pop bands like Orange Juice and the Go-Betweens, the group adopted the name Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever in honor of their sunny approach. (The name is sometimes shortened to Rolling Blackouts C.F.) After releasing a handful of digital singles, the band made their official recorded debut with the single “Clean Slate” in 2015, which won plenty of praise from the music press. In early 2016, Ivy League Records dropped RBCF’s first EP, Talk Tight, which earned them more positive press and some Australian radio airplay

ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER – ” Julie’s Place “

Posted: November 4, 2016 in MUSIC
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Born from late night jam sessions in singer/guitarist Fran Keaney’s bedroom and honed in the thrumming confines of Melbourne’s live music venues, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever began to take shape as audiences got moving. Sharing tastes and songwriting duties, cousins Joe White and Fran Keaney, brothers Tom and Joe Russo, and drummer Marcel Tussie started out with softer, melody-focused songs. The more shows they played, the more those driving rhythms that now trademark their songs emerged. Since then, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever rode that wave from strength to strength. Touring around the country on headline bills and festival slots, they entrenched themselves with their thrilling live shows.

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s songs have always had all the page-turning qualities of a good yarn. Somewhere between impressionists and fabulists, lyricists Keaney, Russo and White often start with something rooted in real life before building them into clever, quick vignettes. The result is lines blurred between fiction and reality – vibrant stories which get closer at a particular truth than either could alone.

In early 2016, the band released Talk Tight , their first EP. That effort put the group on the map with glowing reviews from SPIN, Stereogum, and Pitchfork, praising them as standouts even among the fertile landscape of Melbourne music scene. Chock full of snappy riffs, spritely drumming and quick-witted wordplay, Talk Tight was praised “for the precision of their melodies, the streamlined sophistication of their arrangements, and the undercurrent of melancholy that motivates every note.”

”Julies Place” is the first single off Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s forthcoming EP for Sub Pop, levels up on everything that made Talk Tight such an immediate draw.

“Julie’s Place” from the Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever forthcoming EP due out Spring 2017

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