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The
Slackwater News is a musical group from Lancaster,
Pennsylvania. We spend lots of time together crafting
creative, meaningful, and tight arrangements that
serve the motive of our songs. Sometimes that motive
doesn't become clear until we huddle together in
a windowless room and chip away at it with wooden
axes and dissolve its tough outer shell with contemporary
elixirs.
We rehearse and record in a studio we put together
in an old warehouse in the historic district of
the city, where we recorded our debut EP, "All
You Creatures," last winter.
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core instrumentation is two electric guitars, electric
bass, trap set, and mechanical keyboards, but when
the song is hungry for something different we are
not afraid to feed it trumpet, ukulele, cardboard
box, desk stomp, synthesizer, or whatever else it
wants. We
play electric rock music that owes to psychedelic,
indie, mod, and classic rock and pop. People always
say we have a unique sound, but have compared our
music to the Beatles, The Kinks, and Pavement. "Psychedelic
Indie Rock" might sum it up as well as three
words can.
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lyrics tend to be inspired by the magic and strangeness
of things in our lives. A song about loving someone
becomes an invitation to share a burial plot. A
trip to the basement of the natural science museum
down the street becomes a dreamy ode to the art
of taxidermy. A desire to travel becomes a sea-shanty
about love and longing. Throughout the songwriting
process, we try to be true to ourselves and make
new and fresh music.
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Instrumentation
Dan Zdilla - Electric
Guitar and Voice
Hans Wheelersburg - Electric
Bass Guitar and Voice
Daniel Ramirez - Mechanical
Keyboards and Voice
Matt Blank - Trap Set
Matt Johnson - Electric
guitar
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play regularly around Southcentral Pennsylvania,
at places like the Chameleon Club, Isaac's, and
the Rock Hill Tavern in Lancaster; Dragonfly, Gullifty's,
and Local Beat in Harrisburg; and a host of other
nightclubs, festivals, and public and private events.
We've been working together for a little over a
year, but most of the band has been performing music
publically since they were schoolboys.
We have been chosen to showcase at several music
conferences, such as Launch and 4+3, and our recordings
receive airplay on commercial terrestrial radio
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Right
now, we are starting to record our second album,
in addition to booking live shows in the Northeast
and Mid-Atlantic regions in support of our EP.
For booking inquiries, please contact us at info@theslackwaternews.com
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