Artist description Americana cow-punk

Music Style Guitar Rock

Similar Artists Social Distortion, Jason & The Scorchers, Paul Westerberg, Sidewinders, X, Goo Goo Dolls, Bottle Rockets

Artist History The Heaves are a hard rock band formed in 1997 and hail from Brooklyn, New York. The Heaves have taken quite a few forms in their past, but have emerged as the tight 4 member band they are today. Original members Pat Smith (Vocals) and George Burke (Bass) fleshed out the lineup with Jim Sturges (Drums, Vocals) and Ed Smallman (Guitars) and since then, The Dry Heaves, a name lifted from a hard night of drinking by former guitarist and forming member Jack Sabbath, have been churning out edgy, guitar driven, straight-ahead rock songs that will bring you on a alcohol-fueled tour of their working-class Park Slope neighborhood. Reviews have compared The Heaves to Social Distortion and The Replacements, but their music has continued to elude any definitive tags because of the wide style changes that the band pulls off. To attend a live Dry Heaves show serves as a reminder of how loud, sweaty and intense Rock and Roll used to be and should be today. Their first CD, released in 1997 ,"Two Honkies In a Tub" has been reviewed as “A potential 'classic'“ and "the most complete, entertaining, satisfying and commercially promising discs I've heard in ages." Their second CD, titled "Are You Still Mad at The Dry Heaves?" is a tighter, more mature and focused sounding album containing a wide range of rock songs with words that bring you a little deeper into what The Heaves are thinking. Currently, The Heaves have released their third CD, titled “Beggar's Ocean” which finds them settling in to their true sound; loud, hard, straight ahead rock & roll. Come and let The Dry Heaves take you on that (somewhat drunken) ride back to how rock and roll used to sound and make you feel when it was real.

Group Members Patrick Smith, Vocals. George Burke, Bass. Jim Sturges, Drums, Vocals. Ed Smallman, Guitars.

Instruments Vocal, Guitar, Bass, Drums.

Albums Two Honkies In A Tub, Are You Still Mad At The Dry Heaves?, Beggar's Ocean

Press Reviews The Dry Heaves, Beggar's Ocean (� 2003 The Heaves) Open a disc with a cover? A Willie Nelson song to boot? Go figure. These crazy kids out of Brooklyn have done just that, and put a nice heavy twist on the song. Sounding somewhere in the Social Distortion spectrum, with a country rock taste akin to Jason and the Scorchers, their sound is Americana cow-punk, and that's all right with me. The boys also bring it down, as on "Wisconsin," which features some nice repetitive guitar lines. Singer Patrick Smith has that southern drawl to his vocals, without sounding too hokey, at times straying into a Jagger-like drawl, but either way it works. The guitar work of Ed Smallman is simple and cutting, with all the right notes, and no wasted flash. Bassist George Burke and drummer Jimmy Sturges round out the band, and are as electric and dynamic as their band mates. And while these ears detected a little unevenness in the production, this disc is a diamond in the rough – a hoot to listen to, just needing that big-label dollar plunge in the studio to make it to the big time. http://www.nyrock.com

Location Brooklyn, NY - USA

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