RODEO RUBY LOVE
Rodeo Ruby Love - http://rodeorubylove.tumblr.com
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For the last seven years, Rodeo Ruby Love has tried to become synonymous with Indiana: honest, hardworking, non-assuming and a little bit behind the times. The songs are rooted in the pop-country radio and church hymns that shaped founding member Zachary Melton’s childhood, while the energy and passion bloomed from the central Indiana hardcore scene. Rodeo Ruby Love has always sought to tell real stories, vulnerably exploring truth in the emotions we experience when life and love collide—the heartaches of friendship, the exhilaration of relationship, and the innocent angst of trying to get to second base. The songs were distinctly Mid-western: small town problems of small town boys and girls played to the biggest sound they could muster.
The band put out albums in three consecutive years, its first full-length album recorded in a dank basement with the help of friends in Bloomington, Ind. Your Love Has Made Everything Beautiful (2006) was followed by simultaneously released EPs What Loneliness Can Do For You and Honest To God (2007), which kicked off Rodeo Ruby Love’s first tours—long miles in a hot van through the Midwest and Southeast. The band’s second full-length album was released by Bloomington-based XRA Records in 2008 (Vs. the Great American Cities).
In 2010, the band went on its first national tour, a self-booked, two-month, four-van-breakdown adventure in support of their third full-length album, This is Why We Don’t Have Nice Things. The album was re-released by Pentimento Music Co in 2011, when Rodeo Ruby Love joined the label and two separate tours with Streetlight Manifesto and ska legends Reel Big Fish. The band traded house shows and small venues for major nationally-recognized stops, playing to sold out crowds and actually selling records. The band’s fan base began spreading beyond the Midwest in a significant way.
Living Well - http://livingwell.bandcamp.com
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Catchy songs, upbeat, no frills.
Wayne Szalinski - http://wayneszalinski.bandcamp.com
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Wayne Szalinski is a band formed in East Lansing, Michigan in the spring of 2012 by Michigan State University students Andy Milad, Andrew Adams, Ian Siporin, and Nick Galli. The group’s first EP, Wayne Szalinski, was released in September of 2012. A follow up effort, Fondly Truly, was released on April 26, 2013.