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Press
"[Young Lords] exude a timeless presence with swaggering vocals, harmonic guitars, and tight rhythms." - Nylon Magazine
“A mix between the Rolling Stones, Gram Parsons and any other sex-soaked, country-twinged rock n roll." - Anthem Magazine
“Laden with guitar-based melodies, good looks and Southern charm, Young Lords have NYC weak at the knees." - i-D Magazine
"The downtown scene's newest rock royalty." - Gen Art
"...Young Lords, the New York quintet who craft ‘60s-inspired tunes paying homage to early Rolling Stones and Kinks...Road trip!" - RCRD LBL
"...raw American rock." - www.iguessimfloating.blogspot.com
"Rodeo Songs," is a new jam laid down by the shaggy, NYC band, Young Lords...And notice how Young Lords do old Stones much better than the old Rolling Stones do old Stones. - www.irockcleveland.blogspot.com
“Roots-rock musicians have been leaving the country for New York City...the Young Lords take their country with a pinch of Rolling Stones....” - The Guardian UK
A little bit Strokes, a little bit Kings of Leon, it's no surprise that Young Lords' original country aspirations found their true footing on the sticky dancefloors of lower New York's most popular nightspots. Possessed of a brotherly charisma similar to scene contemporaries, actual brothers Blair and Reed Van Nort add a sense of style to be envied by any of Silverlake's finest... - Urb Magazine
Discography
The Young Lords' title track Rodeo Songs is currently airing in national television spots for Guinness Ad- Nov '08.
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Rodeo Songs - Release October 7th, 2008
Track Listing:
1. Rodeo Songs
2. Turn It Up
3. How It Goes
4. Riverside
5. Make No Mistake
6. Pretty Little Mess
7. Trying
8. Down So Long
9. Hail Mary
10. Silver Bullets
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Bootleg EP - Release 2007
Track Listing:
1. Turn It Up
2. Rodeo Songs
3. Make No Mistake
4. Riverside
5. Trying
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Bio
With rock music busy courting ivy league exotica, guyliner melodrama, and sports metal jockiness, its refreshing to hear a return to the simple stuff: howling, sweating, beer, the devil, highways and cowboy boots. Meet the Young Lords, a band of the purest varietyNew York based scuzzsters and Austin expats adding to the ever-expanding soundtrack of Americas rebellious youth.
After hooking up with guitarist Adam Gerard at the New School, and netting bassist Maxwell Kamins from nights trolling the streets of NYC, lead singer Blair Van Nort and guitarist/brother Reed would nickel and dime their way into practice spaces to bring their songs to life. After a series of interim drummers, Austin alum Grant W. Anderson would man the kit, and the line-up would be complete. Plugging in, the spirit of outlaw country would creep through here, the unchecked propulsion of punk there, all buoyed by the wily exuberance of vintage rock music, the sort of stuff you dont bring home to mom.
Indeed, birds flipped, noses thumbed, sunglasses cocked, the Lords are a quartet of would-be-models shaking hands with the history of rock n roll. Trading in the rumbling guitars, sneering vocals, and insistent drums of 60s blueprinters, the band has managed to make a deafening racket in New York's downtown rock scene. Sharing stages with the Fratellis, the Like, the Willowz, The Virgins, Young Love, Lissy Trullie and VietNam, theyve already ensnared fans at Nylon, Elle, LUomo Vogue, S Magazine, Cosmo, and Anthem, won over web denizens like RCRD LBL, AOL Spinner, and Gen Art, and even landed a track in a national Guinness television spot. Young Lords were recently named one of URB Magazines' "100 Artists to Watch" for 2009.
So, lets forget Cape Code Kwassa Kwassas, going down swinging, and the assembly line of Nickleback knockoffs. Lets look to the future with truth and swagger. Rock music deserves it. And so do the Young Lords.
Young Lords debut album Rodeo Songs is now available at all major online retailers.
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