White Cadillac

White Cadillac
"Casualty of the City"

RATING SCALE
"1" Indicates the Lowest Score
"5" Indicates The Highest Score

Recording Quality/Production: 4
Lead Vocals: 4.5
Musicianship: 4.5
Lyric Writing: 4
Music Composing: 4.5
Melodies: 5
Song Arrangement: 4

You guys did a great job on the songs. The recordings really captured an energetic live feel and the vocals and guitar playing are bigtime highlights of the material.

To give you insight to the scoring scale above, the majority of artists score in the 2.5 to 3.5 range in the various categories. Whenever an artist sees a 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3 or 3.5 as a score in a certain category (or categories) it means that's an area I feel they need to improve and develop.When an artist sees 4, 4.5 or 5 as their score in a category, it's a validation from a professional, confirming that the songs are of the highest level and show strong potential in the ultra-competitive music industry.

To really raise the bar, every artist should work hard to earn a 4.5 or 5 in every category.

It's a very competitive business and people averaging in the 3's (or less) will probably not get too far without a great deal of improvement and development.

I don't give out 4's and 5's easily, so any of those you see, you have earned.

Well done!
Eugene Foley - Foley Entertainment

White Cadillac
"Casualty of the City"

RATING SCALE
"1" Indicates the Lowest Score
"5" Indicates The Highest Score

Recording Quality/Production: 4
Lead Vocals: 4.5
Musicianship: 4.5
Lyric Writing: 4
Music Composing: 4.5
Melodies: 5
Song Arrangement: 4

You guys did a great job on the songs. The recordings really captured an energetic live feel and the vocals and guitar playing are bigtime highlights of the material.

To give you insight to the scoring scale above, the majority of artists score in the 2.5 to 3.5 range in the various categories. Whenever an artist sees a 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3 or 3.5 as a score in a certain category (or categories) it means that's an area I feel they need to improve and develop.When an artist sees 4, 4.5 or 5 as their score in a category, it's a validation from a professional, confirming that the songs are of the highest level and show strong potential in the ultra-competitive music industry.

To really raise the bar, every artist should work hard to earn a 4.5 or 5 in every category.

It's a very competitive business and people averaging in the 3's (or less) will probably not get too far without a great deal of improvement and development.

I don't give out 4's and 5's easily, so any of those you see, you have earned.

Well done!
Eugene Foley - Foley Entertainment

White Cadillac – Casualty of the City

SCORE: 8/10

White Cadillac:
The motor starts, I’d say a white Cadillac, and the foot gets to the pedal. Superb guitar riffs and catchy grooves ran my eardrums down and kept going. A hit and run for sure. This was a kick start to a fine album.
Production 8.5
Songwriting 8.5
Musicianship 8.0

24- 7- 365:
Solid grooves crash the party, with instant likeability. Good sounding metal. Vocals are strong as all parts of the band. This rips!
Production 8.5
Songwriting 8.5
Musicianship 8.0

Pushed Too Far:
We have more chunky, punchy, pumping riffs. Hitch a ride with this one. Worth the wait!
Production 8.5
Songwriting 8.5
Musicianship 8.0

Fast forward after enjoying every track on this album.

Black Cat:
This is a fine rendition of a Janet Jackson song. All the groove and hooks hunt you down and scratch your eyes out. I’ve been left in submission to killer songs from a hook-laden album.

White Cadillac will have to be consistent and prove themselves to get a 9 from me as this number is preserved for Black Label Society and bands like that with track records. I think these guys deserve it. Everything including vocals work together to offer one of the best albums I’ve heard for a while in this vein. No real production problems. Having the goods, they submit cool commercial songwriting ability here. The checkered flag goes down for these winners.

- Heavymetalreview.com

White Cadillac – Casualty of the City

SCORE: 8/10

White Cadillac:
The motor starts, I’d say a white Cadillac, and the foot gets to the pedal. Superb guitar riffs and catchy grooves ran my eardrums down and kept going. A hit and run for sure. This was a kick start to a fine album.
Production 8.5
Songwriting 8.5
Musicianship 8.0

24- 7- 365:
Solid grooves crash the party, with instant likeability. Good sounding metal. Vocals are strong as all parts of the band. This rips!
Production 8.5
Songwriting 8.5
Musicianship 8.0

Pushed Too Far:
We have more chunky, punchy, pumping riffs. Hitch a ride with this one. Worth the wait!
Production 8.5
Songwriting 8.5
Musicianship 8.0

Fast forward after enjoying every track on this album.

Black Cat:
This is a fine rendition of a Janet Jackson song. All the groove and hooks hunt you down and scratch your eyes out. I’ve been left in submission to killer songs from a hook-laden album.

White Cadillac will have to be consistent and prove themselves to get a 9 from me as this number is preserved for Black Label Society and bands like that with track records. I think these guys deserve it. Everything including vocals work together to offer one of the best albums I’ve heard for a while in this vein. No real production problems. Having the goods, they submit cool commercial songwriting ability here. The checkered flag goes down for these winners.

- Heavymetalreview.com

Local musicians show off their new White Cadillac
December 16, 2010 - By GARY S. ANGELO Tribune Chronicle correspondent

As teenagers, Youngs-town musicians Adam May and B.J. Lisko were playing in the hard rock / metal act Product of Aggression, fighting about creative differences.
Now, more than a decade later, May and Lisko find themselves revisiting some of the remnants of Product of Aggression with their new project, White Cadillac.

The concept of the band started with a simple discussion at a local bar.
"Adam and I kept running into one another,'' Lisko said. ''We'd talk about our old band and how young we were. We fought over trivial things, but there was always a sense there was unfinished business."
Lisko was in the midst of recruiting Girard native and Kitchen Knife Conspiracy drummer Fred Whitacre for his Turbo Lovers project at the end of 2009. Whitacre agreed to try it out, when Lisko decided to call May and change the whole idea.

"Adam and I had talked so much about getting something going again, I thought that after Fred was on board it was the perfect opportunity to re-visit some things and see if it would click," Lisko said.
With one rehearsal, White Cadillac was born. The band name comes from the Danko Jones song, and the band actually has its own "White Cadillac" song on its debut, ''Casualty of the City.''
"Danko Jones was common influence for Adam and me, So we started rattling off songs. After about the fifth or sixth beer, I can't remember who came up with 'White Cadillac' as a band name, but I remember laughing about it and drinking to the idea," Lisko said.

May, the band's guitarist and lead vocalist, spoke via phone about the debut disc.
"A few of White Cadillac's songs are skeletons of Product of Aggression,'' he said. ''We used a riff or two as starting points when we began the band to kind of break the ice and get things moving. But with White Cadillac, those riffs aren't how we wrote them 12 years ago."

On Saturday, Dec. 18 at Barley's Pub, located on 21 W. Federal Street, Youngstown, White Cadillac will celebrate the release of Casualty of The City with special guests Northshore and Shotgun Fungus. The CD was recorded by engineer Josh Roman at Mindrocket Studios in West Middlesex, Pa. The CD has received positive reviews from HeavyMetalReview.com and the Foley Entertainment Group.

All three musicians in the band are prominent in the second chapter of Youngstown's underground rock history. May was in Product of Aggression and presently fronts Groove Conductor. Lisko fronts Turbo Lovers and played for years in Hellvis, The Fools Like You, Gauntlet and Product of Aggression. Fred Whitacre spent more than a decade playing drums in the death metal outfit Kitchen Knife Conspiracy.

Lisko believes White Cadillac has a commercial element to its sound.
"'Casualty of The City' is a metal record, make no mistake about it," he said. "But the music and songs lend themselves to a much broader, and dare I say, mainstream audience. The songs are heavy and fast, but they're full of hooks, and they're all catchy. Everyone in the band knows their parts inside and out and we all individually know what we bring to the table which makes it very easy to play. I haven't been in a band with this sense of musicianship or camaraderie since Hellvis."

Whitacre believes playing in White Cadillac signifies a musical maturity.
"White Cadillac's sound is much more marketable, Our sound might not be quite mainstream, but could fit well on modern rock radio stations. We are not trying to aim for a specific niche audience. I joined White Cadillac because I wanted to play different types of music, which in turn helps me improve my performance," Whitacre said.
Lisko said the band's CD release show will, as always. be high-energy.

"We're a live act," he said. "We want to give people something to watch, give them something to see. We strive to get the crowds involved. We'll likely play the new CD in its entirety." - Tribune Chronical

Local musicians show off their new White Cadillac
December 16, 2010 - By GARY S. ANGELO Tribune Chronicle correspondent

As teenagers, Youngs-town musicians Adam May and B.J. Lisko were playing in the hard rock / metal act Product of Aggression, fighting about creative differences.
Now, more than a decade later, May and Lisko find themselves revisiting some of the remnants of Product of Aggression with their new project, White Cadillac.

The concept of the band started with a simple discussion at a local bar.
"Adam and I kept running into one another,'' Lisko said. ''We'd talk about our old band and how young we were. We fought over trivial things, but there was always a sense there was unfinished business."
Lisko was in the midst of recruiting Girard native and Kitchen Knife Conspiracy drummer Fred Whitacre for his Turbo Lovers project at the end of 2009. Whitacre agreed to try it out, when Lisko decided to call May and change the whole idea.

"Adam and I had talked so much about getting something going again, I thought that after Fred was on board it was the perfect opportunity to re-visit some things and see if it would click," Lisko said.
With one rehearsal, White Cadillac was born. The band name comes from the Danko Jones song, and the band actually has its own "White Cadillac" song on its debut, ''Casualty of the City.''
"Danko Jones was common influence for Adam and me, So we started rattling off songs. After about the fifth or sixth beer, I can't remember who came up with 'White Cadillac' as a band name, but I remember laughing about it and drinking to the idea," Lisko said.

May, the band's guitarist and lead vocalist, spoke via phone about the debut disc.
"A few of White Cadillac's songs are skeletons of Product of Aggression,'' he said. ''We used a riff or two as starting points when we began the band to kind of break the ice and get things moving. But with White Cadillac, those riffs aren't how we wrote them 12 years ago."

On Saturday, Dec. 18 at Barley's Pub, located on 21 W. Federal Street, Youngstown, White Cadillac will celebrate the release of Casualty of The City with special guests Northshore and Shotgun Fungus. The CD was recorded by engineer Josh Roman at Mindrocket Studios in West Middlesex, Pa. The CD has received positive reviews from HeavyMetalReview.com and the Foley Entertainment Group.

All three musicians in the band are prominent in the second chapter of Youngstown's underground rock history. May was in Product of Aggression and presently fronts Groove Conductor. Lisko fronts Turbo Lovers and played for years in Hellvis, The Fools Like You, Gauntlet and Product of Aggression. Fred Whitacre spent more than a decade playing drums in the death metal outfit Kitchen Knife Conspiracy.

Lisko believes White Cadillac has a commercial element to its sound.
"'Casualty of The City' is a metal record, make no mistake about it," he said. "But the music and songs lend themselves to a much broader, and dare I say, mainstream audience. The songs are heavy and fast, but they're full of hooks, and they're all catchy. Everyone in the band knows their parts inside and out and we all individually know what we bring to the table which makes it very easy to play. I haven't been in a band with this sense of musicianship or camaraderie since Hellvis."

Whitacre believes playing in White Cadillac signifies a musical maturity.
"White Cadillac's sound is much more marketable, Our sound might not be quite mainstream, but could fit well on modern rock radio stations. We are not trying to aim for a specific niche audience. I joined White Cadillac because I wanted to play different types of music, which in turn helps me improve my performance," Whitacre said.
Lisko said the band's CD release show will, as always. be high-energy.

"We're a live act," he said. "We want to give people something to watch, give them something to see. We strive to get the crowds involved. We'll likely play the new CD in its entirety." - Tribune Chronical

Preview by Dave Richards
Staff writer

On paper, it shouldn't work. On stage, it does.

Hard-pumping rock band White Cadillac features three Youngstown, Ohio, musicians who come from different musical directions.

Drummer Fred Whitacre plays brutal death metal in Kitchen Knife Conspiracy, and oddly enough, "folky, Elton John-inspired stuff" on the side. Singer-guitarist Adam May is one half of Groove Conductor, an industrial techno-dance outfit. Bassist B.J. Lisko plays in Turbo Lovers, which has a more straight-ahead AC/DC vibe.

Put them together and you get White Cadillac, a lean, gritty, power-groove band that just issued its debut CD, "Casualty of the City."

"I wouldn't say it sounds like any of our other bands," said Whitacre. "It's odd. It's White Cadillac. It kind of has an old-school rock and roll feel to it. It's a real different experience but it's real enjoyable right now."

The scorching "24/7/365" plows ahead with a Lenny Kravitz-like riff and chugging Motorhead power. Distortion-soaked "Rules of the Road" features a dirtier, trashier feel, akin to Anthrax, while the stomping "Tattooed Girlfriend" sounds like something Blackfoot might have written.

White Cadillac started in February 2009 but Lisko and May date back more than a decade. They previously played in a hard-rock band called Product of Aggression.

"When you're young, you don't know how to get along with people. They didn't see eye-to-eye," Whitacre said. "They wanted to try something together again after all these years, and contacted me. I wanted to try something new."

They mostly play originals including "Mobsters & Gypsies," a nod to their hometown. But they also bust out an '80s song once in awhile, such as Janet Jackson's "Black Cat" and Midnight Oil's "Beds Are Burning."

"They were a cool band," said Whitacre. "They never got the recognition they deserved."

So far, White Cadillac is reaping recognition for "Casualty of the City." The CD earned a rave review from HeavyMetalReview.com. Whitacre said music fans of the members' other bands are checking White Cadillac out, too, even if its rock-powered, old-school style might confuse them at first.

"They've been scoping it out," he said. "A lot of other people were kind of reticent about checking it out; they're a little standoffish. But I think, for the most part, people enjoy it. It's been a good response, so far."

After playing at Barley's in their hometown and the nearby Cellar, they're anxious to play in front of a different crowd. Friday's gig at Crooked I will be their first show in Erie.

"It looks like a cool club. I've never been there before but I've heard good things about it," Whitacre said. "It's nice to be playing in a place that has the underground scene going strong."

Glaucon will also play. So will Sound City Saints, who plan a split-CD release with Black Lung Choir, and Midnight Jacks, who also have a new CD due out soon. - Erie Times

Preview by Dave Richards
Staff writer

On paper, it shouldn't work. On stage, it does.

Hard-pumping rock band White Cadillac features three Youngstown, Ohio, musicians who come from different musical directions.

Drummer Fred Whitacre plays brutal death metal in Kitchen Knife Conspiracy, and oddly enough, "folky, Elton John-inspired stuff" on the side. Singer-guitarist Adam May is one half of Groove Conductor, an industrial techno-dance outfit. Bassist B.J. Lisko plays in Turbo Lovers, which has a more straight-ahead AC/DC vibe.

Put them together and you get White Cadillac, a lean, gritty, power-groove band that just issued its debut CD, "Casualty of the City."

"I wouldn't say it sounds like any of our other bands," said Whitacre. "It's odd. It's White Cadillac. It kind of has an old-school rock and roll feel to it. It's a real different experience but it's real enjoyable right now."

The scorching "24/7/365" plows ahead with a Lenny Kravitz-like riff and chugging Motorhead power. Distortion-soaked "Rules of the Road" features a dirtier, trashier feel, akin to Anthrax, while the stomping "Tattooed Girlfriend" sounds like something Blackfoot might have written.

White Cadillac started in February 2009 but Lisko and May date back more than a decade. They previously played in a hard-rock band called Product of Aggression.

"When you're young, you don't know how to get along with people. They didn't see eye-to-eye," Whitacre said. "They wanted to try something together again after all these years, and contacted me. I wanted to try something new."

They mostly play originals including "Mobsters & Gypsies," a nod to their hometown. But they also bust out an '80s song once in awhile, such as Janet Jackson's "Black Cat" and Midnight Oil's "Beds Are Burning."

"They were a cool band," said Whitacre. "They never got the recognition they deserved."

So far, White Cadillac is reaping recognition for "Casualty of the City." The CD earned a rave review from HeavyMetalReview.com. Whitacre said music fans of the members' other bands are checking White Cadillac out, too, even if its rock-powered, old-school style might confuse them at first.

"They've been scoping it out," he said. "A lot of other people were kind of reticent about checking it out; they're a little standoffish. But I think, for the most part, people enjoy it. It's been a good response, so far."

After playing at Barley's in their hometown and the nearby Cellar, they're anxious to play in front of a different crowd. Friday's gig at Crooked I will be their first show in Erie.

"It looks like a cool club. I've never been there before but I've heard good things about it," Whitacre said. "It's nice to be playing in a place that has the underground scene going strong."

Glaucon will also play. So will Sound City Saints, who plan a split-CD release with Black Lung Choir, and Midnight Jacks, who also have a new CD due out soon. - Erie Times

*White Cadillac* Casualty of the City

Self-released: 7/10

"White Cadillac – three rock n’ roll lifers from Ohio – offer us a glimpse of
what it might sound like if James Hetfield and Fu Manchu got together one
hazy weekend to bash out some early Crue covers, but then got so liquored up
they decided to just drive around town kidnapping people instead. As their
name would suggest, this is a classy ride for sleazy people."

- Classic Rock Magazine - CLASSIC ROCK UK

*White Cadillac* Casualty of the City

Self-released: 7/10

"White Cadillac – three rock n’ roll lifers from Ohio – offer us a glimpse of
what it might sound like if James Hetfield and Fu Manchu got together one
hazy weekend to bash out some early Crue covers, but then got so liquored up
they decided to just drive around town kidnapping people instead. As their
name would suggest, this is a classy ride for sleazy people."

- Classic Rock Magazine - CLASSIC ROCK UK