Enter: Bronze Radio Return, a new age
blast from the retro era. Turn up your hi-fi stereos for the return
of that lo-fi experience that has been absent from the new music
scene for far too long.
Bronze Radio Return started long
before the members coalesced into the Mumford & Sons-caliber act
listeners enjoy today. Frontman Chris Henderson recalls the old
bronze tube radio he grew up listening to in his father's art studio.
The seed of the vintage music certainly flourished with the
nurturing and refining of the band's sound, which they describe as
“an intersection of roots music, folk, and rock.”
When asked how they would describe
their own music, Henderson responded with a very apt analogy:
“Sometimes I think about our music
like the chili my mom makes. Its got all your standard ingredients: meat, beans, and tomatoes. Those are like the roots influence in our
sound. It's the heart of the music, but when everything else gets
added, your taste buds sometimes forget it's even there. On top of
the standard ingredients goes a bunch of various spices, mustards,
and wines. To me, the spices are what each band member brings to
the table. Hopefully, like my mom's chili, when it all gets put
together you stop focusing on the individual ingredients and enjoy
it all together as its own entity.”
Without a doubt, Bronze Radio Return
offers listeners a healthy does of delicious audio chili to sweep
them back to some of the most significant eras of rock and blues of
this century; taking influence from artists like Eric Clapton, Muddy
Waters, and Buddy Guy.
Hailing from Hartford, Connecticut,
the group was subject to excellent reviews from listeners. Their
first album, entitled Old Time Speaker,
landed them in the College Music Journal's, or CMJ's, top 200 album
chart. Their hard work, both writing and touring, earned them
opportunities to play with and for many distinguished individuals in
the music community and out. Henderson commented on some of their
best experiences to date:
“We have been
fortunate enough to share the stage with some really accomplished
people. A few that stand out for me would be playing for President
Obama in Bridgeport, CT last year. The energy was wild and it was
really cool to be that close to the president. If I were to mention
another, I would say opening for Buddy Guy [an aforementioned
influence for the band] was a close second. We had all listened to
him growing up and were totally awestruck by his presence.”
The
group has since released a second album, entitled SHAKE!
SHAKE! SHAKE!, maintains the
band's reputation for great vintage sound and eloquent song writing.
The title track of their new album, introduces a percussion of foot
stomps and hand claps invokes a vision of crowd participation, stomps
and claps echoing through the venue while band and listener alike
revel in the music.
Bronze Radio
Return is a reckoning force in the upcoming annual film festival
“NFFTY”. NFFTY, or the National Film Festival for Talented
Youth, is the largest film festival for youths in the world. In
2012, the festival is being held in Seattle during the last week of
April, and will host 222 films from 30 states and 20 countries.
Along with other Audiosocket artists, Bronze Radio Return is featured
prominantly, and is the featured artist in NFFTY's festival trailer,
as well as a participant commercial for Volvo. Both videos can be
viewed here:
Festival
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6DE0geUEj8
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