Turpentine Brothers

Boston garage/punk/dirtbag R&B dynamos the TURPENTINE BROTHERS have finally recorded their debut album We Don't Care About Your Good Times, a high energy 12 songster seemingly equally inspired by the OBLIVIANS' gospel album, thrift store 45's bearing the Fortune, Stax, and Etiquette imprints, and the fractured guitar freakouts of their longtime faves the CHEATER SLICKS. The band, long a staple at clubs and parties where people beg for encores by breaking bottles at their feet, consists of JUSTIN HUBBARD on guitar and vocals, TARA MCMANUS on drums, and ZACK BRINES on a vaguely Quintron-esque organ/bass keyboards set-up played through Leslie speakers bigger than Oprah. Although JUSTIN and TARA began as a raw two-piece playing primal HASIL ADKINS and BILLY The KID EMERSON covers as a way to scam free drinks off of club owners in between stints with their primary outfits the KINGS OF NUTHIN' and MR. AIRPLANE MAN, the current incarnation of the group only took shape when ZACK joined them opening for the REIGNING SOUND a couple of years ago. Since then JUSTIN has gone on a songwriting rampage and the TURPENTINE BROTHERS have started cranking out loud, idiosyncratic originals like the present album's brooding "Why Can't I Do" and high octane "We Don't Care About Your Good Times" - one of the most punk "soul songs" yet to be covered by the likes of ANDRE WILLIAMS or the DIRTBOMBS. The TURPENTINE BROTHERS are planning a national tour to back up their record and continue to regularly gig around some of the more unsavory East Coast clubs and watering holes. In the past they've shared stages with like minded combos , The LIDS, DEAD MOON, The HUSBANDS, DEX ROMWEBER (the FLAT DUO JETS), The LITTLE KILLERS, The BLACK LIPS, and The LYRES, among many others, as well as the MC5 when ROB TYNER used to sport that honky's afro of his. OK, so maybe the last part was a little lie, but you get the picture.

Look for TURPENTINE BROTHERS on tour in 2005.