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The Brown Hornets
Genres: Rock, R&B
Hometown: Toronto
Country: Canada
Formed: 2006
Label: Unsigned
Featured: Jun 7, 2008
 
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Bio
After 600 shows of breathing fire on both sides of the border, the Brown Hornets have cultivated a live show of legendary proportions. For the past decade the Hornets have been turning it loose in every club, festival and chicken shack in Ontario and New York with their hyperactive cocktail of gospel, soul and rock'n'roll. Exciting stuff from a group of unassuming kids from Newcastle, Ontario. (Don't worry, most people haven't heard of it either – there is one set of street lights, and they're busted).
As consummate underdogs, the Brown Hornets have crawled, slugged and forced their way to becoming a must-see feature of Toronto's indie rock circuit. Aside from being one of the last Canadian acts to play New York's legendary CBGB's, the band has played Toronto's CMW and NXNE festivals and shared the stage with BB King, RL Burnside, John Sebastian, King Khan, Supagroup, Elvez, Junkhouse, C'mon and King Biscuit Boy. Not at the same time, of course.
The Hornets' lineage is thinly veiled: Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Otis Redding, Sly & The Family Stone, the Who, the Velvet Underground and the Ramones. Though enamored by bands of yesteryear, the Hornets make no attempt to recapture the past. They re-contextualize these sounds by dressing them up with self deprecating humour and hyper-aggressive tension, which they admit is a ‘growing up in the country thing'.
The Brown Hornets are and remain: Dan Walters on vocals and organ, Mike Tomlinson on guitar, Justin Heming on bass and Robin Mason on drums. With a debut record coming out in late April and featuring production by Sean Bailey (Lindi, Twinsticks) and mixing by Darius Szczepaniuk (Sum 41, The Black Crowes), the band is geared to deliver their signature "nuts and bolts rock and roll".
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