Coming in hot this Wednesday, April 4tg at The Old Rock House is Dead Horses with support by Benjamin Jaffe of Honey Honey. The doors open at 7:00 pm and the show begins at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $10.00 in advance or $12.00 day of show. This concert is all-ages. Visit HERE for the event details on Facebook. Continue on below to visit the artists online and to check out their music. Follow on for the latest on these artists.
- Dead Horses: (Milwaukee via Oshkosh)
Genre: Americana, Folk
https://www.deadhorses.net
https://www.facebook.com/deadhorseswi
- Benjamin Jaffe: (Los Angeles, CA)
Genre: Singer/Songwriter, Jazz, Soul, R&B
https://www.benjaminjaffemusic.com
https://www.facebook.com/BenjaminJaffeMusic
https://www.facebook.com/honeyhoneyband
About Dead Horses:
At fifteen, Dead Horses frontwoman Sarah Vos' world turned upside down. Raised in a strict, fundamentalist home Vos lost everything when she and her family were expelled from the rural Wisconsin church where her father had served as a longtime pastor. What happened next is the story of Dead Horses' stunning new album, "My Mother Moon", a record full of trauma and triumph, despair and hope, pain and resilience. Blending elements of traditional roots with contemporary indie folk, the album is both familiar and unexpected, unflinchingly honest in it's portrayal of modern American life, yet optimistic in it's unshakable faith in brighter days to come. Earthy and organic, Vos' songs also reveal themselves to be excercises in empathy and outreach; she writes to find not only the meaning in the struggles she's endured, but also to embrace kindred souls on their own personal journeys of self-discovery. As much as the album is a reckoning with the past and everything she witnessed growing up (mental illness, poverty, addiction, and violence), it's also an effort to shape the future, to build a community based around art and love and beauty and acceptance, a community to replace the one she was so brusquely robbed of as a child. "My Mother Moon" is Dead Horses' third album, and it follows hot on the heels of their acclaimed 2016 release, "Cartoon Moon", which Public Wisconsin Radio called "equally beautiful and effortless". That record prompted the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to declare Dead Horses A Band To Watch and earned thwm honors as "Best Album", "Best Americana/Bluegrass Artist", and " Best Female Vocalist" at the 2017 WAMI Awards. American Songwriter called Vos "a compelling vocalist... who carries every tune with her husky, deeply emotional tone that feels lived in and real," while No Depression hailed her songwriting as "beautiful and fresh". With a fleshed out touring lineup, the group logged countless miles, sharing bills along the way with Trampled By Turtles, Mandolin Orange and Elephant Revival in addition to making festival appearances from Bristol Rhythm and Roots to WinterWonderGrass.
About Benjamin Jaffe:
Benjamin Jaffe (of HONEYHONEY) Releases Soulful New Single "Everlasting Peace"
Solo Debut Album Oh, Wild Ocean Of Love
Out On May 11th via Diamond Family Records
On Tour Now With Dead Horses
Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Benjamin Jaffe will release his solo debut album Oh, Wild Ocean Of Love on May 11th via Diamond Family Records. Best known as one-half of the acclaimed Americana duo HONEYHONEY, Jaffe steps center stage and reveals his ingenuity as a guitar virtuoso, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, writer, composer, and arranger. Today, Jaffe released his new single "Everlasting Peace," debuted this morning by Consequence of Sound who called it "an emotive R&B ballad featuring layered, delicate vocals."
* Stream "Everlasting Peace" HERE.
Trading the rootsy stomp of HONEYHONEY's three albums for an indie-alternative sound, Jaffe widens his approach with Oh, Wild Ocean of Love. These songs make room for a broad range of influences, from the polyphonic rhythms and improvisational freedom of jazz music to the soul and swagger of Motown. There are sweeping indie-folk tunes like "Susan the Cat," R&B ballads like "Everlasting Peace" where Jaffe layers his voice into gorgeous stacks of multi-part harmony, and dissonant rockers like "Blooming" where he shines a light on his skills as an inventive electric guitarist. Throughout the tracklist, Jaffe plays nearly every instrument himself, bouncing between drums, keyboard, bass, and guitar.
Inspired by a wide range of sounds and texts - including Paul Simon, Beck, Randy Newman, and The Essential Chuang Tzu - Oh, Wild Ocean of Love explores the wreckage left by a relationship that's poorly-defined and headed south. It's an album about the full spectrum of love: love for yourself, for others, and even your maker. An album about lessons learned. An album about the realization that even in these chaotic times, it's okay to relax.
Earlier this month, Jaffe released "Susan the Cat" which Billboard described as "Far afield from HoneyHoney's brand of Americana - textural and moody, with fuller (but not overwhelming) instrumentation and lusher aural brushstrokes." At the beginning of the year, Jaffe released the official video for the lead single "Dominator," debuted by Baeble who called it "Smooth as butter." The song was first released late last year followed shortly after by "Blooming." Each song released will be accompanied by a new episode of "The Rearranger Series" in which Jaffe films/records the song in a completely different way than the album version. Follow the series by subscribing to his YouTube page HERE.
In addition to his solo debut, Jaffe continues to broaden his career beyond the confines of the recording studio and the stage. He composed, recorded, and produced the film score for Joy Joy Nails, a short film that screened at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, building on a resume in TV and film that includes work on the cartoon Spongebob Squarepants and various other shows and films. He also appears in the new TBS series The Guest Book, alongside HONEYHONEY bandmate Suzanne Santo, in which the two play recurring characters in each episode. They also wrote the series' theme song and several other songs for the soundcheck.
Follow Benjamin Jaffe:
Website - Facebook - Twitter - Instagram - YouTube - Spotify
Oh, Wild Ocean of Love is now available for pre-order on iTunes and Amazon.
