The Quivers
KKFI and Signal To Noise Present: It Came Out of the Garage
Tickets are $15; all proceeds will benefit KKFI. Ticket link. Facebook event page.
Album review: The Quivers - Hot Young Mess
Upcoming: Vive The Rock - Fundraiser for Académie Lafayette at recordBar, 2.8.13
Join an eclectic bill on Friday, February 8 at recordBar for a special fundraiser for Académie Lafayette, a K-8 public charter/French immersion school in KCMO. All proceeds go to the Académie Lafayette General Fund, which pays for music and arts education, interns, extracurricular programs, sports, free tutoring, etc.
Each band will feature at least one parent of an Académie Lafayette student. The Quivers will kick off the evening at 9:30 with a raucous set of soulful rock tunes, followed by the heartfelt songwriter pop of The Sexy Accident. Rounding out the evening will be the freak pop stylings of The Hillary Watts Riot and the heavy-hitting sounds of Federation of Horsepower. The show will be emcee'd by Cody Wyoming.
T-shirts for the event and raffle tickets will be sold. Tickets to the Friday show are available for $25 at this link. They will be $35 at the door.
--Michelle Bacon
Artists on Trial: The Quivers
(Photo by Todd Zimmer)
The Quivers are one of the hardest working bands in Kansas City. Having only been together for over a year, they've released 2 EPs with plans for a full-length next year. They bring high energy to their live shows and a Motown flavor that most original bands in Kansas City lack. Our editor Michelle got to sit down with The Quivers while they were getting ready to release their latest EP Gots To Have It! and got to listen to their answers to Zach's questions in this week's Artists on Trial. Find out what secrets we were able to uncover below.
The Deli: Gun to your head, 1 sentence to describe your music. What is it?
The Quivers: Take my wallet, take my watch...please don't kill me.
The Deli: Tell us about your latest release or upcoming shows. What can we expect?
The Quivers: We have just released out second EP, Gots To Have It!. (See our review of the album here!) We'll also be headlining Greaserama on Sunday, September 2. There is this show that we are excited to go see, The Deli's Music Showcase on November 9. We aren't playing, but we'll be there.
The Deli: What does "supporting local music" mean to you?
The Quivers: We live it. We love it. We love all our friends' bands.
The Deli: Who are your favorite "local" musicians right now?
The Quivers: We love all our friends' bands and Big Joe Turner.
The Deli: What is your ultimate fantasy concert bill to play on?
The Quivers: Thee Oh Sees, Tom Jones, Public Enemy, My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult.
The Deli: Would you rather spend the rest of your life on stage or in the recording studio?
The Quivers: Yes.
The Deli: A music-themed Mount Rushmore. What four faces are you putting up there and why?
The Quivers: Abe Haddad, Terra Peal, Bernie Dugan, and Todd Grantham. Because we are THE FUCKING QUIVERS!
The Deli: All right, give us the rundown. Where all on this big crazy web can you be found?
The Quivers: www.facebook.com/thequiversband
www.reverbnation.com/thequiverskc
www.cdbaby.com/Artist/TheQuivers1
itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-quivers/id338441795
The Deli: Always go out on a high note. Any last words of wisdom for The Deli audience?
The Quivers: When eating onion rings, don't settle for something that came off the back of a Sysco truck.
If they're not too busy eating onion rings, The Quivers will be headlining Greaserama on Sunday, September 2 at 7:00 pm at Boulevard Drive-in Theatre. They'll also be playing at Davey's Uptown on Friday, September 14 with Deco Auto and Urges from Elsewhere (Minneapolis).
--Zach Hodson
Zach is a lifetime Kansas City resident who plays multiple instruments and sings in Dolls on Fire and Drew Black and Dirty Electric, as well as contributing to many other Kansas City music, art, and comedy projects. He is very fond of edamame, treats his cat Wiley better than he treats himself, and doesn't want to see pictures of your newborn child (seriously, it looks like a potato).
Album review: The Quivers - Gots To Have It!
(Photo by Steve Gardels)
The Quivers' new EP, aptly titled Gots To Have It!, serves up 13 minutes of raucous music that you can dance to, straight up!
Track 1: “Blue Light”
Abe Haddad’s push and pull Stratocaster guitar intro on “Blue Light” is like the turnover of an old dormant Studebaker that has finally been untarped for a summer of hot, late night love runs. Bernie Dugan’s backbeat sets the idle on this Midwestern tavern dance number that also reveals lead vocalist/bassist Terra Peal’s ability to blend her strong, soulful voice—which somewhat resembles Pat Benatar’s—with her patent banshee screams that could have crumbled the former Iron Curtain, had it not been for David Hasselhoff’s embryonic Berlin Wall performance…
Track 2: “He Had It Comin’”
With its reserved country pickin’, hip-poppin’ diner waitress vocals, and county fair carousel keyboards, “He Had It Comin’” will keep your feet movin’ and your hair swishin’ back and forth, even if the lyrics aren’t really appropriate for either. Haddad’s honky-tonk guitar work, Todd Grantham’s playful keyboard licks—all infused with traces of soul—make delightful, each time the refrain comes around so you can sing, “He had it comin’… He had it comin’…”
Track 3: “I Sleep Here”
“I Sleep Here” may musically sound like some kind of mash up of Huey Lewis, Booker T., and Tommy James & the Shondells, but it very much stands on its own as pure Quivers' canon…and a song that you can’t help but grin ear-to-ear and wiggle to. Grantham sings lead on this ‘upbeat’ ballad, assuring us, “It’s pretty clear. I live alone with bravado, and ignore the phone.” And yes, that is Terra Peal growling out “Lordy, lordy!” in the background, tougher than Billy Idol ever was. That redheaded vixen sounds very much capable of damaging something if provoked.
Track 4: “What Went Wrong”
Peal struts her country vocal sensibilities to the pattering player piano saloon riffs in “What Went Wrong,” a song that will surely leave a dance floor full of boot scuffs and whiskey splatters. When Peal confesses, “I’ve been bad all my life,” it can make for some anxiousness, because her singing lends to many desires in the minds of many. Musically, perhaps the most contemporarily solid track on the EP, The Quivers show off their prowess and versatility, yet again.
Track 5: “Gots To Have It!”
“Gots To Have It!” bursts forth in purely fun, sock hop n’ roll fashion. Heavy snare hits (surely with some drumstick points toward the crowd), jogging keyboard chords, stacked vocals, and a tipsy rockabilly guitar solo that gets all up in your face and absolutely gets it done. This closing number burns a candle in the Church of Eighties Ending Credits Movie Songs ... Wait. It didn’t appear at the end of a John Cusack movie? Well, it should have!
The Quivers play rock n’ roll that is sometimes soulful, sometimes rockabilly, sometimes country, sometimes…well—sometimes it’s hard to classify just what they do best! One thing is for certain; they are the perfect entertainers for pretty much any given night. You will smile, and you will quiver, when that band—the one straight from the garage on Sex Appeal St.— thrusts upon you when you – Gots To Have It!
You, too, can be rocked by The Quivers tomorrow night, August 15, at Aftershock for the KC Wednesday Night Jamboree. They'll be performing with The Cave Girls. They'll also be playing at Greaserama on Sunday, September 2.
--Christian Anders Liljequist
| Christian is a freelance writer. He will graduate from UMKC in the spring of 2013 with a BA in Communication Studies (Journalism & Mass Communication). |