I'll tell you what Music Band isn't. Music Band is not a group of sour-faced
millenial cry-babies wearing fedoras and Beatle boots, trudging through their
live performances, looking like they can't wait to get off stage and hit their
vape pens. Music Band is not a bunch of dirtnapping hee-hee boys who try
so hard to act like they don't care about the holes in their clothes and their
uninspired power chords that they become caricatures of ideas of a musical
genre filtered through five decades of misunderstanding. Music Band is not
some group of human Xeroxes squirted out by some corporate bigwig sucking
on a fat stogie up in an ivory tower somewhere. Music Band is a group of
three best friends, Harry Kagan (guitar), Lee Putney (drums) and Duncan
Shea (bass), making honest-to-goodness rock and roll music in Nashville,
TN. After pairing with local indie label Infinity Cat Recordings (JEFF the
Brotherhood, Diarrhea Planet, etc.) to release their debut cassette Can I
Live (2014), and 7" single, "I Was Like" (2014), they are now on the cusp of
unleashing their first full-length LP, "Wake Up Laughing". Recorded at Bomb
Shelter Studio with Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Natural Child), Wake Up
Laughing is the latest chapter in the Music Band annals, showcasing their
knack for writing catchy, surprising, high-energy songs that make their
influences as vast as they are difficult to pin down. Their songwriting echoes
their constant quest for discovery and reinvention, while always remaining
true to themselves. It is Music Band's profound respect for each other and
for those who came before them as they toe the line between light and dark,
which keeps them hurtling forward into the great delights of the unknown.

Music Band is currently the subject of a new book by acclaimed music
historian, Tish Manuel, called "Music Band: True Music Band". Excerpt from
the introduction below:

"Distant trumpet sounds pierce the quiet majesty of an autumnal morn in the
hamlet of Nashville. A snare drum rolls and flares over a deep and
thunderous boom of a bass drum. For it is Lee, son of Edwaird, dark sage of
yon tammy skins. All the while, thine mountains tremble with a booming
rejoicy, as a golden-headed passengerglazes over flora and fauna heartily,
bearing winsome tones of the lowlands. Hark still, O dear villagers, it be
Duncan, son of Timothe and keeper of delight. A beautiful and radiant
banner of hope tears up a flagstaff as two screeching red hawks vie
for the pole's stoic perch overhead. Nay, thine ears do deceive, for it is Harry,
son of Howairde, whom picketh lute with the noble intent of elder bards
thousands of years before him. A jubilee of creatures, characters, and animals
alike rejoice. Hey, Nonny Nonny. The kingdom is good. For Music Band is nigh, if it please."