Red Bennies

This will be the last New Music Friday I’ll be doing on this site. Calm down, calm down, both of you. I know that you, as my faithful readers, will forge ahead and find your way through the blossoming musical landscape without me as your trusty guide. Why, if you just turn around, chances are your hipster neighbor just started up his own MP3 blog yesterday and he can easily fill my shoes. Besides, I just started doing this as a fluke and for fun. I’d much rather refocus myself on making art. So the two of you who were coming to the site for a few choice tunes will now have to turn to one of the thousands of other sites out there offering the same thing. But first, on to the music!

The Red Bennies have been kicking around the Salt Lake Valley for the last decade. Starting off as a mëtälësqüe band, they eventually morphed into the Foreigner/James Chance/garage band that they now are. With Dave Payne (son of Marvin Payne of “Saturday’s Warrior” fame, for all your Mormons out there) as their fearless leader they have crafted some tunes that I can get behind. Their earlier music reminded me of the disaffected youth band I saw playing next to the Lutheran church at the Corn Festival in Mitchell, SD. Now Red Bennies are producing music that has the comfortable nostalgia of early Police, Journey, and the Sex Pistols while still laying claim to their own sound. It took some time, but it was worth it

Recommended Tracks:

• I’m Coming Home
• Rocks in Your Mouth
• Shake It Off (New Years Concert)
• The Sun’s Going Down
• Downtown
• There are also scads of other Red Bennies downloads at Rest 30 Records.