A Message From Johnny Castle

Johnny C. here.  Fresh out of rock n roll rehab and ready to fall off the wagon one more time.   

It's been a year and a half since the b&e boys and I have played together and we're bringing it all together on Saturday night just for you!  

We have a whole wheelbarrow of rock ready to be delivered, dumped on the floor, and covered in beer.  We'll be breaking out some classics and hopefully, if you are lucky, Brendan will do a striptease for all the ladies! So bring those dollar bills for B's britches and a lighter for that slow song.

Cause we're playing the Way Out Club on Saturday November 14th.  Come on by.  Buy us a beer.  Get a little crazy.  

 

Hugs n kisses,

J.C. 

 

P.S.  I'll be the one holding two sticks and hitting stuff.  

B&E's First Album Shows Up At Thrift Store

Only .85 at the STL Goodwill! 

This is a proud moment in B&E history. 

B&E Needs A New Drummer

Sadly, Widey had to hang up his sticks and move on from the band. 

So we're looking for a new guy...

http://stlouis.craigslist.org/muc/1360345976.html

Vintage Vinyl Show

We Have Shirts!

Blogger Takes a Liking to Our New Album

http://dakotapunk.blogspot.com/2009/06/b-take-listen.html

"Okay, on to sound. From track one, I was immediately thrown into a raging pulse of rock goodness. Too bad I was driving, as I tend to have a lead foot when listening to this kind of fast, easy and cheap rock. Most of the songs deal with soured relationships, nights of debauchery, and chaos, and the lyrics and music are a chopped-up combination that supports the meanings well.

Brendan Corcoran, the lead singer, wrings out as much treble as he can from his voice, sounding a bit like Jello Biafra might have first thing in the morning circa 1978. The rest of the band punches out a solid accompaniment of crackle and crunch minced with an almost inaudible thread of tasty underlying buzz."

Read the full entry here. 

RFT Homespun Review of 'Chords to Live By'

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2009-06-24/music/homespun-b-and-e-chords-to-live-by/

Homespun: B & E

Chords to Live By

(self-released)

Published on June 23, 2009

Chords to Live By is a clever title for B&E's first full-length, but it's a bit misleading: There's only one type of chord this quintet knows, and it's the power chord. The album delivers twelve funny, cynical rock songs full of supercharged guitars and knowing winks; in fact, the Hold Steady's Craig Finn will be pissed that B&E wrote a song called "Killer Riff" before he did. Still, the quintet's HS jones — evident on the lovably shambling 2007 EP, We Regret Everything — has turned from '70s classic rock toward '80s pop-metal.

But even with the amps turned up to eleven and the cheap stomp boxes permanently set to "shred," singer Brendan Corcoran remains the undeniable center of this band. His yelping, affected vocals allow him to hold court with the fervor of a pilled-up holiness preacher (as he does on the opener "We Are All a Mighty Fine Mess") or sputter out of control (like on "You're a Mess"). That the word "mess" is included in two song titles is no mistake — B&E is interested in the sound of things falling apart, both in the love-gone-wrong story-songs and in its sometimes-sloppy musicianship. Corcoran's full-throated strain is part of the band's charm, but his vocals reach their reedy limits on "The Day We Got the City Back," and the shredding guitars often fall out of sync with the shuffling drumbeats. But if B&E isn't quite the shit-kicking bar band it wants to be, Chords is a good start.