STL LOUD v.4: Pride For Our City
If you couldn’t already tell, I’m a native St. Louisan. This company (VMG) was founded to add to the culture of independent music here in St. Louis. So it’s always heartening to see some other folks that love our town too, making great music and representing the city that we love so well. Ryan Albritton and Ryan Lewis over at R&R Music Labs are cultivating that music and they’re promoting some of the artists that make the fantastic music being born here too. Some of the musicians are on their studio’s companion record label (The Loud Label). A few others join in on the festivities for good measure.
With St. Louis staples like Bo and the Locomotive, Jump Starts, The Union Electric, Big Brother Thunder and the Master Blasters, Ellen the Felon and Dots Not Feathers and some newer groups like Treehouse and Peach, STL LOUD v.4: Pride For Our City comes with some heavy hitting music. The compilation is mostly groovy tunes from great bands, this new installment of STL LOUD just goes to show that the music scene here is getting stronger and stronger. With melodic tunes like “Oh My God” from Dots Not Feathers and funk parties in song form, like “Peace of Mind” from Big Brother Thunder and the Master blasters and , STL LOUD gives you a variety of musical styles. Contrast those with the rockin “An Experiment In Isolation” by Peach and the folksy rendition of the Jump Starts’ “There You Are” and you find that any music lover would have a ball to come and enjoy the scene for a weekend or a week, or just end up staying because you come to love the city as much as any native does.
It’s not merely a suggestion to pick up this project. it’s a must. As the NPR sequence taught us, we have to support these artists in any way we can (especially monetarily) to keep them making the music we have come to love. So click the link and go grab your copy, just in time for that July 4th party you’ve been sweating the playlist for. Just put this on and click the repeat all button.
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