Grubstake - Dynamite & Other Inventions

Grubstake plays stripped down lo-fi swamp rock fueled by punk sensibilities and roots-boogie. Their music defies categorization, and creates a new sound that cuts through genres like a hot knife through milkbutter. Critics continue to compare Grubstake's work to an expanding array of musicians, such as the White Stripes, Beck, Captain Beefheart, P.J. Harvey, Neil Young, the Meat Puppets, Mungo Jerry, Alice Cooper, the Pixies, post-Zep Robert Plant, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Mr. Airplane Man, Pavement, and Gogol Bordello, to name a few. This is the group's 3rd album, and sees the band pushing further into their own sonic landscape by adding acoustic guitars and help from a number of local Boston area musicians to the mix. The Boston Weekly Dig writes, 'Like Andy Warhol attempting an Impressionist portrait of Elvis, Grubstake manages to mix the humor of Ween, Richard Hell's punk snickers and the 'droupout blues' of early Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band with charm, skills, and reckless abandon.'

1) Whispering Blues
2) Letters Left to Write
3) The Time Is Out
4) The Most Promising Astronaut (Pt.2)
5) Meteor Shower
6) Scene from la Balada de Juan Butch
7) Alligator Blues
8) Coming Home to Be with Me Tomorrow
9) Midnight Creep
10) Party with Lawyers
11) Big Jim's Chicken Shack
12) Phantom
13) Meteor Dub Remix (Bonus Track)
14) The Percy Wentworth Stomp (Bonus Track)
15) La Balada de Juan Butch (Bonus Track)
16) The Most Promising Astronaut (Pt.1) (Bonus Track)
17) [Untitled Track]