Frontier Ruckus
Medium
Indie Rock Music
Date & Time
Wednesday, 3/10/10 | 7:00pm
Location
Rock Island Live [Map]
Age Limit
21+
Price
Free
Event/Artist Link
Link
Description
At a young age, the courses of Matthew Milia and David Jones somehow converged within the large and vaguely defined world of Metropolitan Detroit.. And from that point on, with merely a banjo and a guitar, they moved forward towards one common creation—something that reflected the very world from which they came with a zeal and vividness afforded only to the young. The singular vision of Frontier Ruckus that modernly exists, growing fuller each day, is eternally rattling with a youthfulness impossible to shed. Unblinking and ferocious in its expression, it spits out with every gasp dusky images of a landscape to which it is inextricably bound. And now, infinitely bolstered by the trumpet and singing-saw of Zachary Nichols, the harmony and bass of Anna Burch, the percussion of Ryan Etzcorn, Frontier Ruckus is perched in waiting, prepared to bring to the greater world a new, hollering, unyielding poetry—the voice of memory, desperate and beautiful; the very face of a confused and dissolving locality that one can remember as home.
"...it seems the year's best alt-country record is from a nascent band that calls suburban Detroit home...Matthew Milia has achieved a rare sort of sound that simultaneously evokes myriad influences while coalescing into a unique whole."
-Hear/Say
"Led by the quavering vocals of Matthew Milia, this Orion, MI quintet creates white-hot folk music tailor-made to burn a hole through sunken porches...Milia's dank and smart turns of phrase grasp for a past that's not quite there. The sun bleeds onto the horizon and Milia's skeletons dance."
-Under the Radar
« back to view all eventsAt a young age, the courses of Matthew Milia and David Jones somehow converged within the large and vaguely defined world of Metropolitan Detroit.. And from that point on, with merely a banjo and a guitar, they moved forward towards one common creation—something that reflected the very world from which they came with a zeal and vividness afforded only to the young. The singular vision of Frontier Ruckus that modernly exists, growing fuller each day, is eternally rattling with a youthfulness impossible to shed. Unblinking and ferocious in its expression, it spits out with every gasp dusky images of a landscape to which it is inextricably bound. And now, infinitely bolstered by the trumpet and singing-saw of Zachary Nichols, the harmony and bass of Anna Burch, the percussion of Ryan Etzcorn, Frontier Ruckus is perched in waiting, prepared to bring to the greater world a new, hollering, unyielding poetry—the voice of memory, desperate and beautiful; the very face of a confused and dissolving locality that one can remember as home.
"...it seems the year's best alt-country record is from a nascent band that calls suburban Detroit home...Matthew Milia has achieved a rare sort of sound that simultaneously evokes myriad influences while coalescing into a unique whole."
-Hear/Say
"Led by the quavering vocals of Matthew Milia, this Orion, MI quintet creates white-hot folk music tailor-made to burn a hole through sunken porches...Milia's dank and smart turns of phrase grasp for a past that's not quite there. The sun bleeds onto the horizon and Milia's skeletons dance."
-Under the Radar
