Artist Spotlight: The Weeds

Starting off your Tuesday with another brand new edition of Artist Spotlight! Today, we stay in the lovely confines of Boston and uncover the indie enhanced sounds of The Weeds. The band consists of Justine DeFeo on lead vocals and guitar, Joe Lacy on vocals and lead guitar, Jarek Maj on bass, and John Hadley on drums. The band has an intense, deeply resonating sound similar to that of The Pixies and Saves The Day with a strong instrumental component that accentuates the lyrics quite well, and fills out the band's repertoire pretty nicely also. I stumbled across these guys random online, and I was impressed with the band's ability to keep things relatively simple, and not try to overdo it in terms of excessive and unnecessary experimentation as some other upstart bands fall victim to. But these guys clearly have a sense of the type of music they want to play and who they are as musicians, and that will serve them well a great deal moving forward. A terrific undiscovered band that is well worthy of press here on the blog. Some great tracks for you to check out from them include "Sunset Eyes" and "Death Valley".

For more information on The Weeds, head on over to their Facebook page located here and don't forget to 'Like' it as well so that you can stay in the know of everything that they have going on. You may follow the band on Twitter as well from over here and find out when the band will be stopping by the Beantown area again with a concert appearance. The band's latest EP titled "Roots/Routes" is now available for free streaming via their Bandcamp page at this destination here.