Featured Artist
January 13, 2024
With the song: Someday
Artist's Biography
Emerging
from the primordial ooze of the Detroit suburbs, the THE INCURABLES blend
the sounds of the 60’s British Invasion and psychedelic era with the
guitar-driven energy of New York's CBGB power pop/punk scene of the late
'70s and early '80s and deliver it with a passionate sense of fun that's
uniquely their own. Consisting of cousins Ray and Darrin Lawson on bass
guitar and drums, along with their lifelong friends Pat Kelly and Dennis
Pepperack on guitars, The Incurables have been sharing the stage together
for decades – literally since the lineup coalesced in high school, with Pat
and Ray having been inseparable friends since kindergarten. Since then, the
band has graced stages across the US and as far abroad as Germany, The
Netherlands and the UK, on tours and as openers for the likes of Alice
Cooper, Billy Idol, and Steppenwolf. And for all the miles and all the
accolades, there's a sense in the mid-202os that the story is just beginning
for this seasoned band of all-but-literal brothers with the sound that's
just as infectious as their name implies.y
It's not an overstatement to call The
Incurables local legends: they've got a recording history stretching back to
the early '90s and remain a potent live draw with their signature harmonic,
upbeat, guitar-driven garage rock to this day. They shine onstage, with
their high energy live performances and their gift for humor-fueled audience
participation winning them new fans each time out. It doesn’t matter if it’s
in front of a concert crowd or an intimate club setting... the band performs
with the same intensity and passion fueled by their love of music. Not
driven by fads or the flavor of the week, their style continues to evolve
with an eclectic mix that lands between the sounds of chainsaws on a
chalkboard and angels giggling in the wind.
If there are no second acts in showbiz, it's a good thing that The
Incurables' first act has never ended. And while it's well-nigh
unprecedented that a band with its original lineup intact after three decade
becomes a “breakthrough artist,” this band has defied expectations all along
and that's just what's been happening over recent years. Through a run of
singles, many of them on Big Stir Records, the boys have found much success
infiltrating radio stations worldwide, increasing their global fan base with
airplay on Little Steven’s Underground Garage, Rodney Bingenheimer, Lord
Litter, There Once was a Note, The Heritage Chart, and countless independent
and streaming stations (even hosting their own weekly themed show on
Canada's KB Radio). The new material, originals and covers alike, has played
out to an ever-widening audience who's never had a chance to get their hands
on band's hard-to-find back catalog, and they've all been asking one thing:
when can we get a full-length records from our new favorite band?
As we round the bend in 2024, the answer is at hand: the new album INSIDE
OUT & BACKWARDS will ring in the new year as The Incurables officially join
the Big Stir Records roster. Already announced by the roar of the new single
“When I Grow Up,” the album also features the hits you know – “Far Away,”
“Soda Pop,” “Back Into Eloise” and “Funhouse”, all part of the band's
unrelenting run of irresistible singles that've been riding the airwaves
since 2020 – and hits yet to be. It's ten tracks of powered-up pop rock that
answer the question: where can you find a band that hits the sweet spot
between The Stooges and The Romantics? Only in Detroit, of course... and the
name of that band is THE INCURABLES.
Full Album show of
July 23, 2020
Album:
I don't feel so well
Artist's Biography:
THE INCURABLES
Pat Kelly -- Lead Guitar/ Vocals
Ray Lawson -- Bass Guitar/ Vocals
Darrin Lawson – Drums/ Vocals
Dennis Pepperack – Rhythm Guitar
The Incurables are a three-piece harmonic, upbeat, guitar driven garage rock
band widely known for their high energy live performances and audience
participation. Based out of Wayne Michigan, the band's influences come from
groups out of the sixties British Invasion/psychedelic era as well as from New York's "CBGB" sound from the late 70's
early 80's. The bands style continues to evolve with a mix of the heavier
rock sounds coming out of Detroit and the college indie sounds of Ann Arbor.
The Incurables have found much success sharing the stage with such bands as
Billy Idol, Blues Traveler, Steppenwolf, Poison, Alice Cooper, Vince Neil,
Detroit locals Bitter Sweet Ally, Adrenalin, Toby Redd, and have completed
several tours of Germany and The Netherlands.
Since their first performance the guys have hit the stage running, and
continue to do so with their latest album titled "I Don't Feel So Well." The
album includes the critically acclaimed single "Detroit Steel" having been
featured on the Rodney Bingenheimer show on Little
Steven's Underground Garage, and the single "Down" featured on the Lord
Litter Radio Show.
If you catch them live or hear them on the radio you can't help but enjoy
yourself. Their energy is infectious and clearly incurable.
About the Album:
I don’t feel so well is the fourth studio release from Detroit’s own Garage
rock/power pop band The Incurables. The album was produced by The Incurables
and Tony Hamera at the award winning Tempermill studio in fashionable
Ferndale Michigan.
Channeling the sounds from the groups of the sixties British Invasion and
psychedelic scene as well as the seventies and eighties punk and new wave
bands of New York's CBGB’s “I don’t feel so well” is packed with the upbeat
harmonic high energy sound in which The Incurables are widely Known for.
The first single “Down” is a straight forward rocker done in the true Garage
Rock fashion and is being well received on stations across the nation. A
video for “Down” has been released and is available for viewing on The
Incurables YouTube channel.
The track “Detroit Steel” was chosen as one of the top winning rock anthem
songs by the Detroit’s Motor City Muscle Music Festival, a video is also
available for viewing on the bands YouTube channel. The Incurables are also
working on a new video for their psycho rocker “Eloise” which was influenced
by the time the band spent in the now defuncted Eloise psychiatric hospital.
Whether you’re jamming to their CD or catching them onstage you can't help
but enjoy yourself knowing that they are not just there to perform or do a
job but honestly having fun and loving the music. Their energy is infectious
and clearly incurable.
Featured
Artist of
March 11, 2019 Song:
Eloise
Founded in Westland, MI by lifelong friends that met
in kindergarten, Ray Lawson (Bass guitar and vocals) and Pat Kelly (Lead
guitar and vocals), the band found its heart and soul when they were joined
in the mid-eighties by cousin Darrin Lawson (drums and vocals) and Dennis
Pepperack (guitar and vocals).
Truly a band of brothers in every sense, they continue to rock with their
original members decades later.
Growing up listening to bad AM radio, The Incurables managed to find
influences from the groups of the sixties British Invasion and psychedelic
scene as well as the seventies and eighties sounds coming from New York's
CBGB.
Watching them onstage you can't help but enjoy yourself knowing that they
are not just there to perform or do a job but honestly having fun and loving
the music.
Their energy is infectious and clearly incurable.
The Featrured Artist
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